Chronocidal
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If it's anything like the VF-0D poster, it's probably just lineart anyway. Sadly, that mosaic is pretty much completely unreadable, just have to wait for more info.
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I'd happily pick up another VF-1D or VT-1 if they ever get around to them. Fortunately, those two are a unique color that I don't have to worry about matching to all my other VF-1s. Know what I really want for a VT-1 though? Duty uniformed Hikaru and Misa figures. Bonus points if they include the tent.
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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
Definitely be careful with the legs, it's not so much that they'll explode if you look at them funny, but the twist function in the legs has an excessively complicated locking mechanism to keep the legs from rotating unless they're in one particular position, and it's not something called out very well in the instructions. They don't offer reverse transformation instructions to begin with, which is where the problem lies. Just as a rule, never twist the lower leg in either direction unless the knee is perfectly straight. The lock is sloppy going from fighter to gerwalk, and will let you twist the leg with the knee down one notch, but it won't go back the other direction. Make sure to drop the legs all the way, and straighten the knee before twisting, and you should be ok. That's not to say the knee joint might not still explode into a dozen shards of cheap metallic plastic, but not twisting the leg incorrectly will help reduce the stress on that joint. If the gerwalk twist joint goes floppy though, it might already be broken internally, and your best bet is to leave the thing in fighter mode forever. -
Ok, so, far as I can tell, these replacement brackets are ready to go. Got my reworked metal ones in the mail yesterday, and after a little deburring with a file, they work great. I wound up making two versions. The first is my original bracket that let the wings pivot slightly to bring the weapons parallel. The second is the accidental change I made, shifting the pivot forward, and locking the wings in place against the legs. This gif shows how much wiggle room the original bracket leaves for the wings to move. The second bracket locks the wings in the rear position, leaving the weapons permanently canted outward like a superhornet's. So, you can choose. Have the wings entirely locked in one position, with the hardpoints slightly offline, or leave a little wiggle room for the wings, and let you push the wings forward to keep the weapons straight ahead. If you do choose the ones that let you move the wings to line up the weapons, keep in mind that the ease of moving them is entirely up to how tight you make the screws in the wings. They'll move, yes, but I was able to tighten the screws so that it took a decent push to move them out of line. For now, I only have the metal versions available, since they cut to actual size. The POM is much cheaper, but I need to add thickness around all the edges to account for what the laser cutting process will remove. A pair of either type in stainless steel will run about $20, which seems to be the base price to cut them. I'll put the links here for anyone to order if they like. Just be prepared to overpay through the nose for shipping.. the site can't seem to comprehend that I don't need these things shipped overnight by UPS.. Also, if the materials goof up, you need these cut from 2 mm thickness. Here's the longer bracket that lets the wings move to align the hardpoints: https://www.sculpteo.com/en/print/metal-bracket-update-2-1/jmPr39Zc?basket=1&noclickredirect=1&uuid=MVA2TH4a3WGG36Z0ZEb3Qb Here's the one that locks the wings in position with the hardpoints canted outward: https://www.sculpteo.com/en/print/metal-bracket-update-short-1/J5du2hTx?basket=1&noclickredirect=1&uuid=PQH9GYtSc2tocNP1ML9EFe It'll take some work getting to where these can be installed, but I'm enjoying having at least one YF-19 with wings that don't slop around.
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Ok, that paint is just gorgeous. What color is that?
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You know, I never really thought much about how to go about fixing that permanently, but drilling the piece out and doing a chunky-style bic pen mod seems like it could go a long way. I'd think any number of readily available joints could work there though, if you ever felt motivated enough to do a full repair.
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Yeah, the DX is better in general, but what's bad is that they recessed the rivets, and since mine have gone floppy, I can't even squeeze them to tighten them. It's worse than my Arcadia now. I've got a design in mind for a replacement swingbar that adds detents to hold it steady, and it's really just a slight variation on the stock one, but it's something that would take a similar level of manufacturing. Also, to clarify, the wing glove will hold without glue, but I wouldn't go popping the two halves of the wing apart all the way, if you can avoid it. It's only screwed at the pivot point, and I don't know if it'll hold just from that.
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I do like the option, if only for the smaller space it takes up with the wings folded back. I only bit the bullet and modded this one since it was my sloppiest copy. I saw at least one person break an original swingbar, and a few more expressed interest in just permanently removing the feature, so that's all this fixes. I'm fairly certain a completely functional replacement could be made, but it'll take some fancier machining processes. Even pressing a sort of dimple into the original swingbars might help, it just needs something to lock the wings in place. Now the trick will be finding a way to fix the Bandai one..
