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    Is that giant sword thing a "canon" item? Or was it made up for the TB?
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    Ooh, nice. What is that thing? I'd love to get my hands on it...
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    Quoting tc012009 from Gundam Eclipse: Actually, I think for the most part that IS separated by color. The biceps and elbows not so much, but most everything else looks to be that way. ...maybe not the lower chest...?
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    I keep mine up until the next delivery (so my records go back two orders), but certainly nothing over a year. I don't buy THAT many kits... Also, I just realized I test-fit the Hasegawa SV-262 for comparison pics (will still get you weights, Skypoet! just been busy :D). I suppose I could try and make that my entry... Beginner category at most, because I tend not to do too much modding to Hasegawa kits and scale aircraft kits in general.
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    Very much this.
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    I haven't watched the video or looked into the details yet, but here are some links. http://hlj.com/plamo-2017 EDIT for some breakdown of the competition: - Competition will last from Jan. 16 to Apr 30, 2017. - Any kit that was or is on sale on HLJ can be submitted for competition. - There will be 3 categories of competition: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. - To enter, you must have a hobbylink.tv account and join one or more competition groups. (However, you may only submit one build. If you have one build in both the Intermediate and Beginner groups, you can only enter either the Beginner or Intermediate build for competition.) - Beginner = "Some panel-lines, decals, a touch of marker here or there and even hand painting is accepted." - Intermediate = "Give it a whole new paint scheme or a look all its own. Perhaps some parts swapping with other kits." - Advanced = "Airbrushed with highlights, a kit completely scratch-built, even a creation all your own that has never been seen before. Show some heavy duty damage or add those little touches that make it lifelike." - All prizes will be in-store credit. Earlier competitions awarded specific kits, causing many more problems for the HLJ staff. - Kits can not have been in progress as of the beginning of the competition (Jan. 16). Also, you cannot post any in-progress pictures or updates anywhere else but the above hobbylink.tv groups until AFTER the end date of the competition (Apr 30). (Thanks Darth Mingus) (Anything else you feel should be mentioned, let me know and I'll update the post.)
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    HLJ is hosting a plamo competition. I'll start a thread in the Model Kits section as well, but I figure I'd post the same links here while I'm at it. http://hlj.com/plamo-2017
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    If I remember correctly, the controllers either have wrist strap holes or have separate plastic housing accessories that come with wrist straps. It's a shame there's none on the device itself. Maybe it's possible to attach one via the controllers? I'm almost assuredly getting one, too, but not until after launch.
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    I dunno about weights of the models themselves, but judging by HLJ's product pages: The Bandai kit at 4400-5200 JPY ($40-$50), and the box weighs 630g The Hasegawa kit at 2800-3600 JPY ($25-$30), and the box weighs 380g The plastic-to-dollar ratio seems about the same for both, with Bandai offering a bit more value. (15.75:$1 vs 15.2:$1) I'll take some quick weight measurements off the runners and get back to you. Bandai's kit has more runners, but also more plastic in the pieces themselves due to thicker pieces and the various snap-fit/articulation features. As for the wing tabs, I agree that there's something just slightly out of place somewhere; one side is close to locking nicely, while on the other, the leg is extended too far back by about 2mm. I'm not about to mess with it anytime soon, as I'm afraid that I can only make things worse.
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    Come, now. Let's be subtle here. People might get the idea that you don't like a certain western media company and its western animated IP. Thanks for the clarification.
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    Yeah, I'm not sure if the name is supposed to be "you can build either the VF-19A or the VF-19EF" (which could be true for the former as its differences are internal, but not for the latter as it has very obvious external differences from the YF-19/VF-19A airframe) or "you can build the VF-19EF/A, which is the new name of the VF-19ADVANCE, and either has nothing to do with the VF-19EF at all or was heavily modified from a VF-19EF." I suppose that second possibility makes more sense, and the second possibility within that makes most sense given the production history of the VF-19EF. Isamu takes an existing VF-19EF from SMS, modifies it to look like the YF-19/VF-19A and incorporate VF-25 Super Packs, and the resulting custom gets re-designated the VF-19EF/A (for Advance). In that regard it's like a VF-19ACTIVE? Both are singular, ace custom modified VF-19EFs, but whereas the ACTIVE simply gets called the VF-19ACTIVE, the Advance keeps the VF-19EF name, just appending /A to it.
