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  1. Chronocidal
    I'm kind of counting on one. In the meantime, I've begun sanding and cutting away chunks of my old YF-19 junker (arms were completely trashed out of the box). So far, I've come up with something that makes the nose look a little better, and helps minimize the gullet look, but it'll take some scratchbuilding before it's done.
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    Star Trek's timeline is like one of those joke puzzle knots you give someone that's supposed to take them years to unravel. It's not worth even trying to explain it.
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    Considering I'm not even going to be around for nearly a week after New Years, I'm not too concerned. I'll just pick it up with the rest of my mail when I get back. Maybe if I get really lucky I'll have a VF-19P and VF-17D waiting too, but I'm not expecting those until later in January.
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    Cue "Information High." Looks like they're taking her for a spin on the Truman soon. Just hope they avoid any heavy thunderstorms. http://www.navair.na...wsStory&id=5199
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    As relatively awesome as that trailer is, I personally want to walk into hollywood and pistol whip the next dipshit who thinks intakes are gunports, and decides to mount twin machine guns in them. For all that giant robot coolness, that's just painfully facepalm-worthy. They did it in Avengers and that one Die Hard movie with the JSF, and somehow, the idea that that's how airplanes and modern gatling guns work keeps hanging on. Is it really too much to ask for ANY movie to give a nice solid "BRRRRVVVT" when a fighter fires a gun? Honestly, it would be so much more impressive if they used the actual sounds. An A-10 unloading it's gun is one of those sounds that people need to learn to be afraid of. Aside from that though.. I want to like the idea, but it feels like this could turn into G-Gundam VS Godzilla. The idea of a neural interface for a fighting robot makes plenty of sense, but if you've got two people, won't that be like trying to network PC and Mac computers together and trying to run a piece of software built for Linux? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave one person in charge of managing all the other important bits making the thing run? I just don't see how linking two people at the brain stem would ever help anything.
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    Macross 30

    Chronocidal replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    Eh, it is kinda sad not to see Roy, but that would probably downplay Hikaru's role in the plot. Of course, he could just wind up being an unlockable you find later. Though, maybe they thought having Roy AND Ozma in one place might get a little too over the top. That trailer though.. .i think I had a braingasm. I mean, I figured it would be more like the standard missions in the PSP games, but this is looking more like a setup for some kind of Macross MMO. I mean.. I wouldn't think they'd ever attempt something quite that big in scale, but still, it looks like they might be trying to set it up for onine play. Either way the whole RPG factor could make this one really entertaining, even without understanding it. Though, maybe it's time to bite that bullet and try to learn more Japanese.. Actually what it really reminds me of right now? Phantasy Star Online 2. The enemies, battroid action, and such, it just looks similarly paced. The idea of treasure hunting for upgrades and materials just adds to that comparison. Also, definitely saw Max's VF-22 in there, and if Guld's voice was heard, I wonder if we'll get the 21 too.
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    Don't worry, I'm well aware. I have have a few built, and a closet full of unbuilt ones to make in various modes. What I mean is that I'd happily shell out for a kit version or two, as opposed to playing Bandai Distributor Roulette trying to get one of these things.
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    They might be able to hold a VF-1, but keep in mind.. those are meant for styrene kits, which are much lighter than any Yamato valk. They might be strong enough to support it, but they're not meant for it. If I remember right, those stands really don't attach to anything on a valk. They just give you something to sit them on that's above the ground. If anything, they might have ledges or hooks that the wings might rest their trailing edges in, but I wouldn't bet they'd be sized correctly for Yamato's wings to attach to.
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    Honestly, I just want a 1/72 kit. As cheap and fun as the 1/100 ones are, they just don't match anything else. On the other hand, at least those keep getting made.
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    Ah, so the polished stuff gets rid of the molding ridges then? Good to know, I'll make sure to get that type in the future. Personally, I'm all for a set of VF-11 wings with hardpoints next, since it's such a relatively simple thing to do. Use it on a VF-11C, and you don't even really need paint. Once the VF-4 comes out and you can measure it, I'd say hardpointed wings for that would be great as well. Anyhow.. had a slight brainstorm about the VF-0D's legs. I know the totally canon solution is to make a new lower leg, but what if you built the missing portion of the leg into a modified leg pack? I wouldn't want to rely on the little magnets they currently use, but if you made the pack wrap up and around the back of the leg, you could potentially have it clip inside the back of the ankle. I don't know if that would give you something sturdy enough to attach the tails to, but it would at least eat up some of the gap between the wings and legs, and streamline things a bit.
