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  1. MacrossJunkie
    Haha, can you imagine if that actually were? At the very least, they'd have to replace the nose after every landing as it nose plants into the deck.
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    Also as an emergency landing brake. So many uses!
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    Or some kid is going to mistake it for some pieces of bubblegum and pop it in their mouth. Gosh, I hope that's just a mis-transformation and that the head fin can be tilted the other way. That looks really awkward and silly.
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    Thanks. I was able to get it apart using a No. 23 X-acto blade. Managed to do so without damaging the exterior, but snapped one tiny peg on the back of the inner thigh piece. The other thigh piece, I was able to pry open fully intact.
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    So I was looking at my 0D (non-PF) today which has been sitting in fighter mode since I got it, thinking about how I was going to go about weathering it. I transformed it to battroid mode and discovered that there is just no friction in the hip joints at all... If there was a breeze blowing while being held up, you'd see those legs swinging. Tried to see if I could get at the ball joint housing so I unscrewed the screw in the hip/intake and then found and popped out a screw cover in the thigh and unscrewed the screw there too. Seems like I could only pry open the front half of the thigh piece, but the back half won't budge at all. Is there another screw or something hidden somewhere that I missed or did they just stupidly glue it shut?
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    @levzloi Those are very nicely done and three of them too! Great looking finish and very clean paint application. I know, right? Especially the shoulder areas. There's so much rub and it's such a tight space in fighter mode. I always inevitably get scrapes and such in those areas during transformation. I recently got some Vallejo Mecha Varnish of the gloss, satin, and matte varieties. I've yet to test it, but supposedly it's formulated to be resistant to scrapes and impacts that mecha models would experience. I'm hoping it will be a lot more durable than Future and the regular Vallejo varnish I used in the past.
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    Haha, or like a triceratops with only one horn.
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    Dang, is that a stress mark at the base of the hinge too? I'd suggest at least popping the pin out and then trying something like plastic weld to fuse the crack back together before it gets worse.
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    lol. Sadly, I can totally see that happening. They'll also finally fix the number on the fins so that they'll be like 001 instead of 100, but then flip the one that was previously correct to 100.
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    I hope Bandai takes a go at the VF-11. We could use one with some modern standards of articulation and tail fins that aren't badly undersized. Even though I prefer the look of the fighter without super parts added on, I kept the supers on mine because I thought it was preferable to seeing the tiny tail fins. An improvement to the cockpit/heatshield gimmick would be nice too. I didn't like how the cockpit module didn't really feel stable in fighter mode. That aside, the Yamato one had pretty good proportions overall and still looks good even today.
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    Well, that's a little disappointing to hear...
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    Oh man, I don't have the FAST packs yet, but I can imagine the weight of them probably pulling down the arms in fighter mode while being handled. They're better than the Yamato 1/48's arms in fighter mode, but that's as meaningful as saying eating dirt is better than eating crap. You'd rather have neither.
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    My thoughts on the things you like pretty much mirror yours. As for the things you don't: I was okay with the wing flaps, but I can see how they would be annoying. I didn't care for the individual head laser articulation either. I think having the whole thing being on a ball joint was enough and the individual lasers were just overkill. While the 1/60 VF-1's also had that leg stabilizer, I felt that they were not as easily knocked out of place as on the DX. This part I hope they improve somehow. The arms stayed up fine on mine, but I do think they could have made the peg a clip instead or have a clip mechanism similar to the 1/60s. The legs do have a lock that is separate from the underside pegs, but that's from pegging into the sides of the backpack, but it was effective so I didn't really have much issue with these. At this point, I think the VF-1 toys since the 1/60 v2's have been fairly refined and any improvements that can still be made can't be big enough to make any new iterations a game changer, even if it had integrated intake covers that slide up and decent integrated side covers, short of it transforming itself. Having said that, the improvements on the DX make it my favorite VF-1 toy to date. The quality of the sculpt, articulation, proportions, quality and number of details, and weight all contribute to making me feel like it's much better, but I can't call it a game changer either. You could say these are iterative improvements expected of a modern toy.
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    Q1: Those ideas sound pretty good. Except for Grand Cannon. It was supposed to be a secret weapon so they probably wouldn't have plastered it on the valks. I'd be more inclined to say put "Alaska Base" on the vertical stabilizers and leave the SDF-1 markings on the thighs blank. Grizzly sounds good. Alternatively, you could also consider Eagle (plenty of bald eagles in Alaska), but it could be rather overused. I've seen customs that used U.N. Navy and U.N. Air Force, but you're pretty safe sticking with U.N. Spacy. Q2: That's the real dilemma isn't it? Acetone would likely dissolve the super glue or at the very least, soften it, but it also partially reacts with ABS plastic. And even if you were to try to force it open and not care about snapping connecting pegs inside and planned to glue it back together later, I'd be worried about stress marks showing up on the outside and that would be the least of the risks. There are other people with much more expertise in taking apart valks though, so maybe someone else can chime in with some good ideas here.
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    I bought about $1000 worth back when the stock was less than $6 a share. I imagined it would probably peak around $30. I never imagined it would double that at $60, to say nothing of coming close to $70 now. I knew I should have bought a lot more...
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    Somehow, the first thing I thought of when I saw this:
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    Probably. It might also help if you send them a picture of yourself doing a dogeza as well.
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    Being a huge fan of WH40K, I'm cautiously excited for Darktide. It's being made by Fatshark whose Vermintide games were excellent and a lot of fun. If they can improve upon what they have in Vermintide II, but in the 40K setting, then I'll finally have a decent 40K based game to play. Been so disappointed with so many of them as of late. The last good one I played was either Dawn of War II or Space Marine. Dawn of War III was trash, Inquisitor was trash. BFG 1 and 2 were mediocre and repetitive at best, Gladius was boring, Space Hulk: Deathwing had good graphics and got the look right, but the gameplay was garbage... sigh.
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    Those seem like pretty decent prices. Especially for the missile set. Tempting, but I think I'll hold out for re-issues and try to get the SSP and missile set in one go to save on the ridiculous shipping prices these days.
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    Hmm, I looked at mine and it turns out my SV-51 has two of the same ankles as well... I did get mine from HLJ, but with it being so many months since it had shipped, I wonder if they can/will still help. I sent them a message to see.
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    Wow, Hound just came out not too long ago, right? Makes me wonder if someone mistook a bag of flour for a bag of plastic powder and threw it in when they were mixing the batch of plastic.
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    I've had plastic parts literally crumbling like they just decided to disintegrate. I find tiny broken bits and particles like what happened with a leg for one of my Yamato VF-19S. I believe a 1/72 VF-11B I had also partially crumbled in the hip.
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    Is there no way to re-assign that key to function as the power button? Samsung did the same thing with their newer phones like the Note 10 series where the side button is no longer a power button, but rather to activate their ever so useful *cough* Bixbi voice assistant. To turn the phone off required going into the menu and selecting to power off or restart the phone. I quickly went into the settings and fortunately found a setting to map the side key to be the power button instead. Otherwise that would have annoyed me to no end. These companies keep making stupid decisions to put form over function or replace a key function with something inane again and again.
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    My Yamato VF-0's still seem to be fine, though a bit of a floppy mess in battroid mode. My guess is that it could be from any number of reasons ranging from environmental factors to luck with the batch of plastic used.
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    What about using something like Plastruct Plastic Weld to fix the cracks in the plastic? It melts and bonds the plastic back together.
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