GutsAndCasca
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Thank you much!
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I want to convert a 1/48 VF into a Minmay Guard. What I want to know, is should I airbrush the entire valk white, or just strip the paint off where it needs to be stripped off? If someone can help, please let me know!
---Bri
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If anybody has some of these they'd like to unload, I'd be interested in speaking with you. My four year old had one I gave him that he unfortunately broke, and the only way to repair it is to negate the chance of it ever transforming into anything other than the single mode I choose to glue it back into. Hence, I'd like to find more of these things. Please PM me if you can help out.
(I realize getting my son macross toys that are easily breakable probably isn't the safest thing to do, but I'm completely set on him growing up cooler and more imaginative than other little kids and macross WILL help accomplish this.)
Thank you if you can help!
---Brian
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Are you talking about the phyical Manga volume books? or English tranlated Manga scans?
I own both the Japanese Jets comics manga volumes (even though I don't read Japanese) as well as the Dark Horse American translations, and have the Japanese volumes scanned and translated (up to last months issue from Young Animal magazine).
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Well, since I'm pretty much a newbie fan to Macross (although I watched and loved Robotech when I was like 4) I don't really have much in the way of Macross paraphernalia.... If you're an anime/manga fan, then I am offering the entire Berserk manga series -30 volumes about 160 pgs. each- translated so you can understand it. I know it's probably blasphemy around here, but Berserk is sorta' my fave thing to ever come from Japan. Macross is a close second, though. PM me if you're interested, and thank U!
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Would anyone trade me something for a set of super/strike parts? Please let me know. Thanks!
---Bri
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Well, primer seems to be a universal consensus as to at least part of my dillema... It could ahve been old paint too, DH, as I bought it from this dinky little store that I doubt sells out of the stuff often. Thanks for the advice though guys, but for right now at least this stuff sounds more complicated than it's worth. At least I actually got help on this forum. I posted the same comment on a Gundam modeling forum, and the site owner (who's models are /clearly/ better than mine) posted back that I was obviosuly an idiot, locked my thread, and put me on some kind of 'posting probation.' All I can say is "Well, there goes the fun in that hobby."
Geezus what a prick. People like that shouldn't have websites.
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Yeah, the prices are the only thing I understand other than the pictures.
http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
And there's a really cool currency conversion calculator.
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I saw the post with a link to some great stores over in Japan with great prices on Macross things but I can't speak or read japanese. Anyone on this site ever help anyone to buy stuff from Japan? Thanx!
--Brian
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I have every issue and volume of Berserk (I re-numbered the entire thing recently and it comes out to exactly 30 volumes at around 160 pgs each) translated into english. Volume 30 is ongoing, and I make sure to keep it up to date. If anyone would like to trade for Macross toys/collectibles just let me know! Thanx.
---Bri
By the way, I AM paypal verified, and my Ebay name is Goneforgoodnow. 100% positive feedback on that one. I think there's also a few people on this site already who can vouch for me.
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Hmm, this might be hard to come by, but Neova is offering up recasted heat shields among other things. Not exactly what you're looking for, but at least you might have an option.
http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=18298
GL.
Neova seems to be "the man" when it comes to recasted stuff! I wish he wasn't so busy.
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Just want to know if anyone has a spare (this is probably impossible to find) blue heatshield with the skull on it. Guess if I can't find that exact one, then any heat shield will do. Thanx!
-Bri
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The VF Zero S looks bad AZZ in Gerwalk mode. Check out pics of the new Yamato coming out.
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Yup, that's it.
In Fighter mode, it's basically a defensive anti-persuing enemies at six-o'clock!
COOL, huh? :cool:
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Macross just keeps getting cooler the more I inhale it.
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No experience with Toys N Joys, but I must say that if you ever pay via credit card, you have the backing of the credit card company on every purchase you make. It is the onus of the shipper to present a copy of the delivery invoice with YOUR signature on it (that's right, unless they can prove that you received it, the charges will be reversed, a shipping invoice is not enough). That means, if ever an item is lost in the mail, without insurance (it is the shippers responsability to insure it), by all means, call up the credit card company and file a non-delivery. One way or another, you will get your money back. I think you have about 60 days after your purchase to be able to do this, which is plenty of time for you to get your package. I just recently had an experience like this with a "reputable" company online, and they did not respond to any of my emails for about a week after I had sent payment. So, I called my credit company and filed a non-delivery. Exactly, two days later, I got an email from them immediately followed by a refund. And non of that -%10 restocking fee crap, %100 percent, refund. I don't know if it was just a coicidence, or if they got a phone call from Mastercard or something but I do know one thing, nobody f*cks around with the credit card company. nobody.... they're like the mob of the corporate world...
*laughing* Yes, credit card companies are scary indeed. But what happens if I made my payment with paypal? I'm disputing this, and it's taking forever with no progress in site.
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Thank you much. I wonder why Yamato doesn't have the missiles detatch on the 1/48 scale toys...?
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Okay, on the fast pack, the back pieces hold missiles (or a really intimidating gun in the strike armor) and rocket boosters. The leg pieces also have extra rocket boosters. So... what hangs on the bottom of the valkyries arms? What the heck are those things? Someone, please tell me! I've wanted to know this forever. Thanks
--Bri
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Yamato VF-1 InterComparisons
Ok guys, grab a coffee and a comfortable seat. This is a short “essay†to assimilate all the little tidbits of information together to discern all the differences between the releases and re-releases. Here we go.
Now, the ones that you don't want to get unless really desperate are the 1st production run of the VF-1A Hikaru and VF-1S Focker. They have the black boxes with the Velcro on the two bottom corners. Concerning the VFs themselves, they have wing flap and nosecone problems, Fockers usually have a fuselage gap problem, but not on many. Joints are also stiff too. The nosecone also tends to fall off easily and the elbows do not stay stable when flexed to a 90 degree angle. I think that's it. Oh yeah, and the Skull is crooked on one of the VF-1Ss tailfins. The VF-1S canopy also has problems staying upright, and the headrest is straight/flat surfaced, not curved.
