Chronocidal
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1/60 VF-1 Accessory Parts from Yamato displayed at Wonder Fest
Chronocidal replied to Graham's topic in Toys
That's really sad then. You'd think re-issuing the strike packs would be free money for Yamato, since all the work is done. I'm glad I sprung for the Max and Kakizaki bundles now. Maybe the production number issues Bandai seems to be dealing with are coming from the factory level. -
Grats on the growing family And yeah, I know airbrushing setup and cleanup are a pain.. I grew up making model planes with my dad, and I can count on one hand the number of times we actually got something painted with an airbrush. I would always build stuff far faster than we could keep up with, so I had to pick and choose carefully which kits I wanted fully painted. I mostly didn't care, since I built them to zoom around anyway. What I plan to do eventually is build a paint booth of sorts. Most likely, it'll be a large cardboard box, but I might use a large plastic bin. I'll just set it up near a window, setup my compressor, and do all my spraying in the kitchen. It's too hot where I am to do much outdoors. Fortunately, the compressor I picked up is a nice quiet one, so I mostly just have to deal with fumes. If I stick to acrylics, it shouldn't be too bad, but I'll definitely keep a window open.
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I haven't experimented with a drying retardant yet. That may have made my VF-25F a lot simpler. Biggest problem with that was the way the acrylic paints would dry so quickly that if I made more than one pass with the brush, I'd wind up peeling up the paint from the first stroke. Eventually I think what worked was to just thin the paint with water by dipping the brush in it, and then just flood the area. The water would let me get an even (but very thin) coat, and then I'd wait for the water to evaporate, and repeat until I got a good coat. Pretty sure that only worked because I live in the desert though.. the water evaporates really fast here. Bottom line is really that I just need to get up the nerve to dig out the airbrush and experiment.
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Oh, I'm pretty sure they will, I'm not worried about that. I just want it sooner rather than later. The sooner the better too. The exchange rates are already hurting, and I hate to think by the time we actually get a new YF-19, it could be upwards of $400.
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True, I got a particularly bad YF-19 I think. It has just about every problem anyone reported, save for the neck hinge pieces shattering like some folks had happen. I've fixed a few of the problems (sort of), but I just want to be done with it. I admit, I'm pretty harsh on the YF-19 design though. Between the aesthetics and bad design choices, I've been ready for a remake since I got it. It's not that it's bad toy, it's just that I knew it could be much better, and Yamato proved it with the VF-19. Now I'm anxious for them to revisit it, and bring it up to par.
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Oh, I've got no problem with my 21 and 22s, it's just that the YF-19 was the first new thing to come out after the 1/48 VF-1. That was six years ago now, and it came from the same generation as the VF-0. It came right before production quality at Yamato took a drastic turn upwards, which gave us the SV-51, YF-21, VF-11, and v.2 VF-1. The YF-19 isn't even in the same ballpark of quality as their recent stuff, and it shows. The plastic quality is reminiscent of the explodium found in the VF-0s, and it has never looked as good as the other Mac+ valks. Now that the VF-19 has come out, and is such a work of art in comparison, it makes the YF-19 look just that much worse. Note, that's besides all the technical problems the YF-19 has. My shoulders exploded VF-0 style, they can't support their own weight to any measure, the hips are a disaster, fighter mode loves to pop out of place, the gunpod was crooked, I had to fix the landing gear, etc. It was a huge improvement over the old 1/72 YF-19, but comparing it to the new VF-19s is like comparing the v.1 VF-1 to the v.2.
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I can't get to the email confirming when I preordered my Alto and Ozma, but does anyone remember the timing on how they were released? I know I got them in late October and mid January, but I honestly can't remember how long the preorder windows for those were. Those two were released so close together, I want to say I probably had to preorder the Ozma before anyone even got their Alto, so waiting on review for these may have really burned some people.
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Oh, I have two. I'm eagerly awaiting the F and P models so I can get two more, they're just beautiful. But it doesn't help the fact that the YF-19 looks sad in comparison, and doesn't even compare well to the YF-21 and VF-11. It's just several generations behind the times now, and it really shows.
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It's amusing how it shows up, but I think I have a slight obsession with wanting a new YF-19... I seriously read that as "bit the gullet."
