Special Sauce

On 6/24/2021 at 1:02 PM, Chronocidal said:

I'll be in for more 31As, but the armor is just a heavy mess of too much junk.

Random goofy question by the way.. how many super pack releases do we even have?  I know I've got Hayate, Mirage and Messer.. did we ever get Arad's set?  I'm pretty sure we never got Chuck's, but I honestly can't remember Arad's, since at that point they started including the reaction missiles with the base valks.

You're correct, there are only super sets for the (3) Valk's you mentioned.  Nothing for Chuck.  I'm hoping they do one for Arad.  I bet that Messer super pack would look good on the Kairos.

3 minutes ago, seti88 said:

Still not completely sold on the armour set design, but these colours do seem more suitable for it.

I'm not usually an armor guy, more of a super/fast pack kind of guy but I do like this one.  I have that armor set for my Arad and I haven't used it yet, mostly because I worry about the stress it can potentially put on the joints.

8 hours ago, seti88 said:

gunpod with sniper scope added.

 

 

 

War machine eat your heart out.

That's pretty badass.  

1 hour ago, seti88 said:

 

I already have my Kairos but I'd still buy that or if it's just the armor set I'd probably get that as well.

On 6/21/2021 at 3:19 PM, Skull005 said:

I think Kawamori was on acid when he designed the SV-262.  That thing is the most complicated Valk I've ever tried to transform.  Ingenious design but insanely hard to transform.  

I can attest to Bandai making this thing pretty damn sturdy.  I rarely transform my valks so when I do, I do it extremely carefully.  After hour 2 of trying to transform this thing, I was banging on it like a rubics cube due to frustration.  Even managed to slip out of my hands and fall 4 feet onto my hardwood floor and still didn't break a thing.  Pretty solid build.

I would probably just leave it in fighter mode and never transform it 

I like that mode the best anyway.

39 minutes ago, SoLoBoY said:

I will not be shopping at Solaris Japan ever again.....This was advertised as a 5 star pre owned item......

 

 

Dude, that sucks.  I'm sorry that happened to you.  Hopefully the toy is fine otherwise.  You might be able to whiten those parts up.  I bought a still sealed one recently and it was good.  No discoloring at all.  Sunlight seems like the most likely culprit. 

On 6/20/2021 at 1:14 AM, Lolicon said:

Spring cleaning time! Dusted off the old VF-2SS.

Honk if you love Macross II 

Honk!  I need to get a display cabinet so I can set mine up.  Love playing around with it though.

On 6/18/2021 at 3:30 PM, Slave IV said:

You’re going to need to swap shipping or wait since I don’t think SAL is available yet. 

I had a package shipped from Jungle and they offered SAL so I tried it and it seems to be working.  I know it'll take a while but I'm in no rush

13 hours ago, borgified said:

I getting Gollum vibes from @Special Sauce write up of him patting his Kairos box. Can anyone do a quick mash of both and put it here?  

 That would both great and appropriate. 

53 minutes ago, 505thAirborne said:

While I'm not a Delta fan, Mirage's 31C and Kairos 31A are the ones worth owning in my book. Sad that Bandai doesn't do reissues. 

I like Arad's as well.  Head sculpt does it for me as does the colors.  Hopefully they make that other color scheme, I'll probably try and get that too.

2 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

The actual news is the PO for the DX VF-31J Hayate with Fold Projection Unit (aka Speaker Pod) is already closed. However it will NOT support Bluetooth. Arad's Valk in Messer's colors on the other hand has just been revealed in some Japanese hobby magazine scan. But no toy form announcement yet. 

And yes, I think everyone's still craving for 31A Kairos reissue.

 

Ever since I got my Kairos I just rub the box like it's "my precious" (It's still sealed).

I'll open it at some point.  I just haven't gotten the nerve to do it yet. 

Bumpin' up

14 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Boba Fett is right here.  I didn't need to get another one.  Also, screw the time period for the Bounty Hunters.  I'm putting this group with a bunch of other Star Wars Bounty Hunters.

Cool.  I figured you had him already.  He's the most important after all 

7 hours ago, sh9000 said:

My Bounty Hunters so far will consist of 4-LOM, Aurra Sing, Boba Fett, Bossk, Cad Bane, Dengar, Din Djarin, Fennec Shand (when she gets released), Greedo, IG-11, IG-88, Jango Fett, Q-90, and Zuckuss.

 

Nice displays @Slave IV.

I hope HotToys does a 1/6 scale Q-90.  I really like the design of that droid.

48 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Macross 3rd Party 1/60 scale Zentradi Uniform.

NECA Back to the Future 2 Doc Brown.

Star Wars Black Series Zuckuss, 4-LOM, Bossk, IG-88, Dengar, and Greedo.

Where's Boba?  

12 hours ago, A Good Noodle said:

New to this franchise and to this fourm but I am glad to be a part of it. There are the two Macross figures I have, YF-29 (2020 ver.) and VF-31C. 

I'm still blown away how can look so good and transform into an aircraft with almost no kibble on the bottom.

You chose a couple good ones to get. 

28 minutes ago, SuperDimensionalDave said:

HEY SWEDES!

Love that movie.

12 hours ago, A Good Noodle said:

Hello everyone. I'm new here and just wanted to show some love to my 31C. 

 

 

Welcome @A Good Noodle Have and love that one too.  You need to get that girl some fast packs 

2 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

I usually go with ferry before COVID and since. Before, it usually took 1-2 months. Since, it has taken right around 3 months.

Cool.  I'm about a month in so that isn't too bad.  

1 minute ago, Slave IV said:

 

I thought SAL actually stood for Surface Air Lifted, meaning it will go by Air between countries. AFAIK, it isn’t available as an option to the States yet but when it was, it generally took a couple weeks for me. Ferry takes 2-3 months. 

I guess I don't know which way it will come.  I imagine they wouldn't have let me choose it as an option if it wasn't available.  I'm assuming it will come by boat, in which case the 2=3 months is probably correct.  Maybe a little longer because of Covid

Just now, F360 said:

SAL by boat takes about 2-3 months .. .. but probably around 4 months now

That's what I figured was going to happen.  It's been about a month.  I expected at least 2 months, possibly 3.  What's another month LOL, it'll get here eventually.

Has anyone shipped SAL from Japan to the USA?  I had a Jungle order and they gave me that option so I chose it to catch a break on the shipping costs.  I wasn't in a super hurry to get it so taking a little longer was fine with me.  Does anyone know the current approximate time it takes with that option?

9 hours ago, xoxokin said:

This is repaint 1/48 Yamato VF-1S LV version 

Nice!  I always love the darker color schemes.  Stealth, low vis, the cavaliers.  Any grey in any tone always appeals to me as well.

6 minutes ago, vladykins said:

Those are 1/48 low vis customs. The 1/60 you got is darker like the more left ones above rather than the bluer right one.

Ok cool, I wanted it to be darker so that works out good.  Thanks @vladykins

On 6/6/2021 at 9:34 AM, xoxokin said:

All in !

Are some of those customs?  I have a Yamato 1/60 VF-1S low viz coming and I wasn't sure which one of yours is the same one.  I'm just wanting to see how the colors look in different lighting.  

6 hours ago, borgified said:

Check your DM @Special Sauce, I sent you one.  

Edit: Gone as someone has snagged it!! 

Crap!  I'm only just seeing the messages now.  Thanks for the heads up @borgified, much appreciated!