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    asdf Yeah, apparently both of these games just don't play well with AMD hardware. I just experienced framerate drops into the single digits even after optimization tweaks got it to go at 50-60 otherwise. Restarting took care of the issue, but only until next time... It's not entirely the engine. RAGE and The Evil Within, both developed on the same Id Tech 5 engine, share texture pop-in issues with these two games (which is a problem on both AMD and Nvidia hardware), but they otherwise don't have a problem with either brand (or at least they have the same problems on both brands). It's only these two games that selectively target AMD cards. Whatever driver issues might have existed have been ironed out; it's the game's fault at this point. If I could trade these two for Doom, I would. As it is right now, I feel too slighted to give Id any more of my money. Give it a month or two, once the memory of these games is gone from my mind, I'll probably gladly shell out twenty bucks or so for it.
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    Okay, okay. Okay. Look. Don't do this, Hasegawa. Don't do this to me. I only have so much money. (No but seriously thanks so much for the head's-up. Mayhaps I can hope for a RA VF-0 reissue, too?)
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    I figured Shawn and co. were fine with third-party threads for other IPs because they're strictly not Macross. I could be wrong. But that aside, I think the sheer complexity of Macross designs means a lack of toy attempts. Fixed-mode kits, sure, but I definitely haven't seen any transforming kit attempts, much less full-on toys with their higher QC demands.
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    Meh... *rumble rumble get ready for the sourpuss again* It's fine, I guess. This one doesn't hold together nearly as well as the VF-31, because the transformation demands much more precision. That complicated area around the intakes is particularly cumbersome, with I think four swiveling joints within the same cubic cm all needing to align in just the right way for transformations to work out nicely. The aforementioned intakes don't come together nicely for the battroid mode; there's always a major gap splitting the chest right down the middle, and even though I expected as much beforehand, it was still disappointing. Fighter mode suffers the most: the arms/shoulders/tailfin make for a gap-filled fuselage; it's impossible to get the wing root pegs to clamp into the legs; and no matter what I tried, I could never get the feet/engine exhaust nozzles to lock together, even before things became naturally misaligned from the transformation. Gerwalk mode is definitely where this kit shines. None of the above issues exist in Gerwalk mode (unless you for whatever reason want to display it with its arms stowed away), and it's easily the most aesthetically-pleasing of the three modes anyway. Oh, and the hands are still terrible. Y'know, because I need to. Now I just have to finish test-fitting the Hasegawa version for comparison.
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    Also, isn't it forum policy to not discuss/advertise/endorse unofficial products?
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    Hm. I went back to the Sayonara no Tsubasa scene and it actually looks like the in-movie model is more in line with the Hasegawa kit lineart than the DX. The shoulder bits are hard to tell, but they do wrap over the shoulder pivot points. The booster packs are also slimmer than they appear on the DX. (Look at the distance from booster to SMS logo on the wing.) Thanks for the pic, wmkjr. I totally forgot about that scan. It seems the shape of the Hasegawa kit's implementation is completely wrong, too. Shame about that, but I suppose it doesn't matter much regardless of which version you're hoping to build (VF-19EF/A because it had such limited screen-time, or YF-19 because those parts don't exist on it).
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    Yeah, I've never gotten the feeling that Zelda WASN'T an open-world game, whether it was listed as one or not. I don't know about the more recent and/or mobile ones, but during casual gameplay I've never felt that LttP/OoT/etc. was lacking in exploration options. I suppose this one can be considered more "open" in the sense that challenges aren't necessarily designed to be tackled in any particular way, but... Well, either way, I'll definitely be getting this game anyhow, so it's splitting hairs I suppose.
