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  1. Chronocidal
    I grew up always packing models in foam peanuts, in boxes much larger than the model.. usually things like old CRT monitor boxes and Home Depot shippers. You can cram a lot into a big box as long as you leave wiggle room.. I probably have a couple dozen 1/48 kits packed that way, though very few of them are very fragile to begin with, since I never tended to glue antennas and landing gear on them.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    It's not a cheap thing to do, but if there's anything to get multiples of, it's the YF-19 full set, because that's pretty much the only good source of weapons for.. well, everything else, unless you're very handy with prepping and painting 3D prints. The long AMRAAM-looking ones and the HMMs look great on all of the VF-31s. Really wish they would just release an exclusive weapons pack full of things to put on all of their valks... or, you know, maybe include something in the base package. Heck, I don't even care if they're painted or assembled, just give me good molded plastic kit of armaments for all of your valks, Bandai.
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    I was just hoping they'd finally paint that stupid crotch plate.
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    Bleh.. I got impatient and grabbed a second from HLJ. Whole lot cheaper than the BBTS order.
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    Yeah, the snaps for the nacelles are a little sloppy, and can cause some alignment issues along the axis of the nacelle. It's definitely not too late to fix that, since you can make sure the halves align properly before assembling them. One thing you might want to consider is clipping out the mounts inside the nacelles, and making a new mount. Bandai's pre-painted Refit was probably the best small-scale version of that design, but the Polar Lights one is a really good kit. The 1/350 kits are incredibly good, but yes, they're far too big. The 1/1000 ones are pretty much an ideal size, but the snap-together construction causes a lot of issues. Unfortunately, I think the TOS design actually has some of the most subtle shaping and details that no one seems to get. There's so little detail on the ship as a whole, it makes it hard to recognize what might need fixing. There just aren't a lot of panel lines or details to give you good reference points.
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    So it's not that the canards are super thin. It's the fact that they did this to add the extension to the airframe where they attach. These two parts right here? Butt-join against the stock Su-27 leading edge, and then the canards glue to that. I can't find any photo that looks anything like that separation joint on the real plane, because that entire section would have had to be rebuilt to house the canard actuators. It's just a bizarre add-on piece they included instead of making a new fuselage. You pretty much have to glue those on, putty the entire area, and then scribe any panel lines that should be there from scratch. Looking good! I want to ask before you get too deep into the TOS kit, have you checked the nacelle alignments? When I started building mine, I realized the stock tabs/snaps to put the nacelles onto the pylons leave the nacelles rotated at a pretty decent angle (and that's completely separate from any front-to-back alignment issues). I'm actually thinking I might use some scrap lumber and build a jig for the ship, to hold the nacelles in place once glued.
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    I was wondering why that name sounded familiar, and I went to look it up.. I couldn't help it.
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    I mean, if the cloudy canopy wasn't already a giveaway, yeah. I don't trust any of their pics for anything anymore.
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    Looks like HLJ is getting a few of these in, I decided to finally pick up the PF version. https://www.hlj.com/1-60-scale-kanzen-henkei-vf-4a-lightning-iii-hikaru-ichijyo-use-premium-finish-aca82155
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    So, it might be possible to make something decent out of it, but the molding is just bizarre. The main thing I noticed is that the "Super Flanker" kit is actually a standard Su-27 with a flat sheet of plastic you glue along the leading edge to extend it for the canards? I mean, I don't know that much about Flankers in general, but I don't think that's how aircraft upgrades work. It just looked like a really really cheap molding. The nosecone looked so lopsided I thought it got left out in the sun. This guy seems kind of optimistic about it, but the only other review of this kit I remember seeing was someone who gave up on making an actual flanker, and used the parts to make some sort of steampunk airship. Edit: Someone has built it up here, and done a decent job with what he had to work with, but yeah, this is not a good molding. https://archive.aeroscale.net/forums/233002/
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    Oh.. wow.. yeah, "MiniHobby Models".. I recognize that name. I have a Flanker made by them.. it was like $5.. and I still got ripped off. XD
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    I have to assume there's both aerodynamic and radiometric science involved to minimize both drag and radar interference, but it might be partly about where the primary line-of-sight for the radar is located, since it looks like both the 22 and 35 have their arrays tilted upwards.
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    As opposed to the regular edition that's only available for 30 minutes online at a stupid price?
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    And still with white gear that we know don't actually exist.
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    I've considered doing something like this a few times. I think where you run into issues is just leakage, since unless you tape everything down, the pattern might still get messy, and need a ton of cleanup. Unfortunately... the Galaxy class saucer is also that screwball oval shape, which means that even if you can make a re-usable pattern, you still have to make a pile of unique patterns to cover the whole thing.
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    I mean.. let's just set aside the fact that none of the girls were pilots, and it's obvious that none of those pilots are supposed to be Walkure members.. Why would they think anyone would want to buy a set of 5 non-canon schemes that have never been shown on-screen in the first place?
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    I was under the impression the actual ship that was renamed as the Enterprise-A was actually nearly as old as the original, and had just been through the Constitution class update/refit more recently. She also got a pretty good shellacking from Kang's prototype, so it probably made sense to just restore her to display status, and be done with the hull, since it was already being succeeded by much more advanced designs at that point. By that point they probably didn't even make the parts to repair her.
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    Haven't watched it.. but judging by the clips I've seen, I never expected anything to make Shatner's self-insert fanfic novels look so believable by comparison.
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    I just generally avoid DHL if I can help it, only because they're the only delivery service I know of that has an even more convoluted delivery chain than FedEx, and their site tends to be beyond useless for trying to reschedule or hold a delivery. They just don't seem interested in establishing any way to hold a package locally for a pick-up.
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    Not sure why this happened to pop up, but head's up if anyone missed these the first time around! https://www.hlj.com/hi-metal-r-vf-0s-phoenix-roy-focker-machine-bans63742
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    I think my main concern would be that they won't be able to replace it, since it's out of production, as far as I know. You might be able to get one directly from Arcadia, but even that might be a crapshoot on whether you get another broken one. If it's an option, I would also try and get replacement parts for the broken and missing bits from Arcadia. The shoulder and hip ratchet won't show much if they don't have the weathering applied, and the neck cover panel could be done with a mechanical pencil.
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    That's really disappointing, I hope someone will be able to make that right before they disappear from the market. Though, for those particular parts, you could easily swap in a replacement from a regular re-issue version, and it would work fine. It might even be worth looking into printing some of those parts.
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    Man, those Supernova customs are gorgeous. Always wished Yamato or Arcadia would do the real thing someday, but the time's probably long past. Don't think the decals ever existed in 1/48 scale either, but I'm definitely going to have to get creative with one of my Hasegawa kits.
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    They definitely sold the model kit versions through HLJ, and I have to think they made much more than 75 of each, since I have about 8 of those kits. I think I picked up three As, two Ss, two Js, and one VF-1D kit, and they all came with the same sticker/decal sets as the pre-assembled one. I haven't built any of them yet, but I picked them up as a combination future project and spare parts stash. I think I replaced a couple of broken VF-1J head parts, and maybe a shoulder hinge or two, but sadly they never released a kit in the DYRL light gray. The semi-irritating part is that they only released the VF-1D in the same tan and orange as the stock release, so I wasn't able to make an easy DYRL VF-1D scheme.
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    Maybe a dumb question, but what exactly are these? Repops of the Bandai minis? I'm just guessing since they look similar, but I can't read Japanese to tell if they actually have a company name anywhere there.
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