peolesdru

Ditto. Could you do the yf-19 too?

Planning on it. Then I can re-focus on html guides. Both approaches have their advantages. I definitely recommend that anyone following the video guide not try to "keep up" - just use the pause button!

Let me know if you like them.

That's a nice pose. Can the legs really hold up like that? This is going to be important for when the 1/60 vf-1 wears the GBP armor on it, and you try to make it look like it is floating in space. A test to see if yamato can make stiff enough joints to allow for the extra weight to not cause floppy limbs syndrome. Hopefully the weight of the extra armor doesn't affect ability to pose like that. This is the next thing yamato should work on - better joints.

Takara should do some alternator cybertronian jet vehicles that are similar to valks I reckon. The transformers have got to fight in space too!

Sure, it would hold that pose - the legs are pretty tight - whole thing's pretty tight, really.

My only problem replicating that pose would be that I'd have to use the black stand that came with my SV-51

For some reason, the clear stand doesn't stay together as well - the main upright doesn't "lock" onto the base like the black stand.

I tried to pose the battroid mode on the clear stand and it wouldn't hold the weight - the bottom of the upright just plain doesn't lock on.

Maybe I'm missing something. It's the same stand as the black stand and the black stand definitely clicks together at that joint.

Me too. I hope Kevin gets his shipment supply soon .....

And thanks peolesdru for the transformation guide!!! Mucho appreciated mate!!!

I made a video guide. It's in a different thread.

THANKS for the videos. I hope it is still around or that my memory still serves me well once I get a 21. THANKS AGAIN!

I'm pretty sure there are ulilities you can download to save YouTube videos to your computer.

After reading about all the "be careful or you'll wreck it" comments in this thread, a yf-19 safe transformation guide would be cool too.

I'm planning on doing the 19 and the 51, but not tonight - it's late here. The videos for the 21 are up - I started a new thread for those.

Made some transformation videos.

Here's Fighter to Battroid:

And Battroid to Fighter:

Let me know what you think.

I have a new set of video guides on the way - keep an eye out for a new thread related to that.

Here's a ZIP file of the pure HTM version for you Firefox droogs:

HTM Transformation Guide

Also, note my name doesn't have a second "p" in it.

Beautiful work, my friend!! I've saved it in case I ever decide to take it out of fighter mode when I get it, lol.

-Kyp

Thanks. It's the best method I've found so far. I'll never understand why Yamato doesn't provide any instructions for going back to fighter mode. Sure, with some toys you can do the old Hasbro "Reverse order of directions..." methodology, but not so with a yammie.

And of course you're going to put it in Battroid mode - otherwise you would have bought a model plane.

Ok, here you go:

YF-21 Transformation Guide: Battroid to Fighter

Also, I'm pretty sure my ducky picture is just a picture that's been cleaned up in Photoshop or something. I have the same rubber duck on my desk, but I didn't take the picure.

Ok - I have a guide thrown together and nowhere to host it. It's about 9 MB. I tried to upload it, but it wouldn't take.

Anyone who wants it can email me at peolesdru@gmail.com, then. Hopefully someone who can host it can contact me.

I love the pics of this. A youtube transformation video of this is needed.

I remember all those years ago how hard it was to transform the 1/72 though. So it's not surprise this is even harder than that. The legs and the collapsing hips were the key that made me fail at trying to transform it back and forth. I forgot that there were parts that collapse and extend because the collapse and extending of it was stiff so you don't know it can collapse and extend.

Yeah I agree that colour manuals is a good idea. But for me, I think an english manual on the internet by a person who already knows each step off by heart and can take good pics of the parts that lock and unlock (complete with arrows explaining where in the picture he is talking about) would be the best. Just like with the koenig monster.

Then put this "html illustrated manual" on graham's review somewhere so people can refer back to it at any time and/or download it. Maybe print it out if necessary. I mean how many times has the "Koenig monster transformation instructions" thread had to be rebooted again because people forgot where to download that manual from? I say put the HTML page of transformations instruction in english somewhere where it is easy to find. Preferably on a review page of the toy as a link so we don't have to keep rebooting the old thread that it originally appeared in for noobs.

I'm pretty good at following the included instructions but for those who aren't, this is going to help them not break something and put their mind at ease when they know they can refer back to a online manual with colour pics, and big arrows and english comments telling them what to do.

