TMBounty_Hunter
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What if they make a 1/48 VF-1 Battroid? D:
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The description says the mask is from BB Senshi (SD Gundam) EDIT: In related news, the RE1/100 Zaku will be a polycapless kit, using the soft KPS plastic for joints that they use in Figurerise Standard and some HGs
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Those look absolutely lovely! Just need the big roundels for the Super packs for TV versions and the pilot names. Speaking of which, is there strong opinions for how those should be formatted? Max Factory used MAJ. ROY FOCKER, while Hasegawa uses PILOT R. FOCKER. I've been looking over the Max Factory stuff and they seem to have omitted they typical "NO STEP" decals. Is that on the assumption that plenty of generic warning label decals like that are available? Anyone have good recommendations?
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Well this is wonderfully unexpected: Bandai actually made a properly wide-chested Zaku? Without ruining it by recycling some MG frame? I wonder what tetsujin will think of this...
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The figure is sculpted by Satoshi Tsujimura, who has done quite a few sculpts for Hasegawa in 1/20 and 1/24 scale. He's definitely a master of realistic sculpts, but he has done more anime-style stuff like the 1/20 Strike Witches figures bundled with 1/72 aircraft. Lately he's got his own line of 1/24 realistic figures: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/item/fc/ The Minmey sculpt looks to have been approached from a more realistic side vs anime-accuracy. His twitter is also full of great WIPs
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I need Max and Atrial needs Milia I'm sure plenty of others want the wider cast available.
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I would love a minimalist set of just the text and emblems. Large flat color areas are far easier to mask and paint than to try and wrestle a gigantic decal. Although if your situation only allows for a limited run at the moment, is it possible to cram a few extra pilot names on there?
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Any chance of a generic sheet of decals including more pilot names and UN Spacy logos and roundels?
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I'm just curious how much and aftermarket super-detail set would cost. They often cost more than the base kit and in this case....ooooh boy that would hurt. Usually more fiscally responsible and more fun to do things yourself So about a month after first cutting into a sheet of styrene, I think I finally got to the point where I'm happy with the general shape of the TV seat. Now it just needs a detailing pass. Now the blatantly obvious issue is that the seat only fits in the kit if you omit the arm rests. I thought about making the whole seat narrower and including the arm rest without cutting apart the cockpit tub but that just felt way too cramped. It's a really narrow cockpit tub! That might potentially hide the fact that there's no arm rests once the figure is in and the canopy closed, but there's a 90% chance that I'll spend the rest of the week widening the tub. No going back after the saw gets into that one...
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Max Factory has only been making injection kits for less than 4 years. The quality of the Gerwalk is not any worse than the previous large injection kits they've done like the Pacific Rim kits. It's not "phoning it in" if they're not doing worse than their previous abilities. I really don't understand why anyone, ever expected this to have Hasegawa level of detail (especially if they followed this thread). Comparing one company that freshly jumped into injection kits vs all the other companies that have been at it for half a century or more isn't really valid.
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Still a significant improvement in level of detail from the base Gerwalk :P And this was clearly never intended for aircraft modelers. If it was then you'd just get a blank, smooth surface and leave you to scribe and rivet everything yourself over the next 4 years of your life
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I doubt we'll ever see a 1/20 Battroid. Only the lower arms could be potentially re-purposed out of the existing molds, and doing all the needed molds from scratch would be years and years given how long it took them to get anything onto the store shelves. We'll 100% get the non-Super Valk because we've already seen all the parts for it, but anything beyond that is an unknown.
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Well my prediction was certainly total horsesh*t. Landing gear detail does look very nice though
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So any last hour predictions before WF? IMO since Max is painting a movie Hikaru Gerwalk, I think the only new thing we'll get is the fully painted Weapon set along with a price and date. They'll probably save the Valkyrie kit price and date announcement for Shizuoka.
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Max is doing a fancy pre-shaded Gerwalk paint for WF
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Coming in April: Freyja Color Sigfried http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65848/ Also returning are VF-19A VF-X Ravens http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65759/ VF-1A Minmey 2009 Special http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65787/
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Welp, it's a start at least. Gonna look hilarious when PLAMAX announces the official thing next weekend at WonderFestival
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My decision to paint the PLAMAX Gerwalk in TV colors led to a lot of suffering picking the color for the super parts. The large areas meant the only economically viable way to paint was with spraycans, so no mixing a custom color. I ended up deciding on Mr. Color's C115 RLM65 Light Blue, which is also available as a spray S115. The middle spoon is Hasegawa's recommendation, the two flanking spoons are C115 on top of different color primers. Sure it's brighter than what Hasegawa suggests, but as slide says in the post above, you can definitely find a TV series screenshot to back it up. Going through the TV series for research certainly was a lovely reassurance in lack of anything definitive.
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Not since that announcement. I'm expecting the next news to be at Wonder Festival on Feb 10th.
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So Hasegawa can do a resin chinadress Minmay in 1/24 for 3,200 yen while throwing in a whole eggplane kit. Meanwhile, Max Factory's minimum factory 1/20 plastic chinadress minmay is 2,963 yen. I guess it's another great example of having well established in-house production lines keeping costs down while the new guy has to charge more to stay in the green. It keeps amazing me that the world keeps saying outsourcing will always be cheaper, yet when you look at model kit manufacturers like Kotobukiya, Max Factory and occasionally Wave who have to get their stuff made in China instead of in-house and their prices are waaay higher and development cycles much longer.
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So while trying to figure out exactly how far I want to fiddle my own build I went back through the various development photos and found something interesting. All the way back for Wonder Festival 2017 Winter, almost two whole years ago Max Factory printed a giant banner for their booth showing the VF-1 parts layout. On the runner with the grey parts you can actually see two different plate for mounting the backpack thrusters, indicating intent for two different backpack thicknesses. On the same runner you can also see the gap-fillers for whenever the legs swing forward, but they're a bit shallower than the one's we got so far. I think it's safe to say that at least back in Feb 2017 there was already enough work done to do at least the plain VF-1 as well as the Super/Strike VF-1 in valk mode. That explains the shallower leg swing which is needed for super parts vs swung out farther for gerwalk. IMO the Super/Strike Valk is a done deal at this point, we just haven't seen the necessary new leg runner. I went a little overboard and made a table of future possibilities.
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I feel like the skinny backpack is an artifact of the original Valk kit. While we know that on the Valk it'll be different parts on a different runner, we also know that Max Factory has committed to fudging the proportions between modes. They've given us two versions of the arm missile pods: one short and fat for the deployed arms on the Gerwalk, and one much skinnier and longer for the inevitable Super/Strike Valk. So I'm willing to bet they took the CAD model of the backpack that needed to be skinny to no interfere with the arms in Valk mode, but forgot to artistically adjust the proportions for the Gerwalk properly.
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"Old" is from the 1/72 Battroid kit (65710) "New" is from the 1/48 VF-1J/A (MC02) and 1/72 Gerwalk (65725)
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Are you looking for the best color straight out of the bottle? Or a mixture? Hasegawa and Wave both use Mr. Color for their color recommendations mixes Hasegawa old = 40% C43 Wood Brown + 60% C1 White Hasegawa new = 50% C43 Wood Brown +50% C51 Flesh Wave = 80% C39 Dark Yellow + 20% C22 Dark Earth As for the feet, Hasegawa always gives C28 Steel Wave gives 80% C22 Dark Earth + 20% C42 Mahogany
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Oooooh, I love seeing CAD (Cardstock Assisted Design)
