Shawn

My stupid theory is that those pre-production back pack missile sets were just not aero enough for the jets, so he scrapped them and had them moved to the pods designs

Fast Pack set on YJA (April)...buy it now for $100...but if you read the comment on the auction, it made me laugh!!! https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r392226159 柿崎機の尾翼を見て、集める気が無くなりました。 あらかじめ注文していた本品が再来週に届いてしまいます。 キャンセルできないので、ここで処分します。 translated (machine) I saw the tail wing of Kakizaki machine, and I lost my mind to collect it. This item you ordered in advance will arrive again next week. I can't cancel it, so I'll dispose of it here.

https://www.picuki.com/profile/rodrigobarrazaaviationprofiles he has been doing new work,...the yf-19 is amazing, wow

I love a good conspiracy story and I I think I'd like to believe that Bandai bit the big one and hosed up the 100 on the VF-1S tail fin. And to prevent every valk being returned as defective or having to issue a billion right tail fins for people to replace, they doubled down on the aesthetic angle and burned the Kakizaki too. Then offered up the decal set for the 'purists'. Heck, protos that floated around in magazines, and their own promo literature had 001 on the tail fin (and I assume the one samples they send to Kawamori for his standard 'approval' all said 001 or he would have caught that too). I do think it is a very easy mistake for someone to make with all these individual parts not knowing which part is up or down, heck promo shot even one had 100 on the right ventral fin. Someone loaded the tampo machine backwards for that single stamp and as from Goodfellas... No, we had a problem... and uh, we tried to do everything we could. What d'you mean? Well, you know what I mean. Its done, and we couldn't do nothing about it. :P

Think I will wait it out for these to appear on YJA as usual. If I translate correctly, you can order up to 6 valks. So I imagine people will do as they did with the others...they will order 3 or 4, sell 2 or 3 for $60-$80 over the orig price, and end up with a free valkyrie for themselves. I've resigned to paying $240-$280 for these things until someday they are available worldwide (let me dream in 2021 ok?) S

Bringing this post back from the dead, sorry! Has anyone ever peeled away the black Bandai sticker on their 1/55 to see if it has the Takatoku stamp behind it? Its only been 35 years....SOMEONE must have peeked right??? S

Absolutely beautiful work!! I love your layouts and photography. Your themes and character choices are top-notch. Thank you VERY much for sharing this!! S

Please tone it down - if you don't like it then just pass on it, no need to bash the shit of of them. thanks S

argh, sorry, I think I did a PHP upgrade recently and I bet some upload settings go set to default I'll check on them this week and verify. I think the forum also had some sort of picture size (pixel) limitation like 1920x1080 or something. Will see if I can loosen that up if the problem lies there.

I played it no problems on my LG BluRay player. I don't think the DVD it is region locked. It is much longer version of the released commercial (what I could make out of it!) I think it was 20 something minutes. Definitely worth if it you can find it cheap. Was fun to watch. S

Highly recommended this series too, binged it a few months ago. Some of the episodes had some remarkable moments.

Yes-please tell if so! Was wondering who got that one!

Sweet pictures Christopher...and another Orange Collection valk I see in there too! (my fav 1/72s) S

One thing I discovered with my DX'es mobility the other day is that I can go full Vexar! (or Axoid to be perfectly correct)

Sharp eye on the VT-1 leg in the corner, nice! I missed out on all versions of this, so I would be very excited to start off with the PF of this.

Nice coloring! Now I know how the Focker variation will look! Thank you! S

Hi Swann, Any more Skylark stuff? I collect that too..insanely hard to find! Shawn

WTH happened to the comments here (which have been removed)...people died-knock it the freak off with your internet trolling and 'karma' bullshit. Seriously if you don't have anything supportive just fuck off and leave the forums, please. Shawn

Just got my Fast Pack set. I like the details, but the level of tampo printing seems a little excessive (my opinion). Securing the legs in fighter mode was a little stressful, the tolerances are quite tight when pushing the legs armor into the male pins form the plane. I am a bit disappointed on the Fast Pack attachment slider-under-the-backpack mechanism, there is a lot of sliding and slight bending of parts where i can see some tampo on the backpack getting rubbed off. I personally like the simple 'slot the fast pack into the backpack' idea like the Yamato 1/48, but the DX could not do that because there is no lock to keep the back packs up (like the Yamato with the little clip that spins and secure on top). Minor gripe. Taking off the engine cover to change out the skull insignia was also a bit scary. Everything is just so damn tight. Overall I dig the fast packs, but feel they are grossly overpriced for non home market people like myself (I got mine for $110, and that felt $50 too much for what I got). So...stupid question, what the heck is the deal with the little rubber o-ring type things on the leg attachment, and why do they need to be rotated between fighter and battroid? What purpose do they serve? Are they simply filler so the leg 'axles' don't look so long in battroid mode? In fighter mode there is already a u-clip for the axle to snap into. Just can't figure out why they exist. Maybe a better attachment to the stand? Thanks! Shawn

I never thought about the parts swap for the GBP but you are right. Perhaps instead of a replacement head though, they will ret-con it and do an armor protection ring that slides over the existing sensor goggle on the head. I could imagine that was why it changed color.

Was just looking at my VF-1J and wondering about the sure to come (if the tampo on the toys is accurate about connection points) GBP armor. Do you think Bandai is going to re-release the VF-1J as a Gray Google version? (sorry if this has been asked before, assume so) S

Did anyone here collect these? Know where I could find an extra volume #4?

I personally will always enjoy the Yamato 1/48s, think they did a fantastic job on the sculpt and features. Great news is that the price has dropped for them, so I was finally able to get the later 2010 releases at decent prices. Bandai's Dx is fantastic and I will surely support and get them all, but in my opinion their design is more evolutionary, not revolutionary like the Yamatos when they came out, in what was it, 2002 or 3? Here is a nice comparison video. I think the Yamato holds up quite well after all this time. I think we all too often say 'XYZ' crushes 'ABC', and it honestly gets old. Why can't we can just have multiple nice versions of things. shows

Got my S today, really enjoy taking time when transforming it an noticing all the little details how things move and pivot and lock. Can't wait for the Fast Packs later this month! Oh, and this is my first S with a beak

Sorry-not to derail the thread, but what size pictures are uploading that give an error? I've tried 4.2MB and no problems. Let me know the size so I can adjust the server! (We prefer the pics on the server if at all possible because image hosts tend to come and go, and when going back 15 years in the forums like we do, its nice to see the pictures that were in the post at the time) Shawn