Chronocidal
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And of course that stupid wing hinge comes back to bite the thing in the ass every time. Thing desperately needs a ratcheting mechanism.
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Ok, the hilarious part? That's what the tails looked like on the VF-19 Advance. They put it back the way it was the first time.
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The only way this release of the YF-19 is cheaper is if you get it from Japan, and take advantage of the exchange rate. Ordering the new version from a domestic retailer? I don't know if it's fluctuated, but the last time I looked, the new version without weapons was more expensive than I paid for the full set.
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I picked up 2 of the VF-19 Advance, and 3 of the YF-19 full sets, mostly just so I could pick up a pile of weapons to mount on... well, every other Bandai Valk.
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To be fair, that's kind of how the art was to begin with, just without the giant shoulder plate.
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What were you expecting, sense?
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Just noticed you mentioned mounting a second PF SDF-1 in cruiser.. how viable are hanging or wall mounts in the Moducases? I do not know if I would trust it myself, but you could theoretically suspend the cruiser over the top of everything, either from a hanging mount, or maybe somehow on the back panel of the case. And yes, I fully realize how heavily that's tempting fate.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Those stupid A-Wings piss me off to no end. Kind of unbelievable they just said "Nah, just repaint the TLJ version, no one will notice." Glad I've still got the original Action Fleet version... and the Bandai ones, which are pretty much all the same size anyhow. -
Yeah, I think I got two at release, and later bought two more broken ones just for the spare parts. Out of the four, I managed to put together two that are good for transforming, one that stays in battroid to hide the shapeways shoulder triangles, and one pile of spare parts.
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Honestly.. it kind of comes down to just liking the fighter mode. As long as these are never transformed, they hold up pretty well.
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Youch, hope they improve the stand when they get around to the Tread. If that tiny guy was enough to snap it off, the combined version is probably going to need metal.
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For a piece like that, I'd probably recommend Shapeways (or some other similar service) just to get a good rugged part, but a resin printer would probably be decent for a piece not getting any major stresses, and you'd have more color options. I can't offer any printing ability, but I can at probably get the measurements and work up the CAD model for it this week, if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
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Interesting. It's certainly more detailed than that old kit, at least. Maybe falls somewhere in the ~1/60 range. Would love to get a new version of that kit at about 1/32 without the chrome though. Looks really shiny when you snap it together, but means you're not doing any finishing work on it.
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I'd actually be curious to measure that compared to the original Episode I kit I have, because that looks much closer to 1/48. The pilots obviously are those little figures, which are probably a weird scale, but it's a really tiny ship. The original kit was an incredibly disappointing size, and the price was astronomical for the time.
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I would say that's almost certainly what happened with that entire production run. That metallic gray plastic has the material properties of obsidian. When I say how my leg shattered, I mean it, it broke up into glass-like shards that were rather sharp. That's really only half the issue though.. the other half is that Bandai used an absolutely incomprehensible design. The way the thigh rotation hinge was designed looks like it was made to explode intentionally with how terrible the idea was. Just to be clear, the part that broke off, and allowed the leg to fall off is a hollow-cored mushroom peg, with a toothed metal spring pin down the middle. THAT was what they decided was the best way to give the thigh rotation hinge friction, instead of something like a rubber friction pad on a solid peg. The thing was rigged to explode catastrophically from the drawing board, and that's before you even consider the unnecessary interlock they added to keep the leg from rotating, which is just the carrot leading you to step on the land mine when you try to rotate the legs. --------------- I know I do go off about the 171's design quite often, so apologies if it becomes a broken record, but I really want people to understand just how terrible the entire design is, in the hopes that they'll somehow avoid destroying theirs. It seriously hurts my brain that such a thing ever got approved for production, and I wish I could walk up and slap the person responsible for what an affront to good industrial and engineering design it is on every level. Bandai owes everyone who ever bought one a set of redesigned legs.
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Yeah, no, that's just Bandai's "engineering" on display. Those legs are an unmitigated disaster. I would say on the positive side though, at least yours came off in one piece. Mine that broke like that shattered beyond repair. Just imagine if they had been smart enough to just put a single solid shaft between those parts. Honestly.. if you can get the screw cover off of the lower knee without utterly destroying it, you might be able to fix the whole problem with a good old-fashioned BIC pen mod. I'm not sure if the lower section has the room for it though, the knee ratchet takes up a lot of that space.
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That really is a beautiful display. Far as the VF-19P goes though, I think the plastic is actually a very specific shade of off-white. It doesn't show up in photos under lights, but it always felt like it had a slight bluish-gray tint to it for me, which might help the plastic not to yellow. I don't know if it works the same way with plastic as it does with paint, but painting things a very slight shade of off-white tends to help the paint not to yellow.
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Reminds me, I should actually see about finishing the design I made to replace the bottom triangles with something like the Yamato VF-17 had, just a two piece panel that mounts to the original screw, and folds down. Don't think my FDM printer will work for it, but might be worth a shot with Shapeways.
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Interesting this pops up now, though thank you for the reminder that I ordered one, and didn't remember where. Had to go searching the forum here to find out I got one at AE, since my email search was being useless.
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HMR Macross Zero VF-0A Shin Kudo Use + QF2200D-B Ghost
Chronocidal replied to sh9000's topic in Toys
Bandai always does this though. "Thou shalt not include any accessory not explicitly seen on-screen (unless it's something non-canon that someone on our design team thinks looks better)." No TV Missiles with Movie VF-1s, no movie missiles with TV versions, and none at all if you didn't see it animated. Whole reason I had to make weapon hardpoints for my HMR VF-1D, they didn't even give it the hardpointed wings. At least they had the decency to put them on the DX version.- 206 replies
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Top Gun: Maverick (Top Gun 2 is comin)
Chronocidal replied to Ladic's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Honestly, it never really felt out of place to me? If they were trying to do a hand-signal based IFF confirmation, that's not something that would be universal, and would probably be kept guarded. I don't know if they were using universal hand signals or not, but if they suspected the plane was stolen, they probably would have been signaling for a confirmation signal before any other communication. -
HMR Macross Zero VF-0A Shin Kudo Use + QF2200D-B Ghost
Chronocidal replied to sh9000's topic in Toys
Glad I grabbed doubles of the VF-0S, since this one's clearly not getting any of the normal missiles. -
Actually weird, HLJ just popped up for me. What the heck, don't have to pay for that one yet. Grabbed a third there. I should be all good.
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Yeah, that's probably the way to go.
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And.. Gone. Yeah, uh.. HLJ is not even useful for any of these orders now. Gone in an instant. Got two at Anime Export and Hobbi Genki though, so hopefully those both come through. https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=74884