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    Maybe what you intended, but not what you said. You just called them the Hasegawa missiles. Anyhow, the weird part of the TV missiles is that they don't use the same hardpoints as DYRL, since they actually use three separate pylons for the reaction missiles. I don't remember if I've ever really seen any specific explanation of this, and whether the TV VF-1s always had three wing hardpoints, and only used the inner two for the missile clusters, or whether they may have had five separate hardpoints. Hasegawa actually flip-flopped on this a little between their 1/72 and 1/48 releases, since the 1/72 missile sets used separate pylons for the two reaction missiles, rather than a dual mount. The spacing here looks more like there are five separate mounting points on the wing.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Yeah, I'm going to be doing the same with one of my spare sets so I can have the ghost flight paired up. Will be a while though, since I'm waiting on a lot of other items to come in before I ship them.
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    I don't think it's tilted up so much as it's just the natural shape of the Ghost itself being tapered toward the back, since the intake is on top. It doesn't look like it's sticking up on the HMR much more than either the Hasegawa kit, or a screen from the anime. I did notice that the Ghost does look better if you don't press it all the way down in back though. It looks like Bandai didn't make the rear tabs long enough. The original Yamato design didn't lock into the backplate, it just rested on it, and Bandai changed that to give the supports a small recess to press into. Whether they overdid it or not is hard to tell.
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    Good luck with the assembly and painting! I've got a couple of the Hasegawa sets as well, to mess with, and the only part that really needs paint is the reaction missile tips, but they can definitely be decorated nicely. As for the super packs, I wouldn't want to assume the proportions will work correctly, but it's probably worth a shot. The arm packs might be the trickiest, since they're not meant to move on the Hasegawa, so they might not be completely modeled separately. After that the leg packs will need to be carefully aligned to make sure they match. The boosters might be the easiest in general, but what you will need there is some sort of mounting bracket to hold them onto the backpack. You might be able to mount it directly to the backpack, since they will probably be lighter than the Bandai packs, but you'll probably still want to anchor them to the backplate somehow. Simplest might just be to make a copy of the official bracket, and adapt the boosters to fit on that.
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    I will absolutely pick up at least one of these for the dull coated version, even though I have the original as well. Might even grab a pair, because the armor packs are just that awesome.
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    Just.. three words. BOUT F'ING TIME.
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    My biggest gripe overall is that they changed a bunch of details of the plane that have absolutely nothing to do with the transformation in any way whatsoever. They just changed stuff because.. reasons? I have no idea. The really painfully stupid part is that some of the early prototype photos showed some details that were originally accurate to the line art, and then later on just changed for some reason into something inaccurate. Again, Bandai gonna Bandai, and there ain't nothing anyone can do about it. At least the stupid change they made to the tails can be fixed with a file.
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    Ok, I'm gonna be that old person, and say I think The Rescuers: Down Under was at least as good as the original. I can't say better, because the feels of the two films are so distinctly different (and the production style changed so much in the interim) but they're at least of a similar calibre. This is from before I even started to care about movies as an industry though, so I have no idea how Down Under was received in comparison, but I am surprised how much darker the tone went than the first one. You have to start digging back a ways before you can start to find good sequels though. This was even before my time, but I'm trying to remember if there might have been more than one theatrical "Winnie the Pooh" release.
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    It's been showing backordered for the entire time it's been "released." HLJ must be getting single digits of these.
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    Much less one stationed in Florida.
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    Seriously, I'm still waiting for my copy from HLJ, which is how many months overdue at this point? And the price there was about $30, which I would absolutely buy more of, if Bandai would just even attempt to meet demand for once.
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    It's a nice dream, but I don't think Bandai has ever been quite as good at color matching as Yamato. The DX VF-1D wasn't nearly as bad as the HMR though, so I'm not too worried about the oranges not matching. I think the Yamato VT-1 was better than their VF-1D though, since the orange plastic used on the VF-1D was slightly transparent for some reason.
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    I think at this point it's past the point where he can actually care about the differences. Bandai gonna Bandai.
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    And my point both times was that none of the pylons are long enough, including the TV missile clusters. And remember, they used the missile boxes in atmosphere in DYRL as well. Judging by the mounts and pictures from before, these are the Bandai missiles for their 1/72 transforming kit. Hasegawa ones just had pin mounts.
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    The other added benefit for using the Hasegawa pylons is that unlike Bandai, they made them big enough to leave clearance to let the wing control surfaces actually move. Even having several of the Bandai sets doesn't stop me from wanting to make my own pylons. They're just bonkers undersized.
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    Oh wtf Bandai, stop making things so hard to throw money at you for.
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    This would be a bigger issue, except these exist, and are of a generally higher quality than Bandai's feeble attempts at making anything resembling realistic aircraft weaponry. Also much cheaper. https://www.plazajapan.com/4967834656543/ Even without any paint at all, these are generally going to look better than Bandai's, and the reaction missiles are the only ones not molded in color. It will just take a little extra work with magnets or some kind of pylon adapters to make them fit.
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    FB2012 is in this weird nonsensical bubble of exportability, so we might get it here. In spite of basically being an SDFM music video, it somehow made it past the export blockade, as I recall? Maybe my brain's out of date. I've got plenty of this mold in multiple scales though, so yeah, no reason to get it for a new stand.
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    Oh, yeah, that's absolutely an issue. The metal shoulder pivots really feel like they don't fit down far enough into their sockets. For me that generally got overshadowed by how insanely mis-matched their paint is.
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    Just got a notice from AE that this is in stock, so might be releasing a little earlier than expected.
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    Maybe I'm forgetting things, but isn't this basically where the booster mounted on the Yamato too?
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    Got a picture? You'll have to be a little more specific about which hinge, which panel, and which gap. The VF-19 mold is very susceptible to minor mis-alignments though. One of my VF-19Fs was completely cockeyed due to a small piece of mold flash blocking one of the wing tabs from seating completely.
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    Yeeeeeaahhh... they really should just go back and remake the YF-19 kit from scratch now, using all the improvements from this design. It's such a quarter-assed effort, it's really disappointing next to the YF-21.
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    Compared with a few other printed resin kits I've picked up, I'd probably expect the raw printed parts (no cleanup, still on the tree) to run between $200-$250 for something this complex. The cost for a finished set would just be adding the cost for someone to paint and finish a pre-made resin kit for you on top of that. The initial investment to produce things of this type is only one part of the expense, and a larger printer will let you produce more parts at the same time, but the production process is still time intensive, and you're dealing with a lot of setup and cleanup with some pretty toxic chemicals. I don't know how it compares to regular resin casting, but they're both labors of love. The benefit of not having to worry about limited-use molds is great, but you still have to account for the losses from failed prints. That becomes less as printers get more reliable, but it's never something you can entirely disregard, especially with the cost of higher quality resin.
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    Still looks gold to me from the side, might just be dependent on the lighting and atmosphere around. I forget if we saw one on display out here or not, but I know I've seen one or two at Edwards before.
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