Let's call the VF-1A Hikaru and VF-1S Focker 1st production run the 1st generation of 1/48 VF-1s.
Now with the second production run of the VF-1S Focker and Hikaru VF-1A have the improvements. These came out after the VF-1A Max and LV, so let's talk about them first. These are what I like to call the second generation of 1/48s. VF-1A max and LV have several structural improvements over the 1st generation. They came out at about the same time, so even though they have a difference, I would like to keep them together.
The VF-1A Max was the first to come out after the VF-1S Roy Focker. It has the hard plastic pilot only with blue accents instead of red or yellow. But the most important things are that there is no gap in the fuselage, stable 90 degree elbow flexion, redesigned nosecone (addition of two horizontal tabs to the radar and corresponding grooves in a revised internal nosecone redesign), improved wing flaps that only go in one direction and don't pop loose do easily. The canopy problem that was prevalent on the VF-1S Focker is fixed from here onwards.
The LV featured all the improvements to the 1/48 line but is the only valk to be panel lined and weathered, and includes the first time ever rubber pilot.
Up until this point the headrest is flat design and all the boxes have Velcro in the corners.
I would like to classify new valk variants from now on as the 3rd generation of 1/48s. This includes the VF-1S Hikaru and the VF-1Js.
The VF-1S Hikaru was released after the Max and LV. It featured all the improvements of the 1/48s so far but is the First valk to incorporate three things: the first canon rubber pilot, curved headrest in cockpit and loose airbrake.
Next up came the reissues of the VF-1S Focker and the VF-1A Hikaru. Features all the improvements of the second generation of the 1/48s but now have no Velcro on the boxes (actually, there have been a few reports of Velcro on these reissues, Yamato probably just used up leftovers) and now feature a curved headrest like the VF-1S Hikaru. The thing is, Yamato kept the original hard plastic pilots. But, all the other things were fixed, such as the crooked skull on the VF-1S.
Continuing on the third generation of 1/48s was the VF-1Js of Hikaru, Max and Millia in that order. Hikaru was the only one to have an option of VF-1J only or a coupled FAST Pack with his valk, Max and Millia you have no choice with. Feature all the improvements of 1/48 seen so far. There are only a few structural differences and features of these 1/48s compared to the DYRL ones.
The "elbows" of the forearms are "U-shaped" instead of flat like the DYRL? Valks. Nice touch I reckon. Also, they feature the rubber TV pilots and rubbers fixed pose hands. There is a slight colour change between Hikaru and the lovebirds, a slightly lighter shade (?) of white. FAST Packs that come with the VF-1Js are coloured differently from the rest. Hikaru has a slight grey-green shade all round on has FAST Packs. Max and Millia have the same, but the NP-FB-01 Backpack Booster Unit on Max and Millia are painted with their respective colours. The NP-AR-01 Arm Units are also redesigned for the TV valks. There is no option of a ROX-2A Strike Beam Cannon for the TV valks although you can slap one on from a DYRL? FAST Pack issues if you have any to spare. (Interesting to note that even though there is a general consensus that boxes should not have Velcro by now, there were still a few people that had them even on their Millia's, which was the latest of the VF-1Js).
And of course, recently we have the 2nd reissue or 3rd production run of the VF-1S Focker due to high demand. Pretty much the same as the 2nd production run or the 1st reissue, but the dreaded crooked skull was back again, although this time you have to sit and look hard to see that it is crooked. Again, there are a few exceptions.
Hope that covers the differences. ^_^0 B)
That was awesome. Thanks for the info!
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Yup hes right there Just stripped the paint on a 1/55 that I bought prepainted. it wasnt a good job and I though it would take hours of sanding to get rid of the paint. But then I discovered MR Muscle Oven Cleaner. Easy put the ofending Valk parts in a Zip lock bag and spray oven cleaner into the bag and seal it for a few hours. Then grab your self a nail brush and run them under the tap and scrub off the paint. Good as new. Now Im just looking at what I can paint strip next.
Well this definitely gives me hope! For the mean time, I'll be practicing painting techniques on my 4 year old's GI Joe tanks and such. He should be thanking me. If I do a good job anyway.
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The project I want to do, is making a 1/48 scale recreation of the hasegawa Minmay Guards. It seems like it's going to be really tough, and I don't want to ruin an expensive Yamato toy or mess up an expensive set of decals either!!!
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Is there anyone out there adept at customizing 1/48 yamatos who can tell me what I need, what techniques are best, what tools I should get, etc? It doesn't have to be lengthy. I know this is a big thing to ask, but if someone out there is kind enough then please, help a customization-newbie get started at this!!!!
---Brian
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Converting 1/48 Into Minmay Guard
in The Workshop!
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What I once thought was a straight-forward project is fast becoming a complexity withing complexities. I was hoping to finish in a month or less, but this looks like it's going to take more like 6 months. College + wife + kid = not much spare time. Well... my 1st step is going to be converting a VF-1J Hikaru into an MG1. (I have a photo of a Hasegawa VF-1J with MG1 decals and it looks absolutely awesome.) The MG2 with strike armor VF-1S will be my 2nd project, which I'm hoping the MG1 will get me ready for. You know. On 2nd thought, I think I'll make my VERY 1st project just converting a Hikaru VF-1S into a Max.
If anyone has suggestions on the best kind of masking tape to use --- please don't hesitate to post! I bought some 99cent store masking tape and used it on painting up one of my kid's GIJoe tanks and the paint totally leaked in a lot of places.
---Bri