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Masking tape. Be sure to use masking tape that's meant for modeling, and not regular old masking tape you can buy anywhere. It's easier to work with and won't leave a sticky mess on your stuff. http://hlj.com/search/go?w=Tamiya%20masking%20tape

I'd have to buy 6. 3 for each mode, 3 for each mode with fast packs.

I wouldn't pay more than $200 tops for an SV-51. That's like a 10 year old toy now. And it suffers from lots of loose joints, as noted above. The Arcadia VF-0A is a much better toy, *if* you get one with good legs. (Mine is rock solid.)

From one of her concerts I attended awhile back. So much better than any of the Walkure. What angles do you speak of, sir? I actually can't tell at a glance either. Maybe if I put both under a bright light... It's that gleaming white with slight pink/purplish hue that you sometimes see in like Bandai model kits that also are molded in a blindingly bright white (like the 1/72 VF-25 kit). Honestly, I don't really notice it at all, unless I have it sitting under a bright lamp next to an older Yamato VF-1. The Yamato Queadluun Rau is a huge, imposing toy, but it's not particularly detailed. Build quality is solid enough, but in terms of detail it's essentially an oversized Robot Spirits Queadluun Rea with movable fingers and a removable pilot. Nice haul. I see what you did there, making it seem like the HM VF-19 is larger and more impressive than the Yamato.

Dammit Saburo, now I'm thinking about getting a third YF-19!

For some reason I have two of those Miria sets. Finally opened my Arcadia 1S (since I was approaching the 10 day HLJ deadline) and I gotta say she looks spectacular in the Arcadia gleaming white! Just needs a panel wash and she's good to go! Now if she just had a rainbow canopy... Pop quiz: Are those the Arcadia strike parts or did I put on a set of Yamato strike parts? I've had this for some time, but I was cleaning my desktop and thought I'd share one of my most prized Macross-related items.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a few post release. Worst case scenario you'll have to get one from Mandarake at a small mark up.

Nope.

Depends on your card. Mine has no foreign transaction fees. A good thing too, considering how much money I spend at all these Japanese shops. But the difference is still way more than 2.5%.

Perhaps a reissue isn't such a bad thing... https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1050523980&ref=list

$135 if I chose to pay in USD but only $121 by paying in yen on my credit card. Kind of a big difference there.

2700 for registered SAL when EMS is 2720 yen? WTF NY?!

I thought I was watching Idolmaster.

Thank goodness they fixed the chest stripes on these two. I'll pay the slight mark up from NY. Beats having to deal with preorder madness any day!

I got all the DYRL valks with the old Yamato off-white and rainbow canopies, so I'm not concerned about color matching them to Arcadia releases.

It's still better than most of the awful Sheryls we've gotten over the years.

It'll be a retail box in a brown box in another brown box which will then be shipped in an even larger brown box after NY asks for additional payment for shipping charges.

Is that Hikaru after he merges with the Venom symbiote? Oh it was a Madoka Magica prize figure he dropped all that money on.

Just a game prize figure like the ones shown above. You could just go down the street and buy one off the shelf for like 1500 yen...

Those are game prize figures. They're way too low quality to be regular retail figures and I recognize the Crane King logo on the sign, even when blurred. On a side note, I once watched a Japanese dude spend well over 20000 yen trying to get a figure from one of those crane games. (Yes I was standing there hoping he would give up and leave so I could swoop in and snatch the already teetering on the edge figure lol)

That's twice as much as I paid for my Yamato SDF-1! ...but I'll still probably get one so I can display in both modes at the same time. For the price hike, Arcadia please print 01 and 02 on the ARMDs this time!

Today's arrivals! "Ahahaha! You're lamer than Hawkeye!"

The old V1s are great if you just want a nice fighter mode piece. They were pretty nice for the time they came out in and still vastly superior to ET's VF-2SS.

Awesome! I have to wait till after Labor Day because I used Fedex. I can't trust USPS with a $600 package.

Thanks guys! Just got home and had a chance to open it... almost felt like I was committing a crime opening it up for the first time since it left the factory. Minmay pilot figure needed a shower after all these years. Not a huge fan of the movie, but one of my favorite VF-1 designs.