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Weight of the parts aside, I find the YF-29 super parts are the best design among the all the add-ons for Frontier mecha. It actually integrates well & enhances the base valkyrie lines, and in Bandai's toy form, the fit & tolerances are quite perfect without unsightly seams or gaps..
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MKT replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
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Without getting into whichever proxy you use & different fee structures, whether Buyee, From Japan, Zenmarket etc, there are normally 3 things I watch out for on Yahoo Japan Auctions itself: 1. Whether if seller is an individual or corporation. For corporations, there is a 10% local consumption tax on top of the bid price. 2. Whether if the seller details out the local shipping costs. Most reputable ones do, so do note where the proxy warehouse is located to know how much is the local shipping. At same time, a fair number of sellers do not list out the local shipping costs; perhaps just mentioning the local courier service name. This is where it can get slightly tricky because there are cases of sellers who charge an obviously exorbitant shipping fee independent of the actual shipping fee, perhaps wanting to make up for a low auction closing price, and there is nothing the proxy can do about it. In these auctions where shipping fee structure are not thoroughly specified, then I would pay more attention to the next item: 3. The sellers' rating. I read somewhere before in these forums that sellers' ratings work a bit differently in YJA, in that the seller can actually delete negative comments by buyers, which is quite a big deal. But it appears that most sellers in Japan have better sense of ingrained integrity than the rest of the world, ie eBay, so at end of day the ratings in YJA are more trustable compared to eBay. These above guidelines have served me quite well on the occasional items bought off YJA over the past 2-3 years..
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@RED WOLF All your pics are an inspiration! This particular one is amazing!!
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Nice displays everyone. Always wanted to see more of everyone's overall arrangements. Now's the best time to set up and curate them.. @Rogueload Your displays are amazing! Joining in the fun with my chiefly HMR & 1/100 display: Top shelf: Mid shelf: Still have missile Regults & some duplicates HMR to open...
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I love this angle. It makes it look sharp! I still like looking at the nice stand out copper paint. SV-262 may be a bit involving to transform, but it doesn't appear to be that much more complicated than the Frontier valks? At least there aren't transformation 'traps' that easily breaks the toy, like the VF-171 knees or Yamato's VF-19 gerwalk joints. Looking back, the weight of the toy at first was initially disappointing. It's much lighter than the other Chogokin valks, especially its contemporary VF-31 valks that felt much more satisfying in hand to swoosh around. But once transformed to Gerwalk and Battroid, the lighter weight of SV-262 works to its advantage for easier handling and posing. I also remember all the joints were consistently tight and so will not feel like they will become loose with some casual handling.
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Wow!! Where is the love x 3000 button? I like how the mechs are mixed in nicely with the other figurines
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Consolidated Megazone 23 Toy/Model Thread for 2017-2018
MKT replied to RavenHawk's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Another review of the Fewture Garland below. It's in Japanese, but it has sufficient subtitles..- 818 replies
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Vader's drink of choice when he comes home from a long and hard day's choke.. err, work.. -
This revised KC mold just keeps looking better and better! Not sure if its the lighting or not, but it looks like the return of pink VFs ala Arcadia
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A great addition to scale with the rest of the HMRs. I do find the fighter mode sculpt to be ever so slightly nicer than the Yamcadia 1/60s..
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Still a bit mixed feelings about the Fighters to be honest. The front half of them have curves like a classic valk, but the rear half are all angular in a way that reminds me of paper planes & spaceships I use to fold as a kid 100% plastic with metallic paint, so it feels really lightweight. I believe they were done with regular paint release as well. -
Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Some stuff that arrived recently.. Pop quiz, which of the above: 1. Have the exact same box size? 2. Are the same scale? 3. Designed by Kawamori? The HMR VF-4G Roy colours did turn out better than expected in hand. Or perhaps, it's just great to have more VF-4G variants.. For Fighter 1 & Fighter 2, too bad they don't come with pilot figures to match their opening cockpits.. -
Gotta agree with @jenius's review. Overall, this SV-51 doesn't feel like a big improvement on Yamato. Yes Yamato's was quite a floppy mess, but Arcadia's iteration also doesn't give that much more confidence for long term durability of its joints.. I was thinking, perhaps its due to its spindly design that it's hard to make joints to be tougher / beefier without sacrificing line art. But then, I look at the SV-262 and it also has quite a number of intricate wing joints yet they don't ever feel they are going to get loose anytime soon from first handling. Can't help feeling some disappointment, and I wonder if it's T-Rex not bringing their A-game to this effort..
