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  1. Chronocidal
    I've been going back and forth about these two so often in the past month. I love both designs, but they both drive me a little nuts in one way or another. Not counting the wing hinge nonsense (since I fixed that myself), I think my biggest annoyance with the Arcadia design is the knee gap in fighter mode. I think it would have been perfectly fine to extend the lower legs just a little farther forward, even if it did make the legs a bit longer. I really can't pick, but in fairness, I do have more Bandai YF-19s/VF-19s than I do Arcadia ones.. so I suppose it couldn't hurt to balance that number out.
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    I will say that as difficult as the Arcadia may be, it's still MUCH easier to take apart than Bandai's version. Say what you will about screw covers, but at least Arcadia doesn't jam them between multiple individual layers of plastic all fused together into a superglue sandwich.
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    HLJ has the premium VF-4, and I'm not terribly desperate to have one of these, so I think I'm just going to hold out to see if they sell them, so I don't have to pay ahead. I'm also not all that enthused about the fact that I'll want to mod it out of the box anyhow, which is part of why I'd rather they just print the decals, and not panel line it. But such is one-upmanship.. can't just print the accurate markings, gotta give it that extra pizazz to nudge it above Bandai's tampo job (which, let's be honest, not splattering it with all the extra crap Bandai added would have been plenty of a selling point for me ).
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    I don't think the wing roots have been altered, because that cut out doesn't exist on the underside, and you can see that space is taken up by what should be the traditional VF-31 shoulder block above the intake. After looking closely at that pic, I think the line you're seeing as the cut out is actually a panel line on the canard. There is still a small angled cut along the trailing edge, but not quite as significant as it looks at first glance.
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    Might be able to get one through Anime Export, but don't know how their price will be, and not sure if their new options to pay later would apply. I wouldn't mind waiting until September to pay for this one, if I can. It does look like they're going forward with the whole panel lining deal again, but I only now realized just how few panel lines the Arcadia YF-19 even has to fill in, so it doesn't really stick out like it did on the VF-4.
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    Yeah, that's not happening without a redesign of the mechanism... which technically exists, if you don't mind sacrificing high-speed mode, and doing some disassembly and parts swapping. I'm not sure if the parts are available right now though, I'm going to have to see if they can still be ordered. I'm fine with no weathering at least, but my wallet is still going to be jumpy until we know for sure whether a normal PF will happen.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I wouldn't be surprised if they bump it to the VF-32.. maybe just call it the "Roy."
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    If they do a -normal- PF version I might bite for one, and sell off one of my originals.. but I just want tampos, not any of the panel lining or shading.
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    Too bad they couldn't come up with this for the masterpiece collection years back, probably would have sold a lot better.
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    Yeah, yeesh, I seriously just want a VT-1 here. I have almost as many VF-19 variants as I do VF-1s at this point, and I really don't need more Arcadia copies, unless they seriously re-design the wing hinge... it gets expensive ordering all these replacement metal wing mounts.
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    A little note for those of you annoyed with the VF-1S head lasers always getting cockeyed. I popped the mounts off of their little ball joints last night to examine them, and all of the lasers are pretty much just pegged into the mounts, so they can be pulled free, and everything is pretty easy to access if you want to work on them to tighten them up. I didn't feel like using any glue, but what I wound up using was a tiny strip of scotch tape placed on the bottom of each individual laser peg, and pressed into the mount. The lasers still move, but now the friction on each laser is more than the whole mount, so they mostly stay where you put them.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    So, looking at the trailer again, it looks like the canopy is a little different at the front. Also, I think the wing tooth extensions might actually be some kind of vertical surface? The shape is weird, but they look like a rather bulky surface that might exist just to attach the boosters in their new location, which... ok, hot take, but I'm going to call that a mistake. Attaching the boosters on the outside and tucking the wings under to attach the boosters really doesn't look great to me, and I feel like messing with how good and solid the old booster mounts were is not an improvement. Have to wait to see, but I'm not really liking the mission pod sticking so far out the back either, but it's at least a little more streamlined than the original blunt one.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I think the art there is unfinished, the canopy looked identical to the older designs in the trailer, or at the most they may have tweaked the sensor windows. What I find a little funny is that the wing tooth didn't even look that big in the trailer, but it was masked a little by super packs, and poses.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    That... ok, can't quite say they ruined it, but I think the clean wing profile of the original Kairos just looked better. This just looks too busy. Also, yeah, looks like they roughly doubled the diameter of the arm cannons. More dakka indeed.
