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  1. MacrossJunkie
    I'll get some pics up when I get home from work today. I don't really transform my valks often. Other than the first few times while putting stickers, panel lining and taking pics, They usually go in or on top of my display cases after that. My VF-19S was probably transformed a max of 4-5 times since owning it. I had left it displayed in battroid mode. I saw it lying down and wondered how it fell down since it was in a stable position so I went to stand it back up and saw that one of the legs came off. I examined the joint and saw that the area at the back of the leg was missing chunks of plastic. I was able to find bits of it, but not enough to piece it back together or even how the bits I could find would go in since they were so irregularly shaped. The other leg's side to side motion is a bit floppy so the plastic in that joint might have started to weaken as well. I'll have to figure out how to take it apart so I can examine it.
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    Has anyone's VF-19S had their leg crumble yet? I noticed mine was lying on its side on top of my display case and picked it up to find that the leg had come off at the point where the leg swivels outwards, right behind the area where the intakes are. The plastic that the screw was screwed into to attach the leg had disintegrated. The other leg feels pretty loose too, so my guess is that one is about to come off soon as well. Too late for me to take pics right now. I'll find some time later to do it. I'm not sure what I can do. The part is not salvageable in any way with superglue as the plastic is in many tiny little bits like it had exploded and these things are pretty frickin expensive. Makes me very wary to buy the F when a $300+ toy just falls apart like that. I thought Yamato had gotten past that by now =(
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    I would think it would eventually work its way through the clearcoat and you would have a gunky mess on the tips that you wouldn't want in contact with your valks. At least it doesn't react with the plastic wrap and the plastic wrap itself will grab onto surfaces so you don't have to worry about things sliding off.
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    Not to derail this thread any further, but I've had my share of issues with the flexi display stands as well. However, I've solved the problem with the tips reacting to paint and clearcoat finishes by putting plastic wrap around the silicone tips.
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    I hope the battroid is just mistransformed in those pics and that the shoulders can be angled up like that without actually completely exposing the joints and hinges that the shoulder armor should be covering. It just looks really off like how it is in the pics. Looks pretty accurate otherwise.
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    In some cases it is better to have wished you watched, but never have, than to have watched and wished you hadn't.
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    Wow, those VF-1s went pretty fast at those prices. Ended up getting the unpainted SDF-1 kit since I've been unable to obtain the photo-etched stuff and glow in the dark stickers in any other way. Should make it easier for me to paint it as well since it comes unassembled.
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    I think in addition to making vf-25 v2 style changes to the hips/crotch positioning and angling lock, I'd like to see the shoulder block mechanisms use the v2's style as it is simpler and more stable/less fidgety.
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    That's how they are colored in the show. Alto's, Luca's and Michael's valks have orange SMS logos while Ozma's is yellow. Incidentally, 1/60 Version 1 of Luca's RVF-25 has incorrectly colored SMS logos with them being yellow instead of orange.
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    Awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
  11. MacrossJunkie
    ARGH. Dammit! Missed the HLJ preorder...
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    It's on the oval bump on the stabilizer part of the left arm coming from the area that looks like a hinge or something.
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    I wish Bandai could just have shops and dealers go forth and take as many pre-orders as they can for x amount of days/weeks. Then start manufacturing and do whatever they need to schedule the factories to produce enough to fill the pre-orders plus a little extra to go stores and such for those who miss pre-order while it was being done. They could then set the release date based on how long it will take for them to manufacture and assemble the toys and get them out. That way they wouldn't be leaving money on the table by not producing enough to meet demand or way over producing beyond what the demand is. I mean isn't that what they're essentially doing with their web exclusives already?
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    I literally just refreshed the page on HLJ and it went from not being there at all to it showing Order Stop. Does each store only get 1 copy or something? This is beyond ridiculous.
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    Awesome. They're finally making the VF-171. I'm both ecstatic and a little disappointed with this first release. I'm super happy that they're making it at all, but I'm a bit let down that they aren't including the particle cannon and missile pack which should be standard armament for the EX variant and not part of the super packs. It would be like leaving out the sniper rifle for the VF-25G and giving it the standard gunpod only.
