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  1. Chronocidal
    I think this is why they're in display cases. Beautiful setup!
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    Ok, that's incredibly impressive for a hate build, especially one started so long ago. Not wrong about the snowspeeders, those are -tiny- craft. There's a reason Bandai made them 1/48, instead of matching their other "1/72" kits.
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    I think the PF YF-19 holds up better than this one, because there are far fewer panel lines for them to shade, and it doesn't look so stark. I think it also has a lot more markings being added, since the normal VF-4 has always had a pretty good amount of tampo out of the box.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    You know, these two topics keep overlapping left and right, but to steer things back on course, I really would love to make a similar bracket for the Bandai YF-19 mold. I just spent the last.. oh, maybe three hours trying to stabilize the wings on my VF-19 Advance. So, with the right method, you can add a lot of stiffness to the rivets that keep the wings from swinging around wildly.. but unfortunately, that doesn't do anything to keep the wings from rattling around on their hinge. For whatever reason, the wings both waggled up and down rather loosely. So.. removing the tiny screw at the hinge point on the wing allowed me to -carefully- pop the glue enough to slip the hinge out of the wing. UNFORTUNATELY... when I re-tightened those screws, which are insanely tiny, they almost instantly stripped out the wings, because they have all of two threads actually contacting the plastic. What started as me just trying to add a layer of scotch tape into the pivot to soak some of the wiggle turned into a couple hours of me figuring out some way to fill and re-drill the screw holes so those tiny screws would hold the wings shut. I finally got it tight enough that the wings don't rattle.. but boy would I love to be able to get the entire wing glove apart without destroying it. I'm not touching this one again.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Yeah, I'll have to re-upload the pattern, and get it back functioning again. The POM version is about half the price, so that's not a terrible thing, but I have no idea how sturdy it is long-term. Here's the link to the POM type. If you look in my original post, I think it says how I trimmed it down, and if you compare it to the metal ones, you'll see what has to be filed down to de-conflict with the leg. https://www.sculpteo.com/en/print/bracketpomnew/uJbMhkyy?basket=1&noclickredirect=1 Edit: Okay.. scratch that, the metal files aren't available anymore because Sculpteo doesn't offer metal parts anymore. Bummer. I still have the files, so maybe I can get them made somewhere else in metal, but for now the only materials Sculpteo offers are POM, acrylic, MDF, plywood, or cardboard. Of those, I'm thinking POM is probably the best, though I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks acrylic would be stronger.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    @no3Ljm Thanks for finding the link for me! Let me know if the metal mounts aren't available, I was messing with the Sculpteo site the other day, and it wasn't behaving for me. You -can- use the POM ones, but they take a little bit of filing of the long straight edge to fit around the legs. Those were a first attempt, and needed adjustment.
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    You know the world has turned upside down when you decide to go hunt down some BSG Viper kits, and discover that the Eaglemoss releases are cheaper than the Moebius kits. Anyhow, Vipers Mk I and II are inbound now. I didn't realize that they're basically the same scale as the kits.
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    Oh, I'm definitely going to try, but I need to wait until next month to plunk down that chunk of change for it. Or wait for HLJ to list it, so I can wait to pay until release, but either way I need to be patient.
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    I've been going back and forth about these two so often in the past month. I love both designs, but they both drive me a little nuts in one way or another. Not counting the wing hinge nonsense (since I fixed that myself), I think my biggest annoyance with the Arcadia design is the knee gap in fighter mode. I think it would have been perfectly fine to extend the lower legs just a little farther forward, even if it did make the legs a bit longer. I really can't pick, but in fairness, I do have more Bandai YF-19s/VF-19s than I do Arcadia ones.. so I suppose it couldn't hurt to balance that number out.
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    I will say that as difficult as the Arcadia may be, it's still MUCH easier to take apart than Bandai's version. Say what you will about screw covers, but at least Arcadia doesn't jam them between multiple individual layers of plastic all fused together into a superglue sandwich.
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    HLJ has the premium VF-4, and I'm not terribly desperate to have one of these, so I think I'm just going to hold out to see if they sell them, so I don't have to pay ahead. I'm also not all that enthused about the fact that I'll want to mod it out of the box anyhow, which is part of why I'd rather they just print the decals, and not panel line it. But such is one-upmanship.. can't just print the accurate markings, gotta give it that extra pizazz to nudge it above Bandai's tampo job (which, let's be honest, not splattering it with all the extra crap Bandai added would have been plenty of a selling point for me ).
