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I'm still not sure if that's good news or bad news. On the one hand, my wallet could use a break; on the other hand... awesome! I don't collect Hot Toys or any other 1/6 scale stuff (if I did, on top of everything else I spend money on, I'd be in the poor house) so 1/12-ish scale Figmas are a great substitute; their sculpts are generally very good and tactile quality has been consistently top notch, with only a few quirks, with everything in the line released so far. I do wonder how the Iron Man suit will compare with the Revoltech ones in size, quality, and poseability.
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No hardpoints in evidence... sigh... such wasted opportunity. But, this thing is so slick in fighter mode that my small nitpick won't keep me from attempting to buy myself a copy.
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I don't know, putting a suit of armor on a beauty queen does nothing to improve her looks...
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If you're referring to the way the arms meet the legs in fighter mode, they are very reminiscent of the VF-1, flat sided forearm butted up against rounded lower leg, so I don't see a problem there. If your beef is with the open space between the arms in F-mode, it's less severe than on the VF-4, and there are plenty of real world aircraft with widely spaced nacelles -- F-14 being the most obvious example; so, again, no design flaw there. But I get it, you just don't like the VF-2SS, so no matter how many counter points to your criticizims I make in the defence of the mecha, you'll just come up with some other non sequitur to denigrate the design, so that we'd just end up spinning our wheels ad nauseam. Everyone else who have posted here have expressed their desire for a 1/60 toy of the Valkyrie II to be made by Bandai or Yamato, because we all would like to have the opportunity to add such a sexy beast to our collections of Macross toys. So what I don't get is the compulsion to take a wiz in the punch bowl... if you don't like cocktail, don't drink it and just say its not your kind of poison, but also don't spoil it for everyone else. So, moving on...
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Macross related items on WonderFestival 2012 Summer (JAPAN)
mechaninac replied to ahiachris's topic in Model kits
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There, fixed it!.. I'm so going to have to come up with some really convincing, self-excusing, platitude in order to justify buying this thing, but buy this thing I will.
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Not really. The VF-1 does not have a "clean" ventral area; it's got two side by side shoulders that create a flat wall right behind the stored head. Where the arms are concerned in fighter mode, the VF-2SS has a cleaner flow than the VF-1. To me, the VF-2SS and the VF2-JA are very pleasing desings, just like all the other VFs I mentioned. Personally, I like all the VF designs in all of Macross' incarnations with only two exceptions: the VA-3 and the Metal Siren. I'm also not fond of Basara's VF-19Kai and Mylene's VF-11MAXL, although the other 19s and 11s (icluding the non-canon, non-boobied delta winged 11) are awesome.
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The eyes, sure... we all buy that... That IS a very nice figure.
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And???.... The VF-0, VF-1, VF-17, VF-171, YF/VF-19, VF-25, and YF-29 all have what look like superfluous intakes; the VF-2SS is just a bit more blatant about it with the two inner ones forward of the stowed arms.
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Oh, I know the unit is canon to the show (everytime I see that sequence I'm reminded of how lousy the animation was in that episode...), I just never thought I'd see that variant released, and it seems it's not going to be. Bummer on it being just a painted 1/60 assembly kit, but I suppose that the kits of the 1A, 1J, 1S, and 1D are a costomizers dream come true.
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Looks badass in both bodes, but fighter is most definitely it's forte.
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VF-4G LITNING III ?... It's LIGHTNING, Yamato... It's still amazing to me that in this day and age, with the internet as an available resource for proofreading, companies still manage to F'-Up the spelling of English words on their products; it's one thing to misspell words in the IB, but to do it to the item's name on a promotional poster, and often on the product's box, is just sloppy (I really want to say stupid and unforgivable, but I want to be kind here). Other than that, the bird looks superb. I'm so sold on it.
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I recall seeing a similar image before, clearly remember the Alaska base 1A on the right, but I just noticed the Browny 1D on the left... non-trainer 1D on the way, too?
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7-Up or Sprite soda bottle? Soldier on man. That looks fantastic! I can only dream what the whole VF-1, done to this level of excellence, would be like... likely enough to make half the members in this forum faint in ecstatic geek-gasm.
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Inspiring, and a very ambitious endeavour. The amount of talent I see represented within these forums, for all media forms, is truly something to behold.
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Conceptually, that Elint Alpha is a nice idea and looks intriguing, but the execution is pure "kit-bash" plagiarism. Note to RT fans: You don't do yourselves any favors when you blatantly lift parts off Kawamori's VFs to tack on to an Armo-Fighter... it's beyond tacky. It's perfectly fine to take inspiration from MF to create something nifty for RT, after all a masted radar dish and belly sail are what they are, but do make an attempt to develop your own design that conforms to the aesthetics of the Mospeada mecha.
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Something like this?... vf-2ss-sap.pdf *** The pdf is 3D and can be rotated, spinned, zoomed, etc. *** Sorry, it's all just the SAP components at the moment. And before someone asks, this is just something I've been toying with off and on for more than two years (bursts of activity interspersed with long periods of lack of interest) for my own amusement and to see if I could pull it off. What you see is a 3D assembly done in Pro-E judiciously based off Bandai's 1/100 kit. Of course, being a solid model, building them in 1/60, or 1/48 for that matter, is entirely doable.
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That's so amazingly cool, it's downright indecent...
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Aren't most surfaces inside the cockpit comprised of flat panels? It occurs to me that almost everything could be cut and assembled from plastic sheet stock and only the details grown (O2 canisters, rocket nozzles, handles/controls/switches, etc). That could cut any out-of-pocket expense down considerably... just putting the idea out there...
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Now THAT is a work of art on your part, and to a much lesser extent, on Shapeways' too (they really did do a nice job). Here's an off the wall idea to get the marbles ratling in your head: get yourself a 1/6 Flight Suit Hikaru figure and have a1/6 scale cockpit made; clean it, light it, paint it... the ultimate Macross VF-1 pilot-in-his-office display piece.
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It's the suspense that kills me. Can't wait to see pictures of the 1/24 head model...
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Crisp, clean, classy... I love it!
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It's a placeholder, same as with the VF-25G. They'll have both up for preorder shortly before the release dates if they can confirm stock allocation numbers, or open regular orders once they have confirmed stock. The trick will be to be ready to pounce once they do open... no easy feat.
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That...Is...Bitch'n...! So glad I have that on preorder with NY. Thanks for posting the larger, clearer, image.
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Chronocidal, the images you posted show exactly what I was referring to. The EX's upper nose section is pinched 'in' at the bubble canopy's base, whereas the regular 171 is not... the surface flows form back to front, undisturbed, with the Hex-framed canopy smoothly transitioning from the fuselage. If Bandai goes ahead with releasing grunt units I hope they take this into consideration and design a proper upper nose half and appropriate canopy (the plan and elevation view profiles are the same for both 171 and 171EX with the exception of the canopy, so no other extra parts or changes need to be made to make it work), as well as the single visor face-plate.
