Chronocidal
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In all honesty, I'm disappointed they aren't farther along than this. At this stage, I think the only actual difference I see is that they changed the wing and knee joints a bit, and maybe helped close up the gap under the head in fighter. Maybe I'll treat it like the VF-0 and grab one for completion, but I can't justify replacing my existing set. It's not like the shape of the original was ever inaccurate, so these changes aren't going to make much difference when viewing one from a shelf.
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Well then... apparently the click was too stronk for AmiAmi to handle.. I wound up with two there as well. And then another at HLJ for good measure.. and already got the confirmation email. Didn't intend on three.. but I'm not going to knock getting a trio of stands.
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Not yet, they won't post the item until it opens for sale.
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CD Japan usually lists around the same time as HLJ, and I actually tend to use them as my secondary preorder source. They don't tend to offer large discounts, and you have to pay up front depending on the payment source, but those details both work in your favor if you don't mind paying a bit more, since the site doesn't get quite as hammered as places like NY and AmiAmi.
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Yeah, the fact that anyone is saying it might be 3 PM in Japan is enough to make me start up the F5ing early to be safe.
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I'm still not taking any chances, I'm going to be mashing that F5 starting in about 35 minutes
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I just sent in another check-up ticket to NY about my pair of 31As, and all they really said was "We haven't forgotten about your order!" So as not to poke the sleeping dog, I'm waiting until I receive my order to lay into them about finding out exactly what happened to cause this level of nonsense.
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Can someone please just walk into Bandai HQ, and slap the entire DX design team upside the head with some sort of documentation on actual aircraft? They're doing the "TAMPO EVERYTHING" deal again, and splattering useless aircraft warning markings where they don't belong. I'm still going to try and grab two of these, just on principle. Will I keep them? Who knows, but my enjoyment of any new mold is in figuring out how they function.
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Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series
Chronocidal replied to BoBe-Patt's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm going to have to watch the entirety of both CW and Rebels at some point, if only for the never-ending onslaught of audio-cue chills they give me. -
Figures they would go and release the single 1/48 Yammie I ever got Eh, I'm game, pre-order madness notwithstanding. Basically looks like a scaled-up HMR, really, which isn't all bad, but I hope they manage to get the gunpod level. Also, I'm seeing folding leg fins, and hardpoints included, and maybe a working airbrake. On the down side, looks like it's got shades of the old Yammie 1/48 bulbous canopy as well, but it's hard to judge just from the single angle they give. Will have to see how it pans out.
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Having disassembled that structure to flip around one that was assembled backwards on an old Yamato, the final segment with the actual hip bar should come free relatively easily (though they may have switched to those annoying spring-pins to hold it). Also, the metal isn't painted, so nothing to really lose there. I think what might be the most solid repair for this would be to actually cut off the opposite hip shaft as well, then drill out the hip bar and replace both hips with a solid metal rod. You'd have to replace the ball joints on both hips as well, but that might be an improvement over the original Arcadia hip joints. Sadly, that kind of operation might require some decent metal shop hardware, maybe a drill press, and you'll need a properly sized rod to fit in the nose correctly (though it might be easier to modify the inside of the nose to fit an available rod than to make a rod fit the nose). If Shapeways can print a metal part with the required strength, I think that'd be a much simpler option than trying to remake the part. Replacing the rod itself would be pretty easy I think, but getting it to attach to the existing ball joints might take a lot of fine machining. I'm thinking you would have to find or make a hip bar with threads on the ends, and then drill into and make matching threads in the existing ball joints to attach them.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I was just about to ask which EVA unit this one was... that's some kind of crazy power armor. Also, @Shizuka the Cat, congrats on a great pickup, I'm amazed to see the VF-19F for anything less than the original retail price, let alone through Amazon. The S-model got multiple runs, and was really easy to find on clearance, but the both the F and P versions got comparatively shortchanged on production runs before Yamato went under, and were much harder to come by. That one and the P are probably my favorite Yamato molds, hands down. -
Has anyone gotten any multiple orders from NY yet? I feel like I saw at least one get through a while back, but no luck yet on mine, and it was ordered on the 7th.
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Yeah, like I was saying earlier, Disney buying Fox and Comcast buying them are two entirely different sorts of mergers. Fox and Disney are two companies that do (mostly) the same thing: make content for people to consume. Media companies and film studios pop up and die out all the time. It's a volatile market that will always have room for competition. (Whether it's good enough to be competitive is a separate issue. ) Comcast is a company that sells access to the content that companies like Fox and Disney make. They own infrastructure. That's an entirely different sort of organization that depends on stability to even function, and Comcast owns enough of the infrastructure across the country to ensure that certain areas have no other option when it comes to things like internet and cable access. Comcast owning Fox could potentially cause all sorts of other ugly effects across the country, in terms of cable and internet rates. For instance, say Comcast just decides that all Fox-owned content will now be exclusively available on Comcast service. Sucks to be all those other cable companies that won't get any. Or maybe they'll play nice and offer other cable companies a deal to purchase Fox content for their customers? You know that cost will get passed along to the consumers, and then cable rates for everyone but Comcast will go up, and suddenly Comcast looks like a better deal than every other cable provider. Not saying it would necessarily play out like that, and I'm no market expert, so that might just be tinfoil hat-level speculation. It just sounds like that kind of situation would open the door for all kinds of unpleasant shenanigans.
