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I honestly don't think them being ball-jointed was the actual problem.. they were just terrible ball joints.
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That was from Yamato though, and we had a personal contact with them who was able to procure those parts for some people here. Bandai might as well be on another planet for how responsive they are to requests for broken/missing parts. Pretty much, unless you're willing to ship a faulty product back for a full replacement, don't expect any kind of help with anything. It's why everyone has turned to Shapeways parts as a replacement. I've got a few ideas of how to make entire replacements for those lower triangles, but Kurisama might beat me to it anyway. My current plan though is to get a 3D printer this winter, so I might take up the business myself for some things if it's practical.
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I'm still hoping for the SR-71-esque one seen in the clip from Macross 7, not the one from the game. Either would be nice, but I've always preferred the original design's clean lines over the diamond headed one.
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Ugh... I wish they'd spend 15 minutes and come up with a better way to mount that thing on a stand in fighter mode. The VF-19 series stand mounts are completely useless.
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Have to agree the khaki color probably could be a darker gray, but I don't think it looks bad. I think that's close to the color that Yamato used on their 1/200 scale miniature version of the YF-19 (speaking of which, the set it comes with has been on clearance at HLJ for what seems like forever.. $11 for 10 of these little guys. http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00077/Gsh ) Honestly, I rarely display my VF-19s with the gunpods anyway, since the angle they mount at just looks weird in fighter mode. Another artifact of the gullet in general.. whatever the size, it's lower than the arms, so the gunpod gets pushed down. Only way you could really fix that is by making the gunpod handle extend so the rear drops down too, but then it would just look too low altogether.
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Well, knowing how Macross 30 played around with the timeline, you can't really consider anything there as making sense anyway.
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This is actually part of why I went for HLJ from the get-go; no problem ordering multiples, and I can always throw some other smaller items into the box before shipping. Also, as far as shipping costs go, NY has always had ridiculous prices listed for FedEx compared to HLJ, at least for the items I have ordered. Their listed Fedex prices are probably based on some kind of upper limit, but I think HLJ works with FedEx directly to get good bulk rates. Just for a quick comparison, NY wants 5640 yen for a single VF-27 renewal for FedEx, and that total goes up to 8065 yen for two. When I go to HLJ to have them ship my warehoused VF-27 via FedEx? They ask for 2780 yen. A minute ago I was estimating NY charges almost twice as much, but didn't want to exaggerate.. guess I wasn't. They charge over twice as much for FedEx.
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Whoo! Preordered two at HLJ. My VF-19 Line will be complete!
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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
Legs still look fugly as all hell from the combination of their misplaced locator pins and the junky knee joint. -
Well, my thinking is this... The piece I'm thinking of rotating would equate to the black triangle, plus the rear half of the skinny tab. The tab doesn't move to begin with, so as long as the rotating piece was designed not to hang over past where that tab should be horizontally, the shoulder should have enough room to rotate without interfering. The trick is just getting it to lay flush with the shoulder once rotated back into position for fighter mode. The tabs would just hang vertically below where that long skinny piece is in gerwalk and battroid. I might try and do a rough model of the design later to see if I can illustrate it, unless Kurisama beats me to it.
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Quick question about the VF-171 lower triangle piece.. I'm not near mine right now, or I'd check. What exactly is the swiveling piece attached to? Is it linked to the flimsy looking little tab that lies alongside the thigh? If so, I'd just make a replacement for that entire piece. I think it attaches by a screw near the thigh, so it might be simple to swap a new removable piece in there. Edit: Just had a thought about how to replace it with a working movable piece.. just do what Yamato did on the VF-17, and have the entire flap fold downwards instead of the whole origami folding thing. Quick concept art done with paint: Just replace that piece that screws on with a block half the length of the piece, with a hinge pin on the rear half, and replace the actual triangle flap with a solid piece that can rotate downward on the pin. Since the entire area is hollow to begin with so the flap can fold up in the space, you should have plenty of room for a hinge similar in size to the ones on your VF-0D kit., which should be more than enough to hold a piece that size. You'll probably have to reduce the size of the triangle a bit so it doesn't overlap the shoulder so much though, or you won't have room to rotate the piece. Though, you might be able to get away with just removing a chunk of the back corner to give it room. I can't quite picture how that'd work once transformed to battroid, or if it would interfere with transformation at all, but I think it would just wind up hanging under the sides of the chest once transformed. Not sure if it would collide with the wings or back though.
