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    How many Chunky Monkey's do you own

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    total Bandai I own

    42 chunkies

    Okay Sithlord, you make me feel a little better about my Chunky Monkey situation. :D Here is what I currently have.

    Bandai Vintage DYRL

    VF-1S Strike x1

    VE-1 Elint x1

    VT-1 Ostrich x2

    VF-1A Hikaru x1

    Bandai Reissues

    Hikaru VF-1J x5

    Roy F. VF-1S x4

    Hikaru VF-1A x7

    Fodder VF-1A x7

    Super VF-1S x5

    Max VF-1J x3

    Millia VF-1J x3

    Joon's Valks

    Max x1

    Millia x1

    Green x1

    Taiwanese valks

    Super Boot x1

    Jetfire valks

    Jetfire future customs x13

    completed customs x3

    Frankenvalks x2

    $5 bootlegs x2

    Total of 63!!! :blink:

    I'm still looking to complete my Joon's valks. I am also looking to acquire the Galaxy Defender Jetfire.

    Knock off Valkyries?

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    what the hell are the other bots in this line from?

    I'm not quite sure, but the Jetfire valkyrie seems to be the rarest one to find at Wal-Mart. It really seems like these are not sold on the West Coast. :( There is one seller on eBay that was selling them for a while. He was located in New Jersey. So it seems like we have confirmation that these items are being sold in Iowa and New Jersey. Any MW members from these states that can help some of us out? :huh:

    Bit o yellow plastic on old 1S

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    so the best way is to swap parts with a reissue or paint that sucker? :unsure:

    I thought that this could work as well. Unfortunately, the white plastic doesn't match as well as I would have wanted it to. Especially with the extreme white on the Hikaru VF-1A. If you try to swap a Jetfire head onto the Hikaru VF-1A, the Jetfire head will suddenly look yellow. <_<

    Bit o yellow plastic on old 1S

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    I heard that you can use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, haven't tried it though. d

    Heard about it, tried it, then discovered that it was a lot of BS. I also tried Oxyclean before. Yet another few dollars spent in vain. Bottom line, unless the damage (yellowing) is minimal, you can't sand it off. :(

    Custom Titles

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    That's the title given to her that can't be named and her other profile. I don't know why he's bringing her up now...

    Maybe this was old news, but I really don't know about this story. I just happened to see this while I was using the search function to find an old topic. Maybe someone can fill me in on this? :D

    Custom Titles

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    "Banned for being a multi-name hizzoe"

    LMAO!

    Hey MODS, this is just pure genius. I really think that titles like these are just too funny not to add to the other banned members. Sorry, I wanted to add this to the custom titles thread but couldn't because it's closed. I just needed to give props to whoever gave this title to the banned member. Thanks for the laugh, you really made my day.

    RJ

    Knock off Valkyries?

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    Has anyone else found one of these at Wal-Mart. I know that they're kind of funky looking, but I have heard that they are built as well as the Bandai's. This claim, if true, would make the Galaxy Defender, the best bootleg 1/55 (quality wise) ever made. If anyone else has found them, let me know. I'd really like one myself.

    RJ

    what kind of paint is used for toys

    in The Workshop!

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    After working on and customizing several 1/55 valkyries over the past three years, I have found that there are some Jetfire's out there that seem to have an almost indestructable paint. Usually, if you stick the Jetfire parts in paint thinner or Pine Sol over night, the paint will fall right off when you apply a little pressure with a Q-Tip or a stream of hot water. However, because many of my Jetfire's have been parted together, I find that a piece here and a piece there seem to have a red base coat that isn't affected after weeks in paint thinner or Pine Sol. With these parts, I have had to sand the paint off! Unfortunately, the white plastic is discolored or else I would put all of these parts together to make an indestructably painted Jetfire. :D Now this is the paint that I would like to know about. Too bad you can never know if you possess a Jetfire with this paint unless you are willing to test it in paint thinner. If you're wrong, you've just destroyed a Jetfire. :( If it were only as easy as saying, "it's only found on the Matsushiro ones," or " it's only used on the painted Macross symbol ones." This paint must be reverse engineered at Area 51! :p

    Will my Yamato 1/48 Valk yellow?

