Duymon
-
Posts
2992 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Everything posted by Duymon
-
I'd argue this valk scheme is better than the Alto, but the Alto one is canon and therefore I had to procure that one first.... I know it's been said before, but my ONLY gripe with the YF-29 30th is.... Y U NO Green Canopy?!?
-
It'd molded Black for most of the nose unless they felt like painting the underside too. I took apart my YF-29 to fix a funny off-set front landing gear door and got a nice look. You can also look through your front landing gear doors and see that the inside is black, not white.
-
At this point you're better off just getting a decent airbrush and popping on some dark ghost grey on the 25G.
-
Finding the VF-25's is pretty hard even in Japan. Check rakuten and Amazon Japan and you'll see the majority of units marked for domestic shipping only are sold out as well. When I scoured Akiba All I could find was VF-171's (funny they were still on shelves 5 months after release) You'd have to travel out to the boonies where No Macross fans are and maybe get a lucky score at a Toyshop. That's how I got my 25F at Retail earlier this month (Big thanks to the GF ) Why Bandai continues to leave money on the table confuses me, but perhaps there are other reasons that we don't know about.
-
Wish Bandai would make universal Armored Packs. If you get the Ozma or Alto Packs, just paint them Grey so you can use them on any valk in the future :0
-
Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
Duymon replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
Regardless I'm gonna buy a few anyways just because I want to pump up the sale numbers so Bandai makes more macross crap -
My YF-29 arrived today from Japan :0 Ended up buying it on Rakuten for 210 shipped to GF's house, then had her ship it here. Ended up being freaking the same as NY-san in the end However, had a blast adding a black wash and then using swabs dipped in alcohol to get some nice panel lines . Just watch out for the yellow paint! It comes off easy with rubbing alcohol! (judging by the slight yellow I found on my swabs after taking off the excess wash. I was doing this at work since it's a pretty quiet night shift today in the NOC
-
Got my order from NY for what I thought was my 171EX. Instead they sent me Armored parts....... Had to write them a nice little letter in Japanese asking them if I could just pay the retail for the Armored parts and have them ship me my VF-171 EX. They agreed. Guess I don't need to source the armored parts anymore now O_o
-
Yup. It was a miracle to find an Alto at sub $200 O_o I guess odd shops here and there have mad macross in Japan and let Renewal Altos sit for like 14 months O_o
-
not too hard to mask and paint the reds grey. Then I can just recast the CF pilots so that they are manned by non-altos
-
Destroids should never have weathering. At the rate they die they wouldn't be out on the field long enough to get dirty. Hell, at the rate they die you'd think the pilots were installed at the end of the assembly line and they were dropped right into battle. On a side note... God what's I'd do for a Cheyenne Mk 2 in 1/60
-
How a store sells items is their business. From their perspective whether 100 or 10 people buy 100 valks they sold 100 valks and that's that. Blame Bandai for not making Macross valks in bigger production runs. Getting a valk at retail is nay impossible unless you're in Japan and buy it from a brick and mortar (got a 171 ex for retail when I was there ) The 2nd-run price at NY which was 187 isn't really that much over retail. Retail is like 166 dollars so it's a $20 dollar markup which I gladly am paying just to get it over with. Instead of camping a website for hours at night to save 20 bucks on a valk I can just work 1 hour overtime and make up the difference :0
-
It's so pretty I think I'm gonna splurge on two more 171 exes next month O_o
-
NY-san seems to take much longer to ship packages that use super cheapy shipping. whenever I order super cheapy it takes like 7-10 days to ship. When I buy EMS they ship within 1-2 days O_o
-
I bought it as a bundle with the armored parts for 460 shipped O_o
-
I think I went a lil overboard this holiday
-
YEEEES, got 3 of them mwah ahahahahahahaha Now I can breathe easy as I've obtained / preordered everything in this line
-
I said screw it. MIssed the Amiami, 1999 was a crapfest, I forgot about AE and NY I missed out on because I had to goto work to ..um..earn Valk Money. I just bought the 260-ish V1 on NY, preordered the super parts and bought a VF-171 Alto to ease the pain I'm just happy I got 1 of each valk up to this point.
-
I think that scalpers are taking the majority of the stock judging from all the recent ebay , rakuten and amazon ads.
-
Do What I do. Have a g/f in Japan that you can mail crap to Unfortunately she's moving over here in May so I will lose my local macross source >_<
-
oh, the yf-29 I missed the stupid CF preorder at NY because I was on the train going to work lol
-
Screw it. I just picked up the 260 one at NY threw in an alto 171 while I was at it
-
on the plus side I got my vf-171
-
already gone at amiami
-
My gf found this for 15000 Yen in a small toy shop in Gunma. Just arrived today in NYC I think she's a keeper
