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Damn, found the front are rear landing gear on one of my VF-19Advance that I always display in fighter mode is getting really loose and collapsing very easily, especially the front landing gear.
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Not too worried about being not being able to snag a 31F so far. If it's anything like the 31J, will be able to get one close to the release date using FigInStock notifications.
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Yeah, same, I gave up my lunch break so I could sit in the office, starring at my laptop screen and pressing F5.
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Even though I was right there, the moment it went up, still couldn't snag one.
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Up and gone in one minute
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Just asked NY customer service when the 31F will be up for pre-order. They replied "today", but didn't specify a time.
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I'm 47. Damn, we're becoming a bunch of old farts....haha Still not secured a Messer pre-order.
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Damn, missed all of them. Was out of office and stuck on mobile phone with a poor connection. Oh well, not worried. Figinstock will eventually come to my rescue.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in theaters Dec. 16, 2016
Graham replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Gotta say, I really enjoyed both TFA and Rogue One. saw both 3 times at the cinema, bought the TFA Blu-ray and will buy the Rogue One Blu-ray. Yes, TFA was for the most part a retelling of ANH. However, IMO it was done very well. Great visuals and ship/weapon/costume designs, interesting and likable new characters and good action scenes and dialogue. Really looking forward to episode VIII. Rogue One, I thought had absolutely fantastic, breathtaking visuals, great ship/weapon/costume designs, some wonderful action sequences and also some good dialogue. However, yes on initial viewing none of the characters were particularly likable. However on my second and third viewings I found myself caring about them and liking them more. -
Suicide Squad, in theaters Aug. 5, 2016
Graham replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Finally got round to watching Suicide Squad on a flight to UK recently. Have to say I quite enjoyed it. I'd have probably enjoyed it less if I'd have paid to see it at the cinema, but as in-flight entertainment, I enjoyed it well enough. I did like some of the action and also the dialogue and interplay between the characters. Harley Quinn definitely stole the show. I'd probably watch it a second time on a big screen TV as a rental. Am I the only one who thought the Enchantress was hot? LOL -
When you get the magazine, could you scan and post any other pics of that VF-31A conversion please.
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Alien: Covenant (formerly known as Prometheus 2)
Graham replied to taksraven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Video I was too pixilated at the firing scene, couldn't make out what it was being fired. -
Yeah, as much as I like the VF-31, I'm only gonna be buying one each of Messer's, Chuck's, Mirage's and Arad's DX. But the VF-31A, I'll be down for 2 definitely.
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Alien: Covenant (formerly known as Prometheus 2)
Graham replied to taksraven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
But honestly how difficult would it be for them to at least do a Star Wars and stick a few greeblies on top of a real firearm to make it more sci-fi looking and not like a contemporary modern sporting rifle. Just for me, this is the kinda thing I always notice and that annoys me when watching a movie and it takes me out of the movie and spoils my suspension of disbelief. They spend millions on the look of the movie, designing cool futuristic looking space ships, vehicles, cities, spacesuits, sets etc and then cheap out on the weapons and use unmodified, present day firearms......Grrrrr. Unless that character shown in the trailer is presented as having a backstory where he's a collector of antique weapons, then this is laziness on the behalf of the production crew and designers. -
Alien: Covenant (formerly known as Prometheus 2)
Graham replied to taksraven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Yeah, Hick's Ithaca M37 shotgun, the 1911 and VP70 off the top of my head, plus whatever MG the Smart Gun was, (MG42?), can't be bothered to Google it ATM. -
And also they could milk the VF-31A mold further by releasing this:
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Has anybody heard any news whether there will be any Super Pack versions of the VF-31 from TomyTec?
