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Believe it or not I built my VF-31's with krazy glue. It's the absolute best super glue and I always buy it on sale for $1.50 for 2 tubes at the drug store nearby. The only issue people have with Super glue is they use way too much. Krazy glue is super easy to control as the plastic bottle let's you super-fine tune just how much glue you want to use on each part. It's true that work-time is very low with super glue, but that's why you need to trim and test fit everything a few times before you actually make the bond.
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nonono it will be molded in BLACK plastic and painted grey lol
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US 221 is like 25.7K Yen which is way too high. Considering NY had preorder for 16k and HS/HLJ/Ami ami were all in the 19k range there's no reason to pay so high a price. I would rather wait until march/april when HLJ and others start opening up their Preorders again so that you can snag them at or below retail.
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I knew immediately the VF-31 would be super scratch-prone so the minute I got it I applied the flory's wash and clear-coated the entire thing. I would go as far as saying the paint on the new VF-31's is actually more fragile than the VF-25 / VF-29 series valks and that's saying a lot.
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Just be vigilant with watching the boards. HLJ, Amiami and HS re-open waves tend to last a lot longer than the initial Preorder windows do.
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because people kept Preordering "Safeties" at higher prices and then cancelled when they got cheaper ones near release
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you have to be looking at the screen. With the deluxe version you can have it auto-search for keywords and make your computer ping to let you know. Honestly on pre-order days I keep multiple windows open (one on new items page so I can see if other products are being added, one on macross page, one on "VF-31" Search") On this last one the place-holder for VF-31F popped up so I auto refreshed that at 5 seconds and just snagged one when the page went live.
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Everyone should get auto refresh plugins for their browsers. I use Chrome and Easy Auto Refresh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easy-auto-refresh/aabcgdmkeabbnleenpncegpcngjpnjkc?hl=en Doing that you can have multiple windows auto F5 at any rate between 5-60 seconds
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I can imagine so many people were going absolutely batshit crazy pulling their hair out while that new NY swirly loading screen kept popping up throughout the checkout process. They probably had less than 10 up for PO. Like literally had the product page refreshing and then after it went live rushed through checkout and it was gone. Luckily not cancelled....yet...
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in the VF-25 days they used to have batches of POs with rising prices but that practice has stopped recently
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wow NY is really the best deal... 16280 yen is like over 20% off
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PHEW got #2 for same cost shipped sal as HLJ before shipping
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NY product pages are slowly being added
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It has more to do with authorizations and then actually Posting. Credit cards process in 2 steps. Authorization and then posting. Authorization reserves the cash, but it isn't actually paid out of your account until the seller finalizes the transaction. Then it will Post to your account. This is why you get an authorization that may or may not disappear after a while (depending on your CC company rules). However, you need to make sure that if it did fade off your transaction history that you have enough balance for when the charge actually posts.
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Yeah I think 1 each is fine for this series
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got mine at HLJ. Sleeeeep
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HS was live for about 2 seconds.
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how do peeps get banned from Amiami? Cancelled PO's?
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it's been up for a few hours at hobbyS and Amiami. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10441392 HLJ and NY never hav ea page unless the PO is live I think
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I use auto refresh on 4 browser windows way easier than F5-ing a single page
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unfortunately the Vita works differently than the PS 3 / 4 and you're forced to single-account your vita. Basically, you choose to keep your american acct and forgo DLC or you switch your vita 100% to JP and enjoy the DLC. The extra dlc is actually pretty decent. Like 10 bucks and you get a bunch of extra missions and a lot of nice ships.
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I am taking all next week off and will totally be ready for the F5 Wars on Friday morning
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Yeah I hear ya. I think the canopy is really the only part of the valk I think could be a little better. They shouldn't have added the gold glitter to the plastic and just left it a nice clear tint like on majority of the DX line.
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I got my lone VF-31J from HLJ. I decided against having multiples since I really wasn't really into Macross Delta. Couldn't use the old panel lining technique so had to opt for Flory's Wash which wouldn't harm any of the large painted areas. Really happy with the flory's as it came out with nice, thin and subtler panel lines Btw, anyone have issues with the gap between the chestplate and nose opening up all the time? I swear they should have put in some locking mechanism because every time I touch my VF-31J the chestplate gets bumped up and i get a crooked valk.
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My paypal shows the VF-31 was only 156 bucks USD from HLJ (18000yen) Shipped out my VF-31, HMR Max and trident stand via fedex for only 3400 yen woo hoo If you're talking about the YF-30 yeah it did have matte. All pics and videos of the VF_31's in hand appear, at least to me, to be Matte and not the super gloss of the Frontier-Gen DXes