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    Wait, I thought the Frontier version was called the ADVANCE a la the Bandai toy. I'm guessing they changed it in canon? Also, I'm still gonna get it, but do the packs look off to anyone else? Are those two small bits forward of the shoulders present on the YF?
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    If you have a PC and happened to not have either Wolfenstein: The New Order or its sequel, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, DO NOT buy them. I just got around to downloading/playing them yesterday and today, and by god are they D-tier PC ports. They're so poorly optimized for PCs, and by all indications they were never patched to any significant degree. I've been trying all manner of tweaks and fixes and still can't get rid of the dips down into the ~30 FPS or the constant screen stutter (indicative of frame-time problems?), even when the game is at its lowest graphical preset. When Dark Souls, infamous for its subpar PC port, can be more easily modded than you, you know you've fraked up somewhere in the optimization process.
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    I'm not sure if I asked this before, but did the VF-17 ever have an underbelly gunpod like the VF-171? If I remember correctly, the VF-17's main weapons were the arm-mounted, internal gun(pod?)s. Moving on from there, does the animation (of either Frontier or Delta) ever show how the VF-171 gunpod goes from underbelly to handheld, or is it just anime magic the same way all VFs pre-VF-31 did it and we're to assume that the gunpod spends some amount of time separate from the VF until the VF grabs it?
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    The Tamiya glue will work if you sand away the paint from the areas to be glued first. It's supposed to work with bare plastic, so obviously the paint will get in the way of that. As for type of super glue, I'm partial to gel-form super glues that have a slightly longer work time than the 20 microseconds you get with the watery variety. Brand doesn't matter too much, I think. I wouldn't want to offer advice without having tried it myself, but I imagine (thin) aluminium foil glued to the walls of the kit would work just as well... NZEOD?
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    It was a USB 2.0 cable (and I think this iPad model's Lightning is also based on USB 2.0), so I wasn't expecting 3.0 speeds, but even then, and accounting for the whole lot of small files, sane devices would take between 10 and 30 minutes (5-15 MB/sec) to transfer 9 gigs of data. This took an hour? Really? Egh grumble grumble grumble. It's finally taken care of now, so fine's fine, I suppose.
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    So mi madre maxed out the 32 (EDIT: 16) GB on her iPad and was adamant that absolutely none of the 1200 photos be deleted. I look at it thinking, "Okay, no problem. I've done this before. Shouldn't be more than 15 minutes moving some of this stuff somewhere else." Two hours later, the iPad is still full and I nearly give up. I can't attach a flash drive/portable HDD because it has its dumb proprietary Lightning connector. I can't slot in a MicroSD card because it doesn't support them. I can't upload the pics to Apple's own cloud servers because 1) iCloud integration is nonexistent unless you install the iCloud app, and 2) the iCloud app isn't preinstalled. I can't use the only option available to me - the Backup feature - because the only option is to bulk upload all 12GB or so to iCloud's 5GB of available storage, which preemptively disables your upload attempt (without even the option to do a partial upload). I can't email even a single picture to myself because the Mail app needs storage space to function at all. Jesus Christ on a stick, frakk this machine and frakk Apple. I'm reminded once again of just how smart I was to have never ever EVER adopted a single Apple device. Finally I plug it into my computer via the charging cable and it takes AN HOUR I SWEAR TO GOD to copy the available 8-9 GB over. (For whatever reason, i can't get to the other 3-4 GB, but whatever, I'm taking what I can get at this point.) There's nothing wrong with the computer, nothing wrong with the USB 3.0 port, and nothing wrong with the cord or iPad save for their being Apple products. Just... UGGGGHHHHHHH.
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    If they scaled up their Delta Mecha Collection kits to 1/72 and provided some halfway decent decals/sticker sheets, I would be on that like white on rice. Okay, maybe not the sticker sheets. Okay, maybe not the decals either because... Bandai decals. But I've bought like ten of those and only two of the 1/72 Delta kits, because the 1/72 kits are just too much of a pain to work with.
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