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    Ok, you know, seeing that thumbnail, I feel like they should have just straight up hired Tim Curry. I would have watched the living crap out of that.
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    See, I think if I can get the torso and wings to fold up well, this is what I'd like to aim for. It would absolutely be a lot lankier soldier, but the hardest part is working out a way to stow the huge wings. Part of the reason the original Legioss works is because it's such a stumpy robot, and the wings are tiny compared with the body, so they fit easily behind it. Get them this big, and they're going to need more folds to collapse down enough. I'm thinking I might dig into my LEGO collection and see if I can't Kawamori the heck out of it. If anything, I'm actually considering giving it a lot more Macross-ish design cues and styling to see if I can't make it look like a more logical progression from the VF-1. Edit: Built out the model a little with rough shapes, so I might have to see how it winds up proportioned. Wings are still huge. Biggest thing I really have always wanted to work into the design was some way to streamline the back of the cockpit, because it just ends so abruptly behind the canopy. You can also make the arms a lot longer in fighter mode if you give it VF-1 style elbow streamlining, and don't require them to extend for soldier. Maybe even let the tails fold onto the outside of the arm as a shield, instead of tucking in, which tends to make the tails look extremely skinny and undersized for the design.
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    You know, zooming into that art makes me think that may actually be the case, but the resolution is pretty low.
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    Oh.. I had to think about that a moment.. Is that the actual PF version, or a custom job using the normal release? The markings are nice, but I've never liked panel lining. Really sad Arcadia decided to go that route, because I would have loved to pick up a PF version otherwise.
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    I'll have to recheck then, maybe it was just the lighting where I was looking then. I mixed some parts with the VF-25S kit, and it didn't look darker, but my office lighting is pretty subdued.
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    That's interesting.. I don't think the original kit parts use a different skin tone from any of the other VFG kits. They all look interchangeable.
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    One of these days I'm going to take a crack at re-designing the Legioss into something that gives it a scale closer to the VF-1, stretching the proportions out to something closer to an F-18, and shrinking the cockpit relative to the rest of the design. It would probably be a lot more lanky, but I think with enough hidden collapsing mechanisms, you could still pull off a fairly chunky soldier mode. Mechanically speaking, the Legioss is almost like a mechanical mashup between the VF-1 and VF-19, with the way the legs, arms, and head are stowed. The big difference is the way the intakes aren't directly connected to the legs, and form the torso. This one really did finally nail the proportions though. It's the first time I actually find the Legioss fighter an attractive design that doesn't look like a giant pair of legs dangling under a tiny jet.
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    And to think I used to consider "Do You Remember Love" to be a rather odd title.
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    I firmly believe the universe has flipped, and reality is now being written by all of the characters co-opted over the years for ridiculous and non-sensical fanfic, as a form of revenge against their creators.
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    Yeah, the set with all of the smaller scale ships is a mashup of wildly different quality kits The 1701, 1701-A, and 1701-D are from a kit AMT released in probably the late 80s, the 1701-B, C, and E are from the 90s, and the NX-01 is a newer mold. The molding is all over the map.
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    Hah.. I have that set of all the 1/2500 kits waiting in the wings. I'm more enjoying the 1/1000 kits though, they're just a very nice display size. When I get around to the wallpaper decals, I'm going to be cutting them into a TON of segments to get them to lay down well.
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