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    I thought ABS plastic didn't yellow?

    Well, some plastic doesn't yellow. For example, the auto industry adds an element to the plastic so that plastic parts (light colored trim) from your vehicle don't yellow. Unfortunately, this is only cost efficient when you're talking about the price of a new car. If this was done to our valks, we would be paying MAJOR cash for them.

    RJ

    Will my Yamato 1/48 Valk yellow?

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    Sunlight really does not have too much to do with that as sunlight will bleach colors, like those rental game boxes at the rental store sitting in the window or clothes.

    Hey Mylene, you are right about sunlight bleaching out colors, especially red colors like stop signs or Coke cans. Sunlight will also turn the cardboard on rental game boxes white over time. However, sunlight will not bleach out plastic. If this was the case, you could leave your yellowed valks in the sun over the summer to make them white again. Unfortunately, this will never happen. :(

    RJ

    Will my Yamato 1/48 Valk yellow?

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    I had Takatokus that were in the closet for years away from daylight and they yellowed in some part but not in others.

    Hey Exo, I believe that the yellowing was due to some mild form of partial exposure to light while your valkyries were outside their package. If you feel brave, try this experiment. Take one of your valks apart. Expose one of the inner surfaces to sunlight for about 5 minutes. Put your pieces back together and put it away. In about a year open the pieces up and you should see yellowing on the inner surface that you exposed to sunlight. A valkyrie doesn't need to sunbath at the beach to begin yellowing. Even as little as one minute of direct exposure to a UV source (even energy efficient lightbulbs) will cause enough of a chemical change in the plastic to begin altering its color. While your valk will no longer be exposed, the plastic will continue to change while it is put away. The longer the exposure is, the darker the yellow will be.

    Will my Yamato 1/48 Valk yellow?

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    Hello everyone. You are right Easy506, this question has been asked WAY too many times. I really think that we should pin the answer to this question in the forums for ALL to see. Maybe on the homepage. :D

    Anyway, I can honestly say that dust is a non-factor in regards to the yellowing of plastic. Plastic yellows when UV light hits it directly. It is a chemical change within the plastic itself. For example, I have a vintage Bandai Hikaru VF-1A that is extremely yellow. As a matter of fact, it was yellow when I traded my friend for it back in 1986. Keep this in mind. His room had one window that faced west and he never had his shades closed. A few years ago, I removed the stickers from this valkyrie and noticed that the areas covered by the stickers were white. From this I thought that maybe it was in fact, contact with oils from my hands or maybe even dust. However, if dust caused this, then you could easily sand off the top layer of yellow plastic to expose the white plastic underneath. This plastic would be white because dust cannot be absorbed into plastic. I decided to sand the plastic to try out this theory and discovered that I had to sand the plastic extrememly deep to find any white surface. This proved that dust in no way affected the color of the plastic.

    Furthermore, I have had my Bandai Strike, Ostrich, and Elintseeker Valkyries on display at my parents house for about 20 years and they became extremely dusty over time. As if that wasn't bad enough, my father smoked two packs of Pall Malls a day inside the house for all of these years. He smoked so much that my old room even smelled like a pack of cigarettes. I have since taken my valkyries with me and cleaned them up. However, with 20 years of exposure to cigarette smoke and dust, they are as white as the day I bought them.

    These valkyries were not only displayed, they were played with constantly by myself. The only factors that seem to have protected my valkyries for all of these years is that my room only had one window that faced north (no direct sunlight) and I never took them outside (no direct sunlight). There was no other magic to their longevity. However, I can say with certainty that Yamato does use an inferior plastic compared to Bandai, maybe oils from the skin as well as humidity might affect this plastic. I guess that we will have to let the test of time take its course on our Yamatos as it has with our old 1/55's to see how well this plastic fares. So far, I have heard of Yamato 1/60th's yellowing on thier mid arms. I have yet to hear of any Bandai reissues yellowing. This doesn't include the reissue Super VF-1S valkyrie because this valkyrie seems to show many different shades of white to begin with. :angry: Considering how white the reissue Bandai Hikaru VF-1A is, I'd be willing to bet that this will be the first casualty. :blink:

    RJ

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