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Berttt, any chance I can get a copy of your VF-1 nose? I would be happy to pay for cost.

I have one of those conversion kits as well and I recall getting mine for a bargain (even with the Yahoo! Japan commission and fees paid to either Rinkya or Okshon (which are auction proxies in Japan), I don't recall which exactly. There is one currently offered on Yahoo! Auction Japan. The name of the Company that manufactures these (and is a regular at Wonder Festival) is called "go-ki-gen-sei-mitsu" and spelled as follows in Japanese (or I should say Chinese characters): 御機嫌精密 Graham, if you read this, you might want to upgrade this information on the WonderFest article on the main page. Below is a link that can be copied onto your browser to locate it on Yahoo! Auction Japan. http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/sear...=0jp&acc=jp By the way, the instructions allow you to use either the VF-22 or the YF-21 to do these conversions. Be warned, however, there is a lot of chopping and slicing up of the Hasegawa kits (including parts that are not necessarily prone to chopping and slicing).

Fabulous... count me in for one. I may end up ordering together with Valk009. (Andy, hope you don't mind... ^ ^)

Chas, are they generally cool about people coming to visit them? I travel to Seoul on business and my parents live there to. In fact, I bought one of those kits and had it shipped to my parent's address. I live in Hong Kong and if they would like, I could look into what I could do to "solve" their recaster problem.

Can you elaborate on that? How would I be able to order separate sprues from HLJ?

Good for you, Cokefiend... But I still need help... Otherwise off to the plastic sheets.

I think recasts are great if the original is "permanently" out of production or the manufacturer goes bankrupt and the creativity and the originality of the product gets lost in oblivion. However, recasting an offered item is a whole new ball game. I saw the recast offer but decided not to purchase it. Instead, I ordered the original from Neograde while traveling on business in Korea. I haven't received it yet but I am sure it's waiting for me at my parent's house. Can't wait to get my hands on it. FYI, Neograde at one point auctioned a finished model on Yahoo! Japan Auction for JPY40,000, which looked great (just like the picture on their website).

Valkyrie, I would be extremely grateful if you could throw Q-16 into a mold. It's a flat piece so a sandwich mold should be sufficient. If that's not an option, I would be happy to buy the Q sprue from KKX. Thank you both.

Well, that's where I am leaning towards... after all. I guess the VF-0D is not really popular.

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Hi! I have a completed Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0D. But I just realized that a part that was glued on came off and is now missing. T.T I can't find it for the life of me and I fear that it might have been sucked into a vacuum cleaner. It's all so frustrating since this happened while I was waiting for a covered display case that I ordered to be delivered. The part in question is Q16 and I was wondering... maybe there is someone out there who happened to have an extra piece of this part laying around or had a previously completed model that a cat or a dog or a nephew smashed and was about to throw the whole thing away since it's irreparable... If not, would anyone (who happens to have this part in good order) be kind enough to cast it and send a resin cast copy of it to me? I would be happy to pay cost and postage. I guess in the worst case scenario, I could just slice up some plastic sheet to replicate this but wanted to reach out to you all for some help before I went ahead and did that. Many thanks.

Retppu's 1/72 VF-11 soft vinyl kit. Tamiya's 1/35 Tiger I with all the photo-etched parts, zimmerit coating and ModelKasten tracks, although have not started on the tracks. The thought of this task has been good enough to keep the project incomplete for 6 months now.