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    With reworked built in braces. From my understanding, it barely even needed the extra braces, so some tiny internal additions should be enough. And then a less prone to yellow plastic or finish. That or do the two other colors that they are definitely never gonna do lol
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    For my specific order with YF-21 and a master grade kit, It was 3700 yen for surface VS 8100-9900 yen for all the other air and courier options. Literally less than half the price. In this case, YYK is covering half the shipping fees because of delays, so I'm paying less than a quarter compared to the other options had things gone normally. 😃 For shipping to my region, air small packet is usually the cheapest, starting around 1500 yen I think. Surface parcel is the second cheapest, starting around 3000 yen but starts at a much higher weight capacity and jumps in larger incriments. So at some point between the 3-4k yen range, small packet and parcel leap frog each other in best value, until parcel just wins out in large weight incriments of low price jumps. From what I recall, EMS and couriers usually start around the 5-7k yen range for shipments in that range where the other two are still leap frogging. On top of that, post office is easier for me to reach to pick up if I miss the delivery and they don't want to drop it off. They handle packages with more care too. Then there's an enigmatic import tax system that is somehow in my favor half the time. Couriers on the other hand will just pretend to deliver and never show up, forcing me to show up at their facility in the middle of nowhere, to pay their inflated mandatory brokerage fees, even on items with values low enough to be exempt from import taxes, before I can pick up,
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    The VF-1 is in a diffeent scale from the rest of the line. Bandai probably designed things to be incompatible on purpuse, just to stop people from mixing accesories of mismatched scales lol.
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    They actually responded now. It's been the fastest in the past two months lol Anyway, I paid and got a tacking number now, so it seems like things are finally moving along for me. Now to wait for the slow boat...
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    Everyone else seems to have had quick responses from them. Idk why it seems like it's just me getting pulled and thrown into non regular response proceedures. I put in the surface request on top of the original shipping confirmation, and haven't heard back for either, so I assume I'm in for another month long reply loop again. I think it's been over two months since the thing released, of course there's no hurry. 🙃 Tbf, I go for slow shipping through national posts whenever possible. They tend to do a better job for the lesser cost and more convenient for me to pick up from, than expensive couriers with their additional brokerage extortion fees around here.
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    Ah yes, good old list of dead gunpla projects Bandai has probably sent to the combustible trash. There was MG Age-3, Age-FX and GN-X IV. Then there's MG Gafran, that google can't even find records of ever existing. Probably nobody remembers that thing anymore, but I actually have photos of its hard to see side profile from reaching my camera over the rope and shooting from the side of the frosted display lol.
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    If those were worth a thing to Bandai, we'd be in a parallel timeline where we would have long since had a properly designed DX Wright Immelman's VF-22 that led to a YF-21 shortly after, instead of w/e we finally got this year. Kind of like how 2 seconds of an Isamu cameo got us the 19. But I guess Hayate, Mirage, and Wright themselves aren't cameos, so the cameo valks they used hold a lot less weight to Bandai...
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    Bamco published Macross 30, so it's kind of a reverse case where Bandai just stuffed in some paint jobs for themselves to use for recycling DX molds and did a special one off for the new lead mech. It doesn't seem like anyone else has bothered to borrow those designs. I can imagine Bandai being afraid of the risks of producing toys for anything else hidden deep inside the niche game that isn't at least attached to famous cameos. Max's YF-29 is more canon than the whole Delta TV series... It arguably symbolically carries all of Delta canon and paves way to the next series lol. Idk about the others, but they sound like something Bandai cooked up for their toy and not designs borrowed from a third party magazine.
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    Well, tbf, all that stuff is kind of non canon or outsourced designs. Bandai pretty much only deals in mainstream canon when it's not gundams. Even then, they won't even complete a line up of all the mechs from any specific gundam show. Even one offs for very popular designs from their own side stories is a big maybe at best. There's also weird stories of japanese copyright issues too. A game studio or magazine, or even just a seperate department of the same company, could tangle up IP ownership and stop someone else from using a design somewhere down the line. Even anime cannot legally use their own titles after a season ends. That's where you get weird titles with extra exclamation marks or random new wording when a new season comes out. Gintama for example, with all the seasons full of punctuation marks in their titiles, had to even be "moved to a whole new animation studio" in name at some point, because of strange legalities. They had to move from Sunrise to Bandai Namco Pictures, just to make a sequel with the exact same staff. Both studios are still just under Bandai Namco, so none of this makes sense to the average sane person. Gundam sentinel for example is supposedly written and therefore owned by a magazine. So everytime the ExS Gundam is in a game, the pilot has to be faceless, because Bandai has no rights to him. I'm sure Hasegawa is willing to jump through all sorts of funny hoops to get a niche model kit out, but Bandai is too big a boat to expect navigating such niche matters for IP that isn't even their own, as much as I'd like to see them do it.
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    That one is basically just a YF-19, which I think probably could only reuse a quarter of the molds. Other than arms, chest, and spine, everything is different between the YF and VF. It's probably the reason why the DXs haven't been pumped out like brain dead repaints.
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    Thanks. Now I'm tempted to ask for it, but the risk of extending this loop of multi month correspondence... I wonder if I can intercept my own email, since they check email in large batches at a time it seems. Maybe I'll ask anyway, if they haven't magically responded very fast this time.
