Anasazi37
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Nice to see a preview of what I ordered. I think my Lancer II reached Tenso this morning, but they haven't notified me of receipt yet. They'll likely use a larger-than-necessary shipping box as well, so lots of wasted space. Yeah, it did seem like a lot to pay for a kit, but it's a rare one that I've never found anywhere else. I more or less justified it that way and by thinking about what resin kits from folks like @captain america usually go for, due to the amount of time and craftsmanship involved in making them. Half the quality for half the price? Have to pay extra for decals? Sounds like I'm running some kind of decal racket....Just trying to help folks here and I don't take on many projects these days. For the price of this kit, not including a sheet would have been very disappointing, but we've seen worse. I'm looking at you, Max Factory. I'm still annoyed that their 1/20 valkyrie kits, apart from the armament sets, don't come with decals.
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Received notification early this morning that my 1/60 SF-3A Lancer II has shipped! Based on the tracking info, it looks to be heading to the correct post office for Tenso, so there's a halfway decent chance that this might actually work out. Fingers crossed....
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Post in the For Sale forum is now live. Starting in a few minutes, I will be responding to those who have already reached out
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For folks who might be interested. I received several inquires about making a sheet after the price for the Premium Finish version was revealed by Arcadia.
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For folks who expressed interest in a decal set for the YF-19, I should be able to do it (assuming my printer continues to work). I'm basing that decision on a scan (see below) of the sheet that comes with the first issue of the regular finish and an assumption that Arcadia won't change it for the reissue. Like the set I just made for the VF-4, there's probably a bunch of stuff that can be dropped to make the sheet more economical. (scan courtesy of the Scorched Earth Toys blog, aka @jenius)
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Sorry for the delayed response, everyone. Absolutely crazy week at work. Ran the numbers and sets will indeed be $10 each, plus shipping. I'll post something in the For Sale forum tonight and will also start responding to members who have already expressed interest.
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
Anasazi37 replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
Yes, that works well, but requires some planning and patience. Here's one process: http://www.finescale.com/online-extras/how-to/2017/11/in-the-past-it-was-future -
Not sure if you were the one asking for pictures yesterday in two of the main Macross groups on Facebook, but someone came back with this:
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I managed to get a 1/60 SF-3A Lancer II. Completed my order in the first minute of the sale. Sold out a few minutes later.
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Much appreciated. I missed that piece of information. It looks like Arcadia posted it on the opening day of the sale, right when everyone (including me) was focused on repeatedly hitting the F5 key in the hopes of snagging an item....
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Seriously thinking about it. Right now, though, I’m wondering if anyone who scored an order during the Arcadia sale last Friday has received a shipping notification. It’s been radio silence for me....
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It's this kind of price difference between the regular and premium finish that has me considering making more supplemental decal sets for collectors who want to turn their regular finish valks into premium ones on their own. I certainly can't justify dropping $500 plus shipping on this. That's equal to two DX valks....
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I've already received a few PMs about the set and will respond to those, along with putting together a list based on who has expressed interest via posts in this thread. Price per set will likely be $10 plus shipping, given that they are twice the size of the DX sets, but I need to run the numbers. Stay tuned.
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I managed to snag the SF-3A Lancer II during the first minute of the sale. It was sold out a few minutes after that. A lot of items went FAST.
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Test print successful. Those slimelight-like markings in the lower right aren't as dark as they appear in the image. Not the best lighting right now.
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Interesting idea. I just saw the ¥51,750 price tag for it on HLJ. That's nuts. These days I mainly create sets to correct injustices for collectors, like the missing and incorrect markings on the Bandai DX line, so I might have to expand that include making up the difference between regular and premium finishes for the Arcadia line.
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This looks to be a decent print layout for the set. I can get several of them on a single sheet of decal paper.
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Thank you for checking! Yes, my Tenso address is in Tokyo and Arcadia only ships to Japanese addresses, so this might actually work out.
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Added the SDF-018 and SDF-01B markings to the sheet. I measured the open area under the black portion of the upper stabilizer and it's roughly 25mm x 5mm, and based on the line art, the text should be about half the height of the open area, so the markings are roughly 12mm x 2.5mm. I went with the font used for the existing MEGAROAD-01 markings, for consistency.
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I'm somewhat nervously waiting to see what Arcadia does with my order for the Lancer. It's my first time ordering directly from them. Did they charge you any additional fees, like for shipping? My order confirmation looks like this (auto-translated): I'm shipping to my Tenso address, which should work, but they only charged me for the Lancer. They do have a FAQ section on their site, but it doesn't talk about shipping fees, just the method: I guess we'll see what happens next week.
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I managed to snag an SF-3A Lancer II during the opening minute of the event. Theoretically. The transaction went through and I have an email notification saying the same thing, but I won't believe it until it ships to my Tenso address. Their ordering system was a bit weird. Even though I had a credit card on file, I had to re-enter all of the information. And there was a dropdown menu asking for the specific date when I wanted the item delivered, which I ignored in the interest of time, and ignoring it didn't stop my order from going through. I'd never seen a menu like that before and I didn't want to stop and look at a calendar. Maybe that decision will cause them to cancel my order. I hope not.
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The site went live at exactly 1900 JST: https://arcadia.ac/user_data/special2021 They indeed sold out of some stuff FAST. By the time I finished the purchase of an SF-3A Lancer II, the regular versions of the VF-0A and VF-0S were gone. In the time that it took me to write this post, the Lancer sold out, too. Going back to bed now....
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To my knowledge, no news since they were revealed at the Tamashii Nations event this past November
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Once you start on the HMR line, you end up with the entire HMR line....
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Initial drafting complete. Was able to perfectly match all of the fonts except for the ones used on the ejection seat triangles and rescue arrows. Visibly similar substitutes had to be used for those. This was a much-needed diversion for a few hours. The designs are simple compared to some of the more complex commissioned projects I'm chipping away at, as I have time. Next steps are to change the layout a bit, to conserve paper and ink during printing, and do a test print to see how everything looks. The slightly darker yellow used in many places is always a headache, and it won't be a perfect match, but I will do what I can. I'm also not sure how those slime light markings are going to turn out. I also have to add in the SDF-01B and SDF-018 markings, which will require making some measurements on the upper stabilizers.
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