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  1. MacrossJunkie
    What? This is going to be a web exclusive? Noooooooo... The one time I want something to be a general release and they make it a web exclusive. My plan was to not pre-order and just wait until it got in people's hands to see if it still suffered from the same breakage problems as the 171 CF. Darn you, Bandai! *shakes fist* Evil bastards.
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    The panel lining was done primarily with pencil and a bit of Gundam marker in select areas. Weathering effects used Tamiya smoke colored acrylic paint and some snow color from their weathering kit. It was then sealed in with a mix of Future and Vallejo matte varnish.
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    Not a green tint, but on mine, the yellows are painted on with a very thin coat, so the grays and blacks kind of show through a little.
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    Got mine yesterday. I definitely had the impression that the color was off immediately when I took it out of the box. It's not way off, but enough for me to notice it without having to do a side by side comparison. I'm sure it won't look as different once I weather and clear coat it. If only I can find the time. I still have my YF-19's to do and I also just got my Ozma 29 in today as well...
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    This is great news. Glad to see it's still coming.
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    Dang it. Missed these too. Always opens when I'm asleep. I can't afford to stay up all night like some people can...
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    I don't know if there's anything else, but the Transformers MP seekers are almost perfectly 1/60 scale (the original ones. Don't know about the newer reworked versions) going by my measurements of the toy and calculations. So at least there's that. I haven't personally found anything else that's in 1/60 scale though =(
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    I have one from BigInJapan and one from HLJ. Nothing broken, but ankles were loose on both out of the box. They have never been in GERWALK mode ever. One of them has a slightly crooked head and the left arm doesn't slide in all the way and lock at the elbow. On the other one, the underside of the right wing is kind of popped out a little and I can't get it to sit flush. They appear to be fine otherwise, but not what I expected from something of this kind of price tag.
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    Just got mine. I got a pink slip in my mailbox saying that no one was home for the delivery this morning, but my mailman was awesome and held onto it and came back around after I got home and delivered it to me along with the regular mail. After seeing the issues with Kicker's and Mommar's YF-19's, I was anxious to check mine out. I flipped the lids on both boxes and they looked okay to me. Took them both out and transformed them. Aside from a couple things, it pretty much transforms like the VF-19 releases and thus was pretty easy for me to do. There were some sharp edges on the plastic and I managed to slice a layer of skin on my thumb. A true measure of a quality toy The ankles however are kind of loose and a little hard to get it to stand up straight in battroid. Both of them want to either lean forward or back. On one of them, I can't get the left forearm to slide up the metal piece all the way to the elbow joint and lock in place. I just can't see why. The right arm and both arms on the other one lock in just fine. A bit disappointing, but I guess I know which one is going to stay in fighter mode. Aside from those issues, it seems pretty good overall. Contrary to the opinions of some others, I actually like the feel of the plastic. It doesn't feel cheap to me. I can't wait to find some time to panel line and weather them.
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    So has anyone who has ordered the 19 from Big In Japan heard anything from them yet?
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    Wow, that helmetless Isamu figure is a lot more detailed than I expected. The head actually looks like him and not some undefined blob or like a muppet (see VF-19P Basara). The front landing gear could stand to be a tad bit longer, but not by much. The rear ones look shorter than the v1, but I think that's just because the landing gear bay doors are wider thus covering more of the wheel and giving less clearance. The Hasegawa version seems to be nearly spot on compared to the line art.
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    I wasn't speaking of the fighter length. And yes, the parts are shifted a bit like the VF-1D and other double seaters. The heatshield is definitely a bit longer and chest piece is up higher and shows the LERX underneath whereas they are hidden by the chest piece on the A and S variants. That has caused the torso to look a bit longer compared to the A or S toys which look comparatively wider.
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    Much better than NY's price. Thank you!
