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    Just FYI, pay attention to the seller's shipping methods, I've got bitten on a few things that charged absurd shipping costs to get from the seller to From Japan.
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    Most of my experience with motion control is at a professional level, so I'm not sure I'd be much help with hobby components. Might be worth using DC and a belt drive or friction clutch, then just running it into the hardstop with a time-based cutoff in the logic. Not sure how much a mini-servo could lift. Alternatively you could do a scissor-jack type deal, which would function like gearing and do a simple contact limit switch.
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    The only danger is overheating, fundamentally there's only one moving part.
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    The other issue with steppers is that if there's inertia, they can coast part their desired position (in addition to friction stopping them short). Though I suppose you can use hard-stops rather than limit switches with them.
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    Looks pretty good so far.
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    Oh yeah, now ¥13556 for 2 shipped on my order, down from ¥16200
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    Also I suspect that a key ingredient to getting a well received comic book movie, is to put out bad previews, let people complain, and have it fixed in the actual film.
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    Cheaper at Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.jp/HI-METAL-超時空要塞マクロス-約140mm-ダイキャスト製-塗装済み可動フィギュア/dp/B07KYYPXKJ/
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    Part of it's just that it's an easy way to demonstrate someone's gear is "high-tech" (see: Starlord, Iron Man, Black Panther).
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    Try @Xigfrid's Shapeways shop? edit: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/xigfrid3dshop
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    Not a big fan of the whole "stick a boatload of swords on it" theme they've been doing since 00. Also, at least the Red Frame Kai's sword did some interesting things.
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    Pretty much, that's about what I paid for a new Miria, shipped, from Hobby Search.
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    They will, make sure you've chosen English as your language (so you can find the option) and look around the various drop-down menus to change the country.
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    Yup, now under ¥15,000 for 2 shipped via DHL. Hell-yeah.
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    You are correct, mis-remembered. And they beat everyone else hands-down on shipping.
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    FYI, Amazon.co.jp does not charge tax for international orders, so only ¥7,400 (¥1200 shipping for 1, ¥1800 shipping for 2)
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    Got 2 actually from Amazon, ¥1800 for DHL to California for both. And now I can go back to other things.
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    Amazon will ship internationally, got one from them.
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    Eh, don't have a nin-nin account, so I'll have to get elsewhere. Not a bad price though.
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    Well, the VT-1 came with 4 figures, so VF-1S might come with Roy, Hikaru, and Misa?
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    2 computers plus a phone ready to order. Btw, anyone else just ignoring Hobby Search anymore? Their pre-orders barely last seconds...
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    In the manga, she's called "octopus lips" by at least one person, they should have gone with that. I suspect it was just a (poor) choice to make it seem more anime-eqeue, as well as to make her seem more offputtingly artificial.
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    I've got the SV-262 in all 3 modes, and it's a terrific way to display the SV-262. The proportions look good, but you can tell they're not accurate if you look closely. I actually prefer the thinner wing look on the -262 fighter. I just wish it held together a bit better, but frankly that's the Gerwalk/Battroid design rather than anything Tomytec did.
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    Got home just in time to catch the mailman...who didn't have it. Turns out they have a separate person to deliver priority stuff, and they showed up at 10am when nobody was around to sign. Grumble.
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    Mine are staying in the boxes until I have a display spot for them. At least it's a lot less tempting to play around with the diecast vs the transforming Arcadia/Bandai stuff.
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