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    They're not going to be loading the plans into R2 here, Leia did that herself with that disc in Ep. IV.
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    Weird as the Han Solo Bantam books were, I did like the background they gave him with one of the early rebel leaders. In those books, she did die on Toprawa, holding the comm station that transmitted the plans to the Tantive IV. We know from Ep IV that the plans were transmitted, so there's not going to be any sort of hand delivery. That transmission is very likely the last thing any of these characters will do.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    You don't see any evidence of the gear yet because there's nothing there on that model. All they've been showing is that same half-baked concept prototype that's missing half of the features of the final product. Now, not to get anyone's hopes up, but the only evidence we have of that nonsense gear design is a concept render from the model kit. I'm not expecting anything much better, but it's at least possible that the gear on the DX won't suck that obnoxiously bad.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I'm really suspicious that all those "painted" prototypes are actually computer renders. The details are just way too crisp for something only a couple inches long.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I'm kinda more curious when they're going to stop stealing the wheels from HotWheels cars, and take the 5 freaking minutes it would take to google something like "aircraft landing gear." It's not that hard. If I didn't know any better (and quite honestly, I kind of don't actually know for sure), I'd think Bandai was actually purposefully avoiding making anything that would look remotely realistic.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I could buy it if the gear looked anything like that, but I think they're doing more harm than good advertising the kit with what amounts to a big sign saying "MECHANICAL LOOKING STUFF GOES HERE LATER." Mostly, I have a hard time Kawamori would ever okay something that looks that nonsensical in one of his designs. I honestly think the MP Starscream gear look worlds better than whatever that monstrous linkage is.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    ......Ok, just being honest here, those are ducking fugly as hell. I thought they would have learned something from the first VF-25 DX disaster. Though, I don't know whether to blame Bandai for the nonsense design, or AmiAmi for posting concept renders. Either way, not looking like I'll ever want to display one of these on the gear. Like... seriously, wtf are they smoking??
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    I might measure out the tower parts to make a CAD copy to send to Shapeways, and scale them up so the top tower segment and turret are the same footprint as the stand base. Should be a pretty simple kit, but I don't know how fine the detail will get that way. Really, I wish they'd just issue a stand-alone turret kit at the correct size. As it is, that turret looks about the size of a dumpster, with a trooper hiding inside with a couple rifles poking out the lid.
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    Mmm, that A-wing is pretty, I need about 3 or 4 of those kits. Turbolaser just looks silly next to it though, maybe it'd look more in scale with the itty bitty kits they're showing in the other ad. Can't wait for the B-wing and the rest of the tie fighters.
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    So, this might be an oddball question, but I'm just curious. I've never worked in resin, so I think I'd actually prefer a raw printed plastic version to build up and work on. Would it be possible to buy a complete printed kit from your Shapeways shop, or even just part by part? I've looked through your shop, and it doesn't look like all of the pieces are available currently.
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    Seriously, those things are so heavily stickered, they look like papercraft models. I can't really tell if the others are fully painted, or if they're just computer renders though. They look a little too perfect for the size they are.
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    I don't remember the VF-25 kits being quite that expensive, but I think I did get them on sale at the time. What I do remember is that prices for the armored pack kits were just obscene, and they never went on sale. I think they solved this issue easily with the armored packs, but the base VF-25 kits and supers were floppy messes in fighter. Fortunately, it's not hard to add a wing glove locking tab almost identical to ones on the 1/60 v.2 DX version (a couple holes drilled and filed, and a locking tab glued in place). I haven't tried the same thing with the super versions, but once the v.2 DX came out, I really lost most of my reason for owning the 1/72 kits.
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    Yech... those decal canopies look nasty. Wish they would just stick with 1/100, that line had so much potential, but it's like they stopped caring after releasing the YF-29 and one VF-25 variant.
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    Far as I'm aware they're not even to any particular scale, just "whatever fits in this box we're already making." The ones they did show were somewhere around 1/180.