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If that is the case, then assuming the VF-31's LU-18 beamgun is technically capable of having a beam grenade function, that could potentially mean that the Kairos's LU-18 beamgun is capable of firing in beam grenade mode (just we never see it on-screen). Whereas on the Seigfreid the beam grenade function may be deliberately removed or disabled to limit lethality and collateral damage. However, I have my doubt's that the VF-31's LU-18 beam gun is capable of having a beam grenade function, just based on the fact that it is physically a smaller gun than the larger, beam grenade capable beam guns carried by the Sv-262 / VF-27 / VF-30 / YF-29.
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I'm thinking the "C" in the LM-27C may stand for Compact, whereas the "S" in LM-27S is for Standard. Looking at the animation and the toys and the models, I think it's pretty safe to say that the part of the railgun visible on the underside of the shroud is pretty much all barrel and the feed system likely doesn't start until near the rear of the shroud, where the railgun attaches to the block on the forearm. What I'd really love to know is whether the magazine is (A) just in the rear shroud, (B) in the block on the forearm that the railgun attaches to, or (C) actually extends into the forearm (or at least part of it), which IMO could well be likely and give a decent size magazine capacity, given that the railgun rounds already take up much less space then conventional gunpod shells. I do wish Kawamori would publish magazine capacities for all the gunpods and also missile capacities for the micro-missile launchers.
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I don't think the 25mm LM-25S gun is actually smaller than the LM-27S 27mm gun. Physically the barrels, mountings, barrel shrouds etc appear to be externally identical size. The only difference really would have to be the bore diameter, and some modification to the feed and breach mechanism and magazine. The 25mm vs 27mm railgun debate could go either way really. Without knowing more firm details (which we'll likely never get), such as muzzle velocities, rates of fire, type of ammo used etc, etc, it's all just speculation as to which is better for what purpose and why different calibres were chosen for the Siegfried and Kairos. As Seto Kaiba theorized, it is most likely that the smaller calibre was chosen for the Siegfried in order to reduce the lethality to targets and give them a greater chance of survivability It could also be that as the Siegfried is a slightly later development of the Kairos, it was determined during development of the Siegfried that a 25mm railgun offered some small improvements in some areas, possibly in the areas of velocity, rate of fire, power consumption, slight increase in ammunition capacity etc., (all just my guesses), while still offering good enough armour penetration. But I think for the moment, after careful consideration I think Seto Kaiba's less-lethal hypothesis is most likely correct.
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I'm really hoping that if Bandai release a DX 1/60 VF-31A Kairos, it will feature the missile pod from the recent issue of Model Graphix magazine. I sure hope that pod is official, love the design. Also, hope Bandai changes out the Multi-drones in the leg bays for micro missiles as well.
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Apart from Macross Delta (which went down the crapper mid-season), I haven't found any anime I like to watch in ages. The last anime I enjoyed before Delta was the Gundam Thunderbolt OVA and Ghost in the Shell: Arise. I've been binge watching loads of genre shows recently.......hahaha.
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Yeah, finished Vikings recently. Great show. Waiting for the new season.
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I'd say given how short the barrels are on the SV-262's LM-27C forearm mounted 27mm railguns, the muzzle velocity is likely to be substantially lower than the Kairos's 27mm LM-27S railguns. As a technical nitpick, from the appearance of both the VF-31's and Sv-262's forearm guns, they are technically more likely to be coilguns than railguns as both use cylindrical shaped barrels, but anyway the creators and all published material have chosen to stick with the cooler sounding and more commonly known term "railgun", so I will too. But even if the Kairos's railguns have the edge over those on the SV-262, I'd say from what we see in the anime, based on size and performance the Sv-2d62's quantum beam gun pod appears to have the superior performance over the VF-31's beam gun.
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Alien: Covenant (formerly known as Prometheus 2)
Graham replied to taksraven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
My main issue with the trailer is why in the far future they are still armed with AR-15s with EoTech sights an M-Lok handguards. If you're gonna do a far future space movie, make the effort to give the characters some futuristic looking weaponry too, don't cheap out and use contemporary guns and think nobody will notice. Especially as Aliens set the gold standard for cool looking futuristic guns with the M41A Pulse Rifle.