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    It seems crying about it here has magically worked. YYK finally responded saying they are very understaffed while having a big boom in business. Shipping fees look real hefty with no surface option, but they have offered to cover half of it to compensate for all the delays in correspondence. Now to wait for them to actually charge me and reach the point of sending the box out... Let me keep on crying till we get to that point. 😭 Just for reference, anyone know if YYK normally offers slow boat shipping at all? They quoted 8k-9k yen (18k DHL doesn't count, wtf) for the various shipping methods, at the weight of 3000g. It should include the YF-21 and a master grade gunpla. Do those numbers sound right? I would think that is within the weight limit for surface shipping, but it doesn't seem like they offer that service at all.
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    Nice trainer colors. Totally forgot about the recessed hangers with glass floors in Delta. Dunno where the scuff is, so it's just immersive and good work in my eyes.
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    Removing the canopy sensors and painting the other ones in darker colors really gets rid of the barnacle infestation look imo GL doing the panels lines. It looks and sounds like insanity lol, but I'm sure it will make the details pop.
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    I really didn't want to necro this after weeks of quiet with nothing meaningful to add, but since it's been resurrected anyway, I'll just cry here. I really don't know what's going on with YYK. After coming back with a good antenna from their photo inspection, it took multiple ways of contacting them for 3 weeks for a reply after I asked for secondary inspections, since I asked for something stupid like open it up to check for double shoulders. When they finally answered, they went above and beyond and actually half transformed the thing more than neccessary because of iffy understanding of the toy and my request. But ultimately, I got to inspect the shoulders and they were fine. I think I've vaguely mentioned this much along the way on this thread. Since that's been done, I replied to go ahead and ship my order, which includes the 21 and a P-bandai gunpla kit. It's been nearly another 5 weeks since then. I even gave them the benefit of "August holidays in Japan" before I even tried to contact them again for a couple more times in the last two weeks. Even a local store has finally got the YF-21 in stock without too ridiculous of a markup. In fact it might even be about the same price or cheaper after accounting for unpredictable shipping fees and import taxes... I'd hate to escalate things after they've done so much extra work, and get an even more unresponsive mess while potentially losing out on my p-bandai kit or money... I also have my Ozma revival order placed with them too... Here's to hoping crying about it here will just magically make things move along again soon... 😭
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    Those are the ones I was refering to as the official design with as all glass, no frame, and no colored tint. Think they were in the 1/72 bandai kits too.
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    Actually surprised! The canopy even has a frame! Ignoring the sensor dots that have always looked weird to me, that brownish smoked glass with gold trim looks amazing on the royal shuttle. Now I wish this canopy was properly depicted in the show.
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    While I doubt there's a clear canopy in the files, it would be interesting to see you try to paint a glass canopy on if you are going for the full realistic paint job look lol. The official clear canopy looks kind of odd to me tbh. It's all glass and no frame, and lacks a color tint that makes it stand out with the rest of the fancy colors on the plane.
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    Mirage is much easier on the eyes now 😁 IMO the Roidlings actually look better than Roid's actual unit. The squid head and simpler stripes look more knight-like. The cleaner pattern with those much more realistic Ba wings make the fighter mode look kind of like a regal space shuttle too. It's the Royal NASA shuttle lol.
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    Not gonna lie, I think the purple you used for the Lil Draken are closer to Mirage's color. The Draken III is actually a little too flourescent. But I'm not complaining. The contrast with both shades nicely follows the rule of "super parts are more drab". Recoloring the Lil Drakens really does make the whole thing look more correct. The official colors should honestly just be retconned like this lol. Apparently, there is a version of Roid colored (hijacked?) Ba units that oddly don't share the same livery patterns with a the other Windermere units. Didn't even realize that was a thing until I saw MAHQ. Not gonna ask you to make that lol, just curious whether it's in the game files, since I barely remember those from the show. I'm guessing those were the grunts Roid hacked, that I thought were the same as his actual unit all this time.
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    Lil Drakens have never color matched their host valk. It's a shame because they always look odd like that. Knowing that the colors for Mirage's unit are just makeshift programmed for IFF reasons on the Draken III makes even less sense why her Lil Drakens can't do the same.
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    😮 More goodies! Kind of curious to know if the shins actually have a hatch and carry the sword inside. I assume they didn't bother with those, but it would be nice to know. Same for missiles in the pods. 🙂 A livery request if you get around to Lil Drakens, is to slap some Mirage colors on her pair. I wish they made them match her colors in the movie lol
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    The YF-25 Prophecy has a Paladin pack that mounts a lance on top like a fold booster. Not sure how canon it is since it's from a magazine, but it's a proper jousting lance in battroid mode. The rest of it is just armor pack parts on the torso, with super pack wing boosters. It's got a custom knee part, but only on one side, because screw symmetry in fighter mode I. lol. Wish there was a toy of it.
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    Mostly commenting to keep track of this post, but I just had an idea. Since these are intended to match the Bandai 1/48 VF-1 in size, the pilot would be out of scale with the vast majority of other valks in 1/60, despite the toy actually being at a similar size. If you added a swappable pilot (and seat if necessary) in 1/60 scale, you could fulfill proper scaling with both lineups. It could be in both scales until you put the pilot in, making it a proper schrodinger's cat lol
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    I almost replied something similar too, but that's not what he's actually talking about. He's asking about the emblem that is repeated on their opaque cockpit and left thigh. I'd say it's probably their rank or medal insignia.
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