eggy99

got mine at HLJ!

Everyone talking about the yellow, but I bet the modex on the tail fin is still printed incorrectly on the mass production, even though (as @jeniuspointed out) it is fixed in the promo photos. 

50 minutes ago, sqidd said:

I can't remember the difference between the TV and DYRL Roy.

 

The only difference I can recall from the base valk is different coloured arrow on the head (and I can only find evidence of this from the Yamato release).

In terms of Bandai's release, TV and DYRL Roy would have different tampo markings as they've demonstrated different marking styles for their TV and DYRL releases so far.

19 minutes ago, sqidd said:

Weird release order.

-VF-1J Higgy TV

-VF-1A Max TV

-VF-1S Higgy DYRL

-VF-1A Kakizaki DYRL

 

I would have at least thought that a DYRL Max would be next. Or a TV Kakizaki. Or god forbid a Roy.

Would Bandai be nice enough to do a TV VF-1S Hikaru/Fokker special pack with 2 pilot figures, and swappable Hikaru and Fokker canopy.

nah.... too clever.

hard pass for me. I might have been tempted to get a TV Kakizaki and at least it would have been pretty easy to secure through a proxy.

Let's hope next release is TV Hikaru 1S alongside TWE TV Super Packs.

Before I saw the comparison I was thinking of Freedom 1.0 through rose coloured memories and didn't think 2.0 was any different. Upon seeing the comparisons there are quite a few changes, but not sure if ¥10K worth of changes.... ahh well times change... especially from 8 years ago! I'm on the wall about getting one... leaning to not.

3 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

So is there a reason why Bandai applied the bomb markings in two different orientations?

Are your inner armaments attached correctly? If you swap them on the pylon will they be correctly marked like the outer armament? 

On 12/24/2019 at 12:07 PM, Kuma Style said:

I'd love to see your results with that because I've tried matte spraying pre assembled, gloss pieces before and it did nothing at all.

Interesting. I’ve never tried it myself. Perhaps the gloss coating already applied to the piece inhibits the matte spray from adhering to the surface. 

I know there are members here who have successfully matte sprayed their DX Frontier valks, but those are gloss molded as opposed to coated, although their are some painted gloss parts on the DX Frontier valks. *shrug*

11 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

Which thing are you talking about?

The KO Strike.  

Easy pass for me. I wasn’t a fan of the official BNarts release and a KO probably wouldn’t change that unless there was drastic material changes - namely less exposed diecast and a matte finish. 
 

Actually... it might be a maybe for the right price since I’d feel less precious about completely matte spraying a KO to get the desired look as opposed to the official one. 

1 hour ago, aurance said:

Curious that we haven’t seen its gunpods.

gunpods will be TWE.

It’s back to 24,000 now

EDIT: beat me to it

After returning from my holiday in Bali I was able to open and inspect my 1A Max that was delivered to work. Transformed it to gerwalk and all okay. Shoulders look fine. The colour is really nice in person. 

Looks great, but can't justify paying ~AU$740 for this beauty (added HLJ AU GST, ¥4000 EMS). Would probably be higher based on trending decline of AUD too. 

My Plaza Japan PO has shipped! Woohoo! 

Glad I paid upfront for the whole thing (+ EMS shipping). AUD has dropped ¥7-8 since the PO in April, plus no added GST from HLJ/Ami/CDJ.

My Plaza Japan order is preparing shipping 

Love KITT. 

Finally time to post my small 1:64 collection.

I was expecting more like this kind of scale.

Roy gonna be MASSIVE. 

Looks like KC messed up the scale. He is way too tall standing next to Min May 

With how plain the 0083 RDs are I'd rather get an MG kit which would be cheaper, big and more detailed. That's the main reason I couldn't pull the trigger on GP01 and 02.

With how busy I am, RD or MG, both would probably sit in the boxes forever too. LOL!!!

Love diecast cars, but can't afford to get into collecting 1:18 scale so I make do with some choice 1:64 ones. 

I'll have to enjoy all the love pics here. Nice one guys 

I'll post a photo of my meagre collection tonight.

Yep got that out of the blue shipping notification via Paypal for my Rick PO.

On 8/18/2019 at 8:04 AM, dur said:

Mind sharing some details on your technique?

 

Are gundam markers alcohol based?

Not too complicated.

Add the real touch marker to the lines liberally, then use a cotton bud to wipe it away so most of it is gone, but the panel line still has a decent amount of pigment left. If you make a mistake use the special cleaning pen.

It's much easier to practice on a canon fodder since they're brown so being too heavy doesn't make it look awful. I started on a brownie first and then tried it on my DX VF-19 Adv and Arcadia YF-19, which needed more care and less pigment so as to not over exaggerate the darkened parts.

After this one is done, I'll be trying on my DX VF-1J so that will require a very light addition of pigment since the body is light grey.

I'll try to record a video of my technique when I work on my DX next time.

The next part of this is the dry brushing, but plenty of youtube tutorials on that already.

22 hours ago, levzloi said:

Very cool  Eggy, I've been looking around, but I can't seem to find a thread on how to clear coat a Yamato 1/48 or 1/60, can anybody point me in the right direction?  Rather how to decal or sticker and then clear coat.  Is total disassembly recommended?

I use Mr Hobby spray. After weathering and dry brushing, I'll do a full gloss coat so the surface is smooth and add the stickers. Once stickers are all applied, I'll do the matte coat.

I didn't disassemble, but you'll need to transform into a mid form to make spraying all areas easy/accessible. Also remember to mask all clear/shiny/gloss surfaces before spraying any coats (canopy/wing lights etc).

Kakizaki's VF-1A MUST come with 1 brown fin, and 1 white fin. 

I'm finally getting back into weathering and stickering my Yamato VF-1 cannon fodders. I completed the VF-1J... 4 years ago, and I started on the 1A shortly after. Around 6 months later I had pretty much completed the 1st part of the weathering (darkening), and then... got lazy - probably due to some other distraction - maybe a video game or something.

Just did a little bit tonight, which was darkening the option part side covers and intake covers. The next part is dry brushing on some metallic weathering to the darker areas - feet, intake covers and gunpod.

Then stickers and a flat coat. I wonder how many months it will be until I find time to do that. Have to wait until the weather is warmer to even use my flat coat Mr Hobby spray. 

Well, enjoy the WIP photos.

The darkening is all done using Gundam Real Touch markers, and a cotton bud/q-tip

these top 3 photos were taken in 2015-2016...

Left side already weathering, and right side bare. Photos taken tonight.

The intake covers are really subtle so no point showing those. I think the effect doesn't show up on my phone camera and during the night with the room lights. It'll be much more pronounced once the dry brushing is done.

I had forgetten how therapeutic and relaxing this hobby is.