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    I love it. The panel lines look much finer than the deep canyons the older VF-0's had. The chest piece looks proportionally narrower too, although when I compare to the 0S, it looks about the same. It could just be the longer torso due to the double seat cockpit. The older Zeroes look kinda squat in comparison. The ankles look like its a bit more like the VF-17 or 19 implementations rather than the simple sliders for the VF-1's and older VF-0's. The knee area looks a whole lot better, lacking the visible gaps and just shaped better over all. I really do hope they keep the die cast in the arms. We wouldn't need to worry about the shoulders or arms disintegrating. I''m a bit concerned about the fins sticking out of the hips/intakes. They could like they could snap off easily by accident while handling it during transformations or even if setting it down in fighter mode without the landing gear deployed. It will just have to be one of those things people have to be careful with I guess. The alternatives would probably be to put them on ugly hinges or have them plug in somewhat loosely so that they come off instead of breaking off. Neither of which sound very good to me. I also hope they improved the locking on the gunpod handle. None of the gunpods on my VF-0's could really lock the handles into place very well (or at all). They were loose when extended for battroid mode handling or collapsed for fighter mode.
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    Boooo. I missed out on this.
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    Actually, most of them are far in excess of 1080p (with the exception of the pre-renewal ones) with many of my recent ones over the past year or so being over 4900 x 3000 resolution. The Alto Durandal is one of my older ones so some of them may be smaller when I was trying to conserve bandwidth and space. I still have the originals, so maybe I should replace the ones in the album with the full sized versions. The viewer window resizes the images to your screen size, but clicking the download button gets you the full sized image. Can't help with the black backgrounds though, sorry. Takes me long enough to do all the weathering work and shoot the photos If anyone wants to photoshop backgrounds into them, they are more than welcome to do so.
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    The Quarter definitely would need to be redone if they would want to release it again. There's large, visible screw holes everywhere, among other things. But I'm not fond of the carrier mode. I agree that we need more capitol ships and I think they ought to do the New Macross class carriers. The carrier mode for those look pretty awesome, imo, and I can guarantee they wouldn't be floppy as there is nothing in that mode to flop around. They'd be even more solid than the SDF-1 in cruiser mode since they don't even have the arms extending down the sides. I think the attack mode looks better than the Quarter's as well. Oh yes, and I think I'm going to wait until after release to get the YF-25. This is a rather obscure valk in comparison and not tied to a major character. I think there's a high chance this will be easily available after launch.
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    Personally, aside from the obvious placement of the Diamond Force insignia and the UN Spacy kites, I took some inspiration from actual F-117's, which is where some of those stickers were derived from or taken straight off of. In addition, I looked at the scant few pics that can be seen of the VF-17 from the master file books for further reference.
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    Just like your VF-1J, this is another brilliant piece. I think that paint scheme is one of the nicest VF-1 schemes I've seen. It certainly beats the ones from Macross the First.
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    There's no diagram or anything for sticker placement. You just put them where you like.
  21. MacrossJunkie
    What the hell? Basara is shooting and firing lots of missiles at things. Isn't that completely out of character? He had a massive guilt trip just firing a couple leg missiles in the show. Why isn't he flying around and singing at your enemies?
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    Thanks guys. I was concerned whether or not a white valk like the 25F was left displayed in the sunlight for an unknown period of time.
  23. MacrossJunkie
    All I know is If they ever release any more variants/color schemes for the 171, like an RVF-171 or EX cannon fodders, I definitely won't be pre-ordering them. I'll wait for the ones who are [brave | feeling lucky | fools | suckers | ignorant of past breakages] to get them and report on any problems they've had with any new releases before I even consider getting one. The fact that Bandai's customer service is utter shite in regards to fixing problems of their own making and making things right for their customers makes it an easy pass for future releases of the toy.
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    When they say "storefront item", what does that mean exactly? That it has been taken out and displayed for a while in the store front window and then put back in?
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    It seems like the toy version can as well because it has the hardpoints visible under the wings or on the side of the arms in battroid mode. It seems strange that they decided to do that for a valk that normally doesn't carry external missiles when Bandai usually leaves out that feature or goes out of their way to initially include wings that have no missile hardpoints and then sell the ones with them separately for the valks that do carry under wing accessories or missiles
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