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    Macross 30

    Chronocidal replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    Ok, I don't know if I care much about the character or not yet, but I want a VF-11C in those markings now. Come on Yamato, you added NUNS markings to the VF-17 and VF-19, you can make an SMS VF-11C happen!
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    Is it just me, or does that set look a LOT smoother than the previous shots? I figured the pieces are going to have some layering, but I wasn't expecting the amount in the previous photos, with the really clear stair-stepped look. Unless this new set has had some sanding already done? I'm going to have to grab a set of these after Christmas I think.
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    Well, no, that's coming from the viewpoint of someone who bought a bunch of VF-25 kits because they were the only decent representation of the VF-25 at the time. That's not the case here. Hasegawa already makes 1/72 fighter and battroid kits. If you're not planning on ever transforming these kits, why buy them instead of a Hasegawa one? And if you really want something that transforms, why not get the Yamato one instead, since it will be sturdier? Hasegawas are bound to be cheaper because you don't need all those extra parts for transforming, and if the VF-25 is any indication, the Hasegawa kits will be MUCH easier to build and paint, because you don't have to deal with all the assembly nonsense that building a transforming kit entails. The only thing Hasegawa didn't do is gerwalk kit (that I know of). I guess the question is this... is the ability to pick to build it in any mode (including gerwalk) enough to convince people to buy these instead of the Hasegawas? I'm not saying there aren't people who will want to buy these kits and build them instead of the Yamato ones (I'll probably get one or two just because I love building things, and I'm curious how they'll work the mechanisms). I just wonder if there is enough of a market left to justify it. Not like Bandai can't afford to take a loss anyway, but it just seems silly to release something like this now. Now, on the other hand.. if they want to expand their 1/72 line to include a bunch of other valks? Sure, I'd love to see a complete line of transforming valk kits.
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    Hah, now to see if David ever comes to be. (Or Genesis, for that matter) Though, I suppose when you have an almost believeable plot device that can potentially resurrect dead characters, it's understandable that they'd want to re-use it if they can. Let's just throw a twist in this time though.. have the entire crew die when the Enterprise crash lands there!
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    See.. here's the problem with this.. Yamato already released a kit. It's transformable, and designed to be very sturdy. It's even in a bigger scale than this one is. When you consider that the Bandai one will probably be almost as expensive, have just as many problems with paint being scraped off from transformation, and may have horrible quality decals like their VF-25 kits.. I kinda don't get what all the fuss is about in general. Unless they pull off something fantastic with the transformation, or manage to make the markings themselves built into the plastic so they don't scrape off, I don't know why they think another VF-1 is a good idea.
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    I didn't want to glue mine together yet, but they would definitely benefit from it. They're meant to be very posable, and they do really well with stuff like the Macross Frontier kits, but mounting bigger stuff gets tricky. I am having a thought though. Since the adapters clearly hold onto the tabs on the stand mounts well enough, I wonder what else they could be attached to? I don't want this to turn into a stack of adapters that eventually winds up with you plugging your valks into a USB port, but how hard would it be to make an adapter that fits on the end of something like an acrylic rod? Or, a better question.. how hard would it be to cut/shape an acrylic rod to fit into one of these adapters, and bend around into a traditional stand shape?
