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  1. Chronocidal
    I'm not even thinking about that picture of the nose section, I mean the entire nose looks off in every picture I've yet seen. It's like they decided to make the nose a cylinder, instead of the flat bottomed shape pretty much every other picture I can remember shows. Plus, the nosecone itself looks like the profile is wrong, but that might be the perspective we're seeing it at. As far as the packs are concerned, I don't think they're big enough for the strike cannon to even pivot down to face straight ahead. It looks like it would get hung up on the shoulders, and never hit 90 degrees.
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    Yeah.. uh.. someone needs to tell them. The VF-1 does not use the same knee joint as a VF-25. I don't care how far the knee can fold forward, it looks like crap with that kneecap flapping in the breeze. It doesn't hinge there on the VF-1, it's supposed to pivot inside the thigh for gerwalk, and practically disappear. Plus.. yeah... that nose is terrible. I don't get it. It's kind of like they've said "Well, Yamato did it this way, so we're not going to do it that way, even though it was right." All in all.. yeah. Unless this thing gets some massive changes before the final printing, I probably won't bother. It's smaller than a Yamato 1/60 kit, and not even that much cheaper.
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    It's not NY, it's Bandai. They were perfectly willing to send my request for a spare part to Bandai, but Bandai won't replace individual parts. Also, $5 nothing. Go to home depot, cut down a 10 cent O-ring and make yourself one.
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    Yeah, I won't argue that it's not the writers, but you'd think it would occur to someone up the chain that they're producing absolute garbage. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope it's a joke, but I kinda don't want to risk the price of a movie ticket to see that.
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    Do a search for spoilers about the movie, and you'll probably find it. If they're actually true, and not just some fanboy pulling the collective leg of the internet, JJ needs to be slapped, because that's without a doubt the stupidest possible plot twist ever conceived. I hope it's a joke, or this movie will be.
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    Wait, what animation is that from? Something from one of the menus, I'm guessing? But yeah, it definitely looks like the Yamato, right down to the doors for the head lasers, and the wrong-colored hands.
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    It's not so much about getting a white one as it is about getting one with the absolute minimum paint applied to scratch off, while having a consistent color. I just want something not covered in stripes really, or at least something that actually looks like a classic VF-1S scheme. Come to think of it, if I get a fully white one I might try and put it in X-29 prototype markings.
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    Well, I'd imagine the villain renamed it himself. I can't imagine starfleet ever coming up with that name themselves, unless we're planning on warping this alternate universe into something like the mirror universe of old. I kinda wish they'd done that to begin with honestly, but the fustercluckery of the original timeline would already conflict.
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    Yeesh, at this rate, I'm expecting there to be an "Excelsior" class Mon Calimari cruiser that looks like the Ent-D in the new Star Wars movies. And what's with a Fed ship named "Vengeance?" No joke, they seriously are getting into Star Wars levels of "Look at the size of that thing!"
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    Heh, true about the animation. Though if they were really being accurate to it, the "NO STEP" should be mirrored from using the same texture on both halves. The white paint on a white background though.. I mean seriously. It's like a scenario out of the Hitchhiker's guide. "'It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me out' said Ozma, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you've done it.'"
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    Is it sad that I kind of want to hunt down an Alto version now to use for kitbashing? Most of the parts that are black on the 30th version were white on Alto's, so with a little mix and match, I could have a mostly white one.
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    Given Bandai's history of not having a clue about so many things aircraft-related, I'm more than satisfied with the "they just didn't care" answer, but luckily for them the whole "they might be stored upside down" argument might actually be feasible. Given the crazy, multi-orientation launch decks of the carriers in Macross Frontier, it's easy to think they might pass through a variety of gravity directions on the way to launching. Doesn't excuse all the other numbskulled decisions they've made though.
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    Well, that'll be a ways off, and might only be the front cockpit section. However, I'm considering a mod for the hips that would essentially make them just like the VF-19's, removing the intake details, and allowing you to pivot the hips. That's going to take a lot of work to figure out though.
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    Well if you soak that crack with superglue, it might hold for a while. Putting it in battroid might actually be worse though, because it might put stress on that hinge connecting the backplate to the nose.
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    I've seen at least one other YF-19 with that kind of crack in it, but it's not a common thing. If you can't get your money back or return it, I'm seriously considering making an upgrade kit for the YF-19 to make it closer to the VF-19. It would probably replace a decent number of parts, and might fix that piece, so there might be hope for it yet.
