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I dunno, maybe someone with more current experience in the industry can answer that, but my wife used to work for a huge sunglass company (as an engineer not as a retail clerk at sunglass hut)and she said that adding texture to the molds is significantly more expensive. And there's hundreds of pieces on this thing and there's gotta be a few dozen machines going so you're talking about thousands of molds that would need to be resurfaced. besides, I get the feeling bandai is looking to cut costs anywhere they can get away with it.

it does cost more, adding that pebbling texture to the molds is more difficult than just polishing the mold smooth. Well, now that I have it and after graham's warning, this thing is never going to get transformed. There's more paint apps than on the vf-25. the paint quality has consistency issues. Some of the paint on the diecast is all pebbley and obviously did not cure properly and there's little chips in the paint here and there. And like the vf-25, there's still oil on it. Not thrilled.

woohoo, it's here.

Feb 21 16:53 Departure from inward office of exchange

if it means I don't have the giant pile of buyer's remorse that I have with my armored dx vf-25, I'm happy to pay the extra price.

and for which systems?

sorry then.

all I'm saying is that I said a few words stating my personal preference, "nice, glad I waited for the repaint" and I had grief thrown at me for not liking the current shades of blue the Quarter currently is, which is by far lighter than was presented in the show and again, is not to my personal liking. and yes, "baby blue" is the shade of blue it comes across in all the myriad reviews out there. If it were just one guy's photos then fine, bad photos, let's call it a day, but it's the same shade of blue in every picture I've seen. The best one cay is that it's not quite that bright, as seen in jenius' video review (which was done well btw) but even that is brighter than I personally like and especially would not be willing to pay for it.

yeah, sorry, how dare I make a judgement based on all the pictorial review and video reviews. Obviously the only way to know what color it really is is to go out and buy one, because obviously all those reviewers in japan, hk, america, and who knows where else all took the time to doctor the photos so that magically the color appears consistent in all of those reviews but magically is something different in person. give it a rest, some people don't like the color, great that you do, I'm happy for you. I don't know why you feel so threatened that someone you don't even know doesn't happen to like the color scheme. jesus.

we should just do mini group orders and order our crap together and save on shipping.

yup, in customs. Hopefully that means we'll be getting it tomorrow or tuesday.

Yeah... I'm not on the skittle rant club, I just don't like it enough to put down money for it.

yeah, I know it's a little more muted than what the pictures show but it's still brighter than i would like. I don't know why anyone cares that some people don't like the colors. Whether they're not as bright as the pictures or slightly more muted, whatever, they're still not the colors shown in the anime. And more than that, it's just not a color scheme I personally like, what's the big deal?

same crappy high gloss/polish plastic as the vf-25, why is anyone surprised?

Because baby blue wasn't the Quarter's original colors.

yeah, there's exploration missions where you wander around looking for stuff. And there's some fun missions hidden (you don't get them from NPCs) where the game play is just walking back and forth talking to different people but the story itself is light and fun. when you get to admiral level you have two ships to choose from within the same class and they have slightly different bride crew allocations (2 engineering in one versus, say, two science officers in the other) and since the bridge officers have differing abilities depending on their own class, this can really affect how the ship you choose handles compared to the same tier but differing class.

to be fair, we didn't really need the dx vf-27 to know that the dx vf-25 was a shame.

nice, glad I waited for the repaint

yup, 14000 and amiami shipped this morning for me as well, it's all good.

I don't know about canon but with Nikon they put a lot of emphasis into their DX lineup and there's lots of DX badged lenses that at least equal if not superior to their full frame counterparts. Plastic bodies and weather sealing don't bother me as I don't shoot in conditions where those would matter and there are metal bodied Nikon DX lenses and some even have weather stripping. Besides, with nikon from the D300 on the bodies have weather stripping. Full frame lenses have their own structural problems as well. Mainly lens drift due to the weight of the glass. Macrossman: It depends on what you need the full frame for. If you you're doing it for the resolution (20+ megapixel) the 5DmkII is the superior camera. The Nikon equivalent is MUCH more expensive and doesn't perform nearly as well. If you want the full frame for the wide angle or low light performance and don't care about the resolution, then stick with Nikon because their 12 megapixel full frame bodies will out perform their canon counterparts and you'll still have Nikon's improved AF system. Nikon got the sensor for the D3x from Sony and like while they managed to improve and smooth out the performance it still doesn't have the ISO performance the 5dmkII. Most people agree that it's a fantastic studio camera but it's field performance is hampered by it's poor ISO handling. Vegas: Yeah, nikon is weird like that. When the economy took a nose dive they jacked up all their prices and they have kept them up. go figure.

I know you did but you and david talking around it being clever was making my head hurt.

yes, apparently it was. watching Lost whilst reading isn't conducive to "getting it"

not at all the same thing as what we're talking about. the colonists still had the same level of technology and arms, the French were applying naval pressure and there supply and other factors to consider. The goal of the british wasn't simply to conquer but to retake and hold the colonies. It wasn't as if the colonist militias were using bronze spears and shields and taking out tanks which is something that happens in Civ.

That's just not entirely true. If you're going to compare the cheap starter lenses versus full frame glass, then of course but the higher end cropped lenses work just as well or better than their full frame counter parts.

godsdamnit, he's saying it's a photoshop job!