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  1. Chronocidal
    Ya know, I think part of the problem you've got with the fin-tab is that it's not tapered front to back like the kit one. It looks like it's actually pushing the fin out further than it should be sitting. You did a pretty good job duplicating the part though, that sanding and filing must have been a pain. I think the only things hurting the fit now are that the surface that's against the leg isn't quite level (you'd have to sand parallel to the edge to flatten it against the leg) and the tapering. Without going for the whole putty/repaint option, I wonder if it would be easier to just fill in the slot on the leg, then sand the fin piece down flat to fit against, and glue it straight to the leg? Anyway, still looking beautiful, especially the wing streaks. Personal opinion, I'd go ahead and go all the way to full battroid sweep to see how far the streaks might extend, just because it looks like those rear panels along the trailing edges of the wing gloves look like they could be flexible to seal against the wing when it's swept back. And it probably couldn't hurt to imagine a few hidden panel lines on the undersides of those plates, which would leave even more streaks.
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    Had to go back a ways, but I knew I remembered seeing a decent side-view pretty early on. Kinda sloppy due to being the early prototype, and angled a bit more than usual due to the fast packs, but looks plenty slick to me.
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    Yeah, I'll probably wind up getting one of these, but as much as I do want to support Arcadia's new releases, I probably will wait to see if this one goes on sale at HLJ. I already have a first release DYRL Roy, so as much as I want a couple of the stands, I'm going to put anything I already have on the back burner for now. Right now, my Macross fund is being exclusively devoted to valks flown by Isamu. If my wallet is still breathing after those hit, I'll probably start eyeing anything with that new stand included (or, better yet, a bunch of the stands themselves if they start selling them separately).
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    If they want to bring back what made the older Battlefront games great, they need to ditch Origin, throw out the idea of DLC entirely (unless you're adding new game modes, or massive content updates), release an SDK, and open the game up to locally hosted servers. I still play Battlefront II from time to time, but absolutely none of the time I spend playing is done on stock maps, because the quality of the work done by the modding community blows the original stock material away completely. Give the people a good engine with room for expansion, and you could probably save money on development by allowing the gamers to build on it themselves. You know.. those people who work for free, and don't have to deal with deadlines.
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    Sheesh.. way late reply due to not looking all day... I think the DN and BoP picked up sales later on, as people realized they were easier to repaint, due to the lighter plastic. Really, I think the only reason those were made was to give people a pseudo-supernova scheme without actually having to spend the time to rework the tampo printing process. Laziest (non-canon) repaint in history by far. I really want to see an actual supernova version this time. A palette swapped version that winds up painting a bunch of thrusters, anti-glare panels, and vents bright orange doesn't cut it.
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    Keeps looking better and better with every new pic that comes out. Going to try really hard to stick to two for this first release, but I'll probably follow my pattern with the VF-19 releases, and get two of each repaint (wallet and common sense permitting). I don't have any worries about this one being as streamlined as the VF-19s, I'm pretty sure some of the earlier pics showed a side profile view. And I kind of agree about the intakes' brick-ness, but I don't think that's really any different from the VF-19 intakes either. It just doesn't have those leading edge extensions to hide underneath anymore. Think I can see what David means about the canopy being more peaked, it definitely looks higher than the old YF-19, and higher than something like the Hasegawa kits have. At the same time though (looking at Graham's old 1/60 YF-19 lineart comparison review), I think this one's closer to the TIAS book lineart and Bandai lineart. The Hasegawa has always had a really slim profile, and the rear canopy is nearly flat. One thing I do hope they tweak though.. they still can't seem to get that black area behind the canopy the right size. The old 1/60 had it too high and tapered, this one has the angles right, but it's too low on the fuselage. Should be level with the canards, along the same angle they have it now. But.. that's just getting stupidly nit-picky now. Wouldn't be hard to scratch off a little of that stripe in any case, but it's not that big a deal. What's impressive though I think.. that rear view of battroid looks almost dead-on with the lineart. Still a bit longer in the torso, but that's to be expected, and it's just as close to the art as the VF-19. I can't wait for 2014.
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    Given the ~6 month wait for every other web shop exclusive, you're probably looking at late 2013 to early 2014.
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    Ah. I wondered what that crease in her thigh was.
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    You know, something I still can't wrap my head around about the JJ-prise.. Did anyone actually ever figure out how big it is? Like, not how big it's supposed to be according to the people who said so, but how big it is based on the design? I mean.. So ok. I think they literally said it's supposed to be bigger than the Ent-E. Did the artists just have no sense of scale, or did they seriously design it with 40 ft tall bay windows all over the hull? Because despite the ship being 3-4x bigger than the original, the windows are still in the same places, and still the same relative sizes. It's like they copied all the nice hull details of the old refit design purely for aesthetics without it ever occurring to them that most of those details actually reflected the internal structure of the ship. This has been kind of lost on the newer designs like the Ent-E, but up through the Ent-D, the aztec panels on the saucer pretty much showed the layout of the internal bulkheads and living spaces. I guess maybe that's a bit off the subject though, sorry I guess a better thing to ask here.. What does that kit reflect in terms of size? I don't know if there is any internal detail, but maybe what surprised me about the new design was that I didn't see that many windows anywhere.
