Chronocidal
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I actually like the eyes on the 31F, just to be different than the typical visor. Lasers do look a little weird though, can agree there.
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Have to agree, that really just improves the look. I've never been a fan of the unicorn horns they seem to love giving everything as of late.
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I've been getting a complete lack of updates for anything coming out of LAX for the last month. When my 262 got here, the last update I received was the arrival at LAX customs, and then 3 days later it appeared on my doorstep. They're just not pushing updates once the packages get into the country.
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I've already got two of Keith's plane, so I'm going to wait and see if we get a final episode white version before I get another of this mold.
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I'll be honest, I wouldn't be entirely opposed to them being slightly different colors, just for variety. If they go with the colors Yamato used on the VF-22s, that might be about my limit though. And actually, I wouldn't entirely mind a set of packs in the colors Bandai is spitting out as "canon" now. Some light gray missile packs for the boosters might look really nice on a VE-1.
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Update, received my printed copy of the neck cover, and it works fine straight out of the box. Forward edge looks like it came out slightly too narrow, but it tabs in nicely under the head and fuselage, and stays put really well. Texture is quite rough, but it does the job. Total cost came out to about $8 shipped.
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Cross posting this, since it's relevant to the YF-19, but if anyone has lost a neck cover, there's one available at Shapeways now. https://www.shapeways.com/product/YF9G9K2A3/arcadia19-neck-cover?optionId=62354239 Printed one to test, and works beautifully, shouldn't give you any problems ordering.
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I'm working on the idea of a pair of Hayate and Mirage (fighters in formation, battroids with back-to-back armor poses), and a single of each of the others (maybe two 31As).
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Should be a nice kick in the pants for the market! Not sure if I'll bite or not, but I'm glad to see them being reissued finally. I might convince myself to get another set really, though I'm curious if there will be any differences between these and the old Yamatos. Would be nice getting a set without the overdone rainbow coating though, for some reason Milia's was almost too thick to see through. Bring on the VT-1 next Arcadia!
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I did have that thought myself, wouldn't be hard to imagine Batman flying a solid black one of these. looks at 1/72 kit versions Hmmmmmm...
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Considering they weren't actually called "Valkyries" until the VF-1, and the Sv-51 has the same designation, I'd doubt that's what the original stood for. On that note though, did the Sv-51 ever get an actual name?
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Not certain where the V comes from (aside from the obvious "variable"), but I think several of the Macross Zero materials translated specified that the original Sv-51 was a product of several companies including Sukhoi, which makes sense given the look of the plane. How or why this particular Anti-UN faction survived Space War I and went on to keep producing variable fighters is anyone's guess, but judging by the fact that they've appeared in Macross: The Ride with an updated Sv-51, and two new designs in Delta, they're alive and kicking. And I still want to see someone make the Sv-154. That one's got me even more intrigued about the transformation than when we first saw the Draken III.
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There haven't been any major reports of breakage or anything in Japan, have there? I know we saw a couple of mentions of the paint being fouled up, but I haven't seen or heard of any catastrophic flaws so far.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in theaters Dec. 16, 2016
Chronocidal replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
It's still an interesting analysis, but if anything, I think the fact that the Rebels were able to achieve that much on such a shoddy plan only points to the fact that the Imperials were the ones who needed a wake-up call. But yeah, I'm pretty sure no one who volunteered really held any delusions that they would make it out alive. It was a suicide mission from the start. Off the subject a bit, but seriously, whatever else is said about this movie, there is precisely one concept that I hope this movie drilled home in every person who enjoys anything about Star Wars: YES, YOU CAN DEFEAT WALKERS WITHOUT TOW CABLES!!! I flat out cheered when the X-wings nailed a few of them. As amazing as the Rogue Squadron games were, I wanted to slam my head against the wall every time they forced you into a snowspeeder to trip up the walkers, instead of just outright reducing them to molten slag with bombs or torpedoes. They were always the most annoying missions too... -
Considering the sizes of the parts involved, I'm worried you'd do more damage to the piece trying to drill into it. If the piece didn't need to be U-shaped to fit around something, a better option would probably be to make a solid pin all the way across the part. Actually, if you can manage to get that folding plate out entirely, you might be better replacing it with a new part. Making it would require a lot of fine shaping and drilling though, probably some high end manufacturing.
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Suppose I'm glad I'm not a huge fan of gerwalk for the 262, since I think that's the only mode that uses it. Wonder if it would even be possible to replace that part though, the whole thing there looks like it would be nearly impossible to remove the broken one. I'm thinking it might be worth sanding down the insides of those clips to loosen the grip though, just to lessen the risk of those tabs snapping off when clipping them in or out.
