Chronocidal
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Meh.. I'm tempted to just order one from NY and be done with it.. 288 before shipping though. Is my time and effort to get one from HLJ worth $88? That's the big question.
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Well, what is interesting is that the ad clearly shows the super packs mounted on the battroid. Maybe they just mean they'll be re-releasing them for order as well? Either that, or the photoshop monkey in charge of the ad wasn't paying attention.
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Pilot name stickers - Maybe we can do some sort of custom sheet?
Chronocidal replied to Scream Man's topic in Toys
Is it possible to get either white decal/sticker to print on, or just paint white onto the film, seal it, then print over that and seal again? At least with stuff meant for a black background, you could just do an inverse printing. Other colors might get tricky to match, but for something as small as a pilot name, it probably wouldn't be too noticeable. That reminds me though.. I wonder how a VF-19S would look in actual Blue Angels markings. -
You know, as long as you're making delta wing conversions... How about a standard (non robo-boobie) VF-11MAXL conversion? All you'd really need I think is to remove the standard wings, and keep the tails tucked in. Or heck, just keep both sets of tails. It'd be nothing like Mylene's, but I don't know if I've ever seen any official art of what a normal MAXL would look like.
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If I was really brave, I'd go one further and go full 70s gull gray with scalloped white on the bottom. That sounds like a great option though, and sounds like an extremely simple custom job to do to boot. I don't know why you'd want to paint over the red leg stripes with brown, since even if it isn't quite accurate, the red looks nice, and goes with the scheme. White control surfaces with silver leading edges should look beautiful. I think the only tricky part will be figuring out how to keep the nose from scratching. The top might be safe, but the way the underside nestles up under the chest might scratch it up. Same for the canards, since they're buried in the torso. I think with a good metallic lacquer though, it should be ok. Not like you're likely to be transforming it much anyway though, so you should be fine painting whatever you want on it.
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I think the thing that sets this one's antennas apart from the Fire Valk is that these ones aren't hidden in fighter mode. Now.. whether they could be hidden is something I'm going to try when mine arrives. I've actually done that with each VF-19 release. The center lasers will easily fit under the shield like the crest on the Fire Valk's head on both the S and F, and I just removed the side lasers on the S because they look funny to me in fighter mode.
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Yeah, I noticed that on the first set that got displayed here, someone had some ridiculously rough parts printed. I had thought someone mentioned that was the difference between ordering the polished and rough materials, but I wonder now if that's really the case.
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Yeah, I've noticed.. dunno what the holdup is.. fedex for my VF-171 parts went through in no time. I'm hoping my HLJ fedex order goes through fast as well, since it doesn't need to go through LA. It just shipped yesterday, so maybe it'll get through without so much holdup.
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Freaking customs.. my VF-17D and VF-19P have been held up in LA since last week.
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NY is pretty good about requesting parts as far as I know... it's just up to Yamato to provide the part. At least, I hope that is the case. I tried requesting a replacement crotch plate for my VF-25G, and either NY didn't go through with it, or bandai didn't give a crap that they forgot it. Given that NY took the time to reply to me several times, I'm perfectly comfortable blaming bandai that I never got my part. Yamato has generally seemed much more concerned about their customers, so I'd think you should be able to get the piece without too much trouble.
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I wouldn't think so, but that's just assuming, since the arms pop out and away from the rest of the body so far.
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Well, better in the sense that you don't risk screwing up the wings, yes, but I'm already planning some surgery to permanently attach those wings anyway, so I might try it anyway. Making stuff that the yamato missiles can attach to will take some work, but definitely an option.
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Well the design looks close enough you might be able to do the reverse, and put the Bandai weapons on a Yamato hardpoint. Clips look the same size at least. It'd probably be easy enough to drill out the holes a little so the 171 wings accept Yamato weapons though.
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See, that's what I thought was the case. Maybe certain colors are easier to mold transparent? And anyway, yes, from a mold perspective it does make sense. I guess maybe I'm more surprised that if all their visors really have been painted all along, we haven't ever really seen anything like this more often.
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Huh, that is a bit surprising, but guess it makes sense then. It just seems weird why anyone would do that when transparent colors of plastic aren't anything new. Didn't make sense in bandai's VF-25 kits either.
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.... why would you ever paint something like that clear green, when you already have transparent green plastic parts elsewhere on the valk? Unless I'm mistaken, and the nose sensors have always been painted, in which case the question becomes, "wtf yamato, did you run out of green transparent plastic?"
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Well, sadly I think I was a tiny bit too late telling hlj to ship... won't be getting mine for probably another week or so. Oh well, least I got confirmation that my super 17D and 19P shipped, so I'll have something to warm up the drool factory while I wait.
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"Tail legs?" I'm guessing you mean something about the order of popping the tabs, but I gave up trying to open the shoulders manually on my VF-19s. I just keep a plastic spoon handy, and it works like a charm. You could probably file down those latching tabs to let them release easier, but I dunno how much I'd want to do that.
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Someone needs to do a comparison between the bandai missiles and yamato ones. Are they interchangeable? I want to know if the hardpoints can be changed out, so I can load the 171 up with reaction missilles.
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Question about Bandai 1/72 Macross Frontier kits
Chronocidal replied to Cameron1138's topic in Model kits
Yep, they're transparent, ugly, and worse yet, printed like magazines with colored dots all over. The decals aren't any better. Utterly inexcusable considering the decal experience Bandai has from all their gundam kits. It's why I painted all my markings on from scratch. It was less frustrating. -
Ok, the question that's been on my mind since the first pics of the VF-171 appeared... Do Yamato's weapons fit on the Bandai hardpoints?
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Good to hear about the shoulder fins, not so good about the loose hinges and backwards joint though. My personal worry has alwas been that those shoulders would turn into miserable failures due to the lack of any kind of ratchet or access to any screws to tighten them. My YF-19's shoulders are nearly the same exact design, but are absolutely useless. Fortunately, the materials used in the VF-19s seem to be MUCH better. The YF seemed to use vintage VF-0 explodium.
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I think this one is actually quite a bit different from the others in terms of transformation. If I'm judging what I saw from the lego version correctly, the arms look like they lay on the outsides of the legs, like the SV-51. It's to make room for the big box they have between the engines. Either way, I'm not missing out on this. I'm a sucker for delta wings.
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You have no idea how thrilled I am to see that the stand mounts at the BACK of the plane. This will look awesome on a gundam stand with one of EXO's adapters.
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Well you know... just because it looks like an AMRAAM doesn't mean it is one. Once a standard body is adopted, the internals can become any number of different weapons. Older HARM and newer generation AARGM missiles use the same body with different internal components. Maybe they still just really like using the AMRAAM body in the 2050s. . Not that the fins would do any good in space, but they might be backup weapons for use in atmosphere if the need arises. I just wish Bandai would get its head on straight and look at some real aircraft before they go trying to make their own stuff. Admittedly, even Yamato got this wrong on the VF-0 missiles, but if you're going to make an imitation AMRAAM at least mount it on the pylon correctly.