Guyffon

Hmmmmm, I feel that the YF-30 n YF-19 can both share 2nd place though

My leg fin issue is different from the rest as the small rudder drops out when trying to fold it for gerwalk or battloid mode, my cdjapan shipping box had the same padding, while my hlj one came in a box that was just slightly bigger than the yf-19 box with no extra padding for the gap between the top of the toy box to the shipping box, thank goodness no breakages so far

Lift the torso, inspect where the cockpit is and make sure it is pushed down towards the spin of the aircraft there should be an audioable click if done correctly, else lift the cockpit and resit it to hear the click, that should solve the issues, not sure why I never had this issue with the VF-19Adv

8 hours ago, kajnrig said:

So, after a few hours of ginger movements and gentle massaging, I got mine into battroid mode and it is a. Lovely. Lovely. Thing.

Next to the other Lovely. Lovely. Thing., of course.

The leg fins did pop off a couple times, both of them, but popping them back into place is easy peasy. The major issue is the thigh joint, as onnasuke and Lancestride01 can attest. And the fix is untightening the screws holding the ball joint together. I just tinkered with mine, taking it apart as part of a natural progression of remedies, but I realized afterwards that Sildani has a nice step-by-step picture guide. You should follow it: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/41401-macross-maintenance/?do=findComment&comment=1421822

 

Some issues I ran into aside from the above:

1) The black piece behind the head that's supposed to lock everything together... doesn't. Try as I might, I can't get the cockpit to sit any further back and get the peg protruding from there to lock into the socket on the underside of the black piece. It's not a major problem, but it IS an eyesore. (Also the neck doesn't peg securely into the front collar/back of the nose, but it's a super small peg and not noticeable anyway. EXCEPT TO MEEEEEE.)

2) I don't like that the wings don't nicely swivel into storage/high speed configuration. You're just left to adjust them manually, and it's less than ideal.

3) The shield is too tall. If it were wider or shorter, it would look fine. I also don't like that it can't fit onto the back of the arm to accurately recreate the arm cannon pose.

4) The feet still bother me. All around.

5) The wing root tabs were really hard to remove first time around. Now that that's been gotten out of the way, I'm sure they'll be more cooperative in the future.

I too had issues with that back plate not clipping on, and after pulling up the torso to inspect the cockpit, i realised that i did not push the cockpit far enough to hear a click sound which you should,after that, that part just goes in.

My order from HLJ, had head laser intact too.

No brown shipper box for me too

I wonder if we can 3d print them via shapeways

23 hours ago, eXis10z said:

Those who bought VF-31J Kai via lottery, who did you use for proxy? FJ, Zen and Buyee doesn't.

I used nonpin, but i heard there is a cheaper service out there called from japan, i got my kai after the lottery and found it on a listing

That is not a VF-19 advance but the DX YF-19, the advance never came with missles

I think they are like a proxy service, thus the higher prices

Thanks seti88 and slave IV, I now just need chuck’s to complete the set

Finally finished setting up most of my detolf shelves and these are how i am going for for my delta valks

I like the hex or 3 missles, will try the combo and see if it works, thanks guys

I need help deciding what missles to put on my vf-31A for display, below are the options, which do u guys think looks better

Arad’s super in the series was teal i think

6 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

I assumed you don't have both? 

 

I do but they are stuck in shipping boxes as I recently moved but have not had the chance to unpack the super C parts

Pic or it didn't happened :P

There was a time when bandai bundled valks with supers, that was when they had the chunky vf-25

Haha, am in the midst of house moving and this was the only vf out of the packing box, and was recently delivered, thus its still new in its wrappers, needed the valk to test fit the missles

42 minutes ago, Sildani said:

A man needs a link. 

Sadly the link doesnt work anymore as I ordered these in march 2017, I can’t seem to find any working links either, so sorry about that.

Thanks mommar for the explanation. The 171 were probably the only mac frontier toys I did not collect

Quality is good so far, similar to those from bandai

Something came for me in the mail this morning, what could it be?

Its those missles I ordered from Taobao a long while back thinking it was a scam and never going to see them ever, to my surprise here they are

These look a little too big, but i could be wrong and this is the correct scale

Now I am glad i got 3 sets

On 25/06/2018 at 10:04 AM, CharlesXavier said:

Good news for me on a Monday morning for my VF-31A

Congrates, its finally on its way

6 hours ago, CharlesXavier said:

I hope they will really deliver.

Gambatte, I am sure you will get yours too

6 hours ago, derex3592 said:

I'm curious -- any of you guys getting the 31A's now in the "2nd batch" or whatever you call the ones that are starting to show up more now...do you have the slight under the wing finish issues mine and some others had here from the 1st batch?  

Thats the 1st thing I checked and was happy to say that mine did not have that issue

3 hours ago, CharlesXavier said:

Congrats on finally getting it on hand. Doesn't matter that it doesn't come with the TWE box. Maybe Bandai is really sending them in batches to NY and without the TWE box.

Yeah thanks, thats the end to that, now I hope they send every last one that NY still owe to everyone else