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Thanks for the tip. It's a tradeoff between focus & image quality then. Took quite a bit of time & many tries to find an acceptable compromise between both..
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Yikes Amazon JP shipping stuff in paper bags now?! Such a pity.. they were for longest time still using carton boxes when other Amazons have stopped, even if the boxes were little better than tissue boxes. @seti88 Now we know how Max's 1A upcoming HMR box art look like. But I feel Tenjin just kinda mirror flipped Kakizaki's box art and swapped the color palette.
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Hmm rarely take head-on frontal Fighter shots, as I find phones have very limited depth of focus (hope I'm using the right term). Canted down FSW wings doesn't look like what I imagine to be at this angle lol.
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Don't know what is happening, but it seems the SHF Street Fighter figures have rocketed in prices over the past few months? R.Mika was in bargain basement price for the longest time, look at where its at today.. https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/listPage/list?keyword=SH figuarts street fighter&lang=en I suppose the re-issues of Ryu & Chun Li in slightly different colors makes sense then. -
We do see CGI animation of the YF-21, in the form of the VF-22 in Macross Delta. But it is only in Fighter, and in my hazy memory the angles it was presented in made it pretty difficult to make out the proportions vs what was shown in older media. It might be a worthwhile exercise to revisit those episodes & do some freeze frame comparisons.. But yeah, CGI models can still be manipulated for anime magic, though it has been much more subtle & not in the degree it was in older hand-drawn Macross shows. Great observation. It also kinda tallies with speculation of the legs having thigh swivels.
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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
I really like that VF-1 with Minmay scheme. What would be the only other toy (not model kit) produced with some sort of Itasha as that? The Maruyama VF-171? It is too bad the Sheryl graphic printed on that 171 is a bit low resolution.. -
Most welcome. Agreeing & having about same experience with @Lolicon regarding the yellowing. Previously I think of Yamcadia valks being at least 2X in yellowing resistance compared to Bandai's. But as more time have passed, I'm thinking the ratio is at least 3X. Bandai's gives you the WTF feeling that it yellows all too soon, whilst by the time late Yamato / Arcadia valks starts yellowing, so much time has passed that it becomes pretty acceptable.
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Visually, it looks to be exactly the same. Perhaps they might fix the left vertical stab issue, which tended to pop off very easily on the first YF-19 release. You'll also get 2 new boiled-egg barrier punch effects.
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As straight up re-issues, there will be cavity fillers & they will be bright white, same as the valk itself. Packaging should be no different from previous, in keeping with Arcadia’s practice. (Images from Jenius’s site)
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LOL! Run Max..
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This must be the only valk, or one in a long time, where Bandai extensively previews with lots of explanation notes. I think Bandai must be aware of the pushback toward the design choices and trying to win more folks over with this exercise, and there will even be more explanatory notes in future Hobby Japan issues. The ankle rotation is a solution that although non-canon, is very acceptable as it is really neat. Looking closer at the Gerwalk pics, we can sort of speculate more: 1. The belly plates do not appear to lock to the back overhang, but it looks like they can be angled to make it look like its aligned to the back plate. I believe the belly plates have a swivel joint at the thighs (the black band that goes around the thighs) to allow larger movement range. 2. There doesn't appear to be any knee swivel joint like Yamato's or most of other transforming valks. But it is likely there is a thigh swivel joint for the legs, again at the belly plate swivel joint. No idea why Bandai did this, but perhaps it's for more posing stability?
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It looks like.. Bandai's Gerwalk is turning out to be the real winner here! Best looking mode?
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The valk will be ourselves holding it pretending to shoot some Regults
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Those dirt streaks on the air brake is a nice touch.
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The Mandalorian - Star Wars webseries from Jon Favreau
MKT replied to SMS007's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
100% agree. Whether Luke appearing to save Mando was a cheap moment or not, if a scene evokes pure awesomeness & joy, it would have done its job entertaining. Not many shows can do that these days. I'm randomly thinking, and one other scene that evokes the same feeling but perhaps not as close, is when Batman re-appears in the tunnel for the first time in The Dark Knight Rises. What's extraordinary about that Luke scene was that there was almost no accompanying rousing musical score to do it.- 1437 replies
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Nice to see a whole bunch of valks in formation.
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Looking vibrant! Where are those mini-figs from again? Are they the ones that come with the old Arii VF-1?
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^^ This is the kind of leg articulation I'm wishing the Yamato / Arcadia Tomahwak has.
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Agreed 200%
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This looks like it can be a miniature model stand-in for the real thing in movies
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Had these Lil Drakens right from when they were released. But this is the first time I'm mounting them onto a valk. I did know from the onset that I wanted them on the 31S instead of the 31F, due to how well the colors match.. Lil Drakens on VF-31 may seem to be an afterthought both in movie & toy form, yet strangely enough from certain angles (mostly from above) the Lil Draken's wings can look as though it geometrically matches the VF-31's. By slanting the ghosts' wings a certain way, it picks up & flows through where the VF-31's wings are cut off. Together with the matching paint scheme, it is as though the VF-31S now have extended delta wings with boosters in between.
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+1. Of all the Yammie YF-21 / VF-22 molds variants, I only have VF-22 Milia in Battroid, and seeing how it went I have no desire at all to transform the rest. That VF-22 could hardly stand on its own, and in the display case would slip on the smooth glass surface, so I had to put a felt mat under its feet to increase friction for it to stand properly. Eventually I transferred it onto a stand but the hips would not hold their position for long & just dangle down. If the joints are stable and strong, then I'm sure we will be able to find some nice angle to pose it in for display, as perhaps what we are already doing for most of the other valks. From the pics, it looks like the legs detach with the crotch as a whole single piece for delimiter mode, instead of individually like Yamato's. Too bad, as I thought perhaps I can swap Bandai's legs in onto Yamato's for battroid.
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The Mandalorian - Star Wars webseries from Jon Favreau
MKT replied to SMS007's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Well, first season Mandalorian was released not long after the atrocious Rise of Skywalker, which followed the controversial Last Jedi & pretty forgettable Solo movies. Seen in that time & context, the episodic nature was a welcome change of pace. Some episodes certainly seem to meander a bit, but it was better than the breakneck pace of Episode 9. One aspect I like about Mandalorian & some of these other Disney SW series is how more time is spent on world building & supposedly banal stuff in the environments the characters are in. Another favorite aspect are the extended screen times & close-ups dedicated to the ships & vehicles they use. For eg, the scenes of Moff Gideon in his single Tie Fighter was a treat to watch, much more than repeated scenes of X-Wing fleets vs multiple generic Tie-Fighters in the movies. Or of Boba just carefully maneuvering Slave-1 over the old Sarlacc pit. -
MOSPEADA Inbit Revival Part II: Gosu?
MKT replied to captain america's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Very nice! This pic is my favorite, couldn't help to LOL a bit. -
The Tomahawk in the pics is the weathered olive green. But understandably not very obvious because of the lighting.