Chronocidal
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Considering his position, Docker could've been 100 too. Though, going by the animation, I don't think any of the aircraft had numbers anywhere in the actual series anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a generic gray version at some point. I wouldn't even care if they put any markings on it at all, just mold everything in gray plastic, and be done with it. Or, if you have to use markings, use the VF-19F's paint apps. Gray with white highlights wouldn't look bad at all, and it'd be pretty close to one of the Master Files schemes.
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Ok, good news about my problems with sloppyness, looks like there was just a bit of mold flash inside the tab slot on the underside of the right wing glove. Trimmed that out, and now everything locks together nicely. As far as the ankles go on mine, seems to be the same situation I've had with all of the VF-19s. I'm able to push the ankles to their extremes after loosening the screws, but they get a little sloppy around the center. Can get a decent gerwalk angle that way, but I don't know if I'll ever let this beauty leave fighter mode to begin with. I'd really love to explore a permanent solution to all this nonsense, but Yamato went back to their old ways of gluing everything together, and leaving none of the major assembly screws exposed. Also, never really realized it before, but the way they started using spring-pins for everything really stymies the idea that we might ever get a kit of this one. There are some assemblies on the VF-19 that I'm half convinced you couldn't assemble by hand.
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Just referring to Graham's comments, and the possibility of them being reissued.
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You know what though.. there's a good reason this is true. A lot of times, it takes the interest generated by a custom mod to convince a company that a mass production of that mod might be worthwhile. If Yamato gets a surge of sudden sales of VF-0s, and they do the research to correlate it to your mod kit getting released, someone might go, "Hey, you know, this might not be too hard to do..."
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I definitely got a couple of sets of 1/48 VF-1 decals from Yamato, but I forget why. I think it was some promotional offer through HLJ.
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You know what's actually funny about this... I can tolerate Basara a lot better in Japanese, because reading someone talking like a jerk and hearing it seem to have entirely separate effects on my mind. He comes off as loud and obnoxious, but his translation makes him sound like a complete mental deficient.
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Wait, floors count as display space now too? Shoot, I should take a pic of my bedroom.. most of the valks I have unpacked are leaning against the walls and furniture, sitting on their engines in fighter mode.
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Well, I'm assuming he's going off the ones from Macross Zero, and it doesn't look far off from this pic. The ones he's got might be a little oversized, but it looks like the right placement. By the way, I'm guessing the wing stripes are taken from the Nora SV-51 kit, but still doesn't decrease how impressive they look on that MiG. Honestly, that scheme is one of my all time favorite paint schemes on any plane, ever. I actually made a custom P-38 skin for IL-2 with that type of scheme, and it looks just as good there. It's just a very striking scheme to use, and I really don't know of many planes it wouldn't look good on. It gets even better if you start swapping colors around. I think I did a version in blue with white stripes that was really beautiful too.
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Well, they might be rotated somewhat, but I can't for the life of me figure out how. You know how literally everything on this thing locks together in fighter mode? There's tabs holding everything together from multiple directions... BUT.. if I pull on the right wing? The entire right wingroot will fold out without any trouble. It'll fold out and down just like I can do with my old YF-19, without doing anything to unlock the arm, or drop the leg on that side. The left side wingroot won't budge until I've dropped the leg at the hip joint. I don't think I'm missing any tabs or anything, but the right wing isn't locking into place like it should. Putting the right leg back in place after lowering it is also problematic, it doesn't like to fit where it's supposed to go. The shoulder on that side also seemed very resistant to let go of the leg too, as if the tabs are all locking in slightly off-center. All in all, it's not broken.. but it just feels like it's a bit off somehow. Some joint or something might be misaligned, some tab might be misshapen, I don't know. I'll have to look at it in great detail to figure it out. One thing I did discover though.. if you're having trouble lifting the shoulders off the legs? Use a plastic spoon.
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Yeah, might be time for another revisit of the VF-19's ankles. I picked up my 19F after work yesterday, and fiddled with it a little last night, and something about this one doesn't line up quite right on mine. Something to do with the locking pegs between the upper legs and wing gloves. Still holds together fine, and aside from that weirdness it's pretty much fine, but one of the wing gloves doesn't snug up against the main body very well. Not a huge deal, but I might try tweaking some of the bits on this one. It actually seems a little like the hips are too wide to properly mesh with the main body somehow.
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Well, considering how wonky the VF-19 gerwalk mode is anyway, I don't see it as a huge loss, compared to how good the fighter and battroid are. But yeah, I've gone over why the ankle design sucks multiple times elsewhere, in great detail. There really isn't any excuse for it, and it makes no sense, but it's all been said before. I admit, I never keep my valks in anything but fighter mode for extended periods, so I don't have much to contribute as far as how stable gerwalk is for extended periods. I did leave my 19S in gerwalk standing on my carpet for a couple days to test the ankles when I first got it, and it didn't fall over, but since then the ankles have been pretty loose in general. You can get the ankles to bend, it just takes more stress on the joint than most people want to attempt, and they wind up loose around the center when you move them back. I got mine to bend pretty far, but I do remember them being floppy afterwards. The pics are probably towards the beginning of this topic.
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I've never taken mine apart, so I can't say much about that, but I have loosened and tightened the two screws on the sides. They're not hard to get to, just close the feet up, and the screws are uncovered. Loosening them let me get some more extreme poses for gerwwalk mode, but they pretty much lose any tension around the center, so battroid will have trouble standing straight. It doesn't make any sense why the tension on those is so uneven, but we've gone round and round on that subject before. I haven't tested my F's feet to see if they improved any, but I'm not betting on it.