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I'm having a really hard time imagining the engineering that's holding some of her Black Bunny outfit together.. It's ridiculously ... well.. accurate.
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I was able to cancel my VF-4 order from them once I found out HLJ was selling it, so it can definitely be done. They just aren't very responsive in general to normal communication.
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Oh, I know they're supposed to have more hardpoints.. but in the case of having just the six reaction missiles, I don't know why so many people put the dual on the outer point. It just rubs my sense of wing strength the wrong way (not that it matters with the material strengths in the Macross universe anyway )
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I'm pretty sure I've touted the wonders of gmax before, but the short version is that it is essentially a free version of 3DS Max, minus all the features you don't need for game design (rendering, fancy effects and lighting, etc). It can export in m3d format for quake 3, which is a very short conversion away from STL. Look up any gmax modeling tutorial, and you'll see what it's capable of. It's probably the best free modeling program you can get, provided you find a way around the export limitations.
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So, looking at my CF-171, I noticed a bunch of what looks like stress fractures spreading across one of the little triangle flaps on the underside. I haven't even transformed it, and it's been sitting on its gear pretty much since I got it. Really can't believe how shoddy some of Bandai's parts seem to be.. it's like the VF-0 shoulders all over again. I wonder how hard it would be to remove those pieces entirely, and replace them with the same style flap as the Yamato VF-17 uses?
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I haven't tried Sketchup, so I can't really compare the two, but I can vouch for 3DS Max's capability, since it's what I've used for about ten years now. Thing is, it's horrendously expensive for the average hobbyist (which is why it's probably one of the most pirated programs in existence, and a good part of why Gmax exists ). I tend to horribly under-use the features of 3DS Max, simply because I only use it for polygon models, mostly built with spline cages. But since that's basically what STL files are to begin with, it works just fine.
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Oh, well there's actually two kinds of droop. The first one, mentioned above, is part of the design. The wing packs do have a downward angle to them. The second type is from the weight of the packs, and could potentially cause the engines to tilt downward if the hinges are loose.
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MickyG's Yamato VF-1S Unpainted, Unassembled Kit Build
Chronocidal replied to mickyg's topic in The Workshop!
Well, you could look at it in the reverse direction.. instead of sanding down B13, sand down the underside of the backpack plate that rubs against it. It'll lose a little bit of friction from that surface, but there should be plenty of other rubbing surface on the sides of the plate, or even the hinge pins, where you can beef things up with nail polish or glue to tighten the joint back up. You might lose paint on the sides of B13, but you'll never see that in fighter, and you'll never be looking at the sides of that tab in battroid. Similarly, you can do a lot to reduce scraping on the shoulder tabs (the ones with the orange lights) by filing down the ridges on the underside of the upper surface of the chest plate (inside the slot where those tabs slide in). There's enough holding the VF-1 together that you don't really need those to latch together extremely tightly, though I wouldn't remove the ridges entirely. -
Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I half wonder why they don't just build back up assembly lines for the T-38, and keep making it. The financial side of things can get tricky though, so who knows. If they had to reverse engineer everything to make the tooling for more of them, that might wind up being more costly than designing a new aircraft from scratch with current manufacturing techniques in mind. Though, even if they have to start over, it seems like they could save some time and effort by using the same base design. -
I don't understand a single thing about that paintscheme. Not only are half the pieces entirely the wrong color, they didn't even bother to make the TV style arm packs. Not to mention, I will never ever be able to understand why so many people put the dual reaction missile mount on the outer hardpoint...
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Yeah, I felt the need to double dip on them all too, but I wish I'd gotten a spare F in hindsight, just to have one to customize into a Max 19S.
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Actually, those aren't even necessary for the wings to stay on. They only act as locator pins to help hold on the wings when the larger pins are removed. The wing doesn't actually rotate around those, it rotates around the base where those little nubs are mounted.
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We probably won't see separate packs at all, just because of the number of unique parts the packs will require. You'd be buying almost half the jet again anyway.
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Woo! As ridiculous as this might be.. I almost feel like I should buy four of the strike pack kits, and make a 1/48 skull squad display. Definitely will buy at least one or two though, I can't wait to see how much detail they cram into the packs.
