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    PLAMAX 1/72 VF-1 Valkyrie

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    5 hours ago, MechTech said:

    I gotta ask, why all the DYRL kits vs the TV versions? Movie, less than two hours. TV show, several hours/days long. Maybe it's a cultural thing? - MT

    It's definitely a cultural thing. Most people in the west first experienced DYRL the same was as the TV series - on a tiny screen horribly ruined by analog video.

    Meanwhile in Japan with the theatrical release it was more like an event. A lot of anime movies were like that even back then with people lining up around corners, premiers with staff and cast present, etc. There's lots of photos from the premiers of the original Gundam Trilogy, Ideon movies, Farewell Yamato, etc with just crowds and crowds of people showing up to theaters after the TV shows built the hype. These were cultural milestones for the people that cared about these franchises, with quite a few of these people now making the decisions of what merch gets made today.

    Aoshima VFG

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    19 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

    9800 might be the price with tax. (10% I think? I forget.) Take that off, it's about 8900, and then HLJ tend to take off another 10-15% on top of that to remain competitive, so... 8100? Today's conversion rate, that comes to ~$75. Seems about right.

    Dunno, but either way, preorder placed, looking forward to it.

    From the Aoshima page - 価格：9,800円（税別）

    Without tax.

    HLJ still lists with prices without tax since that only applies to Japanese residents
    Other sites like Hobby Search and AmiAmi unfortunately started listing taxed prices on their english sites, presumable to make their discounts seem bigger >_>

    Modeler Appreciation Thread

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    If you want to use solvents in your ultrasonic cleaner just put them in a separate container and put the container into the water in the ultrasonic cleaner. The water will conduct the magic voodoo waves into the container. I use a small PE/PP bottle full of lacquer thinner to deep clean my airbrushes, works great and uses far less solvent at a time than filling the ultrasonic cleaner itself.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUCl9NQymBI

     

    Max Factory 1/20(!) VF-1S/A Hikaru

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    Looking at it as it is now, the arms are straight form the Gerwalk, Super parts are all the same, and legs are maybe straight from the fighter? The big issue is that a completely new torso is absolutely needed but it seems they did think about this long ago and those parts are all isolated to the B runner. If they do decide to keep the existing legs that might be unsatisfactory to some people. If they decide on all new legs that might make it financially not viable to pursue. Oh well I guess we'll see what the future holds eventually.

    At the end of the day any Super/Strike kit is still gonna be ~36,000yen and that's ouch...

    Honestly I'd still they rather do VF-1D. We know for sure that's only swapping out the body and cockpit parts with no other issue.

    What will Hasegawa do next?

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    2 hours ago, kajnrig said:

     

    EDIT: Also I didn't realize the VF-31J is a LE kit. Are all the Delta releases LE? IIRC that wasn't the case for the VF-25, right?

    VF-31J is a regular release, #29. Keith's Draken is also a regular release at #28. Everything else Delta is LE.

    Max Factory 1/20(!) VF-1S/A Hikaru

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    Posted · Edited by TMBounty_Hunter

    That's not camo, that's the pre-shading. That style is pretty popular with Ma. K stuff. Max has done it previously with his Shizuoka Hobby Show valk build.

     

     

    EDIT: Whoops, wasn't Shizuoka. It was Wonderfestival Winter

     

     

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