MacrossJunkie
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Got the Big E recently and he's currently the centerpiece of my Warhammer collection. It's a custom figure with 3d printed parts and using a McFarlane body as the base. Did some extra work to make it look a lot better to me.
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The Mk VI blueberry looks pretty good. I may have to consider getting one or two. I'm lacking Mk VI armor in my collection aside from the IF and SoH praetors. I'm running out of display space so I have to kinda choosy with what I get.
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Ah okay. I think it is the lighting that made it look glossy to me.
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Yeah, I don't see how it would work on the 19 Kai or even the S/F/P to begin with. If nothing else, the vertical stabilizers would be in the way unless they were folded back up over the legs and it just wouldn't sit or look right. It wasn't a problem on the YF-19 or VF-19 Advance since the stabilizers were on the legs themselves. Logically, it likely wouldn't have made it into the design of the S and F variants since they were optimized for space use rather than atmospheric flight and thus had little need for a high speed mode where there is essentially no drag to worry about. With the P and Kai being more or less based on the same thing but with longer wings, it probably wouldn't have carried over to those either. If I recall correctly, along with the BDI, the morphing wing materials didn't make it into the VF-22 due to complexity and cost. The YF-19 was a more conventional design and never had that feature.
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So basically this is the exact same toy as what we got years ago? Still missing the burgundy stripe on the hip gun plates, no additional panel lines, overdone tampo, having a glossy finish, etc. On the other hand, I can't say that was unexpected, but at least the other worldwide re-releases had a minor tweak here or there.
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Unlike the YamArcadia version, the intake covers can come off.
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Not to mention that if you're diabetic and need to check your blood sugar levels, you could handle one to draw some blood.
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That's going to be very unfortunate. I have been waiting/hoping that they release the 25F armored parts, but as a separate package or at least offer both individually and as a set. I really don't need another 25F. If they force a set only purchase, then it's a skip for me.
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Got mine around the same time as well.
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I really wish they made more of the 30's. I really wanted this: I personally think the YF-30 with its wings and stabilizers looked better than the 31's implementation, especially the forward swept wing variants. The A and AX were alright, but still not as appealing to me compared to the 30.
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I love the Bandai DX VF-1, but yeah, I have to agree that they're kinda fiddley. There's completely unnecessary stuff that makes handling it more aggravating than it needed to be or could have been avoided, like the individually articulated head lasers on the 1S head. The lack of a locking mechanism for the arms in fighter mode is another.
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I hope they're going to restock the Archi Pro stands. Ever since I got a functional new display case, I've been wanting to get more stands like those, but they're all sold out. I prefer those over these UN Spacy stands.
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Aside from Roid, Keith, and Bogue, the names of the rest of the aerial knights also escape my memory after all this time, Whereas I still can remember the names of the delta squadron and Walkure members. I feel they added so very little to both the series and the movies.
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I'm still waiting on Chuck's Kairos and the armored parts for that and Mirage's...
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Each row consists of two separate panes of tempered glass with the dimensions of 34" x 12" and a thickness of 1/4", supported by metal brackets 32" apart. That roughly calculates to over 60 lbs per pane which is certainly way more than needed.
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I've partially rectified the error of my ways and added two GERWALKs to my display while I added in a couple of the new ghosts that I completely forgot I had until today. Edit: Replaced with new pic. Got a couple display boxes which seem pretty good so I will get a couple more. Optimized the display a bit more.
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Indeed, that sort of case is normally used for retail displays. It's monstrous at 70" wide and 72" high with a depth of 20" or so. It came delivered on a large wooden pallet and was unbelievably heavy to lug it into the house piece by piece and up two flights of stairs. Took me nearly a day to put it together. Since I now have some spare detolfs, I offered them to my mom, so I'll be disassembling them at some point and taking them to her house and will re-assemble them there. She wanted more than the 4 she has now, but apparently Ikea has stopped making them, so this was good for her as well. Plenty of similar alternatives on Amazon, but they're not as cheap as the ~$80 that I paid for mine at Ikea 17 years ago or so.
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Or the white areas would yellow so much that you wouldn't know which were areas were supposed to be gold 😛
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At least with the 31's, they all had different head units or pods which was enough justification for me to get. This is literally just a repaint. Also Bogue hardly got to use his before it gets shot down and he never did anything worthwhile with it. I think at this point, I would rather have variants than repaints.
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Agreed. I found there was a lot of wasted space and limitations due to having the horizontal space divided up between detolfs. That's a neat setup. I like how you have things attached and hanging from the ceiling. There's a reason for that; volume of space taken up. Battroid takes up space vertically. Fighter takes up space horizontally. Either leaves space to have additional things placed in front of or above/below. GERWALK takes up space both vertically and horizontally, leaving less usable space in either direction. It's the least likely to allow for placement of additional stuff in front of or above/below it.
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Finally got a new display case for my Macross collection. The old old one had a door shatter into a million pieces and I had moved my stuff into detolfs for temporary housing, but remained like that for years after. This new one has adjustable shelves and a metal frame so I don't have to worry about the whole thing collapsing should a side panel break somehow. Only 1/60 scale stuff inside the case. I plan on finding some display boxes to put some of the stuff on top of the case in. Got a replacement door from a local custom glass shop and repurposed the old display case for my 40k stuff.
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I didn't expect this. I too wish they released the Ba instead. The crimson and gold colors don't look bad, but not sure I want to get this as it's just a repaint for a character I'm not fond of. The paint will probably peel off with the protective plastic and with their poor QC as of late and the fiddly nature of the 262, I will likely find unexpected issues that weren't present with the original release. Been burned by Bandai a lot these past few years. I would have put up with it if it was the Ba variant since it would be something new at least.
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Just an update on the progress of my submission to the Bandai replacements form. I got an email today saying the following;
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I wonder what is the ratio of unbent lasers to bent lasers is at this point. Sorry to hear about your Horus. It seems to be about as common as bent YF-21 lasers. I see so many reports of it on the discord and some in the joytoy reddit. Getting a replacement torso should be fairly painless. Less of a hassle than trying to get parts from Bandai, at least. I was fortunate with mine. The only problem mine had was that one of the claws was unpainted.
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I saw another case posted on reddit where a chunk of the canopy that had a tab on the underside had broken off. These canopies are so fragile, they come broken out of the box.
