MacrossJunkie
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If it weren't for the fact that the under wing details are different from the top, one might think that the pegs had dropped out and the wings fell off and in their haste to put it back together, accidentally put the wings on wrong. Also, shouldn't the wing lights or whatever the yellowish triangles are on the leading edge be white for the cf version?
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That was because people weren't looking very closely. It wasn't until it came out that others pointed out that the pre-release photos also showed signs of mismatched colors. Now it's something that people look for ever since. Whether it emphasizes the differences in shading or not, they all still showed a difference. It was only a matter of degree by which the photos made it apparent. Well in any case, we could debate about this back and forth forever and not reach an agreement or conclusion so let's just agree to disagree
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Wow, zoffy. Your missiles look fantastic. I think they look better than the launching missiles that came with the web exclusive version of the GBP-1S.
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That's quite possible. It could be something as simple as identical shoulders as the ones that come with the toy with the exception of a hole in the top to peg the armor attachment into, like the armor parts for the hip guns on the super and armor packs.
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Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible. I think the photo does give a pretty good idea. There's a color consistency evident in the two photos on this page that already show a marked improvement over the version 1. Looking at the legs of the version 1, the green on the hip/intake is different from the green on the thigh, which is different from the green on the kneecap, which is slightly different from the lower leg. It's got 4 shades of green going on there with three of them being pretty obvious as well as varying degrees of gloss finish. And that's viewing it with the naked eye. Photos tend to emphasize the differences even further. Compared to the pretty clear photo above, the leg looks pretty uniform in color and finish. The chest piece is even more vastly different in shade and texture.on the version 1. Once again the chest piece in the renewal appears to be consistent with the leg in color and finish. Even if the colors and finish were slightly off between the different parts in person, it's still already a great improvement over the version 1 if it can look like that in a photo. Also, the VF-25G renewal also was a huge improvement in the same regard over the version 1 where renewal looked pretty uniform all across the entire thing while the version 1 had 3 or 4 shades of blue and varying levels of gloss.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of sleepless nights hitting refresh. This is the part I dread most about Bandai's new MF releases.
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VF-25S renewal and version 1 together. More pics of the armored 25S here: http://www.macrosswo...dpost&p=1001338
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Finally got around to taking more pics and transforming it into other modes. What a pain in the arse it was. It's just so bulky and hard to get your hands positioned right to move pieces into place. At least it wasn't falling to pieces during transformation like the version 1 was fond of doing. Edit: Added a couple more pics. One of them is a re-do of the first pic I took because I realized the neck was not extended properly. Added better lighting and slightly more weathering. -
From what I can tell in the pic, it looks like they did a much better job with the color matching of the greens this time around.
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Even though it's not 1/60 scale, I may still get one as I think it's unlikely they will make a 1/60 scale version of the red vajra.
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Awww... I was excited when I saw the thread title and was disappointed when I clicked. The old one still looks really chunky in battroid.
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So really, what people are saying is that, from Yamato's business perspective, they should produce far less quantity of each toy so that shortages occur and people will end up buying their stuff when it first comes out for fear of missing out later. I didn't really understand Bandai's reasoning for making amounts far short of apparent demand, but in light of this, it makes much more sense to me.
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First pic of my Armored VF-25S. More or less finished. Maybe needs some finishing touches here and there. Will take more later. Need sleep...
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Actually, (G1) Optimus did, or at least he did in the comics and the MP1 toy. It was just hidden behind the mouth plate. Personally, I'm a little disappointed that there's a face molded behind the visor instead of making a swappable one for people who want the face. This seems to me kind of a half assed solution that wouldn't satisfy either side.
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Thank you, Loop. That was extremely helpful. I looked back at the instruction sheet and saw that it was depicted after all, but I just had no idea what it was trying to tell me until after what you said. So essentially, I shouldn't bother with the full piece and just go with the adapter compatible piece if I don't want to keep swapping. I was working on the weathering for the armor parts and wasn't sure which one I should do. Now I know
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I have a question on the full armor that I'm hoping someone could answer for me since I couldn't find any illustrations in the manual regarding it. The full armor comes with two cover plates for the crotch area. One is thinner near the bottom with a section cut out of it compared to the other piece. What is the function of one over the other?
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I really hope they opt to do the tornado pack for the renewal 25F and G. I plan on leaving my F sans additional accessories, the S in full armor, the G with the tornado pack, and the RVF with the super pack (assuming they decide to make the RVF and super packs to go with it). Just so I can have one of each displayed.
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What's the release date for the armor/weapons pack again? Sometime in November?
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Final spamming of pics from me playing around with poses and such for the 25G, I promise. I need to start working on Ozma's full armor pieces which have been sitting around languishing for many many weeks. My free time was taken up too much by Guild Wars 2 and Borderlands 2 that I pretty much forgot about it. -
Yeah, that's what I've been (accidentally) shooting in. I had set it to store in the the highest quality (14 bit depth) raw and the color space was set to adobe RGB. I'm actually not sure how I ended up in the Adobe RGB. I usually shoot in sRGB, I must have set it to that sometime and forgot. As I understand it, Adobe RGB is more useful for photos to be used in print while the sRGB color space is better for viewing on monitors and such. Strangely enough, it is the photos I shot in Adobe RGB that Lightroom completely screws up. For some reason, it automatically sets black levels to 5, contrast to 25, brightness to 50 and does some other weird settings, regardless of the photo. If I set those back to 0, the image still looks weird and about 2EV settings underexposed compared to how the photo should be.
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Is that different from the Adobe RGB setting in the camera?
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I figured out what was the problem. Adobe Lightroom was f'ing up my photos when I imported them so that I could convert the RAWs to JPEGs. I was trying to wrap my mind around why it looked so different when previewed in the camera and I finally realized that was the problem. It was killing the color range and blowing things all out of proportion without me doing a single thing to the photos. I need to figure out how to get it to not do that. For now I have started using the Nikon software that my camera came with instead since it leaves the photos intact. I haven't tried doing HDR shots, but I should look into that. The three latest pics I put in the other thread have a better color range and the highlights aren't shot to hell.
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Awww, that sucks. At that point, I normally just take the slip with me and head to the post office the following morning before going to work to pick it up since the USPS in my area doesn't automatically try to redeliver the following day. I'd have to put the signed slip back in the mailbox and then they take it back and do the redelivery the day after that. I'm not patient enough to wait an extra two days when I know it's just within my grasp
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Hmm, I wasn't enamored with the paint scheme, but the old one does seem better to me than the new one. If only they would come out with Ozma's YF-29. I thought it looked pretty awesome with its various shades of gray and black.
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Oh cool. The price actually dropped a bit since the time I placed my pre-order back in August.