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Oh ok, thanks! It seems like its been a while since we got our YF-30 - I'm looking forward to this one.
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It's out already? I didn't get any shipping notice, only Payment OK.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Wow! Beautiful as always!!! Almost enough for me to take mine out of the case and weather and decal it... Love dark valks! -
Is this going to be a replay of the renewal pre-order madness or is this a sane and sensible pre-order?!
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Thanks, at just over 3,800 to ship EMS, HLJ is only 900Y cheaper than NY - not bad considering NY will save me $40-50 in customs/duties/brokerage.
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So how much is HLJ charging for shipping? (by which method?) NY charged 4,700Y for EMS.
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Thanks that's good to know. Wow, $20-30 as a min. - what country is that? I thought we had it bad in Canada.
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Can't wait to see what you do with your 1/350! Its funny how much more detailed the 1/500 is than our old 1/350 - kind of puts it to shame.
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Does anyone know what the cancellation policy is on NY? https://www.nippon-yasan.com/cms.php?id_cms=10 It doesn't say anywhere but it does say I have 15 days to pay when I receive the payment notice before your order is cancelled. Does that mean I can just cancel it anytime before I receive payment notice (15 days before release?) ie; if HLJ does their Black Friday sale and IF the VF-0 is include and IF its actually a sale of more than $40-$50 off.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Yeah, I saw that a while ago, but I thought it was just too fussy and involved too many steps. I'm trying to send it out to a dry transfer manufacturer - we just used them on the last show I was on to do a control panel button lettering and it turned out pretty good - but of course that lettering was 100X bigger than what I want to do. And because its a small personal project, its on their backburner - argh. -
Well, actually its my floppiest valk in my collection. I love they way it looks (although it still has the giant trench panel lines of the 1/48 era toys) but I can't even pick it up without the neck/forward fuselage flopping down, let alone zooming it around the room. I sure hope they've improved it since the original VF-0 - otherwise I'd sure be disappointed if they just stuck delta wings onto the old toy and decided to charge twice as much! Please, pls can someone beg on my behalf on twitter to Mr. K to make water-slide decals available as an option (I'd gladly pay for them!)
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Congrats MJ! That's the best looking YF-19 I've seen to date. Having all those markings really elevate it from a ridiculously expensive kids toy to a real adult collector's item. It looks simply fantastic, you should be proud. I can't wait to start in on mine... someday... I've re-traced all the Arcadia stickers in Illustrator to vector files, and I'm hoping to try out a guy that does "rub-on" transfers to see if he can do a opaque white now that Alps printers are no more but its taking forever for him to get back to me. I wish Anasazi was still around... (I'm so NOT looking forward to the VF-0D having to source out decals for that puppy especially since its a dark valk). It's been so disheartening to see mine naked especially after how much I had to paid for it. -
Unfortunately I know you're right... but its MW, I can bitch & complain can't I?! It really bugs me, can't they just include water slide decals as well - how much more would it really costs them to include that? AND what's with providing stand adapters to stands that they never include nor can we actually buy anywhere in stock? They're just laughing at us sayin' haha you can never use these adapters. I just don't get why everyone hates Bandai, for 1/3 the price they tampo print EVERYTHING and include a stand. You lucky U.S. people... you just don't understand the woes of paying an extra $40-50 per toy every time to the government that actively tries to prevent things you want from entering the country just because it doesn't have French on the label.
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Thanks Charger69 - just bit the bullet on ONE. Came out to the same price as the YF-19 shipped - at least I'll save $40-50 in duties with NY - I can't imagine HLJ will have a $40-50 discount. This better be better than the YF-19... - I'm only giving Arcadia one more chance because I do love the VF-0D design so much. Please, please tampo print more than just the UN Spacy Kites.
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Wow, still no stand at that price... just a stinking stand attachment, really?!
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
I'm glad to hear some people applying the stickers. You don't have to go the whole nine yards, but just trimming and using the stickers adds a great deal to the toy. That's what really bugs me about the Yamacadias, they really could tampo print everything (especially at the prices they are asking for these days!) -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Nice Photos Saburo! Does everyone just leave their Valks naked? Doesn't people use the stickers? -
Wow!!! At least we won't have to go through the Bandai pre-order shanagans. Everything better be tampo printed on for that price. I'm just not as sure anymore, as the YF-19 still left a sour taste in my mouth. It's still sitting naked on my shelf (until I can find some appropriate white printed water-slide decals for it). Judging from all the posts of amazing photography and collections, the vast majority of Yamacadias are still naked (so stickers just don't cut it!).
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Gorgeous!
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That sounds great! I love art books. How does one get all 3 books outside of Japan? Will the regular places like HLJ carry this (as a 3book set)?
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Is it 2 books? (Vol 1 & 2) available Dec 6th 2014? with Vol 3. available in 2015? Wow, 21,990 Y that's a bit steep.
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Hey derex, are all the instructions translated? Could you scan a nice copy of the english pamphlet? Where did you buy it?
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Oh ok, sorry I guess I have the upcoming Bandai Star Destroyer on my mind (can't wait for that!) I thought someone had news about it.
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Do you mean SD = Star Destroyer? What Star Destroyer, is there a decent model kit of it?
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Where did you buy it so that the box says "Starblazers 2199" Is it a sticker over the Yamato 2199 logo or did they actually print a different box for the NA export?