Jump to content

Sildani

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3060

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Sildani

  1. Sildani
    Any really great deals on pre-made gaming PC's anyone aware of for Black Friday? That Micro Center G527 with the 32GB of RAM and RX9060XT with 16GB is tough to cross-shop.
  2. Sildani
    Just to clarify, it's the 31 Super Parts for the original Siegfrieds that fit, correct?
  3. Sildani
    I'm lucky, I know, having one 20 minutes away. You need me to pick something up, @mikeszekely, happy to do it. Unless you just want to wander around in one...
  4. Sildani
    https://www.microcenter.com/product/698874/powerspec-g527-gaming-pc I've seen this one; how is it? I'd mainly use it to run Escape From Tarkov and my Steam library.
  5. Sildani
    https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-announces-next-gen-steam-machine-says-its-over-6x-more-powerful-than-steam-deck-but-theres-no-price-yet Missed opportunity to call it the "Gabecube" but Nintendo might Nintendo.
  6. Sildani
    Grabbed one from there. Used my Sentinel TLEAD voucher with it.
  7. Sildani
    Nin-nin and HLJ are order stop, PO'd one from AE. Yen to USD is pretty good, so I don't mind ponying up one last time. I AM worried about the QC though. The 31 Siegfried/Kairos mold was great, but it was the assembly that made them the best Valkyries Bandai produced. Ever since COVID, it's been a crapshoot, and more bad than good. Still, this is the one I always wanted, with the LO paint and missiles in the legs. And holy cow, as I was writing this AE has sold out! PO madness, one.. last... time...
  8. Sildani
    Love the last sentence. Utterly pragmatic.
  9. Sildani
    Holy crap! This was unexpected. Itagaki-san provided many hours of quality entertainment for me. Loved his work and his aesthetic. His games treated you like an intelligent human, generally didn't hold your hand, and punished you for failure, but kept success within reach - if you got gud. I also remember he would answer questions in a monthly column in one of the game mags, he did that for a while. He sometimes answered the question straight, sometimes irreverently, but always entertainingly. Wherever you are now, It's more fun and much more awesome now that you're there.
  10. Sildani

    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    Please make a female version. I'll buy them.
  11. Sildani

    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    Nifty!
  12. Sildani
    So I got my $180 Amazon YF-21 and it's a good 'un. Straight head laser, whole canopy, and although a wing flap fell off I'm just going to put a drop of super glue on it and call it done. I doubt very much Bandai will make "bent" flaps for this thing. I haven't transformed it yet and don't know if I ever will. Fighter mode is where I leave the majority of my Valkyries. The exceptions were my Yamato VF-1J because it was dirt simple, and my VF-31C Siegfried because the engineering and care of assembly made a complex transformation pleasurable. No other model has come close. Finally, as to the model itself, I'm so glad I got this dirt cheap. It isn't worth anywhere near its retail price, and with the god-awful Super Parts you can see Bandai was phoning this in from 1,000 miles away. We waited 30 years for this? Lord knows they could have kept the idiot Delimiter Mode and included a Fold Pod in its place. Now what may be a surprising sentence: I'm very glad I have this. Macross Plus is my favorite Macross series, now given our current world more than ever, and I had considered my Full Set Pack YF-19 the best 19 available. I had a Yamato VF-22 Gamlin as a fill-in for Guld's 21, and the two just never meshed together. It was more than the different colors, it was the design choices of each as far as shapes, details, plastics, and so on. Plus, unlike many others on this forum, I rather like all the tampoed details and callouts. Reminds me of JASDF F-15s and F-4s with their monstrous amount of stenciled placards. You should see the decal sheets for their models. Ye gods... And so this YF-21, flawed and overpriced it may be, is a great companion piece for the Chogokin YF-19, and it looks like they are indeed from the same place and time, if that makes sense. And I do like that, both perched on the same YetiStand (sniff.) I have a Yamato VF-11 on there too, with a nice decal sheet printed by the great Anasazi37, that I'm going to get to apply and that should bring the "feel" of the 11 up to the 19 and 21. I doubt very much we'll ever see a Chogokin 11, and I have no faith whatsoever that Bandai wouldn't stuff it anyway.
  13. Sildani

    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    That’s very nice! Some 1/48 Inbit would be nice!
  14. Sildani
    Amazon has this for $180 with two day delivery. I know it’s probably not exciting to a lot of people, but getting a DX Chogokin Valkyrie for less than $200 domestic delivery still feels neat. https://a.co/d/aZ6QzUX
  15. Sildani
    So which Ride Armor has been your favorite from a durability and "coolness" factor?
  16. Sildani
    Many thanks to @jenius and his extraordinary generosity, I have the complete set now. What a model!
  17. Sildani
    "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
  18. Sildani
    Love the evil crazy Na’vi, Varang.
  19. Sildani

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    Sildani replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    This was not on my bingo card, but it’s great for fans. I hope it gets the VF-31 Siegfried treatment, not the VF-31AX Kairos Plus treatment.
  20. Sildani
    Friendly reminder I've messaged you back, @jenius
  21. Sildani
    Most kind of you! I'll message you.
  22. Sildani
    Good for you! Still looking for a reasonably-priced Legioss.
  23. Sildani
    Put me on the list please.
  24. Sildani
    Well, how long has it been for the VF-5000?
  25. Sildani
    I think the original Frontier VF-31s were the height of Bandai's engineering AND assembly abilities, and not coincidentally they came out shortly before COVID. During and after COVID most everything has been flawed in one way or another. I guess factories closed and people left and institutional knowledge went with them. Doesn't matter to me, I'm pretty much done with collecting Macross, I've been priced out of the hobby for one, and for another what you pay for what you receive is totally imbalanced. Bandai just don't care.
×
×
  • Create New...