Duymon
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The back connection isn't an issue for me. Most people forget the step where you got to fold the swingbars before you connect the back. Doing that allows the entire assembly to click in and it holds very tight. As for the hips... yeah.. they are always kinda loose and out there.
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Bandai 1/72's were molded almost entirely in the correct colors. Trust me i have over 10 of them. Pretty sure these will be around the same. They include both decals and stickers and we cam only hope they aren't floppy like the plain 25's or the ..vf-1
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I'll get two of these just for kicks.
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I'm thinking the YF-30 to VF-31 will be about as similar as the YF-19 to VF-19. Different just enough so nothing works between them. YF-30 is still an awesome plane and has one of the best fighter modes we seen from Kawamori in a while. (Sorry super crazy sukhoi dildo nosed VF-25's and 29's)
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on a side note, did anyone watch the hasegawa anniversary macross modelers livecast? IT seems like they're def gonna do all the macross delta stuff
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Gerwalk PICS!!!! Ordered 2. VF-1d Fighter got PE parts, gerwalk gets custom resin figs, wonder what the battroid will get ....
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Tools are one of the most fun parts of modelling though, as long as you organize everything. Latest set of "tools" i got were 3 sets of Tamiya Photo-etched saws for rescribing panel lines
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Make sure you buy a good mask before you start doing anything with that resin. Resin particles def not good for the body
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Charger, that looks more like a VF-25 / YF-25 / YF-29 upper intake than a VF-171 part as far I can tell. VF-171 CF's don't really have hip problems. Most fo the issues are the shoulders and knees. A few VF-171's even have breaking swingbars that connect the top chest to the body in battroid. That's why I have so many VF-171's and pretty much part-swap to optimize each one. The ones with strong hips and chest bars are put into battroid and use 3d-printed shoulders, triangles removed. Fighter mode displays get the unbroken shoulder and lower triangles for maximum aesthetics. Kinda sad it came to that but I bought 8/10 of my VF-171's at steep discounts due to them being broken :0 I hope if they every do another CF-171, they use the same plastic as the 171 exes cuz those have all been nothing but legit.
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I'll be perfectly happy with the transforming models for now. The DX'es will be for playing
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Anyone see the Daily Yomiuri article about a Macross Delta voice actress (Minori Suzuki) that made it to the Chicago Tribune? Surprised me since that's my hometown O_o http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-wp-japan-actress-562e5b1e-f2a5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca-20160325-story.html
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A nice pic for this blog showing the surface detail. (http://mac-log.com/goods/2030) Lots of raised panels. Oh god I hope there's not a lot of seams to fill. Also, let's hope that 9 yrs later Bandai knows how to make an interlocking model kit for tight fighter mode unlike the pure friction-held VF-25 kits (has PTSD trying to get super VF-25 to look good in fighter mode... god damn legs!)
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Honestly i am more concerned about singing girls flying around and doing weird crap during battle than i am hayate getting a custom valk lol
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Man it would ve easy money for arcadia if they rereleased the vt-1, ve-1, vf-1d and max/milia 1j's. Way safer bet than the vf-19 fire valk that almost nobody buys
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I'm having mine shipped to my wife's house in Jpn. I'll pick it up at the end of the year when we visit her parents
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Bandai Macross Δ Mecha Collection Small Scale Plastic Model Kits
Duymon replied to IXTL's topic in Model kits
Just release the kits in all Grey. Any modeler will paint it anyways after they fill in the seams. For peeps that want small pre-painted fare they can just wait for the Tomytech's -
The F-35 will not be able to do CAS like the A-10 in the near future. It can't linger for hours, can't fly slow and maneuver well, can't carry a large payload, is fragile and also very expensive. The helmet is so large that it's hard to look around easily in the cockpit, according to the F-35 pilot who lost a dogfight to an F-16 that didn't even have to drop its droptanks to outmaneuver the F-35 in 2015. Radar signature prolly doesn't mean a whole lot when the A-10 is normally flying low. Plus Long-wave radar apparently can see our Stealth fighters clear as day, and the russians have been improving them for 60 years and sell them to anyone that has money. Of course he's prolly biased because he helped design the F-16 and the A-10, but he brings up a lot of good points I mean, right now our Marines are experimenting with Vietnam Era Broncos to provide CAS because the F-35 is too expensive and won't even have a working gun for a few more years. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ov-10-broncos-were-sent-to-fight-isis-and-they-kicked-a-1764407068 Pretty crazy stuff
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NO worry, just wait for the resin B-Club hand parts that are way more detailed and only cost half as much as the kit itself /sarcasm
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Dude I'm relieved these will be out near the end of the year. More time to save up for 2-3 of each hehehe
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Duymon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
OMG, another fan of the grey valkyries. Cheers Grey 1/48's + stealth packs = 1000000% awesome Next Generation :0 -
that's the bandai model-kit gerwalk. Let's hope the DX isn't the same.
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I got super lucky. My Wife's hometown is in Gunma where there are still tons of old-school mom and pop hobby shops that are cramped and stacked to the ceiling with model kits. It was like being a kid all over again as I'd search each store for an hour. I didn't care that everything was full retail price; anything to support the old-school model shops so that maybe one day if I had a kid they could experience the same awesomeness Hasegawa makes it too damned easy to mass-buy their stuff. Considering each model kit is like 2000 yen and takes around 10-20 hours to build you can get 30-60 hours of enjoyment out of 3 kits, which is more than most mainstream videogames, and you get to enjoy a cool as hell valkyrie. I think I'm done buying 1/72 VF-1's for now unless I somehow run across a stash of Sonicbirds. Those kits are absolutely evil, allowing you to mimic a navy squadron with both low-vis and high-vis CAG setups via the dual decal set.
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Wave 1/100 Macross VF-1's all have a nice DYRL pilot. GO buy one of those, then buy some casting materials and make ur own lol. That's what I used to do for the beautiful Tamiya 1/48 F-16 pilot so that I could have accurate airmen in my US fighter planes
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Dude... it's coming out in 3 months... I totally want to buy a few because the models always are fun to build, even the crappy VF-25's. But...but.. I Have a HUUUUUGE backlog of hasegawas I need to build...my last trip to japan didn't help... at all, as evidenced in the below pic
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All they need is the same solid locking that they put into the armored 25's and the vf-27 fighter modes later in the model line. If they do that i will bite.