...1.5 hours just to transform something....sheeesh

I believe you're talking about the konig guide I wrote a few years ago. Nice to have it remembered. I'll try to make on for the 21.

Mine arrived today! Man is EMS quick. All the way from Japan in 4 days. The mailman actually left a "you missed your poo" notice in our mailbox when my wife went to a meeting this afternoon and, awesome wife that she is, she made a point of going to the post office right before closing (to give the carrier time to come back) and convinced the guy at the counter to track it down in the back.

I really like the figure. Some notes:

I was trying to get the plates together and suddenly they buckled and I broke off the tiny little tab. Sheesh. I'm totally going to get some tiny little super magnets and superglue them under the plates to get the damned things to stay together. I'm such a dunce. Is it just mine or does it seem that they don't want to go together at all?

I had to check through the board when I went back to fighter mode because I could NOT get the backpack re-extended and was afraid I was missing some locking mechanism. But everyone who mentioned it was like "wow that's tight thought I'd break it" so I gritted my teeth and gave it a hard pull. Pretty scary.

Other than that it is indeed kind of a pain in the ass to get that plate under the shoulders to lock down properly. I leave the front of the plane (and the legs) disengaged until I do the backpack and then the arms and then I lock it down. Still tricky, though.

Oh and when I went to battroid for the first time, one of the legs came right off in my hand. I'd read that was normal alraedy, but for a moment there I just sat and stared at it. My poor wife didn't know it was normal and took my sudden cessation of movement to be a bad sign. She said later that she had started to plan her escape from the room.

ANd also, step 15 of Gerwalk to Battroid just shows a close-up of the little hook behind the ankle, what is the significance of that?

I second that question - is that a locking mechanism for the telescoping leg or what?

Nice pictures, Swoosh! Looking forward to Battroid.

I just checked my HLJ orders, and it's on the way!!! As of two days ago. So, hopefully by this friday or Saturday, it'll be here. Time to get out the welcome home signs.

Lucky. Mine would be on its way but apparently my bank has some sort of restriction on non-USA vendors. So I'm having to switch over to PayPal for my payment option.

Hopefully, they'll get that straightened out with me tomorrow, but I suppose it may not ship until next week, so it won't be here for TWO WEEKS!

Woe is me - Surely no human being alive today faces a bigger conundrum than I! I mean, except for 99.99% of them.

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Why would they change that?!? It prob. does lock. Just needs some fiddlin done with it. I will still buy one eventually.

Here's what I got out of that conversation:

alex was saying that the cockpit area of the plane doesn't seem to lock down. Graham misunderstood and pointed to the feature where the torso and the "backpack" lock together, then alex clarified that he knew about THAT locking mechanism already, but was referring to the cockpit component. So there's no "change" - they were just talking about two different things for a moment there.

So as it stands, it would appear that the cockpit doesn't "lock down".

Just ordered mine from HLJ.

I don't have any money to buy this right now though. I blame all the hasbro transformer stuff I bought. (I should have not bought leader class brawl movie. It ate a chunk of the yf-21 money

I don't see any reason to feel too bad about that. After all Brawl = Best Tankbot Ever. I know what you mean about it being a heavy bot season - I still can't decide if I'm going to get Animated or skip it. It'd be an easy decision if I had a chin fetish

My wife ordered mine for my birthday. The only snag is my birthday was April 10th. I guess that means I'm still 34 until late May!

I need a heatshield - mine just broke - I superglued the tab back on but it probably won't work and I'll be afraid to ever play with it again even if it does work. I just need to know who and how to pay.

Know what worked for me? Superglue.

Alright I have a question, my cockpit is stuck in the down position, What is a good way to get it back up?  I dont want to break anything and I am displaying it in Gerwalk mode...so any helpful suggestions would be great.  thanks

Twich

I cover that in my pictorial transformation guide:

http://www.gratuitous-assertions.com/konig_x.htm

The short version is that when you are going back to shuttle mode, before you start locking the hips into place you will find the chest can be rotated down a bit giving more freedom to work the cockpit up and out. I have pictures of the process in the guide.

The new "crystal" clear kitty litters are 100% cilica gel.  Save some money and make your own packets/cans.

Wow! I never heard of the idea of putting kitty litter with stuff I'm storing. Seriously though, thats a very intriguing idea!

Just don't use clay litter