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    It's great that they got the vents in which were missing on the previous version as well as the missing markings. Seems like the chest missiles are painted, but the leg and shoulder missiles still look like single molded pieces of red plastic to me. Doesn't matter as much to me though since I rarely have those open. Looking forward to this.
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    I want Bandai to come out with a VF-171EX before another VF-27 as well. The VF-27 looks perfectly fine in fighter and GERWALK mode. It just needs a tweak to the battroid to use the same crotch angling lock and swingbar lock mechanism as the renewals, but I don't think the v1 looks particularly bad even in battroid mode.
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    Well, I did mention that it was on par with having to remove the shield for Yamato's VF-11 and plug it into a different hole as well.
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    The way I see it, it's not really much different from valks like the VF-11 and VF-25 having to remove the shield and put them in another place. At least it has somewhere to go in all modes. The crotch armor for the VF-25 super and armor packs for the version 1s more or less had to be removed for fighter mode and placed somewhere. Sure, you could kinda leave it attached in fighter mode, but it left things misaligned and I think stressed the plastic even more than it already was while in fighter mode. It was just ill fitting if you tried.
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    Got mine yesterday. Overall, I'm fairly satisfied with it, but I like the Alto version better. My main gripes are the distinct differences in the grays where they ought to be the same color. Could be my eyes tricking me, but I could swear the painted grays have a mint green tint to them. It's not even remotely close to the molded gray plastic. Also while the paint application was cleaner than my VF-25F, they managed to fudge it up in a different way. The yellow stripes on the LERX are not the same shade of yellow. The one on the right side I think has a thinner coat so the black is showing through more, leaving the yellow on the left side distinctly more vibrant in comparison and matching the yellow areas elsewhere. If I recall correctly, the right shoulder was like that too with not enough yellow applied. The pvc head lasers were loose and floppy, but that was no big deal since I hate pvc parts and immediately swapped them out for the infinitely better hard plastic ones which stayed in place. Despite the color mismatches, it still looks good and ultimately, I'll be putting the armored parts over it anyway, so it will all be moot.
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    I just used model masking tape (a bit thinner than normal masking tape) to cover any parts that needed to be glossy like the canopy, sensors, lights, visor, etc. and trimmed with a hobby knife.
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    Yup. I use an x-acto/hobby knife to trim the stickers to the edges before applying them. It's pretty easy to do. It's just more time consuming, but well worth the extra time spent for the results.
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    Thanks. I also wasn't too keen on the out of the box pastel-ness of the box, but I saw the potential of how good it could be after weathering. For this particular valk, I didn't use an airbrush at all. I just used the tamiya weathering kits and a can of flat clear coat. The kits are really nice and are easy to practice with since you can wipe it off if it doesn't look right. I have found that they can still be rubbed off by fingers if the grooves are not deep enough. I've had it rub out of shallow lines just from handling some toys panel lined with it, but that's when you clear coat it to prevent that from happening. To be fair, even using normal paint mixed with thinner can rub out of shallow lines, so it's just something you have to deal with or be careful of while handling.
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    Wow, that custom VF-1S is pretty cool. I like the camo pattern on it, although I think the bright yellow spoils it a bit.
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    I agree. Basically all their stickers starting with the 1/60 VF-1 v2 were using the much improved thin stickers. And if you trim the excess off the stickers right to the edges you can hardly tell they were stickers and they look very good. The old ones were indeed terrible. I hated those because they were so thick and made of multiple layers, of which the top layer often would start to peel at the the edges. While it would have been nice to have some tampo printing, It wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me personally since I sticker everything anyway. It's just a lot more work, especially trying to make sure the stickers are aligned properly and symmetrically on both sides which is something you don't have to worry about with tampo printing, unless they mess up the aligning themselves (which unfortunately has happened with both Yamato and Bandai macross toys).
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