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    I doubt so. There's not THAT much complexity to the design, just lots of lines and striping. Hasegawa has decaled more complex designs than that. At the very least, they won't be dumb enough to design decals with PANEL LINES ON THEM SERIOUSLY WHAT THE HELL BANDAI. (Eh, I'm sure it works better than it looks, but still. At this point Bandai may as well not make decals at all and just partner with Cartograf or something to print high-quality waterslides.) Oy vey... Is the forehead decal any better than the sticker you've used? EDIT: And don't think I've forgotten about your shoddy hands, Bandai! /shakes fist impotently
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    Ah yes, I figured I was probably wrong even as I wrote that. Oh well. Carry on then.
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    To be fair, they're throwing a whole bunch of clothes in order to get where they're going. Maybe she had on more than was shown.
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    In both SDFM and DYRL, what model(s)/paint scheme(s) of VF-1 does Max pilot?
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    I'm gonna make things easy on my headcanon and say that's a trick of the lighting. Yep.
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    Unless you live in Japan, getting a spare part will be fairly expensive, too. HLJ and (I think) Amiami used to offer parts replacement services, but I'm not sure if they still do. I know HLJ doesn't anymore. Maybe GG Infinite does? Proxy services (can't think of any off the top of my head, sorry) also tend to offer a replacement parts ordering service, for a markup on top of a service fee. ...your best bet at this point might be to buy an entire kit, filch the canopy, and sell the rest. If it can go into battroid mode without the need for the canopy, I might be interested in buying it off of you.
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    The delta wings are a bit off, but that's a sweet look nonetheless. I like how they just popped off the charging pod. Super ghetto, but there's a certain charm to it. Speaking of which, does anyone know what the 31A has in the show in lieu of said charging pod?
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    PMed! Hasegawa please do the Nightmare! (Honestly I love the way it looks in fighter mode. Its best form hands down.)
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    Right, I meant that I wonder if the model is a kitbash (mash-up) of a stock VF-1J and a stock VF-25, using the cockpit/instruments of the latter with the body of the former. I thought the entire nose/canopy were slightly different, but that might have just been a fluke of the imagination/misinterpretation.
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    Others have made that comparison as well. I think comparing it to the HMR line is a bit erroneous. The HMRs are, from what I've heard at any rate, more toyish and have the strengths (strong solid materials/joints) and weaknesses (skimps on detail/decals) that go with, whereas these are the opposite, again from what I've heard. I wouldn't go into this line expecting to play much if at all with the finished product.
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    That is very nice. I'm guessing that's the EX Gear cockpit from the VF-25? (Have yet to build my Hase 25.) I wonder what resin parts they could possibly need that couldn't just as easily and more economically be provided by way of the VF-25's cockpit... Otherwise it really is just a stock VF-1J? Kind of disappointing. I was hoping for the nose and forward fuselage to be noticeably different.
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    Might they make her VA affect a stereotypical Russian accent?
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    1) No, they are not. (I asked the same thing in the DX thread.) 2) Ding ding ding ding!
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    I... I need to do that.
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    Where's my MG Stargazer, damn it!?!?
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    I don't blame you. Bandai consistently overengineers their kits (hence my trepidation with the -31 kit), which is great for an initial wow factor, but they make for damn terrible models... or even toys, for that matter. The various Hase/Wave kits continue to be better models, and the various DXes/Yamcadia releases continue to be better toys. EDIT: A question, somewhat related: I seem to recall the Tamacolle keychain stands with the model kits behind them. Does anyone know if they come with a small stand and/or are otherwise capable of supporting VFs? I know the Figure-rise busts are supposed to be compatible with either Action Base 1 or Action Base 2 (for smaller kits), but I forget if it's the same with the Tamacolle stands. I'm considering picking up the Kaname stand (because Kaname) to pair with my -31J.
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    I don't know who you're targeting there, but as one who voted negative on this episode, I can't help but think I might be in those cross-hairs. In which case, I'm hardly disliking the series. I've been and was just and will continue to be critical of it, but that doesn't mean I dislike it. ...though that being said, I am caring less and less about it, which isn't the same as dislike but it's in the same ballpark, I suppose. She doesn't need to be ace levels of good. I actually quite liked that she's struggling to live up to her family name. But she isn't even KEEPING UP with the boys at this point, despite all early evidence pointing to that being the case. The contradictory information the show has been feeding us on her is one of my biggest complaints. I'm fairly certain they'll go the route you predict, but I personally hope they don't. Aside from being the most predictable and boring thing to do, it would also be more of that super casual sexism at play. But actually I'd have liked the show to linger more on her feelings of jealousy and resentment towards Hayate. Through small actions here and there, or a more biting tone at points. A bit like Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion, when she starts getting outpaced in battle prowess by the boy she likes. That would have certainly made the show more interesting, and her more of a living breathing character rather than an obligatory corner of the triangle. Gah. I'm too stuck on this. Time to brush off my fanfic-ing skills and write up my own alternate retelling of this story? Maybe.
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    Eh. The stickers on the -25s are just as good as recent Gundam ones. It would make absolutely zero sense for Bandai to make them otherwise. The decals do suffer from the dot-matrix problem - also known as half-toning - but if you're going to be using the stickers anyway, that's hardly something to worry about. (The problem, at least according to my aforementioned tetsujin post, is that Bandai throws a whole bunch of colors onto the same decal sheet, and so markings that should be solid colors using specific color ink printers instead have to be printed on all-purpose printers which is where the dots come from.) The problems I see with the kit so far, almost all of them identical to the -25 kits: - Ugly landing gears, need replacing with F-18 ones. - Ugly nose gear bay design, too, and entirely inaccurate. I get that this probably makes for an easier and simpler build, but it's a serious design flaw nonetheless. At least on the -25 those doors actually folded downward and you could see them when the gears were extended. - Bad cockpit design. Should have gone the Hasegawa route and molded the seats and pilots separately. It's not like it would have made the kit substantially more difficult. Because I might want to display my -31 on the runway with canopy open. Speaking of... - Canopy can't be built open. Boo. Come on, Bandai. You were already going for full transformation, why not make these small improvements as well? It's not like you don't know how; your DXes are evidence of that. I'll be snapping mine together, then fiddling around with it for a bit, then more than likely I'll just get rid of it and wait for the Hasegawa version. EDIT: They released the -1S/A kits way after the Frontier kits, I believe. I think the -25s were 2007ish, during the run of the show, and the -1A/S was like 2013?
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    https://youtu.be/cLiX3dD2qfU?t=11m05s HLJ takes a (very brief, unboxing only) look at the -31J. Build/impressions will likely come next episode in 2 weeks time.
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    Enjoyed the episode well enough. Voted negative. Some thoughts on this and the previous episode, which I binged together just now (skip if you don't want to read tons and tons of criticism):
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    Hm... First impressions are cautiously optimistic. I still don't trust it to look any good in-hand and up close, but at least it's fine from a distance. (Then again, the same can be said of the Bandai VF-25...)
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    A while back we were talking about the landing gear, especially the rear ones. What were the suggestions for replacing them again? I seem to recall talks of Hasegawa F-18 and YF-23 kits because of them having similar landing gear designs and a similar opening mechanism...?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Not totally on-topic, but as far as the just-released transforming model kit is concerned, the landing gear doors (on the nose, at least) don't swing downward as per tradition. Rather, they hinge up into the gear well. I don't know if this is how it's appeared in the anime, but there you are. From this video build: https://youtu.be/hjLwEBE2q8w?t=6m55s
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