Lolicon
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Oh that's a great solution. I'll have to start doing that on all of mine now. What happens with Bandai plastics? It seems NY won't ship a lot of items until people harass them about it. But they'll happily take your money and keep it indefinitely. Gotta love interest-free loans. Bandai & Yamato Kakizaki:
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This guy deserves all the credit. One improvement I really like on the DX is having the dorsal, er, nub(?) on a spring so it pushes down when the backpack and stabilizers are folded up. When the super parts are attached, it pushes that nub really hard into the stabilizers on the Yamato. I started taping that area when putting things in fighter and here's how it looks after sitting on display for awhile.
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I've spent more time than I cared to trying to match paints on the VF-25 so I could touch up all the numerous paint scratches they have right out of the box.
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How much could it possibly cost to keep each valk in a vacuum-sealed, temperature & humidity controlled display case?
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Admittedly, the TD guy's Kakizaki looks a bit more professional than mine. Speaking of which, I noticed that the black stripe around the canopy doesn't line up. Anyone else's copy like this? Another example of what I was talking about in the other thread about how Bandai valks generally have lots of smaller issues rather than the catastrophic problems that affect Arcadia. EDIT: Nevermind, I was focusing too much on getting the nose to line up flush with the rest of the canopy. It can be moved enough to line up and not be too much, er, unflush? Just me being pedantic. EDIT #2: Hmmm it's actually impossible to have both sides perfectly lined up simultaneously, but the difference is really small and noticeable only to obsessive weirdos like myself.
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In general, the fit and finish of Bandai's valkyries has not been as good as Yamato/Arcadia releases. BUT! Yamato/Arcadia valkyries have tended to have more catastrophic failures (usually on early versions of a particular line): cracked shoulders, broken legs, exploding arms, mismatched ankles, that sort of thing. Bandai tends to have smaller but more numerous issues that are endemic to their valks and that Bandai will never acknowledge are a problem. They've improved a lot over the years for sure, but things like the YF-19 stabilizers falling off if you breathe on them too hard, miscellaneous scratches and chips all over the valk, weak tampo that flakes off, backwards modex numbers, locking tabs that don't actually lock anything/dependence on friction and hope to hold things in place, etc. How serious or not these Bandai issues are will vary from person to person. Some peeps may not care or don't see them as problems. The problems you (the OP) mentioned are endemic to all Bandai YF-19s. My YF-19 has chipped navigational lights on the wing tips that I will have to touch up eventually. Others received their copies with broken head lasers due to poor packaging. Also, someone at the factory vandalized every Bandai YF-19 with huge ungodly graffiti on the wings.
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Looks great! Love the way you used the lighter effects on a dark hull. The snow weathering is a bit unwieldy and I can never get it to where I'm happy with it, but yours is perfect! I haven't even swapped out the legs with the fixed legs yet.
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Have a couple of Marvel figures I ordered through them some time ago. Chose ferry since I don't need them quickly. Came out in June and July. It's September and no word on shipping. Wonderful service. NY sucks. Addendum: Order was from last year. No one else had them. Apparently, neither does NY but they happily took my money anyway. Guess it's time for yet another CC dispute against NY.
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Any meager savings are offset by NY gouging you for daring to use anything outside ferry shipping.
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That looks dumber and dumber each time I see it. Those Bandai panel lines are pretty deep.
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Arcadia 0D is an order of magnitude better than the old Yamato weathering editions.
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If you're unhappy with the product that you got, that's cool. I'm just saying that Arcadia didn't promise anything far and above what they finally delivered. As @wm chengsaid, a mass produced toy will never be as good as something a skilled hobbyist like yourself, spending however it long it takes to get everything perfect, will look. At least not without pushing the cost up to really ludicrous levels. I think it would be much easier to start with the non-PF version and weather it from scratch yourself than trying to undo the PF weathering.
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If all of that is too much hassle, just be patient and you'll probably be able to score one off Mandarake for 22k or 24k. Most recent one sold for only 20k.
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Thanks! I generally top coat everything to make sure everything is sealed in and protected. However I didn't bother on the last two DX releases as I only added a few small decals that are unlikely to get scratched. Being cheap with my supplies, in other words.
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Wow, tough crowd. I do like reading these kinds of critiques though. I do disagree that Arcadia set up a higher standard than they actually delivered. The final product is near identical to the samples shown. Photo taken by me at Wonderfest last year.
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Thanks. As mentioned above, it's strange I do that since they're usually in battroid mode, and my other 1/60 valks spend their display time in-flight on Yeti stands, so the landing gear are rarely seen outside of photo taking times. This is all @wm cheng's fault!
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In the past I never gave it a second thought either, believe it or not. Then that rat bastard @wm cheng told me to try painting the landing gear on my VF-25F way back when, and now I can't stand the unpainted gear. Haha thanks. Ironically enough, my DX's actually spend most of their time in battroid mode, despite all the time i put into making fighter look better. I just want them as pretty as possible when they're on display.
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That's a pretty great mod. Anything to replace the 1/48 chicken hands.
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You have the best logic. Not sure what kind of bizarro world you live in, but painting the landing gear doesn't turn my valks into "statues" that can't be played with or transformed.
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They need to go outside more. Or just eat better. The risk of yellowing to your toys isn't worth it!!!
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It sure would look a lot better and save me a lot of hassle if Bandai would just paint them at the factory before assembling it.
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Bandai is saving the improved arm tabs for the 1/60 DX VF-1 a few years down the road.
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Unless you're living in a part of the world that spends months in darkness, you probably don't need to be getting vitamin D from your light bulbs.
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Tell me about it. The arms on my Kakizaku 1A simply won't stay pegged in when in fighter mode. Damn thing is held up against gravity with nothing but friction and hope. Way to take a step back from something Yamato perfected over a decade ago.
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I switched to all LED light bulbs in my home years ago.