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Agreed, I get detailed when I do stuff too, and while it's a little much for some people to read, there are others who appreciate the fine details. I'm potentially going to start using my own airbrush soon, so your tips on mixing/thinning will come in very handy for me, especially since I'm planning on using all the Tamiya acrylics I ordered (I also ordered a big bottle of their own thinner as well, but I might just stock up on windex as well). I'm expecially looking forward to seeing how you address the droopy leg syndrome, since that's what brought me to a halt building my own 1/72 VF-1J kit a while back (well, that, and the 1/48 kits ). I am surprised about that hinge line in the tail though.. Is that present on all the 1/72 VF-1s? I'm pretty sure they moved it appropriately low on the tail for the 1/48 kits, but I haven't lookd in a while.
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
This list gets filtered around a lot, there are quite a few very funny ones. I'll have to find more, but this list is clearly not from FedEx.. unless I've missed something, and cargo planes are now issued with IFF systems and targeting radar. I love this little one: Control tower to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock,three miles, Eastbound." United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this....I've got the little Fokker in sight." -
I've got the alert monitoring the "Order Stop" text, so I don't get a ton of false alarms with price changes and stuff. Though, one time they added another space to the text field for some oddball reason.
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Been running my alertbox update on the "Order Stop" text every 15 seconds for the past 3 days, still nothing.
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Nothing new yet, and probably won't go up tonight, since it'll be saturday in Japan soon. I'll keep my page alerts running though.
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Yeah, so far nothing, but I'll probably be up a while still. Probably giving it at least til three, but I'll setup my alerts to wake me if it happens after that.
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Depending on if I ever get my YF-29, I might be interested in buying them if you want to be rid of them.
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Given Bandai's history involving anything related to paint, I'd actually prefer a kit version so I could paint it and seal it myself, but I really can't see that happening. Yamato kind of went out on a limb to give us the VF-1 kits, but I think that was more for the overwhelming popularity, and crazy amount of custom designs that people have made over the years. None of the other VFs has anywhere near as many "official" custom schemes. I'd love to see more mold milking, but I'm pretty well set with the 1/100 fighter mode kits to do any scheme I really have to have for myself. They're still 600 yen at HLJ, and I plan to grab a couple more if they're still in stock around the time my DYRL CF order comes around.
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I'd call that more hilariously awesome, and I'd order 4. Actually though... I REALLY hope that happens, for one main reason: If they actually issued a Tamashii exclusive, then they'd have no excuse for underestimating the demand on these, and they might reissue them when they realize they could still sell a lot more. Seriously, I have this awesome picture of a bunch of Bandai execs facepalming in the midst of a veritable tornado of exclusive order requests, when they realize they've gotten twice as many exclusive orders as they produced of the non-exclusives. I'm really kind of counting on them making exclusives, because I really want one painted red as that hypothetical Klan VF-25S.
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I'm still waiting to hear about the order I put in with BBTS for a YF-29. My account page still lists it under the preorder section, but I haven't heard anything about it from them. I'm pretty much resigned to not getting one at this point.
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Well, I plan on staying up in person tonight. If it's anything like last time, it went up about a week after AmiAmi, so tonight might be it. Have to say, I've never been so disappointed to not be woken up in the middle of the night.
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Same.. I might have to use my desktop tonight though, that alertbox thing actually crashed firefox sometime in the morning.
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I had the alertbox set to monitor the "Order Stop" status text on the page, and it actually did change a few times, but only when they tweaked the page for some other unknown reason. The spacing changed once for instance. I think I need to run the monitor on my desktop instead of my laptop though.. I had it set to refresh the page every 30 seconds, but woke up to find that Firefox had crashed some time during the night. That add on is pretty processor intensive for some reason.
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Yeah, was having issues with the file path format it uses, but it's set now. I suppose a max volume blast of HampsterDance will do it. Sadly it doesn't use mp3s, but I have a nice collection of .wav clips. Going to put this next to my bed and leave it going tonight.
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... I need to do that. Thank you for the tip. Edit: Yes, this is awesome. I just need to come up with some way to connect it to an air raid siren so it'll wake me.
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So... Bobby as Gavil? The tiny Michael and Klan rocking out looks awesome though.