Chronocidal
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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. -
Yeah, Bandai still doesn't seem to know how to make a good solid joint (which is, frankly, astounding due to what their major cash cow franchise is ). But the actual accuracy of the renewals is just a quantum leap ahead of the first versions. They just can't seem to nail it though. I actually wonder how much of what tends to go wrong with the Bandai valks is that they're specifically trying to not copy stuff Yamato has already done. I do wish they'd ditch the die-cast pieces entirely, or at least reduce them to what Yamato uses, because it never ever seems to cause anything but trouble. As far as the paint/colored plastic issue goes.. I think that's just lack of any foresight, or possibly a lack of trust in the franchise. I mean, why plan ahead and spend the extra time to make sure the parts on future versions are molded the right color, when you don't expect to ever have the line be successful enough to warrant putting out anything but a solid white VF-25F? Alto's is easy, it's all one color. Just means they didn't think enough about the later releases, or just chose to play it safe, and not spend the money ahead of time to prep for potential future products.
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Well, I'd rather see a Ravens VF-11 personally, but either would be nice. I don't want to see any more YF-19 variants until they make a v.2 YF-19 though. The old one just doesn't hold up anymore.
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That'll take a tiny bit of stress off the shoulder hinges, but those aren't the problem. The issue is that the "flappy" joints that the wing gloves rotate on often have the staying power of soggy cardboard. The right wing on my Ozma already flaps back and forth if you breathe on it funny, so there's no way it's ever going to support the armor booster without soaking that joint in superglue, or building a custom support to hold the wing gloves back.
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Basically, there's a reason those armor parts are supposed to be restricted for use in space.. they don't play nice with gravity.
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If they have the decency to include the speaker pods and fold booster with Michael's pack set, I might be willing to spring for those when they come out, but I think given we still don't have actual hardpoints on the wings, they'll probably be resorting to those stupid clip-on weapons again. Otherwise, Michael will probably be posed with no packs at all. Luca's an odd case though.. I don't think he was ever missing his packs, because I don't think we ever actually saw him flying in anything resembling an atmosphere.
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Huzzah! Actually I was a little shocked with the total for this one too. Probably due to seeing the shipping lumped in, but it almost hit $300. Fortunately, this was intended to be a birthday present to myself for months, so I've got enough set aside. But I might wait on getting a VF-17D and VF-19P after all, now that the news about the VE-1 and strike pack re-releases hit. So much awesome, so little money.
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I have noticed one small ding in the paint on one of Ozma's hips, but it was there from before I got the armor parts, possibly caused by hip armor that came with the super parts. I really still not sure how any bad scratches could even happen, unless you're extremely brutal with how you put those pieces on. They don't slide around at all, they just clip. Only issue I've had so far is that the wing boosters don't like to stay on as well as the ones that came with the super packs. They clip on securely enough to stay put, but I can't lift the wing sections by holding them, or they'll pop right off. The boosters are actually surprisingly lightweight though, for how bulky they are. I think I'm going to work on tightening up the wing hinges on my VF-25S before I try going to battroid though, since they've gotten very loose. The boosters will want to flop around like crazy right now.
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Hah, found it! Little different, but the angle of the shot is what made me do a double take.