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    I think I found a few of his things on there browsing, looked pretty nice, though most of the stuff was really tiny scale like 1/600. Though, the WC universe was really screwy with their scaling anyway. The Excalibur was supposed to be 105 feet long based on the in-game specs, which might not be that far off based on the cutscenes. Still, that puts 1/144 scale at almost 9 inches long. Thing is, when I tried scaling the model up to make it that size, Shapeways suddenly eliminated all of the affordable materials as options, and the only way I could make it was with the FUD option, which was like $200, so yeah.. that's not happening
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    So, model's pretty much done now, I just need to figure out if Shapeways can even handle it. That, and find out how much it'd be to print at a decent size. I'm fully expecting them to reject the gun pieces, since they're so tiny, but I think the main structure should work. Edit: Came out to a little over $60 to print this thing, and it'll be about 7 inches long put together. But yeah, I'll be extremely surprised if they print this one. If it fails, I'll just remove a few of the smaller parts and try again.
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    Yep, they're both available. Think I ordered both off of amazon a while back, but haven't finished the second book yet because I got horribly distracted, and probably need to restart it to remember what's going on.
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    The normal releases definitely take some work to get to fit together nicely, but it's definitely possible to get them to fit. Just have to be really careful trimming and sanding all the parts, and making sure their edges line up. I never had trouble with the hip guns personally, but I did a mod to the wing gloves/legs to get them to lock together. I added tabs to the wing gloves, and cut slots for them in the side panels that cover the knee joints, right where the renewal VF-25s have them. Works like a charm to hold the legs in place, and the entire plane holds together really nicely with those tabs in place. I posted some photos of the mod either here, or somewhere in the Workshop section, if you want to see how it works. I would recommend painting as many markings as possible though, the decals are terrible.
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    I can vouch for this actually, my father got the same sort of tip from someone while painting our house. The trick he used is to mix a tiny bit of black into the white paint he used to paint a few areas in our bathroom. Years later, the touchups he did with the modified paint were still bright white, but the surrounding area that he painted before adding the black had yellowed.
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    Yeah, pinning down exactly what's keeping things from fitting right is a tricky process. If you've got two, I'd just start examining every major seam and sub-assembly, checking the fit and seeing if you find any differences. The thing that made one of mine not fit together was the slot underneath the wing glove. There's a tab on the back of the lower thigh that plugs into the wing glove, and one of my 19Fs had some excess plastic in that slot that kept the thigh from plugging in correctly. Because it didn't lock in, the entire leg/wing/tail connection was messed up. It'd be worth looking at the shoulders too though. If something isn't fitting right with them, they can throw the entire thing off.
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    Apologies for the double post, but an interesting case study in exactly how precise and interconnected all the pieces on the VF-19 are... So, I'd been wondering why the shield on one of my 19Ps didn't fit right, and the wings didn't line up. Mid trans, one of the little vent pieces popped out of one of the shoulders, and when I looked underneath it, I realized that the shoulder had a gap between the halves of the speaker pieces. Upon taking it apart, I realized that one of the pins on the undersides houlder flap was too big from a small mold flaw. I trimmed the peg, and all the fit issues with the shield and wings magically disappeared. It fits perfectly now. On another note, yes, the P's shoulder covers do have a big vertical tab they attach with. Doesn't seem to keep them on very well though, and until I glue that shoulder back down, I've got no way to unlock that leg. They really should have kept the pins in there for strength.
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    If there was nothing to hold it on, the tab probably broke. When I removed one of the shoulders from mine, I think there was a pretty sizable tab in the center that held the shoulder down. Really, the easiest fix would be to drill out the covers, and put a pin where there's supposed to be one. It would actually give some support to let you lift the shoulders like you're supposed to.
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    That would have made far too much sense for Bandai to do though. I'm looking forward to the second one I get.. whichever one is in best shape will be kept in fighter forever, but the second one is getting stripped to the bare plastic just to see what it looks like under all that nonsense.
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    Actually, right now? I can think of probably a million and a half ways that people of various political leanings would jump on it as a way to either promote or lampoon a viewpoint. I don't intend to dig into any actual viewpoints in terms of the real world, but think about it. The background for the story is that there's a war going on that not many people are aware of or actually care about, and they decide to lighten the load on society by offering military service as an alternative to prison. We all can do the math on that one. Personally, I hope they don't tweak the story to make it more "acceptible" to audiences, because I actually enjoyed the way it made me think. Changing it would pretty much ruin the entire background for half the characters in the original story, and entirely kill off one of the major themes in the book. Aside from that though, one thing I always appreciated about Yukikaze was it's more realistic view of what would happen if we really did get attacked by aliens. The people actually doing the fighting became much more connected across cultural boundaries, while the people back home lost interest, and never got past their old prejudices (in a very rough nutshell). It was the entire viewpoint of the author who wrote the fictional book in-universe: they weren't fighting for a country, they were fighting for Earth.
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