Pat S

For the crotch ball joints I used the following... KBYD-718G Kotobukiya Poly Unit Start Set #1 (Gray) and WAVOP-201 Wave L-Joint 1 (HLJ has the wrong picture for this item) The Wave joint by itself snapped together well, but was completely loose inside the socket. The Kotobukiya joint did not snap together well, but it was pretty tight. I got the idea to put the ball from the Kotobukiya set inside the socket from the Wave set, and it snapped together well (will not come out ever), and was way tighter than just the Kotobukiya parts by themselves. Problem was that I had to use pliers to snap them together, and I ended up breaking the second socket. So I have to order new ones. Next problem was that since the new combo was so tight, the shaft of the Kotobukiya ball broke off after moving it a few times. There's no way it would stand up to toy type playing, so I then drilled a hole in the ball and cut off a section of the drill bit, and used that as the new shaft. Hopefully this pic helps explain what I did.

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Mod #2 tonight, closing up the gap between the shield and the head in fighter mode. I just drilled a hold closer to the head. I used white out on the tab to mark where the new hole should be, then chopped off the smaller tab on the shield.

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Jaf Con 9 1/72 Ghost (regular non fastpack version)

I actually only did one side because I broke one of the wave joints, long story. Also, it's not epoxied in yet, I'm still testing, so it's very loose. Now I have to buy more joints... I'll get the part numbers for you guys, but the way I ended up doing it, you have to do a bit of custom work.

Sweet!

Yep... http://www.tgcrossroads.org/news/?aid=719

Not much. You need appropriate sized balljoints and sockets, epoxy putty, drill and probably a good vice to hold the parts for drilling. You can get the balljoints at hlj.com, but I'm not sure which size yet. I'm going to try this on mine, see here... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=11036

Pretty good info and pics... http://www.childofmecha.com/Modeling/Resin...BasicResin.html

I would like to go with articulated hands. Anyone got any recomendations?

Ahh, thanks for that link, I was looking for that. So he put the balljoints in the actual upper leg, and didn't mess with the crotch joints. I'm not sure if I have large enough WAVE joints to do that, I'll get the largest one ready and see how much it can handle. Post pics of your VF-19a mods too if you can. I'd love to see what you do.

I just bought an original from MajorTom The box says JafCon9 on it I'll take a pic of this ASAP.

Yeah, a little too fat, it's the lower section of the legs and the crotch plate in fighter mode that bug me most. Spiderman's foot!

In the other category, how about one of these...

Thanks! I took a bunch of pics. Intake shape. I think the outer shell as well as the inlet needs to be a little more rounded. If you look at the lineart for battloid and gerwalk, the intake changes shape, so I'll have to compromise between the two... with lots of putty I guess. Maybe some of these gaps can be closed up. I know the shield can be moved forward closer to the head.

http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/takeno/model/xcaliber.htm

Beautiful VF-1's and YF's... http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/minisaku/ma...ross_index.html

Another great Hasegawa standard colors... http://www.mnet.ne.jp/~falcon/mac1.htm

Toy Weirdness... http://sakurairo-figure.hp.infoseek.co.jp/BJPM.html