Chronocidal
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I do have to ask the question though... when has Bandai ever cared about coloring things correctly?
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Well actually, that's what I'm curious about now. The only thing necessary to use the missiles is to have those slots cut out of the lower half. If you were able to pry off the cover, it would probably be decently simple to cut the slots you need into the lower level of the wing. Provided you don't mind messing with one that is.
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Or you know. Those wings couldn't be too hard to make from scratch. Might even stay on better. Or even just cutting the slots into the ones that came with the standard version. The wings have always been two layered, it's just they don't cut the hardpoint slots in the lower layer in the set that comes with the valk. I'm aware the idea or making replacement parts like that might step on Bandai's toes, but at the same time, I feel like all their shenanigans to keep people from using missiles unless they buy the entire set is a slap in the face. It's like DRM for toys.
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I'd bet those could be Nos-Gers. Assuming you're on the first map still, try killing the Zentran/Meltran spawns that pop up in the north-east corner of the map, or maybe the ones that pop up in some of the caves, and see if the total goes up.
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Awesome. Only thing I'd suggest is making the pylons a little taller/wider. They'll probably work that way, but don't know if the fins might collide with the wings (probably not since they'll stick out the back), and I think the pylons in the screenshots were a bit bigger. Also.. those might actually still work on Yamato hardpoints. I'm pretty sure some of the VF-171 missiles work on the VF-1s at least.
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Yeah, fortunately missiles are actually kind fairly easy to make, lots of round parts and symmetry all over. I need to buy myself a caliper though, making those YF-19 update parts is gonna be tricky. I might see about making a few more varied types of stores though as a start. I kinda want to throw together an AMRAAM or JDAM rack for my VF-0s to use.
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Sheesh, that was fast! I know you've probably mentioned it before, but what do you model those in?
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Yeah, outside of the transparent portion, those should be really easy to make actually. Grr... one of these days, I need to start shapewaysing stuff. So much to do, so little plastic.
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Sorry, all you said was Ozma had moving parts while Alto didn't. Got confused on that one. But yeah, Bandai really did cheap out on the 171 parts. No moving parts at all, except for the little wheels. Glad they're including the bigger missiles at least, but I wish the chest doors opened.
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Not sure where you got the idea that the Alto armor packs don't have the same features as the Ozma ones. I think the're identical, except for the colors. I think I might pick up two sets of these though, just so I can slap the extra giant warheads on Alto's. Those things are massive.
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Actually, the 30th YF-29 seems like it's even worse.. the entire upper half of the nose cone looks like it's white plastic painted black. Either that, or someone got white paint on the edge of mine.
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Well, on second thought, that would actually be more trouble than I was thinking. I'd need to repaint a lot more of the shoulder, since it's not all black. Aside from that though, a Fire Valk repainted with white stripes would look pretty awesome. I still will probably tweak some photos later though. I'll post them in the 19 thread though, this is getting away from the 17
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No, there's really no way to avoid it, because they were freaking idiots. Yeah... that should have been a no-brainer.. Pointy piece that sticks into the center of the neck when transforming, and scrapes all over it? Yes, let's mold it in white, then paint it black so people have to touch it up every time they transform it! Brilliant! That's not even a die-cast problem. That's just "we can't find our own behinds with both hands and a pack of bloodhounds" stupid.
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It is sad, but I think the reason both the 17D and 19F are still higher price is that they just came out so much later, and never got as many production runs. While I like both sets of markings on the 17, I have to admit I do prefer the D over the S, just because I'm not a huge fan of yellow markings. Honestly, I love both the 19S and 19F, but I would have bought more F models if I could have, because I think the white stripes just look beautiful on it. And I'd agree to a point that the 5-laser head just looks a bit too busy. What I really wish I could do now though.. get a couple more of the S, F and Fire Valk, and do some major valk-bashing to come up with M&M VF-19s. Give Max a VF-19F with the S head (the easy one to do), and mashup Millia a Kai with a 19S head, F shoulders, intake covers, and ankles. Crap.. now I really want to photoshop that to see what it would look like. Maybe it'd help make up for not having a Millia VF-17S though.. (and back on topic )
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Well, ok, true, Kawamori probably had more of a hand in most of those. Still doesn't mean Bandai is blameless though. They keep molding parts completely in the wrong color, then painting the entire part to cover it up. At least they molded Michael's wing gloves in white, but even with the renewals, they keep doing things that make me think they really have no clue what they're doing. I mean.. really.. how hard would it have been to mold the top portion of renewals' noses in color? That part that sticks into the underside of the torso, and loses paint with EVERY transformation? It just feels like an astounding lack of thought went into the molding choices.
