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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.- 206 replies
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They demo the VB-6 transformation at about 36 minutes in, looks like a really good solid shuttle, though looks pretty fiddly to transform, and I'm not expecting it to survive a lot of cycles. Some nice extra articulation in the feet though, and looks like a pretty good size for display, maybe a little smaller than the Bandai Robot Spirits version. I'll probably just keep one as a shuttle, and the other in destroid mode for display.
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Hi-Metal R Vermillion Platoon TV VF-1A Max, VF-1A Kakizaki, and VF-1J Hikaru
Chronocidal replied to sh9000's topic in Toys
Not sure what you mean, since he definitely has both there? Unless you had to make a repair, and you mean you had to glue the leg together, it just looks like the kneecap got stuck closed.- 126 replies
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It's actually made a decent amount worse, just by being mounted on the stand, since the giant mounting bracket blends into the packs. All things considered, it might look pretty slim with the packs taken off.
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I can say I use them as a backup, since their prices are higher to begin with, but there are other reasons to keep them as a reserve. First off, many folks have had experiences of bad packing jobs done by them, resulting in boxes getting crushed. I don't know if it resulted in any major damage, but people like their boxes intact. Personally? They have come through on my orders, but I would not call them exactly "proficient" at fulfilling them. They may or may not actually send you your order when it arrives, and you may or may not have to contact them directly to remind them that the product you paid for at pre-order is several months overdue. In all fairness, the months-long delay was because I was not in a rush to get the product, and I was genuinely curious if they would actually remember I bought it. In the end? No, they never figured it out without me sending them an email requesting what I paid for.