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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
CrossAir replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
CrossAir replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
After vladykins showed his pick for the robot spirits Queadluun here a few days ago I took a look on ebay again and found this nice bundle for about 50$ incl. shipping :
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
CrossAir replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Nice pick! Looking for this one for so long, too, but not at prices three or four times of yours. -
Primarily, but not only. As I Mentioned earlier also my green and beige colored RVF-25 and VF-25A have this issue. And some plastic parts are affected while other are not. Maybe due to parts coming from different suppliers indeed.
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This is the reason why I can’t handle valks after midnight. Had very negative experiences in the past...the valks got in life threatening danger!
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Me for example, I have only VF-25 renewal toys. And all stored ones show yellowing. Here’s a picture I shot today of my Yamato VT-1 V1 I bought as used some years ago. It was stored the same way as the VF-25s yet it is still in perfect condition. Maybe the “heat-management” in a box without styrofoam packaging is different? Anyway, what happened to my 25s is the price I have to pay for false storage.
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Now I checked on all Frontier Valks, even the colored VF-25A and RVF-25 show signs of yellowing though not as Bades the YF-25. The only one still in perfect shape is the VF-25G, last bought (used) but also first in cool and dark storage. I'm still a bit anxious on trying solutions with peroxide or else as I'm afraid of damaging the tampo prints. Hope this won't happen to my VF-31s'. They're all on display (out of sunlight) and still looking good so far.
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I see, though I don’t want to but all my Valks not on display will go down in the cellar. Glad I took half of the collection down last year . But have to check the yellowing state once more, crap!
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You guys made me curious. Just came home from work. Checked my stored VF-25F and YF-25. I am shocked, both got yellowed in their boxes. The VF-25F was only a few weeks out, the YF-25 only for check. I think it’s the environmental conditions. I store them in a cabinet with the stereo and TV and other electronic devices on top. I think it is the heat of the devices and the changing temperatures which cause yellowing. Same affect has direct sunlight. Look at those pictures: The YF-25 in the last picture which is on constant display in an front open box only shows minor yellowing:
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I have two YF-25 on display I n the living room for about two years now, not in direct sunlight though. Did not notice any yellowing. I think I get my third YF-25 as well as the VF25-F which I stowed away to see if there are any differences.
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Woah! This looks great! Good luck on the contest.
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Oh yes, I like that! I have the box lying around but I really don't know when I will start building. Sooooo many parts...and so many backlog...
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
CrossAir replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Congrats! Damn nice. Envy you. I bet even your deal is out of my self allowed price range . So I stick with the smaller DIY version from GSC. -
Pengbuzz, that’s love, isn’t it?! My wife wouldn’t mind a second to trash all my Macross and other sci-fi stuff if I gave the ok . But at least she tolerates the shelves in the living room (until now). So this cat really deserves lots of love to make her fur shiny once more
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Painting faces is a horror for me, too. When I tried painting eyes they always looked weird in the end. Thus I only built figures which are coming with decals for the eyes! Your Trek fleet project comes along nicely. I admit I won’t have the patience to deal with these multiple ships of which each has its own issues at the same time!
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Just finished: Sheryl Nome (resin kit from E2046) Took me five weeks to finish her as I have not much time for hobby left since work is steadily increasing since January. Though it is a resin kit it was not hard to built - fitting of parts was quite good, not much filling, priming and sanding necessary and everything went fine until the last airbrush stroke which should only be a tiny correction to the sole of one boot. From here on I went through modelers’ hell as I had to redo the right leg completly cause somehow I managed to ruin the finished paint job due to color on my fingertip. After this I thought I had overcome the worst part of this build, but it struck me even harder. During assembly of the veil on the back I dropped the idea of screwing it to the body and decided to use solely superglue. When I checked some minutes later I almost got an heart attack as I noticed a drop of glue had run down the right thigh. Even worse, since the veil came off again I had marks of superglue on other parts, too. Once again I had to sand down the thighs, paint and clear coat it again. this time even on the already assembled figure. Same on some other parts. Took me the whole weekend for the repairs. And this time I attached the veil with a screw. But I still wonder how smoothly I went through the restoration process in the end. Final conclusion: I hate superglue!!!!
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Cursing... That was what I did half the time working on my current project during the past two days as well! But as we know your abilities you will make the crappiest kits looking good!
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@MechTech I‘m always impressed by the depth of detail you put into this project. Waiting patiently for the final version @electric indigo Looking great without sunlight already.And whatever setback you suffered, I can not notice
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
CrossAir replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Very nice impulse! Wished that would have been available in my youth or I had the space for displaying now. -
Please, give me that!
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I have built several Frame Arms Girls over the past years. I really liked the „original“ characters of the series but lately they flooding the market with these cross-over variants of other mecha series and more and more naked skin. It gets kind of annoying. Therefore I tend to give new girls I gonna build a more decent outfit by painting all over those skin parts. It had also appreciated that the water decal set for Klan came with colored parts to recreate her fully closed flight suit instead of the even more revealing skin parts. When I look at my fully clothed VFGirls I think they are sexy enough
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Now that you mention, I had this two years ago once. The "in stock" item was not in stock after all, but I got automatically refunded. And as I recall I bought only pre-order items since then.
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Thanks, until now I had no issues with NY, they even delivered the Kairos although with a delay. So I thought I'll give them another try. Hope it will work out for you to get at least your money back.
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Just noticed that NY has listed Dynames now, too. Though their website has lagged tremendously, I tried to place order and it seems I got one.
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That is really good looking color scheme for this birdie! Great work And thanks @all for sharing the videos and links, hopefully I learned new things to add to my painting skills.
