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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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    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.
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    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.
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    Honestly, I don't think I've ever payed that much attention to the private warehouse shipping difference if I combine big items. I generally order a bunch of large items at the same time, so any benefit can kind of disappear. What I do find useful is the ability to throw small items into boxes with a big item. Like if I'm ordering a large model, it doesn't add much to the shipping if I throw a few modeling supplies into the same box. Being able to hold back larger items to see if there's anything small I want to throw in usually is worthwhile. Mostly, I just appreciate the private warehouse as a way to make it so I don't have to drive across town to pick up packages so often. I figure I'm saving gas, so I'm good.
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    If you go by this pic, he apparently either just used the EX gear over his existing suit, or he planned on not having to eject (which technically fits his attitude anyway). On the other hand, he also seems to have the ability to phase directly through solid matter, since his arm is resting on the edge of the cockpit while the canopy is still closed.
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    I'll be very interested to see how well this thing pans out, but as long as it's just playing PC games, I don't think I see a reason to get another box to play them on. I've never liked playing on a TV just because you have to sit so close to the screen before you can read things. I discussed this controller with a few friends recently, and pretty much everyone agreed, that was the most "WTF?" idea ever... particularly the "weighted trackball" bit. Because, you know, there are so many incredible gaming trackballs available on the market. I've tried gaming with a trackball before. It was almost as useless as gaming with a laptop trackpad. I think the last (if not only) time I actually saw a trackball purposed for gaming, it was on a Centipede/Missile Command arcade cabinet.
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    Actually, you know... before I forget. There are a lot of ways to even make stored valks take up less space. In the case of the Yamato VF-1s, if you take them out of their boxes and do a bit of minimal disassembly, you can probably pack 3-4 of them in a shoebox. You can fit even more if you unscrew some simple assemblies like the back plate and shoulder mounts. The way I would pack a VF-1, I'd remove the cockpit section, fold up the tails/backpack, close the wings fully, and possibly remove the legs if they unsnap from the hip bar without too much force. I know when I did a quick move once, I packed my 1/60 YF-19, YF-21, a VF-1S, and a VF-1D in a shoebox. The YF-19 I took almost entirely apart (detached legs, and disconnected the sliding section holding on the torso), and the YF-21 I just folded the wings underneath, and tucked the tails in.
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    I've got a small closet in my office where all my macross boxes go, and technically it's not completely full yet, but I do have to play tetris with the arrangements every once in a while. My issue is that I have no room to actually display my valks, so I keep most of them in the boxes, and rotate out a few every once in a while. If you can actually empty the boxes, there are ways to simplify the packaging for similar valks, namely, fold/collapse the boxes down, and then stack the plastic tray halves together. If I did that with all my VF-1 boxes/trays, it would save a ton of space. Sadly, since Bandai uses styrofoam, that's not really an option for the Frontier valks.
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    That is a weird decision, but it makes me think it's just an oversight. I suppose in my case it might not matter, since I just plan to pose this one in battroid, but it still is annoying that they're just leaving it off.
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    Darn, I actually liked the neutral gray. Would be easy to paint it anyway though, so no biggie. I did wind up going and ordering one of these at HLJ last week, I got the urge to pick up one more DYRL Roy to pose in an alternate mode, and I want at least one of those stands to use.
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    Yeah, don't ever use FedEx from NY. They're over twice as much as HLJ for the exact same item.
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    Ahhh, I love 2048*2048! That's the size I used to work in on all my flight sim mods. They usually got chopped down a bit to run better, but that size allows a ton of detail.
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    Actually, I'm not sure shipping things together from NY changes the price at all, unless they send you a rebate after the fact.
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    Oh, so funny discovery... you know how people have been discussing putting tape over the nose tip to keep the point from getting the paint scratched off when going to battroid? I think the VF-25A actually has the panel on top of the nose molded in color. If anyone's scraped any paint off it themselves, I guess not, but I scratched at the underside of the tip with a hobby knife, and either the paint is really thick, or that entire upper panel is molded in that dark green. Given the instrument panel is green too, I'm thinking it might all be molded in that color.
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    I still wonder if the intro is going to contain the old 20th century fox bit, or if they're going to work up something new and disney themed. I mean.. I just hope they don't replace it with the latest 3D disney CGI intro they have.. that would look too weird. Now.. if they pull some bit of fanfare from the existing music, and do a spot-lit flyover of the castle, it could work well. I just wonder if they'd bother to get that creative with it.
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