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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
I keep mine pseudo FAST pack free. I leave the boosters off, but have the leg pieces attached, just like the VF-0's. Physics simulations for secret real life valkyries I hope! -
Yamato 1/60 VF-17 Nightmare Diamond Force (Thread no.2)
MacrossJunkie replied to IXTL's topic in Toys
I wasn't blown away in a sense that I would say "Holy S#17! This is amazing!" I was pretty impressed with the toy though and surprised that I ended up liking it more than the 171. I think I also had more fun customizing the look of my 17 more. Perhaps I will like the 171 better when the super packs for it arrive, but that still doesn't change my opinion of the base toy. I especially liked the size and weight of the 17 and the use of metal in the major joints instead of plastic. I agree with how the battroid mode looks strange from the side with the profile of the top half looking a bit skinny and the back part hanging so far off. -
I'm another HLJ convert. If a company doesn't support the product they're selling, particularly for manufacturer defects on something you just spent a couple hundred dollars on, there's no way I'm going to take a chance on buying with said company. I've fixed a few Yammies myself, but the VF-19S was such a catastrophic defect that there was nothing I could do to fix it that would have any sort of structural integrity as the part had disintegrated into little blue bits of plastic and powder. Never again.
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Thanks for the warning. I guess as long as the leg armor is attached, the intake armor should be as well to protect the paint.
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Not as bad as I thought it would be. Now just need to find some places that sell it.
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That looks great, Swoosh! I like the sticker placement. Makes me want one now.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Looks good. I like that pose there. Don't forget about the panels that you can flip down on the front of the chest area. I couldn't help but look at the books you have there. Are you a game designer/programmer? Also, who stole the moon? That sounds rather ominous. -
I concur that they should have added more tampo printing to the weathered versions. Already paying a good bit more for them and they aren't really meant for customizing so they might as well have stuck with the standard markings so that it wouldn't look so bare.
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Sunlight is worse as the UV is stronger. Flourescent lights are pretty bad as well and can easily yellow the white plastics over time. They are molded in white. In the cases of the TV Max and Kakizaki, the intakes, shoulders, head, and forearms are molded in the secondary colors, but the blue or tan on the legs are painted. The only part that might be painted white on the VF-11C are those little triangular pieces that you have to fold down while transforming in order to allow clearance for the arms to move out.
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Everytime I see this thread updated, I keep hoping it's someone saying that the pricing has been revealed. Oh well, now my post will go on to trick someone else! Muahahaha!
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Another problem I have with the pre-weathered versions are that if you apply the stickers, it doesn't look right because the stickers are clean and might need to be applied over the weathered areas. It's not a problem for people who don't put any stickers on, but for those that do, a non-weathered version would be better. That way it looks consistent whether you keep it clean or weather it yourself rather than having a weathered destroid or valk with strangely factory fresh markings. In my case, I weathered mine and tried to make the stickers look a part of it with paint wear, chips and dirt. Edit: Replaced with less stupid looking picture.
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I just got replacements for the left and right arms on my VF-0A today. It doesn't look too bad. It definitely looks rougher, but it works. I painted it with gunship gray colored enamel paint which looks close enough. I only replaced the upper arm and it still works well with the lower half once I transferred the rubber insert. I had to cut up a rubber band and stick some pieces into the socket so that the arms would stay in place for posing. Otherwise they just flop around. Thanks for making this available, Veef!
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I think the weathered versions of the olive drab destroids don't look too bad, but the weathered versions of the normal ones just look terrible to me.
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Kicker, your collection is just insanely massive! Are those actually multiples of the 1/60 Regult there in the top boxes or is it that they had to fit the parts into three separate boxes?
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
I like that shot. Did you take it in front of a monitor/tv screen? -
Luca's hasn't even been announced yet, so it's unlikely that anyone but a Bandai employee involved with the Frontier DX toys would know.
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I can feel my hand cramping up just looking at all those rivets.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
That's how I feel each time I work on one of my valks. Good job on repainting and panel lining your VF-1. Keep at it! -
I didn't even feel that it was worth the ~$120-150 it would have cost to get one when it first came out. Yamato's early attempts at weathering on that thing looked terrible. It just ended up looking like someone with dirty hands had handled the thing and left dirty fingerprints all over it.
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It's more or less inevitable for it to follow the 25G's release.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossJunkie replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
That's cool. I like that you have one for each mode and with a different loadout/pack on each. I'm sort of aiming for that with the renewals except I have to do it with just one of each of the variants and I might need to just stick to either battroid or fighter mode. GERWALK just takes up so much vertical and horizontal space within the detolf cabinets. EDIT: My millenium post! =D -
Yamato 1/60 VF-17 Nightmare Diamond Force (Thread no.2)
MacrossJunkie replied to IXTL's topic in Toys
I too started to really like the 17 after getting the toy. I think in many ways, it looks better to me than the line art version. I liked the 171 way more as far as the line art goes, but that's reversed when comparing the toys. The 17 just seems to have a lot more presence to it. It feels very substantial and heavy and just looks huge compared to the 171. It grabs my attention a lot more than the 171 does. Yamato did a really good job translating it from line art to a real world three dimensional object. -
Me too! Well, I didn't collect G.I. Joe stuff, but I did get Star Wars and Transformers. Star Wars wasn't too bad, imo, but those gen1 Transformer toys were generally the worst in poseability and accuracy. Most of them hardly looked anything like the cartoon versions and you couldn't even move the legs at all on practically 90% of them.
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I actually hated the 19S/F wings initially, based on the line art version. It wasn't until its slight redesign in the master file that I thought the 19S/F looked pretty good.
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I wonder which way Luca's pre-order will go. Bandai might anticipate his being the least popular and cut down the unit production even more drastically making it near impossible to get or it could go the other way and they produce at least the same number of units as Michael's and fewer people might decide to buy it, thus making it a bit easier to buy then the 25G. Thus far, it seems the 25G was the hardest (for me) to get at MSRP or below. I guess the YF-29 Skull leader repaint was probably harder, but I had no interest in getting it, so I don't really know how difficult it was since I didn't even try. The trend seems to point to Luca's RVF-25 being near impossible to get other than from scalpers if things continue the way they're going.
