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  1. SpaceCowboy
    Cool, I think I'll hold off and see what happens in August once the release comes out or if there are US preorders available since I missed the Japanese window.
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    Yeah, tariffs are dumb... but you think i could get a revival for $300 or so in August. V1 dx VF-1S looks like it's around $400 otherwise.
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    I've been dormant in the collecting game for a few years. I think i got purchase fatigue combined with losing the desire to wake up at 1AM to slam a server for an hour to get a $200-$400 toy. So i don't have any dx 1/48th (though I have a couple of yamatos). What are the chances I'll be able to pick up a DX VF-1S Roy revival in August at non-scalper prices? Or should I just be trolling ebay for a v1 release?
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    Not sure where to post this, but thought I'd share a little mod I did to the old 1/72 Gakken Alpha. This toy holds a special place in my heart as it's the first toy I bought with my own money. Even as a kid, it looked wonky to me in fighter mode, with pathetic little wings that strained disbelief that this thing could fly. I recently got me one of the new Sentinel Legioss's. That thing is _awesome_. I had a thought of "I wonder how good the old 1/72 Gakken would look if it had a hinged wing like this". So I popped into Blender and mocked something up. I think it came out looking pretty good. This toy needs a missing link release. If it had a waste swivel, elbows, independent leg rotation, shoulder joints that could rotate forward...and these wings...that would really make a fun cheap toy. Ironically the SD Alpha released a few years ago has a lot of this, but they had to mess it up with a super deformed look and for some reason make it a pull back car. Why?!? I've uploaded the files to thingiverse. The wings are only 2mm thick, so the joint between the wing halves is prone to falling off, but you can push it back on easily enough. If I had more time, I'd redo all the other pieces of the toy I mentioned above to get the posability from this thing. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7296815/files
  5. SpaceCowboy
    Oh yeah, it's not the actual physical cost of the plastic for the minis - it's designing them, proofing them, iterating on them, shipping them, making minimum orders, ensure you have factory time, etc - I think all of those other aspects are what makes me nervous about adding minis from pressure of the crowd. But then again, they've been selling macross/robotech minis for a while without the board game, then have sold the board game itself (core), so it seems like they have the experience to make a reasonable call here and not get in over their heads. Which is why I backed them.
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    Found out what happened with Dragonball Z Smash Battle after reading the comments in the kickstarter a bit. Basically the license holder in Japan pulled KidsLogic's ability to release anywhere other than Japan. And that was for a game that wasn't made yet. So I'm hoping that they really tried in good faith to deliver and these issues won't be a problem for this game because the base game is already made and has already been released (even stateside). My only concern is that 1) their funding goal is too low (low margins means if anything goes wrong, they end up making less money than they spend) 2) They are caving to making more models for transformation modes they hadn't initially planned. I think a lot of these miniature kickstarters screw themselves by over promising the number of miniatures they can really deliver (see: Palladium). Hope that is not the case here.
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    @Chet What happened with the DragonBall Z Smash Battle project? I see that they couldn't deliver, but I can't figure out why. I have a vague notion of not securing licensing rights in certain regions, is that what it was? I'm wondering if this is going to be another Palladium...
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    I think the core game (4 minis) came out last year: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/156292 But BoardGameGeek doesn't have any reviews on it.
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    Has anyone actually played this game yet? I see that it actually came out last year in the core set. It appears to be a Macross coat of paint over an X-Wing Miniatures like game. Is that accurate? Any word on how it plays?
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    Anyone see this? Looks like X-Wing mixed with Macross...could be fun. Thinking about backing it, though I never ended up playing the paladium minis game...but this is very tempting.
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    I see some of you are into hot wheels/die cast. I bought a few ERTL General Lee's off of ebay and fixed them up. Pretty happy with the results. General Grant could be a bit better. Cutting the water slide decals was a pain. Looks better not so blown up as the picture. I have an idea of doing another one that I think will look a little better.
  12. SpaceCowboy
    Ah, apologies. I can post there if admins can delete this. Thanks!
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    So I got into hot wheels recently, which then lead me to wanting to put together a diorama. Then I realized that hot wheels were a bit smaller than the 1/60th scale macross stuff, but probably not noticeably so. So I thought I'd like to make a little street battle scene. Not really sure if I had the time or dedication, I decided I wanted to put one together as cheaply as possible, and I didn't want it to require too much skill. I found some free buildings online. Found some street tiles. Then with some cardboard and a color printer, went to work. The color printer had crappy toner so the buildings have some discoloration in them. Then I don't really know what I'm doing with photoshop, so this is the best I could come up with. But wanted to share nonetheless. If you have tips on building better dioramas or using photoshop, post them here. Otherwise, I just wanted to share what I built up, as I figured some of you might get a kick out of it.
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    You can even do it with over the shelf hydrogen peroxide, it just takes longer because the concentrations aren't as high. (that's what I did)
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    I've done the peroxide treatment twice - in both cases, the paint mostly dissolves, but I was leaving it outside for weeks to let the sun whiten it enough (I bought some badly yellowed takatoku's off ebay cheap for this purpose). It was fun, but one of them yellowed again a few years later, because it is the chemicals that the plastic was built with, the bromide mix in particular, that causes the yellowing, IIRC. At this point, it might be an interesting experiment to whiten it, then paint it white. Then when the scratches occur, they are more likely to be white on white, so harder to see, and the paint will hide the yellowing.
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