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    I'd honestly blame the design more than the plastic since the assembly and tolerances seemed to be a bigger issue. But that's just me. I just think anyone designing something with that many superfluous parts and unnecessary mechanisms is asking for it to fail horribly. I think only time will tell if Bandai's engineers learned from that, but as far as I know the YF-30 was pretty much problem free, so they may be getting better.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    If you take a look at some of the 1/72 kit news, you can at least see 2-3 individual pod designs for them, but the differences are pretty slight. I'm just stumped that they still don't have anything more than what looks like half-baked DX prototypes to show. Those are nowhere near finished products, judging by the lack of parts that look like they should actually move (looking at the fighter mode).
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    Late reply about the multi-colored part thing, but Bandai has been using that in at least one of the new Star Wars kits. The Tie Advanced kit molds the solar panels on a double layered sprue that's clearly filled in separately. The end result is that the entire solar panel is molded in color, with no seams between the gray and black plastic. The only downside is that you actually have to cut the parts free from two interwoven sprues of different colors, and you wind up with black bits of plastic showing around the edges of the gray panel. I personally prefer the way the standard Tie's panels are assembled, but I expect they'll do a similar trick with the Interceptor when it comes out. For kits this size though, I doubt they'd even consider something like that technique. The multi-colored sprue marks on such a tiny kit would be huge.
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    I don't think the Frontier kits were even bad exactly, they looked just fine if you put enough work into them... the amount of work required was the biggest roadblock though. I still think I like the shape of the model in fighter mode even a little better than the 1/60 toys, since the fighter profile looks a little cleaner. Eh, I may get one or two of these, but the only reason I picked up so many of the 1/72 VF-25 kits was because, at the time they came out, the Bandai DX versions were absolutely hideous by comparison. The big thing they seem to forget in their models though is that the leg needs a sideways thigh swivel for gerwalk. The multi-jointed hips and knees help a little, but that thigh joint is really necessary for any good gerwalk poses.
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    Hey, it could be a lot worse. Insurrection was pretty much just a standard TNG episode with a bigger budget, and though it had a fairly predictable plot full of silliness, it was Oscar material compared with the eye-gougingly bad level of terrible trek fanfic that Nemesis sunk to. I'm just hopeful that they take the ship blowing up bit, and run with it straight back to a revised ship design that has any sense of realistic internal and external scale to it. I'd say go straight back to the original Connie Refit design, but that's probably asking too much, and I hesitate to imagine what they might "re-envision" it as this time.
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    Really, the VF-4's fighter adapter is my favorite Yamato/Arcadia adapter period. It attaches solidly without having to half-way transform the thing, and actually sits right under the balance point, so the valk both looks and feels centered on the stand. I did trim down the locking pegs on mine a little though, to get it to snap in and out of the sockets easier. The pegs were so big they deformed the area around the sockets when I first attached it.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I'd be a lot happier with the design if they did more to streamline the spine like they did on the YF-30. That gappy ledge between the engines just looks really unsightly to me, and I'm having a hard time looking past it for some reason.
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    The knee isn't exactly a common issue, but when it happens, it's usually a complete disaster. Mine broke into so many pieces, I could use it for confetti. It's really not so simple as a reversed pin, and the likelihood is, if you've broken the leg off, you probably need an entirely new knee joint, and the leg is so overglued together, you may destroy it worse trying to install a new knee.
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    Wow, I'm a little surprised they had enough for a sale, but I guess that just means the 0S didn't even sell all that well. Kinda sad, but more sad that I've gotten accustomed to picking up everything at release now, instead of waiting for clearance sales.
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    Fixed.
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    The markings aren't hard to do yourself (with a decent amount of research) but yeah, there are a lot of different panels and colored portions on the other x-wings. I might see if I can use the references on that site about the turret to make a bigger one than they plan on including. Might be able to make a shapeways kit for it, but the bulk of it would be easiest to make with sheet styrene.
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