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The Yamato 1/60 "Destroid" Thread


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Yamato weathering = three times the MSRP

ha! only if you're a sucker. i skipped the 1S for the very same reason. everytime a company comes out with some impossible to get item or some chase item, i just pass. this is no exception especially if it turns out to be a rip off like the 1S.

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my opinion changed after seeing those close-ups. if the weathered version is any more expensive than the standard, i'll just airbrush gray splotches along the edges of the standard on my own. it looks good enough but that style of weathering just isn't worth anything more to me. burns, gouges, and chipped paint would.

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Samples of these buggers have been creeping up all over Tokyo. They looked quite nice in the photos. But close up, i'm very much unimpressed with these.

Had a quick handle and it felt solid but very underwhelming.

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Samples of these buggers have been creeping up all over Tokyo. They looked quite nice in the photos. But close up, i'm very much unimpressed with these.

Had a quick handle and it felt solid but very underwhelming.

I'll make the inevitable question...

Define very underwhelming ^_^

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from a thread on toysdailly

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Ohhhhhhh myyyy gooooooooodddddddd! Just kidding. Cool picks! Wish it had some more ground crew, especially for the price. Ah who am I kidding all I am going to do with those little figs is figure up interesting ways to show them being crushed!

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It looks really good still and very tempting. I have an image request for anyone that has this already....

I want to see what it looks like with the cockpit open but not a close up, rather of the whole body - front and side. Why? I want to see it without the silly smily face.

I wonder if the face is easy to take off? Maybe put a painted Shockwave head on there or a VF-1J head. I am sure it would be a major mod though.

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Here is a size comparison found in a magazine a while ago. It should be about 20cm tall.

Officially that should have been 21 cm according to the MAHQ (12.7 meters / 60).

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wow, they're actually charging $100 for something that dinky? sad.

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Looking at the pictures on Yamato's website, I don't see any markings on that sample that aren't already painted or tampo'd on the final product.

This is the only image I find in the thread that has any additional markings that aren't already tampo'd on the production version.

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Most of those markings seem like the kind of thing that some people would not necessarily want pre-imprinted on their Destroid. So making them stickers would allow for customizability.

Just my thoughts...

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Looking at the pictures on Yamato's website, I don't see any markings on that sample that aren't already painted or tampo'd on the final product.

This is the only image I find in the thread that has any additional markings that aren't already tampo'd on the production version.

Most of those markings seem like the kind of thing that some people would not necessarily want pre-imprinted on their Destroid. So making them stickers would allow for customizability.

Just my thoughts...

That is a good point. And thanks for using that pic. Now looking at it again, instead of those triangle stickers on the missile covers I would want to put some cool bombshell decals. The macross Kite could have been tampoed though. I think that this Destroid would look fantastic all customed up with home made weathering and custom decals. Ron5864, are you getting one?

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That is a good point. And thanks for using that pic. Now looking at it again, instead of those triangle stickers on the missile covers I would want to put some cool bombshell decals. The macross Kite could have been tampoed though. I think that this Destroid would look fantastic all customed up with home made weathering and custom decals. Ron5864, are you getting one?

Hell yeah! I just finshed a 1/100 Bandai Tomahawk model like 35 minutes ago. It's a bit small. So the Yamato 1/60 should be perfect. I would like repaint it and weather it a bit. ^_^

Oh BTW, I'll post photos of the still drying Tomahawk model soon. Very soon!

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