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    I had to do that one one of my originals, it shouldn't be too bad to do. Only part that I think is different is that they added screw covers over the screws in the wing pivots. I actually pried mine out specifically because they would stop me from tightening the wings. Rest of the disassembly looks similar to the old VF-0, two screws in the wings, one under the hip bar. That should let you drop the underside of the back, and get to the hip bar. Unless they went nuts with glue, and decided to squish the whole thing together this time.
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    They haven't painted a single piece of landing gear on any of the 1/60 Macross stuff. Like.. ever. And yet, the Hi-Metals have white gear... hmmmmm.
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    I can't wait to see what kind of overtechnology they've gotten a hold of that will let that front gear fit between those itty-bitty doors.
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    They're in there actually, mostly on the bottom rows of the Marine groups, just have to zoom in. They've got so much stuff hanging off them, they look like Cobras now. All the listings mention both the AH-1Z, and UH-1Y.
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    I was pretty far on the "nope" side of the fence for Battlefront already, with the way EA works to begin with, but they entirely lost me when they announced the pre-order bonuses. Really? You're letting me buy weapon unlocks before even touching the game? Still almost half a year away, and I can smell the cashwhoring already. I get the idea of unlockable weapons and stuff, they were in the original games... but on a life-by-life basis, and awarded for performance, not some BS cash-shop style nonsense where you pay to kill things faster. Maybe someone will patch the new game's content into the old BFII engine...
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    Same.. given all the tiny folding panels all over the legs, this could be very interesting.
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    You mean the entire swingbar fell off the backplate, or that the hips detached like we've seen? I think I actually remember this happening to someone before, and it turned out to be really simple; the pin holding the swing bar in was just loose,, and slipped out, letting the bar slip through the back.
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    I think the 11 is probably one of the best molds Yamato came out with. My only gripes with it are pretty minor.. mostly, the main gear being so short it looks silly, and that I think that the locking tab for the nose section really needed to be beefier.
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    I know at least one of mine from HLJ has them misaligned, but I'm not all that worried about it. It's going to look really stupid if they don't fix it on the 0A though, because if they don't line up that marking, it might get printed right over the big empty slot in the intake.
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    Sounds like something about that license was lost in translation somewhere, either on Bandai's end, or Lucasfilm's. If Bandai is under the impression that they'd be allowed to limit an international license to sales inside Japan, someone's contract lawyers might be about to get thrown under a bus. Either that, or there are other licenses for other regions that people don't widely know about yet. But I thought I remembered these Bandai kits showing up at international venues for Star Wars stuff, so I really have no idea what to expect.
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    I picked up both editions, so I could take a quick comparison of the two over the holiday weekend.
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    I thought the arms were just large missile launchers? Seems like they would have no trouble operating like the VF-1's super pack launchers.
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    Might be a silly question, but is there any canon (hah) explanation for how the main guns are supposed to work? They're clearly made up of engine components, and while I can almost imagine the main barrels being a solid propellant booster, does that mean they dont function as engines once they burn out? The animation in Frontier clearly shows exhaust plumes coming from both the barrel nozzles, and the cannon mounts, so I really dont know what's going on. Is the bulk of the thrust supposed to come from the engines on the wings?
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    Maybe they actually aren't in the way? It's hard to tell, but I seriously doubt you'll get the arms past those without completely detaching the legs. The arms just don't lift that high off the backplate, and it looks like they'll directly interfere with getting the shoulder joints into their recesses. I'll be interested to see how it works. I also wonder why they arent on the 0D though. Those pieces should be identical. I guess I'm just surprised that they suddenly decided that those joints should be covered in fighter. I keep mine in fighter almost exclusively, but I don't think I've ever given a single thought to the backs of the knees being exposed.
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    That's some kind of funky decal voodoo going on there with the intake markings... they put them on right over the top of the slot. Maybe with that hole there they'll be a little more careful about aligning the tampo? Also, does anyone know if those little triangles to cover the backs of the knees fold in or something? Otherwise, how the heck are the arms supposed to get past those? They barely lift high enough on the 0D to avoid scraping all the paint off the underside of the wing glove (where the original was molded in color ) And why would you even fold them out in battroid? I can't even begin to imagine why they thought those are necessary.
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    I cannot say much about the VF-25 repair, but which YF-19 do you have, the old Yamato, or the newer Arcadia one? I did see someone on this forum post pictures of a scratchbuilt replacement cover, but I dont recall how it was made. It might have just been built out of scrap plastic.
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    It's ugly. But yes, I suppose it's for the armor. I just wish they'd come up with a better way of attaching the armor, because that hole being that deep, and that dark (as if it goes clear through the side of the intake) is kind of distracting in such an obvious place. Yamato/Arcadia are usually pretty good about blending things like that so they either look like they're supposed to be panel lines, or at least shallow enough that they dont stick out... but no.. that just looks like a hole in the intake.
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    I'm not actually believing it until I have it in hand, and it doesn't shatter into a million tiny pieces.
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    That's actually one thing that turns me off to their 1/48th X-Wing.. they felt the need to mold parts of the markings in red... but not all of them. So, some of them will have mold seams, while others will need decals, or have to be painted.. and you'll wind up having to paint the molded markings anyway to match your paint, so why did they think it was actually worth doing? And before you say, "So kids could build them quickly and just use stickers," that doesn't fly with a kit of this skill level and price point. You almost have to primer the entire thing and paint over the part colors, or else you're going to have goofy shades of plastic making your paint mismatch.
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    Nice find! The belly plates have been known to give some people trouble, I know mine are a bit of a pain. The other thing to keep in mind is that those guns can be really difficult to pry out of the belly if you fully snap them in. Otherwise, I kind of feel like I should get a second one of these to match my Arcadia 19s, but maybe they'll get a re-release down the road.
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    Those Max and Kakizaki bundles were two of the last VF-1 releases I think I got, they both went on clearance after a while. Nice grab! They definitely dont have the rainbow canopies like the box shows though, I think those were some of the first ones where it got left off.
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    The only missiles that ever came with the original were the four clusters of three, so I wouldn't expect more really.. That's all that we saw it carry anyway. Now, given the era that aircraft came from, there are a massive amount of things you could mount on it (modern day A/A or A/G weapons would fit nicely). I believe some may have been made available on Shapeways in the past, but I can't recall for sure. No reason they couldn't be made now though.
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    Someone had mentioned them replacing a few of the spring pins in the arm with screws, but I can't confirm this myself since I don't own the older versions.
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    I dont know how much metal is in the main body (the front shoulder pivots at least), but the wings/legs have a ton of it in them. I was impressed that they made the main thruster vents on the back edge of the wing out of bare metal, it just works perfectly. You might need to be careful with the metal joints holding the kneepads, mine are stiff enough that I worry about the plastic covers breaking off.
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    That's probably as new as you can possibly get one of the first edition strike Roys, sounds like it was never removed from the box at all. Grats on a good find, though sorry you got hit with the broken shoulders 6 years after the fact. It would be nice if the shapeways replacements came in a matching color of plastic, but at the very least, those problems are not terribly hard to repair, even without using brand new parts.
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