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    Only minimally. Just markings for the landing gear doors. I try to trim the stickers as close to the edges as is practical with a pen knife. I got done with clear coating the the fighter mode and the legs. Now I just need to do hidden parts of the arms and parts of the chest area. Edit: bonus pic with the craptastic Bandai 1/65 VF-17S
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    I have pics of it in this thread. I'm currently in the process of putting a flat coat on it so that it has more of a dull finish like the real world 117 and will be adding a little more weathering to it as well.
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    Yes, well aside from HLJ, sourcing problems or not, I can't get replacement parts for Yamato valks either
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    Anyway, back on topic. While I was looking for ideas for sticker placement on the 17, I found it interesting that while Kawamori took inspiration from the F-117 Nighthawk, Yamato did the same with some of their stickers as well. Unfortunately, some of the red wording doesn't show up well against the black plastic.
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    Hopefully there's a lot of weight in the legs to counter the back heaviness of the battroid design. It looks like it would have a hard time standing with all that not only jutting out the back, but also being on the top. Beautiful piece though. I would love to get one for the fighter mode.
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    Yeah, and what really sucks is all I need is a tiny little replacement piece to make it good as new, but there's no way for me to get it. I'd be willing to pay for all the costs in acquiring and shipping it, but it's neither Yamato's or AmiAmi's policy to support customers outside of Japan.
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    Different? What do you mean? I'm using a black velvety type cloth that helps diffuse and absorb the light.
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    It's the renewal version. Nope, just the standard stickers that the 17 comes with.
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    Man, that sucks. It's stuff like this that has forced me to go with HLJ for any future Macross toy purchases. So many things can go wrong and only HLJ will support their customers (as far as I know. Feel free to correct me with additional vendors that will support their customers to the level that HLJ does, like sending you replacement parts and not forcing you to mail back the whole toy at your expense. The more choices we have, the better). AmiAmi has super prices, but you're screwed if you have anything wrong with the toy, even right out of the box.
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    I got both the toy and the kit, but the kit has been sitting in my storage closet for months due to lack of time to even start on it. I mainly got the kit so I could have an easier time painting it and also have all the extras that Yamato screwed the toy buyers out of and wouldn't even make available separately. I need to get some tools to handle cutting the sprues and the photo-etch pieces too. When I find time to work on it, I think the kit will come out looking a lot better than the toy did.
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    Maybe about 5 complete transformations from fighter to battroid while stickering mine and panel lining and taking photos, then left it in battroid mode for months. Quite frankly, I'm appalled at what Yamato thought would be a good way to attach the leg. One fragile looking plastic peg with a tiny screw in it to hold the weight of the valk up plus endure the stress of movement from transformations and posing. I'm surprised the other leg didn't fall off too or that it hasn't happened to other people. However, the plastic peg on the other leg looked completely fine so I'm guessing the right leg had some faulty plastic that just degraded and crumbled. Fortunately the 17S I recently acquired has metal bars holding which the legs are attached to so I don't expect them to just fall off over time. There seems to be a great deal more use of metal in key joints, which makes me more confident about it.
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    Been too busy and lazy to put up new shots of stuff I've gotten in the past 6 months or so. too lazy to even work on them. Finally got off my butt and stickered up the valks, panel lined them, and did some varying degrees of weathering. I'm holding off on transforming Ozma's 25S again until I get some time to clear coat it. Edit: Removed dead links.
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    My order at HLJ has been sitting at "This order is in processing and cannot be edited." for a while now. It normally hasn't taken them this long to do shipments for me. I'm not sure what's going on. And yes, the order is set to ship immediately.
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    Doh. In my case, my credit card company decided to deny the payment transaction as a possible fraud alert when HLJ tried to bill me, and the CC company called me to verify the transaction. This despite me having to do the very same thing earlier in the week for something I had bought during the Macross sale. I mean it's good that they're trying to protect their cardholders, but it's to the point where it's ridiculous when they're flagging things that aren't out of the ordinary since I have a long history of buying stuff from HLJ. So now I have to wait until next week until they ship mine. I had an email from them earlier in the week telling me to choose to ship immediately or use the warehouse for all future orders. Did you happen to get it too? I wonder if it wasn't responded to, then it defaulted to the warehouse. I got this on June 21st:
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    Unfortunately I don't really know anyone in Japan that could help me.
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    Yup, ever since my VF-19S self destructing and having no honest way to get a replacement part, I'm only getting things from HLJ from now on for the peace of mind even if they may be more expensive than some other stores. In the end, the extra money spent getting it from HLJ and being able to get a replacement part would have been well worth the price instead of now being stuck with a ~$300 piece of broken junk.
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    Photos posting photos?! That's just wrong. What is this world coming to?
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    DX VF-25G

    MacrossJunkie replied to zulu's topic in Toys

    Bah, HLJ dropped the 5% discount on the VF-25G and it still hasn't been made available for pre-order yet (that I know of).
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    DX VF-25G

    MacrossJunkie replied to zulu's topic in Toys

    Argh, I've had to turn on the update scanner because of the change to the website where they show random items at the bottom of the page now. So it goes off every few minutes. Will just have to rely on the alert box now.
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    At this point, is it too late for HLJ to put any pre-orders in? Is their page truly a placeholder or did they really sell out within the first couple minutes they put up the VF-25G page? It is strange that most other stores have had their pre-orders already, but we're still waiting on HLJ. They normally don't take this long to make pre-orders available. I blame Bandai for this situation. It gets worse and worse with each subsequent release. I had plenty of time to put in for the YF-29 preorder. I don't think I even did it the release day and I was able to get it from AmiAmi. Alto's 25F stuck around for a bit on AmiAmi, as in I didn't have to camp the site. Ozma's 25S wasn't entirely too bad in finding if going through HLJ. The VF-171EX took a lot of camping and luck. Now the 25G has thus far been unobtainable for pre-order through HLJ even after this long.
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    Hmm, I like the drawn line art 17D head, but it doesn't seem to translate well into 3D I guess. I don't know what it is. I think the visor may be too small. The price with the FAST pack doesn't sit well with my wallet either. I may just end up getting a 17S at some point afterall.
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    You can set it to ignore numbers.
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    Nice! Thanks again.
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    Awesome, thanks! It only allowed me to run it at 2 minute intervals as s shortest available though. Well, I've got both running now. Now, hopefully I'm at the computer when it comes up for sale
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    I'm not quite sure what you're saying. The first photo is of the leg that was not broken to illustrate what it ought to look like. If the black plastic spacer is removed, it's basically just a blue hollow peg that the screw goes into. On the broken leg, the screw is still attached and the majority of the peg and spacer are still attached to the screw. It's the plastic around the base of the hollow peg that had crumbled. I'm not sure if that clarifies or confuses more.
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