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    Yuup, I was curious about this from the start as well, but what impressed me was that they actually inverted the nosecone for a better profile, rather than use the existing right-side-up version. Fortunately, it's an easy fix, provided I can find the right part to do it. As nifty as the switchblade design is, I'm actually tempted to upscale the entire model, and either remove the mechanism, or at least remove the pull-cord, and spring-load it with a shock absorber and some gearing to snap back and forth with a lever.
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    So, I know absolutely nothing about Ninjago. But I have to give the set designers credit, because they're actually hitting some design aesthetics that I really love. I saw this set in a catalog at the beginning of the year, and put it on my list immediately. Apparently it's a redesign of a set they've made before? The wings do a big flip-open-and-swords-pop-out action, which works okay (though it's not reversible, since it uses a pull-cord with tension in one direction... I might try to re-engineer that with gears). But seriously, just look at the thing. That might be the most attractive pseudo-aircraft design they've made in a very long time. Could probably use a few tweaks to smooth out the structure, but I just love the shape of it. Pretty good price-per-part as well, think it came in at around $35.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Eh, I think I'll be good with the one. I've already got five die-cast F-14s in 1/72 (four Calibre Wings, and one Century), and while they make nice displays, at the end of the day, I'm always noticing the little nit-picky things like giant seams between metal parts, and all the little inaccuracies that are easy to correct on plastic kits, so I just go back to making my own. I'm glad I had CDJ points to burn, but these'll likely go on my desk at work. I've been meaning to display a few kits I have, but none of them are far enough along to really display yet.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I think my only disappointment is that I can't get the VF-84 F-14A instead. I've already got several 1/72 die-cast F-14s though, and an entire fleet of plastic models I need to build. I've noticed a trend in my collecting actually... I think if you took stock of my entire stash of aircraft and vehicle representations across all media, probably a full 50% is made up entirely of F-14s, VF-1s, VF-19s, and X-wings.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Curse you all and your 1/100 aircraft obsessions... I caved and ordered the F-14D and Jolly Roger F-4.. CD Japan warned me my points were expiring, and I had enough to basically cover shipping, so figured I'd better make use of that.
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    CD Japan is an odd player here, since they did sell the DX missile sets, and they have some TWE items through proxy services, but they seem hesitant to fully support those releases.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I want to say that once they started selling them again (at around $1000), that was the end of their fulfillment duties, otherwise they would have been getting piles of nastygrams from people who never got their orders.
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    I would get behind that 1000% if it would get the series elevated to a mainstream release internationally.
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    I don't see why they'd have to remove the Zentraedi references at all. If you keep the intro of Isamu being the reckless hotshot against the rogue band in the beginning, there's your introduction to them. But yeah... I hesitate to put any hope in there being a -good- adaptation of it, but it's probably the best candidate.
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    How hard were the tips to pop off? If they can be swapped around, I might just make myself a custom set of caps to snap on and off.
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    If anyone was to approach a single Macross title for western adaptation, I'd think Macross Plus probably has the best chance of success. It's probably had the most exposure of the franchise due to HG's leaky practices then, and it already feels like the most "western" of Macross material, between the Top Gun comparisons, minimal necessary exposition, and the unique role music played in that particular story.
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    That photo is after a fair bit of sanding to smooth out the layers, but the overall shape and detail were really good to start. That's part of why I like the ABS, it polishes really nicely with a little elbow grease. You just have to break down the parts into a kit so you can smooth all the surfaces. It's also a helluva lot easier to sand than whatever rock-hard material Shapeways tends to use.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    At this point, I've just accepted that any Bandai valk is probably going to need some combination of tampo stripping and repainting. Fortunately, the wings are fairly easy to remove, and black is an easy color to match.