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I should be clear, this part removes high speed mode as an option. It just mounts the wing on a stationary pivot, returning it to the way the Yamato YF-19 and VF-19s all had the wings. Still trying to wrap my head around how to retain that, but I was just sick of my wings flopping all over from sloppy hinges. As for your other questions though... 1. The new part is cut to pretty tight tolerances, and fits in place of the original swing bar, so it slides inside the wing, and doesn't contact any painted surface. It might however take a bit of force to push it over the plastic posts in the wing glove and wing, and might scratch them a little. 2. The screws to remove the wing gloves from the hips are relatively easy to get to. It's the tiny screw cover on the underside that's a trick to get out. Then you have to remove the original swingbars from the wing, which was easy on mine, but only because the leading edge of the wing wasn't glued down, and they popped out when I spread the wing a bit. I'm not going to say the process isn't risky. 3. Like I said, the entire point of this part is to remove the high speed option, and make the wings stay put in fighter. I hope to figure out a full replacement mechanism someday, but I don't think the sort of manufacturing capability I'd need is easily accessible.
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I'm not doing the lasering myself, but I've been working on a CAD model to get these parts easily reproduced. It's a replacement wing mounting point for the Arcadia YF-19 that removes the high-speed mode, and keeps the wings much more solid in fighter mode. Top is handmade out of 1mm styrene, bottom two are laser cut from 2mm POM and stainless steel sheet. My first test batch came out almost perfect, but the lower edge needs adjustment to not collide with the sides of the legs. The POM works, and is much cheaper, but has some variability due to the laser cutting. The metal came out nearly flawless, and just feels sturdier all around, so I ordered a second set of those with the necessary adjustments.
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Not quite a model, but my workspace has been covered in bits of YF-19 for the past couple weeks. Working on getting these new wing pivots set up for laser cutting. Takes a little work to get the original swingbars out, but the wings are rock solid with the new pivot points.
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At this point, all I want is for them to release add-on super packs with stands so I can load up Hikaru and my brownie squadron.
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Reworking this post a bit, since I fiddled with some of the parts, and got them installed. So, bottom line, the parts came out almost perfectly. Only minor cleanup was needed on the plastic pieces, and the stainless steel came out extremely nicely, with only a couple small burrs to file away on the edges. Top is my original, middle is POM, bottom is stainless steel. Sadly, they came out slightly different from my handmade patterns in two ways. First, the wing pivot somehow shifted a fraction of a millimeter between my pattern and the CAD file, so the wing pivot is slightly too far forward. However, I'm not sure if that needs to be fixed. The new location does seem to place the wings at a very slight angle backward (the missiles are barely tipped outward). But it also caused the wings to be permanently lodged directly against the sides of the legs, leaving them almost entirely without any wiggle room. Second, my patterns were made of more flexible material, and didn't interfere with the legs. But when I mounted one of the metal brackets, it collided with the side of the leg, causing the wingroot tab not to seat correctly. I cut away a bit of the inner edge on one set of the POM brackets, and that fixed the problem, so I need to make that change to the Sculpteo files and order a new set of the stainless steel ones, since I don't have the proper tools to make that change on metal parts. On the brighter side of things though, these parts came out nearly ready to use, and fit very nicely in the wingroots. I very much prefer the metal, since they feel quite a bit more solid than the POM version, and the pivot point inside the wing seemed to work more smoothly. The metal is just a much cleaner cut than POM. The parts fit nicely inside the wing, though again, the only way to get it in there is to pry the front edge of the wing apart, and hope it stays glued around the other sides. It rotates back into a slightly different position from the original swingbars, but I think it's not too far off, and doesn't look bad to me. You can also see here why we never got clear lenses on those lights.. there is really no room in there for them. If anyone wants to give the existing POM parts a shot, I can post the link, but I'm going to upload a fixed version for the metal brackets soon. The stainless steel was definitely more expensive, but I think the weight, strength, and fit was just much better feeling compared to the POM copies. Edit: Also tested the fast packs with these brackets installed, didn't cause any interference with the leg packs.
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The reaction missiles each used a single pylon that mounts directly on top of where there are two dark recesses on the arm shields. I'm guessing they've already designed them able to mount the missiles, they just haven't revealed that they're making them yet (or are expecting fans to make their own, which seems to be a growing trend). Would be nice to see some red-tipped ones for a change though.