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Can’t believe how much difference the slightly canted wings of the Legioss makes. It just makes the whole fighter profile look that much more amazing.
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*Hands-up* I hope Bandai release more schemes, cannon or not, because fighter mode is just so sleek that it'll be nice to do some VF-4 fleet building.
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Well, the Tread better have a beefy crotch connection piece then..
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Here I'm wondering, if Sentinel's Tread toy was made to be non-transformable and bomber mode only, how palatable would it be? It would certainly keep the costs down. After all, Tread seemingly exist in collections mostly as a bomber-mode add-on to the Legioss fighter / soldier mode - much like how Macross super packs / armors goes onto the Valkyries..
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I agree. The VF-0D took some time to grow on me. Battroid mode is still least favourite mode; somehow the combination of its grasshopper-like head & huge wings not being tucked in properly recalls to mind a kaiju monster. But fighter mode looks great and this PF weathering really makes it pop!
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I watched a documentary on the Avro Arrow too sometime back, and no doubt it would have been an awesome jet! Back to the Avro Vulcan, I’m now quite convinced that the SV-262, design wise is an amalgam of both the Vulcan & J35.. just a geek thought haha
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The pics imply that this release will come with a gunpod. Small bonus, but it was one of those things that was sorely missing in previous Yamcadia VF-4 releases.
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It’s quite acknowledged that the SV-262 is unmistakably based off the J35 Draken in its overall shape. Recently I happened to watch a segment on the Avro Vulcan delta-winged bomber, and then it hit me, that the curvy fuselage of the SV-262 seemed to be modelled after the Vulcan’s. From some angles, the similarities seem uncanny, especially the spade-shaped tail end..
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Consolidated Megazone 23 Toy/Model Thread for 2017-2018
MKT replied to RavenHawk's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I always thought that the only difference between the normal Garland & Proto-Garland, were just the colours, the calf piece, and the fantastic additional mechanical detailing around the latter's calf. But looking closer, there are many other oh-so-subtle differences that the Proto-Garland need many whole new mold parts. Here's what I noticed so far of the Proto-Garland: 1.The front fork pieces are longer in bike mode. 2. The clear piece in bike mode, immediately aft of the instrument cluster, has clear sections that extends to the sides. 3. The side pods (legs) inner intake detailing is different, as of the inner exhaust details. 4. The rounded ankle piece also has different detailing. 5. The front chest piece in slave mode has different shape & detailing. 6. The kneecap piece is also different, such that it tucks in tighter in bike mode at the intakes. 7. The front shin piece also a small additional detail. 8. The crotch piece is different. 9. The arm gauntlet (?) piece is angled differently. 10. The toes are slimmer and longer. 11. Head sculpt is different. I'm sure there are more differences if I look harder. Basically, if both were presented side-by-side in monotone colours, it would be a great exercise in spot-the-differences. -
I was hoping that the Chronos, being Bandai's new matte-finished Chogokin at that time, would have somewhat different plastics & therefore better protection against yellowing than other Frontier valks of same era. Alas, based on my own copy and what I'm seeing around the net these days, they yellow just as easily.. I have since banished any, direct or indirect, natural sunlight source around the newer VF-31s and the VF-1s, lest they meet the same fate.
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Actually, I want the Ba variants more, because the wings look more like the actual J35 Draken, rather than the Batwing of the Hs ones.