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    I don't think the wing roots have been altered, because that cut out doesn't exist on the underside, and you can see that space is taken up by what should be the traditional VF-31 shoulder block above the intake. After looking closely at that pic, I think the line you're seeing as the cut out is actually a panel line on the canard. There is still a small angled cut along the trailing edge, but not quite as significant as it looks at first glance.
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    Might be able to get one through Anime Export, but don't know how their price will be, and not sure if their new options to pay later would apply. I wouldn't mind waiting until September to pay for this one, if I can. It does look like they're going forward with the whole panel lining deal again, but I only now realized just how few panel lines the Arcadia YF-19 even has to fill in, so it doesn't really stick out like it did on the VF-4.
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    Yeah, that's not happening without a redesign of the mechanism... which technically exists, if you don't mind sacrificing high-speed mode, and doing some disassembly and parts swapping. I'm not sure if the parts are available right now though, I'm going to have to see if they can still be ordered. I'm fine with no weathering at least, but my wallet is still going to be jumpy until we know for sure whether a normal PF will happen.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I wouldn't be surprised if they bump it to the VF-32.. maybe just call it the "Roy."
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    If they do a -normal- PF version I might bite for one, and sell off one of my originals.. but I just want tampos, not any of the panel lining or shading.
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    Too bad they couldn't come up with this for the masterpiece collection years back, probably would have sold a lot better.
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    Yeah, yeesh, I seriously just want a VT-1 here. I have almost as many VF-19 variants as I do VF-1s at this point, and I really don't need more Arcadia copies, unless they seriously re-design the wing hinge... it gets expensive ordering all these replacement metal wing mounts.
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    A little note for those of you annoyed with the VF-1S head lasers always getting cockeyed. I popped the mounts off of their little ball joints last night to examine them, and all of the lasers are pretty much just pegged into the mounts, so they can be pulled free, and everything is pretty easy to access if you want to work on them to tighten them up. I didn't feel like using any glue, but what I wound up using was a tiny strip of scotch tape placed on the bottom of each individual laser peg, and pressed into the mount. The lasers still move, but now the friction on each laser is more than the whole mount, so they mostly stay where you put them.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    So, looking at the trailer again, it looks like the canopy is a little different at the front. Also, I think the wing tooth extensions might actually be some kind of vertical surface? The shape is weird, but they look like a rather bulky surface that might exist just to attach the boosters in their new location, which... ok, hot take, but I'm going to call that a mistake. Attaching the boosters on the outside and tucking the wings under to attach the boosters really doesn't look great to me, and I feel like messing with how good and solid the old booster mounts were is not an improvement. Have to wait to see, but I'm not really liking the mission pod sticking so far out the back either, but it's at least a little more streamlined than the original blunt one.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I think the art there is unfinished, the canopy looked identical to the older designs in the trailer, or at the most they may have tweaked the sensor windows. What I find a little funny is that the wing tooth didn't even look that big in the trailer, but it was masked a little by super packs, and poses.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    That... ok, can't quite say they ruined it, but I think the clean wing profile of the original Kairos just looked better. This just looks too busy. Also, yeah, looks like they roughly doubled the diameter of the arm cannons. More dakka indeed.
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    Ok, you know, seeing that thumbnail, I feel like they should have just straight up hired Tim Curry. I would have watched the living crap out of that.
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    See, I think if I can get the torso and wings to fold up well, this is what I'd like to aim for. It would absolutely be a lot lankier soldier, but the hardest part is working out a way to stow the huge wings. Part of the reason the original Legioss works is because it's such a stumpy robot, and the wings are tiny compared with the body, so they fit easily behind it. Get them this big, and they're going to need more folds to collapse down enough. I'm thinking I might dig into my LEGO collection and see if I can't Kawamori the heck out of it. If anything, I'm actually considering giving it a lot more Macross-ish design cues and styling to see if I can't make it look like a more logical progression from the VF-1. Edit: Built out the model a little with rough shapes, so I might have to see how it winds up proportioned. Wings are still huge. Biggest thing I really have always wanted to work into the design was some way to streamline the back of the cockpit, because it just ends so abruptly behind the canopy. You can also make the arms a lot longer in fighter mode if you give it VF-1 style elbow streamlining, and don't require them to extend for soldier. Maybe even let the tails fold onto the outside of the arm as a shield, instead of tucking in, which tends to make the tails look extremely skinny and undersized for the design.
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    You know, zooming into that art makes me think that may actually be the case, but the resolution is pretty low.
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