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    I actually had pretty good success with the ABS printer I have, until I realized that way the bed was mechanized was making the prints inaccurate, and the lack of an enclosure was making things cool in very odd ways. The parts felt at least as solid as a styrene kit though, if not quite as sturdy as a toy. If I can get anything this good consistently, I'll be thrilled. I think the biggest thing was just that the table on my printer moved front to back, while the head moved sideways, and up and down. The jerking table gave me nasty distortions on some of the corners, since it tended to round things oddly. I've been following a couple of updates to my original model that might give a lot more consistent results, since it's all enclosed with an air filter, and the table only moves vertically.
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    See though, I don't want to deal with liquid, or the materials, despite it being higher resolution. I'm planning to make parts to use with the toys and other plastic models, so I want to keep them at least mostly compatible with styrene, and flexible enough to wear and tear like the factory parts of my valks.
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    I guess as a backup plan, is there some way you can leave a note for the new owner/tenant to contact you to forward them?
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    I love that this HISHE basically addressed every single issue I had with the movie.
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    Yeah, customer disservice at its finest. They work fine, just so long as you never ever have to make any special request for them to do anything outside of (eventually) filling an order you placed. If you haven't tried a live chat though, I'd suggest it. I remember hearing that they can be slightly more responsive to chat requests, depending on who answers.
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    I haven't looked much into them in a while, but I've been eyeing a new enclosed printer to help deal with the temperature regulation issues I've had with my current one. I've been half-heartedly shopping around for the best resolution and print volume I can get for around $2000, hoping I can get something that can do reasonably accurate engraved details in a print. My old one gets close, but the design of my current printer has the print bed moving front to back, rather than up and down, and the quick shifting just tends to make the print wobble and get distorted during printing.
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    Beautiful! I'm getting more and more to the point where I would rather mask and paint large markings like that, rather than use decals. It just looks so much more natural in a lot of cases. I might have to see about grabbing one of those kits someday, would probably go decently next to my Cosmo Zeroes.
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    Honestly, with the way the VF-11 is designed, I'd just make an entire replacement nose section. Nose might hang a little low in battroid, but you'd also open up the possibility for a Jamming Bird variant.
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    I don't care how rumoriffic that Doomcock video was, or if there's anything to back it up in the slightest. That was the most hilariously entertaining rant I've heard in a really long time.
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    Magically face-shifting characters (who is that on the cover? ), and the wholesale 30 WTF pileup aside, I hate to admit, but I do kind of like where they're going with the story, just from a conceptual perspective. I think a lot of that has to do with sheer confused curiosity though, and general unfamiliarity with the franchise, since I never watched Robotech to begin with. I'll have to dig up the comic and read through the last few issues, see what kind of gordian pretzel they're making out of the timeline. Seriously, the thing this most reminds me of is that time loop episode of Sealab 2021, where every time the loop repeats, they lock the responsible characters in a room together (with all of their past iterations), and every loop gets more and more warped. It's also kind of like a cross between the TNG episodes "Cause and Effect" and "Parallels", where instead of resolving the time loop, you wind up with all of the disparate loops converging into one 30 reality pileup. Gotta love how they've evolved the macguffin into something that does everything from time travel, to granting superpowers.
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    I've looked into the cockpit pretty closely, and while nothing's painted on the DX, you can just barely make out the TV style screens, as well as the extra joystick-like handles on the front console, and the F-G-B levers on the left side of the console. It should be pretty easy to mount a DYRL style panel on the VF-1S. They also mounted monstrous salami of a joystick in the center of the console that's about as big around as Hikaru's thigh. His right hand kind of rests against the base of it.
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    Yeah, I think it was a fairly fun ride. I'm going to be picking it up, and devouring the little Edwards/Rosamond/Mojave Desert references, since that's all in my backyard. I think the source of some "let-down" about this movie is that it's an origin story that got sandwiched as an intermission in Marvel's bigger picture (which the honest trailer hangs a lampshade on). I think any movie released that close to Endgame was going to be a bit of a disappointment, because the hype train has to take a two hour detour through the desert before you can get back on track to the destination everyone was looking forward to.
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