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I have one 19F that I thought was a lemon as well, and just wouldn't fit together right, but it actually came down to a very tiny bit of excess plastic in one of the tab slots that's hidden. Really, that's all it takes, a tiny bit of mold flash. If you can pinpoint the exact point where the transformation gets sloppy, and fix that, the whole thing can come together surprisingly well afterward.
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Think they've always been that way. The "black" isn't black either, it's more like the color of a rubber tire. I think the color of the engine pods is the same as the plastic they'll be using on the super packs though. All in all, I still think the scheme is bizarre. I broke down and ordered another from NY on sale after I told myself not to, because I want to strip one down to the bare plastic, and see how much of it is actually white underneath. I know the gun turret is actually black plastic with the top painted white, and I think the upper half of the cockpit is actually black, but for some reason, there's a scratch on my upper nosecone which looks like the entire part was molded in white, then painted black, then touched up with white again on the underside of the tip. Honestly.. this is what drove me nuts about all of Bandai's VF designs... Not only did they paint them in ridiculous schemes that no real life aircraft would ever be painted in, but they made more work for themselves by making the things impossible to mold in color.
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I wonder how hard it would be to make a hybrid shield with a sliding peg... Actually, no.. now that I think about it, the shield is really what holds the arms together in fighter mode. Making the pegs for one arm slide might mean you couldn't have sturdy pegs on the other arm, because they might interfere with the arm. I'd have to think about that for a while. Saying any particular thing Yamato made is the "best" is tricky because they all have their ups and downs. I will say that the engineering in the VF-19s is probably the most impressive of any of their products (borked up ankles not withstanding). I'd put the VF-4 right behind it, only because that valk never was actually animated as transforming, so it never had to contend with matching up to any expectations based on anime magic. Doesn't make the VF-4 any less impressive, but getting the VF-19 to look so accurate in both battroid and fighter modes really is a feat. But meh. It's all about preference, and I love the VF-19s to death. I just hope somewhere down the road Arcadia makes a new YF-19 based on the same engineering. Either way, I might be forced to shapeways the heck out of my old 1/60 YF-19.
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If it's a red quest, you're probably supposed to go into one of the bases and hunt them down. Make sure to check the quest text against all the ruin/base/cave names on your map, and if any of them match, that's where the targets should be.
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Actually, no, I had good communication with NY. We talked back and forth about the missing piece, and I was able to look up the kanji for the part name for them to send Bandai. Sent them a picture with the missing piece highlighted too. I think somewhere along the line, Bandai said "Screw you, we don't send out spare parts" and the communication just died. Bottom line, I'm not going to pay enough shipping to buy the item again, just to get the maybe $1 worth of plastic their factory forgot. I'll just buy another one when they reissue it, and hope that one is complete. I can shapeways it if I have to, it's just annoying. Given how many people have had the same happen, I think it's worthwhile.
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Just a random thought I've had before about things like scanlations. I think I'd be plenty happy with a script to follow along with while reading an original print of MtF. That can get tricky when following text bubbles, but here's my screwy idea. If the real issue is that the original work is being duplicated for the sake of translating it, then remove anything from the original work. What if you did a traditional scanlation, but then blanked out the illustrations? You'd be left with a book full of speech bubbles that someone desperate could probably piece together a story out of, but wouldn't contain any of the original work except the translated text. Probably not something a lot of people would enjoy, but it might encourage people to buy the originals, since you'd need original copies to get the whole story that way. Definitely not convenient either, but you're not really doing anything legally different than asking a Japanese-speaking friend to tell you what each bubble says as you point to it. It's just slightly more intuitive than having a script saying "Upper-right bubble: 'Blah dee blah.' Lower Right Sound Effect: 'WHOOSH!!'" Doing that probably wouldn't stop anyone from taking your words, and sticking them into a full scan of the books, but people will do that either way.
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Actually, I'm kind of surprised NY seems to hesitant to split orders anymore. I accidentally ordered my VF-171EX and the super packs at the same time, but they were plenty willing to ship them separately. Also, they do still have the super and armor packs in stock it appears, or did last time I looked. They're pretty heavily marked up I think, but they're still there.
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Didn't get a P, but I picked up a VF-19S from there, and it just arrived in fine shape. You have some kind of issue with it?
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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I'll be buying a set of these once they go live, my old YF-19 has had limp arms since I got it, and the shoulders were both shattered out of the box. I still want to make a new cockpit section and hips that work like the VF-19s as well, but that's a bit larger undertaking.