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Arcadia 1/60 SV-51 Ivanov


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On 2/19/2017 at 2:22 AM, spanner said:

hehe! but not on absolutely everything but it works so well on certain odd ball planes. For example, I wanna get my hands on a Spitfire kit and have it painted up in the former Soviet colors as they used in WW2. 

 

On 2/19/2017 at 2:30 AM, seti88 said:

haha i hear ya! But the SV51 is definitely a good candidate for a ruskie star...and maybe on these too..lol...ok gonna come down from my russian star high now..:D

 

 

On 2/19/2017 at 3:45 AM, Garfinkel said:

Its gonna be more crisp and less floppy and a joy to own.

Until the legs fall off.......

Absolutely going to preorder one and then repaint my Yamato ones in Soviet colours.

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They're going to have to make a lot of improvements to get me to buy another set, I think.  My originals are just fine as after I did some work to tighten the wing hinges.

The lift fan is at least an interesting thing, but I put that at the same level as the airbrake on the 1/48th VF-1 on the "unnecessary detail" scale.

 

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I still have my Ivanov on display. I'll wait to see what improvements are made over Yamato's before I commit to a second. For starters, hopefully ratcheted hip joints and better weapon mounts. I never could get the FAST packs to attach to my 51's wings.

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The Sv-51 was shown mounting both two and four pods, at various points in the series.

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On the other hand, the tan one was only supposed to have one cannon mounted in the intake fairings, but since the D.D. and Nora molds used two, the CF got a free upgrade. :p

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1 hour ago, Sildani said:

Can we please go back to being annoyed that this is still only in renders now? :p

I think we should get a jump on things and start complaining about the premium finish version.

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3 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

I think we should get a jump on things and start complaining about the premium finish version.

Looks like the color for the canopy is not anime accurate. PO cancelled. :p

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17 minutes ago, valhary said:

I hope arcadia make a micro site to follow the development of this bird as did with the yf 19

http://arcadia.ac/yf19/diary/05/index.php

I agree. Would be nice to have that. ;)

But since I can't understand the whole Japanese texts on the micro site or even the blog update, I rather prefer photo updates instead. I'm sure a lot of people here will agree and prefers photos than texts. :rolleyes:

 

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I am hoping they'll highlight the improvements over the old mold, because I'm actually curious what the demand for this will be like.  Much like the VF-0, barring any structural improvements, the only thing to really improve visually is the molding quality, and finer details. 

With the VF-0, we got the VF-0D first, so I feel like the new VF-0A/S were more a byproduct of that.  The Sv-51 probably needs some posability and playability improvements (tighter joints, better mechanisms, that sort of thing), but from a display perspective?  I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the old and new VF-0s displayed on a shelf, and I feel like this is going to be the exact same way.

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45 minutes ago, Sildani said:

Wouldn't that mean they got the shapes and general proportions right the first time then?

Yes they did, but that's about all you can say positive about the current SV-51 toy. If you're looking at it from ten feet away it looks fine enough but if you actually get within arms reach of the thing it's just a mess of massive panel gaps and crude surface detailing.

More importantly though, The articulation on the SV-51 sucks; nothing locks together properly in any mode; and the whole thing is just a big, floppy mess.

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