Chronocidal
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
Chronocidal replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
Considering it's the TV Roy, it should come with a Misa figure wearing Hikaru's helmet. -
Star Destroyer to end all Star Destroyers
Chronocidal replied to Mr March's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Most impressive. Though, I'm really surprised with all that work, he lit the main engines the wrong color. -
The stand ball-joints are indeed limp-noodles, but other than that, the ghosts are nice. Probably just need to add a bit of glue into the ball-joints to make them stick better, and it'll be fine.
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See, that's news to me, because I didn't think RTS games are even a big enough market to validate focusing that much on. I'd love to see a demo of one with that trackpad, because that might work decently. Still not as good as a mouse (trackballs drive me insane honestly), but probably a quantum leap over trying to use a stick. I guess my confusion is why they're trying to make a console out of a computer, when all the consoles seem to be doing the opposite, and becoming more computer-like. The biggest issue I see with the entire steambox thing is that they're deciding to run linux on it, and how that's going to actually impact the selection of games it'll run.
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But who in their right mind games with a trackpad, or trackball? I mean, I suppose I can understand it being an improvement over aiming with a stick.. but by removing the sticks entirely, you're also assuming the trackpad will be a useable replacement for all the other things sticks are perfectly useful for. Like walking, steering, flying, etc. It seems like they're attempting to generalize the entire function of a gamepad to improve on just the right analog stick function, and only for FPS games. I can see it being useful for aiming, but why do they feel the need to replace both sticks for that? I can just imagine the rage now, as people place their thumb not exactly centered on the pad, and end up walking over a cliff, or any number of other extremely silly ways to die.
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Well that was incredibly useful. I just basically got my Roy VF-1S for free.. the savings on that, plus my two YF-19 preorders brought the total down to what the YF-19s cost before.
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The 1/48 boxes weren't bad.
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I'm cautiously enthused to hear people calling it that good, since the musical elements in Tangled seemed a bit out of place and forced. Maybe it's my age, but the singing didn't seem as natural in that movie as any of the non-3D animated ones.
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So glad I ordered two sets of these packs. Maybe I'll repaint one set of the packs into a custom for my CF-25, and rework a ghost or two into something else.
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This is mostly why I never have used Bandai's included stands, or even the standard Yamato ones. They're just not conducive to urges to remove the plane quickly, and put it back. Arguably, Yamato's stands, and their multiple adapter pieces are worse than Bandai's stands in terms of setup (attaching a VF-1 to a stand involves halfway transforming it ), but I just find the giant black plastic pedestals Bandai makes to be eyesores. Mine all sit either on the gear, or vertically with the feet extended.
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Well, I'm still holding out for the old DYRL color, since I hate yellowing plastic. That old Arcadia pic looks like it's still the off-white, since the kite markings look brighter than the jet itself, but that might just be my eyes being tired. Worst case, I get another bright white VF-1S. Oh well.
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Given the history, I think the VF-4 nearly fit that description.
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Super or armored versions wouldn't have the shutters either, since the intakes are covered up by the hip pieces. Probably just included them to let you make the intakes in the closed position if you want to.
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My personal problem with the 25th anniversary schemes wasn't the text (though the misspellings were dumb)... it was all the random pinstriping. It looked dumb, and really didn't do anything good for the design. I mean, I have a lot of memories of similar designs. They're the models I had when i was 5 years old, and my parents bought me a paint marker to "decorate" them.
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I never actually pull on those extension joints in the knees, I just rotate the lower legs forward at the knee until the joint pops out from the leverage. Takes about three clicks to extend them fully. The reverse is a little trickier. What I do is push the legs down so the upper thigh joint is at 90 degrees, straighten the knee, then wrap my fingers around the lower leg. In that position, you can press your thumb down on the back of the lower thigh (kind of like you're gripping a lighter, or pressing the button on a retractable pen), and press down to push the knee joint back together.
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True, but I've always loved Hasegawa for making completely consistent plan views in their drawings, since I believe the diagrams are printed based on the CAD used to cut the molds. The Master File drawings may have been generated the same way, using the CAD models in the renders, but I never looked that closely at them to see how they match up in 3D. And anyway, I guess I should clarify that I'm more interested in getting line art of a version that exists as a physical model, rather than just computer art. Once I get myself one of those new fangled 3D printers, I might use those drawings to print myself some parts to upgrade the Bandai kits, or maybe make myself some super packs for the Hasegawa version.
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FINALLY SOME GOOD FREAKING LINEART. Stupid bandai and their refusal to let anyone see the actual plan views of their dumb kits. NOW I can go make a version with CAD, and stick it in a flight sim.
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Well, I guess the upside to having the Roy in bright white is that if it gets old and turns piss yellow, it'll still match the stripes. I'll probably just use the stand, and leave it in the box. I live in the desert, and even completely sealed in boxes, I've had stuff yellow just from getting too hot, or being too near an outside wall.
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Actually.. think about the name. They just mashed up Blue Angels and Thunderbirds. As far as demonstration teams, I think they were said to have a lot more planes than either group (10+ I thought?), so really, it's more like a mashup of many flight demo teams from everywhere, just using the VF-1, and the UN Spacy.
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New message just came in, they said to disregard the payment request since they confirmed release is in December.
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You know what's incredibly astounding about the fact that they changed the hip armor for Michael? THIS IS THE SECOND FREAKING TIME THEY DID IT. They pulled the exact same change on the VF-25G armor with the v.1 VF-25. The first sets had hip armor that fell off if you looked at it funny, and the later sets stayed on by a nice clip into the intake. Why the freaking hell did it take them two tries to get it right AGAIN??
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I still want to rip the guts out of a wiimote one day, and stick them into an old logitech wingman joystick grip. The wiimote is probably the most anti-ergonomic controller for gaming in history. -
Now I'm really confused.. which thread is which again? Honestly, I don't like the blinding bleached white because all it means is that everything's going to turn yellow. But that shouldn't even be an issue here, unless they're making the supernova YF-19s (which I would insta-buy).
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I'm a little confused actually what you mean.. which undercarriage and swing-arm detail are you talking about? I'm not sure which parts of the VF-25 you're referring to. And anyway, really the only reason I ordered a copy of this VF-1S was to get one of those stands to use all my valks on. I'll be slightly sad if they do make it a brighter white, since I don't like worrying about yellowing, but I'll deal with it.
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You know, as far as the main gear doors are concerned? I don't even think about their clearance, because I've always figured they'd be sticking nearly straight outwards when the plane is actually powered. The doors on the VF-19s will stay that way if you fold them all the way open, and it looks a lot better for door clearance. I don't know if that happens as much on modern aircraft, but I can think of a few planes where the loss of hydraulic pressure on shutdown lets the gear doors droop, similar to how you see control surfaces go limp when a plane sits on the ground long enough after shutdown. Doesn't do anything to fix the gunpod sadly, but I think that's pretty much a lost cause with this base design. Unless you start condensing the gullet to Hasegawa levels of sleekness, that gunpod isn't going to be able to sit between the intakes where it's supposed to. You could just drop down the mount so far that it becomes level, but then the stock would be low enough to drag, even if the barrels are off the ground. I do think part of the problem though is that the collapsing portion of the gun doesn't even collide with the lowest point on the underside.