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Some people like the naked VF-25S as is. I know I used to have addon-pack syndrome but then I realized the planes themselves without packs are really good looking :0
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The Bulbous canopy is prolly the only greasy part of the valk. I had to use a micro fiber cloth and wipe out the inside of the canopy to clear it up on my copy. No chemicals required, just a gentle finger because the bulbous canopy is thinner as well. Also did some panel lines using my regular technique. the panel lines are a bit thinner than on the VF-25's, but not as thin and beautiful as the Yammy V2 VF-1 or 1/72 VF-25s, which had beautifully thin panel lines. Just be careful around the red paint areas as my technique which uses a bit of rubbing alcohol could just as easily wipe off that red paint O_o
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We needed a top-down shot. Such a Beautiful Plane :0
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The Easiest way to make Leon stick. It drives me nuts when he's jiggling around in the cockpit.
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So Just a warning to YF-30 owners, the Gunpod back attachment is a total pain to remove if you insert it fully into stock while the front barrels are extended. Not only is it a very tight fit when inserted into the stock, There are no tabs or anything to take it back out. In addition, if you put the back piece fully in, you cannot collapse your gunpod. To remedy this, I cut off a piece of the back attachment at an angle as below. The back attachment still works in fighter mode for a secure fit. When the gunpod is extended, you can fully insert the piece. With the angle cut, when you close the gunpod, the backpiece automatically is pushed out due to the angle, and you can pull it out with ease. I figure Bandai meant to make it like this, but somehow they..er.. flubbed it? lol
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Transforming doesn't break the triangles, they break on their own. If you get a broken triangles don't use super glue to fix them. I instead remove the triangle, use plastic weld which is super easy to apply via capillary action into the cracks and then place the triangles in a gentle clamp to hold them in place while the plastic weld does its magic. After that just some light sanding / polishing followed by spraying on a coat of gloss black and you can'y even tell they were broken. It sucks ass that we have to do this on a 140 dollar toy, but since it's the only CF VF-171 out there you really don't have much choice.
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The bad reputation of the vf-171 has made it very cheap to amass an army of them:D
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I find it hard to believe there are many members without yf-30's considering CDJ was open for an eternity and even AE had a few up for a few days post release
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This is beginning to remind me of the forever open RVF-25 preorders at Hobbyfan. Only 5% of the preorders were fulfilled there. It'd be a safer bet to get a refund and then wait until late October / early November when retailers get their actual allotment numbers. If the last two releases were any indication preorders did open up again at various sites and the majority of people were able to secure the valks at or even below retail.
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Need more YF29 love
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Updated wall of macross :0 Where the heck do I put my yf-30's that are on the way O_o
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I will need to put one in high speed mode with the rear vertical stabilizers flat
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I forgot to add in the extra NOT see the rest of the sentence it mentioned I wish the model kits had those nice custom hands =P
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Those are some nice pics Glad to see the 171 weapons work well on the 30. I have a bunch saved up since I have so many 171's
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I buy a lot of multiples, and I open everything, and I kill the "value" by customizing and panel-lining them. I could care less about the market value, what matters is their value to me. but to each his own. There's something cool about having something from 10,20 or 30 years ago and not once touched by a human post packaging.
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email them with your order number at info@cdjapan.co.jp
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Just do it. AE's EMS and SAL prices are really good, near HLJ level. When you buy something it automatically goes into a Private warehouse like HLJ's, and you can choose to sit on it or ship with multiple items for increased savings.
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gotta love how much trash people were talking about bandai before we even had in-hand pics lol
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Apparently the seller was a fluke. He shut down his paypal account so that I couldn't pay for these two 25G super bundles. 4 days without a word, and the moment I request to cancel both transactions it went through immediately... lol
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Seriously right? I bought 3x armored packs when they were marked down to less than 90 bucks a pop :0
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http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BAN14076&mode=retail more like 92 dollars, but yeah.... PS - they have 7 left at that price
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Believe it or not it's not a DX. you can tell it's the model by the shoulder and elbow joints. However, it looks awesome O_O Just wish I could score those option hands as they look 1000x better than the stock ones in that kit.
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definitely excited to see how this pan out. Looking good so far
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I think the ozzy fever has just gotten to some people. I honestly didn't expect HLJ to serve more than 1 per customer as they had never done that to any PO cept for maybe the first Alto 25F in 2011 when the renewal line just started up. I'm also the same as you WMC. I open and panel line almost every valk I own as toys are not an investment for me at all. That's what my investment accounts are for.
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Just a little bit more until release. Since I got 5 in the pipe I will take one apart to see what can be done to resolve the battroid clip issue. Hopefully there's enough clearance for a simple fix like magnets... but we'll see :0