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Maybe not, but I mean the mounting points on the arm shields aren't standard hardpoints, they're just little holes for mounting something. They clearly intend for something to go there, but the mounting points don't match anything Bandai has released in the past. It's entirely possible they're just teasing, and don't have any plans, but considering the reaction missiles in Delta were unique (red tips), I'd be surprised if we don't see those missiles show up at some point. Maybe we'll all be surprised, and they'll pull a Hasegawa somewhere down the line, and release a giant universal weapons set for use on all of their recent releases. I'm sure hoping for that, since the 171 missiles just don't cut it for me, and my VF-19 Advance is sitting there envying my Arcadia YF-19 and its massive loadout. What I really need to do is get on it, and start making Shapeways pylons to mount Yamato/Arcadia missiles on the Bandai hardpoints. Though.. what really does surprise me about the super packs? Bandai is completely ignoring the replacement speaker/projector pod. It was there the first time the super packs were shown, but it's like that entire system was lost along with the plot of the series.
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I think it'd be interesting to see a VF-1 with properly twisting gear, but I feel like that'd be overcomplicating the mechanism some? They did do the twisting gear on the VF-11, but those came out too stubby to really look right (if anything, they needed to mount the gear at the very front of the bay, and lengthen them). While the twist is accurate, it generally isn't necessary for fitting inside the bay, it simplifies the mechanism, and the gear can look better if it's left out. At least at the end of the day, all of the Yamato and Arcadia valks at least make an effort to make the landing gear look like something off of an actual aircraft. Bandai's gear aren't worth the metal they're stamped out of. It honestly just comes off as arrogant that they clearly don't care enough to even try to make something look remotely realistic, or even follow the lineart for the stuff they're making. As far as super packs go... Unless they're not showing us all of what's included, they're going to need another release for the version from the final episode. While the arm shields clearly have the mounting points for them, they aren't showing us the reaction missiles from the last episode. Either they're being sneaky, and not showing them yet, or they're planning a separate release for that version. We'll probably know for sure if they get included with Mirage's packs, since I don't believe hers changed any for the last episode.
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Heh... was just thinking at first that they mounted the console in my DX back too far, but they're all like that. The pilots all have the consoles jammed into their chests so far that they can't really see the screen. The animation and models don't show it being that close, it just looks silly.
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So two things that stick in my mind.. One, is it wrong that I want to just go in with a parts trimmer and snip the corners off the doors on the weapons pod? They're all supposed to be angled like the inner door. Two, I hope Hayate never has to eject, because his arms are going to get ripped off by the control console. It's like when you're 6 feet tall, and you get a rental car last used by someone who left the seat all the way forward. Far as the 31 variants go, I am a little surprised they changed the YF-30 so much. It mostly turned out for the better, I think, since the tails are leaps and bounds better, and while the arms are skinnier, I think they just mesh better being entirely inside the wing. On the other hand though, I'd love to have the original landing gear back, and the weapons pod on the 30 was much better integrated into the design. Even the early Delta promo posters showed the 31 with the same seamless spine, but alas, it didn't stay that way.
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Could also mean the "previous" jedi, as in , "So the last jedi royally screwed things up, but this one will be a whole lot better!"
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Yeah, Kakizaki never made it to lead the group, and I'm not sure if we ever got to see his battroid either, but at least the Yamato releases gave everyone color matched heatshields on their 1As. Being a flashback from 7 makes perfect sense though, I thought that shot looked more like a TV quality still than DYRL, and it couldn't have been a miscolored SDFM screenie, since they never used the strike packs.
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Wait, what scene is that from? I thought the only time Max was shown in a VF-1S was in atmosphere with no packs? In any case though, Max's 1S is an anomaly, since while his 1A had a blue heatshield, his 1S was shown with a black one (or at least the 1/60th had one). Either way, the color-coordinated skulls were really the only way to tell them apart in fighter mode, since most of the rest of their colored markings were hidden.
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I'd settle for a Chronos with Siegfried tails.. they were the weakest point of the YF-30, both aesthetically and structurally.
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Mostly I just have wanted a white with black stripes 19F all along. After seeing a couple of those in the Master File, I really wanted them to release a plain white one I could decorate with whatever stripes I wanted. The long wings on the 19P are great, I just would love to make that white F model.
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I need to do up one of my 19Ps that way someday.. but I hope to be able to actually give one the shorter 19F/S wings as well. That will take a lot of work, and some scratchbuilt parts..
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I personally prefer fighter mode for pretty much everything, but this one really does shine in battroid. I do wish they'd opted to make the lower legs slightly longer to lessen the gap around the knee joint, but it's part of what makes battroid so stocky and close to the lineart. I think fighter mode was done a bit better by the Bandai VF-19 Advanced, but it still made a few compromises for certain details, and while a bit more sturdy, their version of the high speed mode mechanism has the same sloppy alignment issues as this one. One thing I didn't think about earlier, the diagrams for sticker placement in the instructions are straight-up CAD renders. I might scan those in and see about designing an entirely new wing mechanism.