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Actually, as long as you're willing to loosen and retighten the ankles later, I was able to get some pretty good gerwalk poses out of my 19S when I got it.
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Should be pretty easy to make labels, but it's not going to be much help on these dark colored valks though... most printers I know of don't use white ink. Considering how many random sets of markings many of us have collected though, I bet it wouldn't be hard to piece together some pilot names off of either other valk sheets, or even just actual decals from aircraft model kits.
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Well, considering I'm not even a huge Mac7 fan, haven't seen it in ages, and still remember that Gamlin's lackeys were named Dick and Mory... yeah. Actually, did the VF-19S or VF-17S have name stickers at all? I guess they most likely had the main characters for them, but I remember looking over my VF-17S sheet looking for a Jenius sticker and not seeing it. I'm hoping it still had Gamlin or Kinryu's name. I suppose I'm just used to getting a standard sticker sheet that comes with every variant of a particular valk (like Gamlin's VF-22 stickers came with Max and Millia labels). What with the fancy Master File logos and stuff, these latest sticker sheets look like they've been tailor made for individual repaints, rather than covering everything.
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Yeah, getting things by FedEx is enough to turn me back to going to HLJ for everything. The stupid shenanigans with USPS is a pain, and it always means I have to wait a day to pick up my stuff, because they don't offer to hold things for you... since.. you know.. I actually work for a living, and can't be waiting around for their guy to stick the slip in my box. If anything, it's just a pain, because while the actual post office closes at 5 pm, the trucks keep running, so once my package goes out for delivery, it's pretty much guaranteed I won't see it until the next day after work.
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I like the design enough that I wouldn't mind having one, but unless BBTS ever fills my order, I'll be fine not getting either YF-29. The colors for both versions make me want to gag really. I'd love to be able to get a YF-19 in standar gray camo patterns, but if I'm going to be painting it myself anyway, I'd rather just spend about $10 for the 1/100 kits, rather than $300+ for something that'll probably stay in fighter mode after painting anyway.
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If you don't pre-order one now, probably. I consider myself extremely lucky to have gotten a VF-171 from Nippon Yasan, because I ordered the day after it was released, and they still had stock. If you're dead set on getting one, I'd say it might be worth a shot to try ordering one from them still, assuming their preorders are still open.
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Oh that's true, you could always just mix and match the components. I'm personally a fan of the VF-1D head on the VT-1. In fact, I might mix and match things a bit more than that.. I wish I could get a set of regular fast packs like the VE-1's in orange.. then I could slap them on the VT-1, throw on the VF-1D head, and outfit it with a pair of strike cannons, or missile launchers. Grr, now I'm wishing they would issue a tan/orange set of strike packs for the VT-1/VF-1D.
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Well, sad to say, I tested my VT-1's packs on my VF-1D, and they don't really fit or stay on at all. You can fit the leg packs, obviously, but the backpack doesn't line up. The boosters can slide on without any trouble, but there's nothing to hold them on, since they need that extra backpack piece to clip onto. While you can put the backpack piece on, attaching the boosters to it means you have to pull up the backpack to the angle the VT-1's normally sits at, which doesn't work with the VF-1D's tails folded over. Now, whether the VE-1's boosters are any different I don't know, but I would assume they use the same type of backpack clip, or some other similar method to attach to the other backpack type, without having the tails folded.
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Woo, can finally tentatively check the VE-1 off my "to get" list. Only getting two sets of strike packs though, since that will cover my DYRL CF, and one other random VF-1.. possibly a custom, once I build my kits.
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Actually, I did the same thing, but that's what caused it to break. See, the big fat pin isn't want broke. That's fine. It's that itty-bitty white nub that the wing actually pivots around that snapped. Every time you actually remove the wings, you have to remove the main pins, and then pop them off those nubs. Well, I wouldn't recommend doing that anymore. Like I said, once I get the actual wings, I'm gluing the big pegs in, drilling out the white nubs, and replacing them with screws. I wish I could shove the plain wings down the throat of whatever dingbat at Bandai thought what they did was anything approaching a good idea.
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Same here, it hit customs at LAX sometime saturday, so hopefully I can call and have the post office hold it for pickup on tuesday. Otherwise, those goofballs will leave me a note and tell me to come get it wednesday.
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Pardon my rant, but I'd like to try and organize an international angry mob to go and storm Bandai HQ until they hire some competent design engineers.. So, I figured I'd run my 171 through a transformation for fun last night. We all know how those pins love to pop out of the wings, right? Obviously, happened again (a few times). Usually, the pin pops out, I replace it, no big deal. Not this time. The pin fell out as usual, but this time the wing flew off with it. The head of that dinky plastic pin that forms the actual rotation pivot for the wing snapped off and flew across the room. So. Now, if you don't count the actual large pin (which I don't, seeing as how it pops off if you breathe on it funny), one of my 171's wings has nothing holding it on. So my current plan is to wait for the new wings to arrive with my super pack set this winter, drill those stupid pins out of their holes, and screw the freaking wings directly to the fuselage like the dipshits who designed it should have done in the first place. Seriously. Do these people understand absolutely nothing about how to build something with structural integrity surpassing a soggy cardboard box?? There are just SO many things wrong with that wing design that Yamato somehow had absolutely no trouble with. One freaking screw to hold the wings on, and that's all it would have taken.
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Metal Gear Solid - Ground Zeroes
Chronocidal replied to Omegablue's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm still waiting for Plasma Snake, and Vapor Snake. I mean.. we've covered solid and liquid, time to finish the science references. Or, you know, we could always name one Trouser Snake.