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Yeah, I was trying to give him an idea of what is readily available at consumer-grade level. I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that I have access to a lot of printers and materials ( from fdm printers to SLA , to resin, abs and carbon fiber), but I know most people don't have access to that. If he can find someone or somewhere that can print in ABS, that would be ideal like I mentioned, but it still doesn't seem that common at the consumer level. PETG would be a good option and is becoming more readily available. Also PLA has come along in the last few years. 5 years ago I would never try to do a part like that in PLA, but if that were my only option now, I think it would be fine.
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I do a fair amount of 3D printing so I'll give you what advice I have. (Un)Fortunately, I haven't had to do this repair myself, so I can't speak directly to how hard to is it do (but from what I've seen it is pretty straight forward). As far as what materials, your most common options are going to be PLA (a type of plastic) or resin. There are lots of other kinds of printers out there, including ABS (which would be ideal here), but most of those are more expensive. For this type of thing, I'd probably use PLA, as it is more durable than resin. It generally looks a bit worse (more visible print lines), depending on the resolution of the printer, but since this is a part you barely see, I don't think that is an issue. As others mentioned, what color it is will depend on what color of filament you use. Color matching the valk exactly with just filament color is going to be pretty hard. Painting with thin coat of paint would probably be easier to get a much closer color match. A key thing is to keep the two metal parts (the pin and the screw) from your existing joint, as replacing those could be a pain. Hope that helps.
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So I was transforming one of these last night and I had a bit of a revelation: I think I know why Bandai went with the slip-fit vertical pegs (and only the vertical pegs) for the arms in fighter mode. I think it's so you can drop the arms down and attach/remove the gun pod without having to move anything else (backpack/legs). Maybe this was already figured out, or stated directly by Bandai, but it's first time I've realized it. You can kind of do this with something like the yamcadia 1/60s, but I feel like you have to fiddle with the legs more to get the arms undone. Does it make it the "correct" design choice? Probably not, but at least I think I understand the logic behind it, finally. I will say, it was kind of nice to be able to easily attach the gun pod when I realized I had forgotten to. Probably not worth the other sacrifice to overall rigidity that they made, though.
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Got my Ozma just before Christmas, but didn't have a chance to get him out until now. I also have ridiculously tight hips and the left ankle lock being a bit soft that others have reported. He joins some other armored boys.
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Got a shipping notice from Kappa Hobby for Ozma.
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Anyone have any info regarding release date for this beyond "November?" Just wondering if there is any chance of getting this in hand next month for those that preorderd.
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Still kinda torn on this. Macross Plus is probably my second favorite entry in the franchise and I'm a fan of the yf-21. I'm fine with it not being super line-art accurate, but higher-than-average risk of having a toy damaged right from the factory, plus the shoddy (seemingly half-finished) fast packs and overall compromised nature of this release have me holding off on this one. There's still things I like about it, but I might just wait and hope it comes down below MSRP. I think the asking price is too high for what they ended up delivering.
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Looks like they're adding more Macross to Disney+ in August, but only in Japan. I wonder if we'll get those outside of Japan. https://www.siliconera.com/macross-joins-disney-august-anime-lineup/ -
That one's near and dear to my heart. That's actually one of the Playmates "reissues" they did of that mold in the 90s. However the fast pack it has is from my original Matchbox from the 80s (sadly the rest of it is long gone). I've also got a Matchbox Zentradi warrior down in the corner of the little Zentradi section.
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Finally got my display set up at the new house. Some of this stuff has been sitting in boxes for over a year, so it was nice to get it out.
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Well, it sucks this looks to be coming out worse than anticipated, especially with the damage straight out of the box. Seems like my theory that this will be a shelf warmer available on discount might come true. Now it's a question of whether I even want to buy one at a discount.
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Personally, I'm banking on this being somewhat of a shelf warmer, for a variety of reasons. Hoping to catch it on a discount in the next 4-5 months.
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Does anyone have any contacts with the state-side vendors (BBTS, Entertainment Earth) that they could check with? Beyond just the standard customer service reps. Maybe they could clear up what kind of release this is. It seems weird that all the other Frontier releases would be standard "worldwide" releases, and this wouldn't, but with Bandai, anything could happen.
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Yup, this is the one I was holding out for. I'm down.
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Yeah, Macross Tau makes sense, probably looks cool. Someone where I play made a "Riptide" out of left over Gunpla parts. I put little UN spacy kits on some of my Grey Knights stuff, but it's really small and no one really notices it (or knows what it is).