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    Still feels like the entire universe got sucked through a plot hole.. There has been a lot of parallel universe stuff in the past, but I think this is the first time they actually stuck with one for any substantial amount of time (besides the extended plot of the Mirror Universe though, which I would still love to see more of). But yeah. Time shenanigans is fun, but for something that tends to make people think so hard, it's amazing what people miss. Maybe the key is just that you're trying so hard to wrap your brain around it that the obvious things don't come to mind? For instance.. the whale biologist in ST:IV. Sure, she claimed to have nobody in her life during the movie. But could they be certain it would remain that way? Cue confused looks when they return to the future and every person who could have traced their family line back to her suddenly never existed. And while I love First Contact, the entire plot falls apart if you think 5 minutes about the first 5 minutes of the movie. Why did the borg have to attack Earth at all? If they had a time machine, they could have gone back in time from anywhere in space and not had to worry about being followed back in time by those meddling ki- I mean, the Enterprise. Edit: By the way, some new stuff about who the villain is. Apparently Karl Urban let slip something along the lines of "Ben is doing an awesome job playing Mitchell" or something equally indicative that he's playing Gary Mitchell. (I don't know why I thought his name was Gary Powers.. maybe because he got them? )
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    That's actually more what I meant by a ratcheted joint. Bottom line, you need teeth on it. The Bandai stands already have a screw, but it doesn't stop the stand from drooping, because it's just a friction joint. The SV-51 stand doesn't even have a screw, it just has a ratcheted ring with teeth that interlock once the pin is pressed into place. That's really what we need. Well.. either that, or new mounts for every fighter mode that relocate the mounting point to somewhere that makes sense. After fiddling with my VF-1 though, my biggest annoyance with the way Yamato does stands is how ridiulously labor intensive it is to remove a valk from the stand. At least with the VF-19, it's just a clip that is (a bit too) easily removed from the belly. But the VF-1 requires you to transform it halfway to battroid just to attach or remove the stand mount. I wound up cutting and filing down the pegs on a VF-1 fighter adapter to see if I could make it possible to attach it without pulling the intakes loose.
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    You'd need some sort of ratcheted joint to do that, so I don't know how easy that would be to do. These stands really weren't meant for stuff as heavy as these valks, so Bandai probably never even considered such a thing necessary.
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    Macross 30

    Chronocidal replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    Think those fins you're seeing on Isamu's YF-29 are the fast packs, but I could be wrong.
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    Tried out some coloring methods, and coloring these with a standard permanent marker works great. They seem to absorb the ink pretty well. Think this might have been mentioned before, possibly in the other thread.
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    Make sure to rock it in the correct direction. The tabs that hold the arm pieces on have an angled edge on one side of the arm, to let the armor slip past them. Should be on the inside of the arms in fighter mode, where a gunpod would usually mount. I think it's the side of the arm without screws. If you rock the armor towards the side with screws, it should come loose without too much trouble. If it still seems stuck though, you could try to gently lift the attachments with something like a toothpick.
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    You know what though? ST:V was still much more entertaining than Nemesis, if only for the cheese factor (5, Mister Sulu ). It also made a lot more sense than Nemesis, on every level. After an initial "bleh" impression of Nemesis, the more I thought about it, the more it came off as badly written fan-fic, and quickly went south of even ST:V. I personally love this review of the plot. http://tvtropes.org/...StarTrekNemesis
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    Yeah, actually mounting stuff off center or leaning like the VE-1 is what concerns me most about these stands. Unless you glue them together, they can flex around quite a bit, and they tend to twist under certain loadings. By the way, thanks for covering me on the picture side of things, Froy.
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    Actually, no, the center of gravity is entirely unrelated to where the stand is mounted. That's actually the entire problem, because Yamato didn't even attempt to put the mounts near where the balance points of their valks are. It'd be nice if we could get the weight centered on the mount, but I don't know if it's actually necessary. The adapter isn't the point that needs the stress taken off it, it's the hinge. Here's a quick pic of what I'm thinking. This doesn't take the stress off the actual mounting point, which still could fail. All it does is shift the weight so that you don't have a ton of force acting way behind the stand hinge, making it droop. You might need to experiment on a good extension length so you could use this type of thing on multiple valks, but I think it'd be simpler than trying to make something like a cradle. The place where this gets complicated is that you'll definitely run into gunpods unless you keep the initial mount pretty tall. Developing new mounts entirely for everything might be a much better way to go though. I still wonder how hard it would be to find hidden places to drill holes for simple mounting points to use in fighter mode. Clipping around the arms would probably work on the VF-1, but you'll need something that attaches to the metal backplate for the VF-19, and I don't know what you'd attach to on the VF-17.
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