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    Yeah, unless I'm desperate to get something, I'll usually leave single items in the HLJ warehouse until I come up with something to add to it. Maybe I'll get lucky, and they'll have another Hasegawa sale before this one expires.
  11. Chronocidal
    Well, on the other hand, you know how consistent the animation during the show itself was. Bandai could've based all those extra markings on some unpublished piece of concept art, or some animation model that wound up not being used in the final cut of the movie. Still a lousy excuse, since it just basically means no one even watched the movie that highlighted the product they're making (the old AMT/Ertl technique for making Star Wars kits).
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    Oh, no, that's fine. I just forgot that there's that much of a recess in the leg to glue it into. Your earlier shots show it pretty clearly, now that I look at them again. Reminds me of the tabs I made for my VF-25 kits to hold the wings down to the legs. They were this notched wedge shape, and I stupidly cut the sprue I was using to the proper length before sanding the tip to a slope. Now that I look at it, you might have your work cut out for you coming up with a way to attach it. If it wouldn't mess up your paint horribly, I'd almost just say to fill in the slot, and glue it straight to the leg. It's not exactly a high-stress part, and there's very rarely any reason to move the leg strakes anyway unless you want to equip an armor set on it. Heck. If you don't mind losing the functionality, just glue that piece straight to the fin itself. I think it's probably possible to file the piece to the right shape, but working with pieces that small can get painful.
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    I've entirely given up trying to understand the way Bandai's engineers think. Assuming they even do. And I think they term you're looking for is "bass-ackwards."
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    Plus.. you know.. the Hasegawa kit won't transform, which is where 90% of the Bandai's problems come from. You can't have flappy wings if they don't move in that direction to begin with.
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    See, that's the first time I've ever seen anyone offer a replacement part from Bandai. Ever. I was under the impression that they just didn't offer replacements, except mailing the entire product back to them. Which basically means, every retail site who's been unable to request spare parts either is on Bandai's list of people to ignore, or they've been blowing smoke up our butts and ignoring the requests for spare parts.
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    Working on a piece that small, I might glue it on before shaping it. Might be difficult to blend the paint around it (unless you plan to paint the entire strakes a different color), but it'll save your fingertips a lot of grief from the sanding and filing.
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    For the benefit of everyone here.. PLEASE detail to us exactly how you requested a spare part. There has been a spectacularly terrible record of people trying to get a replacement anything out of Bandai's tight-fisted grip.
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    So, I'm fairly confused at this point. Is the LEGO Star Wars alternate Clone Wars continuity leeching off of the Expanded Universe continuity for ideas? Not that I wouldn't like to see more of the E-Wing in general, but this is just weird.
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    Actually, don't think that's a problem with the shield there, I think they just didn't push the turret down all the way. The shield connection is pretty terrible all around though, so I hope they did something to help it stay on.
  20. Chronocidal
    I think a lot of it is due to the lighting in the area, and various reflections. Unfortunately though, Bandai still hasn't gotten the knack of dividing construction by color to minimize the paint required. Half of the YF-29 30th version is literally molded in the opposite color it's supposed to be, so they wind up painting over half of the plastic. That's partly due to the gaudy schemes they keep using on the 29, but it's also because they molded the entire backplate as one piece. One way or another, half of the backplate is going to wind up painted.
  21. Chronocidal
    That's really nothing new though. Bandai's paint applications are often really bad, and the way the VF-24 series is designed, it just has a ton of places that seem to be designed specifically to remove paint during transformation.. the nose area in particular.
  22. Chronocidal
    Silly non-genre-savvy pilots. If they'd read the script, they'd know Sound Force were the heroes anyway, and needed no meat shields. And I know, I just find it funny how Macross 7 essentially made the lackey/CF schemes better looking than the leader valks. They did make nice sparkly explosions against that glacier background though.
  23. Chronocidal
    Nothing a little shapeways work and some repainting wouldn't fix. The paint scheme is also a lot simpler to boot. I'm honestly tempted to order a second set of packs for Luca, and use the ghosts as a base to make both the Galaxy version, and an X-9.
  24. Chronocidal
    On the other hand, if you do a bit of head-swapping, you could just make it a Max VF-19S. I never liked any of those other three guys to begin with... Although, they made nice meat-shields for Gamlin.
  25. Chronocidal
    Honestly.. the PS3 is already doing combined stuff with the PC for Final Fantasy XIV.. I want to see a PC port. Then I can just pull my old stick and throttle out from their dusty shelf, and put them to decent use. If it's going to be free to play, you may as well open it up to the non-console people who actually like aircraft games. I might be wrong, but I'd tend to think you'll get much more people playing it that way, just because of the people who already have PC flight sim equipment, and just want something fun and arcadey to use it on.
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