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On the other hand, this also doesn't excuse how lazy they've been with the tampo on the normal releases. I can kind of understand not putting the intake warnings on the YF-19, because they weren't in the animation, but leaving so many standard markings (that were included on the original Yamato releases, even) off of the VF-0 standard releases was pretty darn cheap.
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Why would they even put the VF-22 as an option? It's been done, and I don't think Wave is going to improve on the Hasegawa mold. 171 I'd be happy to see though.
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Could be improved and better designed by not using diecast metal in painted transformation joints. For the stresses exerted on those types of pieces, color-molded plastics are generally plenty strong. I know people like metal parts for the weight, but I don't understand the obsession with it, and it's probably the worst possible option to use in joints on transforming toys.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Digital downloads work great, until you're that guy out in the boonies who would eat through 3 months worth of data to download a single game. Games aren't getting any smaller. Sucks to not live close enough to a city to get cable, huh? -
That's kind of the bottom line for "which is worse" here.. people can ignore Disney all they want. Disney buying Fox is like Ford buying out Pontiac. Comcast? That'd be more like Exxon-Mobil buying them, and producing their own cars that only run on their brand of gasoline. On the other hand, with the deal blown up, watch as Comcast begins actively restricting access to Disney content out of spite.
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Wouldn't that turret have been really useful in ST:III?
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Huh, yep, that page makes me think Wave just went directly from the Master File for the kit. Not the worst they could have done, but they didn't get the ventral fin angles right either. I don't think I quite mind the higher canard angle so much as I mind the main wings looking too flat. That was the first thing I noticed about the kit from the earliest CAD teaser images.
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I'd be really interested to see a visual internal/external breakdown of what each of those individual refits addressed. One thing that does strike me about the CG model is that the exhaust venting on the rear of the nacelles is getting closer to the multi-ported look of the model from "The Cage." But yes, they might be refitting themselves into a weird corner, because the overall trend of those refits would mean the ship is going back and forth between styles multiple times, in no particularly timeline-relevant order. Now, maybe they'll attempt some story treatment to why the look changed back and forth.. I could see them trying to explain that the original launch spec was untested and unreliable, so they reverted to an older structural spec that looks like the NX-01, before going back to the original design once the technology was proven. I'm not saying it's a good explanation, because a refit of that magnitude may as well be a different ship, but it wouldn't surprise me if they go with it. On the other hand, maybe it is an entirely different ship somehow? Trek has always had a love of parallel universes intersecting at the most convenient times.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I had the same thought a while back, and wondered if you could actually use those conformal packs to hide the arms on a masterpiece-styled G1 Dreadwind. The F-2 is a nice mod to the general F-16 shape, looks really good! Funny thing about the F-5 though.. the YF-17 was an evolution of the F-5, before it turned into the F-18. -
The 1/60th version is also a lot thicker, mostly because its central section has to have room for the thighs, and it gives a slightly different overall anhedral to the wing planform. The kit looks like it was squashed down and flattened in comparison. What I'd like to see is some definitive angle for the engine nacelles. They do seem to be tilted a little in the line-art, but it's tough to tell how much. That set of plan views always looked more practical and realistic, compared with the other common 3-view line art, but this one gives the whole aircraft a different set of angles. The higher canard angle seems to be a popular change to the design though. It's definitely shown that way in the Master File, and depending on which frame you freeze of FB2012, they can look higher than the fairly flat angle of that graph paper schematic. I almost feel like that flatter angle is too flat, even if it lines up with the opposite wing angle. It might be partly from the sense that the inner wing needs to be thicker to house the thighs, which would naturally fit a steeper angle for the outer wings... but that's only an issue for the 1/60th design, and actually throws an entirely different wrench in the works, because then it looks like the outer wings need to be thicker to blend in.
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There's nothing to really be swapped out, because the fins themselves are attached to a bottom panel of the engine nacelles. It would be a pretty simple mod to cut them off and remount them at the correct angle, but no, the fins aren't molded as if they bend in the middle, and they're not low enough to be correct. If anything, they look like they're molded permanently in the sort of saggy position you'd get from a hydraulic pressure loss after shutdown. Kit quality aside, the design definitely has some accuracy issues. The wings are so close to level that it looks like someone vertically scaled down everything aft of the canards. Part of that is probably due to the nacelles being canted inward toward the top, which really makes no sense. That tilt might be relatively easy to mod if you just chop off the giant blocky tabs and mount the nacelles manually, but it's a lot of extra work. One thing I did do once I snapped one together is go back and hold the kit up frame-by-frame to the screen during the ending of FB2012. The kit matches the animation very well, but it seems like they missed out on the line-art showing the alignment of the control surfaces. Edit: Found this old topic while browsing for line-art of the VF-4, and if my memory is right, the kit looks very closely based on these planform drawings, with the exception of the angles of certain parts. I can see a little bit of tilt in the nacelles, but nothing like the kit has. I can't find any detailed reference to how the ventral fins fold, aside from the general angles. Is there another detail sketch of them somewhere?
