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Good to know. I probably should refresh myself on forum rules and policy again. It has been a while. To be honest, I really don't visit that section as I try to keep specific toy lines. Though it would appear that a bunch of my bookmarks are the same as yours. Duplication indeed.

I'm waiting patiently to see how you decide to finish this project. I agree with the above quote. I see Navy ships all the time. Beyond a certain distance you cannot see the separate plates and welds. For something that's 1,200-ish meters at 1:3000 scale, it is difficult to see indeed. Unless the gaps are HUGE. Or you can go with the "just returned to earth/too big to wash" look. Random Thought: Star Trek Federation ships baffle me. You really should see no plates. If you use transporter technology you should be able to achieve a seamless, one piece hull. Replicate parts in-place.

AmiAmi sale! HI-METAL R VF-4G Lightning III "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Flash Back 2012"(Released) 9,480 Yen! Mandarake: Bandai Hi-Metal R VF-1S Strike Valkyrie ( Ichijo Hikaru's Machine) Opened, used, package damaged. 13,000 Yen! I'm skipping on the VF-1S as they are only shipping to my country DHL. DHL has not been good to me in the past. My boxes always get crushed so far. I'll wait for SAL should it ever be available for that price again later.

I'm actually looking for a landing gear cover plate (blue one). If anyone has one that they are parting out. Mine dropped onto the floor and disappeared into the void at work. I moved all the furniture and it was nowhere to be found. There was someone selling a broken one a while back, but I can no longer find the thread/topic. It was part of a group of parts left over from various custom projects they worked on.

Well, I finally caved in and asked Nippon-Yasan about my HMR VF-4G order status this weekend. The last e-mail I received from them was on January 31st. They told me: Though the timing of things seems a bit odd, but whatever. I impulsed bought it and its not a "must have" for me. I can wait.

You could probably use that Plexiglas panel to exhaust a portable AC when you are not using the spray booth during the summer.

Well it's all 80's animation errors, but I'll attempt to justify it anyway! Since they left Earth is a hurry, they probably were not totally done with all of the painting. So the changes you found are all correct as they were finishing the painting as they traveled back to Earth when they were not getting attacked.

Perhaps look into "Non-skid" deck coatings from Naval ships for inspiration? You can decide if you want to go that route or not.

Aside from the cool factor, I always wondered why the Prometheus became the left arm, the Daedalus the right. Functionally, it makes more sense to me if the Prometheus was docked as the right arm. Then all the catapults would be functional in all modes. There's nothing wrong with being a lefty.

The Ride Armors have some issues, but that was expected as it has a lot of little bits that move. I'm hoping that the Legioss won't have those types of issues.

DYRL hands, DYRL missiles, and two heads? Gray visor and white visor?

Well you know, advanced alien robot technology. Scale means nothing in non-robot modes.

The 31A makes the most sense. The super parts colors shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.

I've been holding out for PF version. Assuming Arcadia follows past practices, I'll wait a bit to see if they Offer a PF version in a month or two.

In all fairness, in my experience, UPS shipping to/from Asia is ridiculous. I shipped a mid-tower computer to my cousin in Hong Kong once. It was almost $400 US and that was 10 years ago.

Not sure what is going to happen now. Japan has new travel restrictions for people coming into Japan from the United States and a few other countries. I heard it earlier in the day so I don't remember all the details.

Brittle plastic is more of a concern to me than yellowing. I won't fully transform my HCM VF-1J anymore because of it. I've seen what happens to Jetfires from that era.

Did they accidentally send you this one? LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 75192 Not that lucky?

I'm in the same boat as you. I haven't gotten any notice on status from Nippon-Yasan since February. And that was that the HMR VF-4 release date was moved up. Wasn't it not too long ago that Amazon banned the use of FedEx because they had over a 40% late delivery rate? Now they have a valid excuse for it? Regardless of the current situation, with the world locked into a global economy these days, cargo has to move. Will it be slower? Most likely. My real concern is the re-occurrence of the virus after the national knockdowns begin to be lifted. More people will begin to travel again and you all know what that may lead to. As far as virus mutation... We all could luck out and it could just mutate into a form that no longer affects humans. But I'm not usually that lucky...

Because we all knew who was really in charge of that organization.

I don't know about everyone, but generally speaking, the more you handle HMR toys, the more you like them. They are a good size to play with. They are just not as visually impressive as 1:60 and larger scales. Unless, of course, you army build.

I would think that having your child help out with chores with or without allowance or having them help with the family business is child labor. Depending on the Newspaper route, you get no days off. There are certain things society is willing to overlook. Sweat Shops are a different matter. Toilet paper was a serious matter when there was a dock worker strike, you can't truck it in, and you don't produce toilet paper locally. But you didn't have electric bidets back then. Even with electric bidets, you still need toilet paper for drying. Unless you are willing to use a towel.

I've only watched 12 Kingdoms and Angel Beats out of that list. I liked 12 Kingdoms, but barely remember anything from it. Angel Beats was good! UT I don't know it it would make my Top 5 list for those types of shows. The description of the other 3 shows just never interested me enough to give them a shot.