platypus
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Hi, could I cfm that my model, if looked from above fighter mode, has a slight ankle tilt to the right at the right exhaust, it is indicative of a defective leg model?
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It may mean ny is camping outside the Bandai factory picking up whatever vf-31a that’s just produced hot off the press sans brown box in order to ship it out to us. Hence Bandai doesn’t even have to ship the items to ny in the brown shipper box.
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Er, so is this just an announcement or put up on sale now?
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Think it's just the white surface of the micro missiles reflecting the red interior of the micro missile housing that's making 'me look pink.
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Has anyone disassembled the leg? How hard is to take that apart? Would like to Know how bandai integrated the kneecap slider mechanism into the leg.
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Have you tried disassembling the knee cap landing gear and remod it? Any idea how to do that?
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Hi guys, does anyone know how to disassemble the rear landing gear wheels? How feasible is it to replace the rear wheels with customised, larger diameter wheels?
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Thanks for the heads up on the transformation manual. Could you verify if the rear landing gear in the manual is actually different from the image posted here?
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A nose job gone wrong... Should have corrected it if the display was meant to show-case the final product. Leaves us wondering about the quality...
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Going by the artwork, an accurate rear landing gear will require at least two bending joints. Not impossible to make at this scale, but troublesome to make.
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The point is, they've got the CAD done up for the VF-31. Bandai could have followed the details right down to the landing gear. Plus they have the experience to do so. To their credit, they've already taken pains to make the rest of the vf-31 DX look fabulous. It's just the landing gear. A little more effort and they could have perfected it. Sorry, I'm just whining aloud...
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Oh no, in anime it looks much better... See there's lots more clearance for the gear cover from the ground and the wheel is more than exposed.
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It's like bandai is just taking the easy way out. Actually I think it's possible for bandai to get the rear landing gear on the DX to look a bit more like the tomytec landing gear.
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Heh, I was trying to be diplomatic.
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Overall looks good and appears to be a well thought-out robust, construction, taking into account the many movable parts... But the rear landing gear covers look like they'll scrape the ground during takeoff and landing!!
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Ok, I got purged too by haj By hlj I meant.
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Possible... But the DX nose bay doors open outwards unlike the kit... Just wondering if that becomes an obstruction...
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Hi guys, in the model kit, the nose gear doors open up to reveal a hole, which is then used to slot in the peg on the "back bone" when transforming to battroof. But that's not going to happen in the DX version, right? Since the landing gear in the wheelwell is not going to afford any hole for that to happen... Correct me if I got it wrong.
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Keeping delta squadron to the current five units is possible if the script includes hayate piloting Messer's valk at some critical juncture of the story... Like if hayate eventually inherits the grim reaper role. Hey but then there's no reason to stop Bandai from introducing a totally new unit and pilot to bleed us further!
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Agree. I'm resigned to the fact that it's coming out from the knee. The big boys dictate the design. We are here just to buy up what they offer. :-P
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm glad Bandai's taking their time with the 31. Hope they get the landing gear right on the DX. Their 1/72 model kit landing gear don't seem to be accurate.
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Does anyone find the landing gear positions on the bandai 1/72 kit different from that of the tomytec 1/144 kit? It appears that the distance between the front gear and back gears is greater on the 1/72 than on the 1/144.
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Perhaps Bandai isn't ready/confident with the complexities of the rear landing gear... Like the 31 too, but really wondering how they are going to pull of the gear extension/retraction in the DX version.
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Just what's so wrong with sticking to the original yf-29 landing gear? I agree that in real life applications this new design is trickier to implement than conventional landing gear.
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Ok, now I see it... the video shows that without the brace in battroid mode, the nose cone tends to flop down. Not the brace is a must, but you won't get a very presentable battroid pose without it.