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Just out of curiosity, does the toy even need that connection? I'm just wondering. I don't have access to mine at the moment, but I'm browsing through the 1/72 model instructions online, and noticing how much simpler and more straightforward the model transformation is, and it doesn't have anything even resembling those clips. Granted it's not as sturdy as the DX, but what's shocking to me is how many fewer parts the model seems to use, and how much easier it is to transform.
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That little mechanism is so stupid tiny, I can only call that an "our engineers are idiots" flaw. Could they really not come up with anything better that doesn't rely on a pair of tiny plastic clips?? Seriously... That entire structure should have been made of metal, and it should have been made with blocky pegs that fit into hollow sockets, not tiny little round plastic pegs that clip into equally tiny plastic clips. And here I thought we'd gotten past the pants-on-head designs of the 171... Edit: Oh, and joy of joys... the entire thing is riveted together. Where's the "slamming my face into a brick wall" smiley when you need it?
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Generally speaking, yes, I tend to try and seal and sand seams, but I usually don't go anywhere beyond sketchley's method above, just letting glue ooze fill the seams, and sanding it smooth. On older kits, this might not be enough, but more recent things from Hasegawa and Bandai barely need more than this. I will say though that I hesitate to use too much glue on transforming kits, or anything with lots of moving parts. Those seams may not look the best, but if they aren't horribly noticeable, they also leave more room for the kit to twist and flex as the parts move. I would hate to have a kit all sanded and sealed smooth, and then crack the surface when I try to move something.
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It really doesn't take much to make them stay in actually, I just added a single layer of scotch tape to the missile tabs, and they've remained solid ever since. If you're worried about the effect the glue might have on the plastic, you could even just use a small strip of paper. It only takes a little thickness to make them stay very well.
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Any 3D printed surface is going to need some serious cleaning and polishing if you want a smooth surface to paint on. Unless you really must have the NUNS markings on there, you're probably better off using black plastic, and just leaving the part its base color. I did have a thought for how to replace the lower triangles with something more similar to the Yamato VF-17, but I never got around to making them. It would require two parts instead of three, a new mount with a lengthwise pivot point that would screw in where the old longer pronged piece used to be, and a folding door that would rotate downward. I don't honestly know how well such a part would work. The green piece would need to pivot downward, out of the way of the arms. What I don't know is how much room it would take in gerwalk and battroid modes, and whether it would interfere with the legs, especially in gerwalk. Ideally, it might just rotate 180 degrees, and flip underneath the chest and out of the way for both modes.
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The kits have gotten simpler than the old VF-25s for sure, but I'm not sure that helped in the 31's case. The kit isn't bad, but there are a lot of parts that really need to be glued, and the mechanism for the weapons pod never seems to line up correctly somehow. I like the 262 kit better overall, but I wish they'd worked harder on at least trying to include some basic fists into fighter mode, and thought of some better way to lock the legs together than the removable bracket you have to use. The way the main wing pivots are attached is also really fragile, as I found out when I snapped one of the tiny cover plates in half. Why they didn't make that a single piece, I'll never understand.
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Just hope Mirage is as easy to get close to release as the rest of them have been. My collection basically came together as a combination of three things: a job, availability, and boredom. I found MacrossWorld somewhere during the latter half of high school, just in time to buy myself a 1/48 VF-1J for Christmas. I held off buying anything else until I graduated college and had a job though, which put me in the perfect position to gobble up every release from Yamato starting in mid-2009. ...Which, now that I think about it, seems odd, since the v.2 VF-1 came out in summer of 2008. I didn't realize I waited over a year to buy most of those early releases. Just shows how different things are now, I guess. I think the only v.2 VF-1s I actually pre-ordered were the M&M set. Everything else I just bought casually as I felt like it, or saw them pop up on one of HLJ's sales.
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Yeah, that was my first thought too, was worried they had a stock snafu, and weren't able to fill orders.
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Hmm, I wonder what it would look like if I mashed up the parts from a Keith kit to give the green one some gold highlights.. Wouldn't be accurate, but it might look pretty nice. I do find the advertisement for the kit funny though, for specifically calling out the "lock gimmick" for the legs.. which is literally a big removable bracket that you have to use to keep the thing together in fighter mode. I love how the kit goes together, but the parts swapping and lack of any hands at all in fighter mode are a bit disappointing.