Duymon
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paint makes the hip joints work well so i'm sure nail polish would too. I would avoid using any fricition additives to the shoulder joints though, because the material is very soft and it's a tiny pinhead-sized ball joint. For the knees just use some hot water to make the sides fit firmly
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I think in 03 there was a website renewal and everyone who was an existing member then had their accounts transfer over which is why most the old accounts you see have a 2003 start date.
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*looks at new Plamax 1/72 pics* oh damn that looks nice! *looks at 40+ unbuilt 1/72 hases sitting in boxes behind him* ...................maybe a pass
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Making more copies of the Sentinel Legioss pilot for use as fixed-pose figures (resin is too weak for ball joints so just trimmed everything off and will be doing Paperclip Pins + super glue.) Original is on the left, still deciding if I want to paint him as stick , or use one of the copies as a stick pilot figure instead
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To make my shoulder move I put some WD-40 on a pin and then touched it to the joint. was able to move it after some coaxing
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There's just a lot of things you can do with the extra size in 1/48 that you can't do in 1/60, and Bandai has much greater manufacturing capacity than Arcadia so they can tampo a 1/48 valk and sell it for 200 while Arcadia can't. Funny enough cannot seem to remove the entire nose-section and mount it on an arm like the Yammie V2 could, just for that one episode
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One nitpick I have about Bandai is the teeny weeny pilots
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I painted up the recast copy of the pilot. Was a lot harder than I thought it would be :0
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ACk wrong thread LUL was on my phone
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Sentinel did a second run of their very popular Stick / Ray mospeadas shortly after release so hopefully they do a second run of stick's legioss too in the same manner since it's sold out just about everywhere
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It's all really preference. Deep down it all boils down to: NEW VALKYRIE (even though I have like 5 of everything already in other scales), BUY, CONSOOM At least it's not like smaller series like Patlabor where most new lines fizzle out after AV-98 1/2/3 so all everyone has is like 30 ingrams and like 3 non ingram labors (if I just buy the ingrams I already ahve 10 of to support this line they'll make non ingram labors yeah yeah *shakes back and forth*)
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really? it's the same reason yamato did the reverse and went from 1/48 to 1/60 after the 1/48 series
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I recasted the legioss pilot. There was no way to get resin ball joints to work at this size or at my skill level so I just posed and glued the copy to get it to sit in there.
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oh god, i have horrible memories of the useless blue tube. I always went right for the red tube at kmart back in the day :0 I didn't use a better cement for about 15 years and then I discovered Testors model master thin cement..... used that for a few years before discovering the joy of Tamiya thin :0
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well at least we can say it blows away the 1/48 and 1/60 v2 yammies in expense
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DHL came in today with my eta. Shoulders were ultra stiff but a super tiny application of wd-40 to just overcome the friction allowed the shoudlers to come loose and now they move freely, albeit a lil tight. I just left the intake covers in the box to avoid the frustration Edit: I just realized I didn't move the croth vtol thruster back down. oh well
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been working little by little on the 1/48 VF-1. l love how the kit is mostly snap-fit-ish allowing for a lot of dry-fits. Just wish Hasegawa made closed landing gear doors for their fighter models Instead of building some complex plasticard structure underneath to support the doors I got lazy and just kneaded up a bunch of milliput and then gently pressed the trimmed doors into the milliput until they were aligned as best as they could be. after it cures I can do a little more filling / sanding to make it all flush.
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I wonder if we'll get a poseable 1/48 Houquet instead of a normie Mospeada pilot for the Zeta type.
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I finally found a use for the un-helmeted isamu fig in my collection. I wanted a real isamu for my YF-29 so I just used some hand-mixable silicon to make a mold and cast some helmets. After that I decapitated my spare unhelmeted isamu and replaced it with a helmet and then painted it with some Citadel abaddon black and waystone green for the visor
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While I love the Type Zero Proto I really want somebody to make a modern AV-0 peacemaker production variant...not a crappy one *cough*CM's*Cough*
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My Bootleg 1/48 Yammie Low viz pilot is painted up. no clue why the camera shows white flaking or so on it when I don't see any when looking at it in person. Anywho, really glad that I can just case more UN Navy pilots for any future 1/48 hase VF-1 projects hehe
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It took me 3 days to get Hobbysearch to process my shipping upgrade and get my 1st eta out of Japan. it costed an extra 2100 yen. I hope Sentinel does a 2nd wave of the Eta after they open Zeta preorders. While I do balk at the price of the Sentinels the quality of Stick/Rey/Yellow were really good and I don't mind paying the extra for such a niche series. Plus I blame Jenius for his awesome reviews that convinced me to take the plunge
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If I have any leftover after paying my expeneses and putting money away for savings I put it into my paypal as my allowance. Over the years my purchasing habits shifted as well. I stopped eating out except for once or twice a month with the wife and quit buying any sort of canned or bottled beverages. Also stopped buying smaller items like cheaper action figures (like Hi-metal R) or small-scale model kits (Hasegawa macross / Bandai Gundam) that I would just add to my backlog. It's meant the collection grows much , much slower than it used to, but when it does grow it's usually always a bigger ticket item like a DX Bandai, sentinel riobot or something.
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woo hoo, somebody cancelled their Legioss PO on BBTS so I nabbed it for my 2nd eta
