Jump to content

mechaninac

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4204

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by mechaninac

  1. mechaninac
    Just wait until the little tike hits 2 years old... you'll have NO free time.
  2. mechaninac
    Bem vindo ao Macross World; também sou Brasileiro, porém já moro nos Estados Unidos a vários anos. Você vai descobrir que essa comunidade é muito legal, a galera aqui é joia. By the way, which one of you is the cosplayer in the picture?
  3. mechaninac
    I really dig that medium/dark gray version.
  4. mechaninac
    When has that ever stopped anyone here on MW?
  5. mechaninac
    If they make it the same off white as what they used on the VF-171EX Alto, that would be just fine too.
  6. mechaninac
    Without a doubt. While I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, as there is a lot going for it and there is some good, appropriate, acting in it (specially the guy who played Okita), it's hard to ignore the overwhelming abundance of over-the-top, vaudeville-esque level, cringe worthy, ham acting throughout. I'm sure a lot of it is due to lack of my familiarity with Japanese method acting (they seem to put a lot of emphasis on exaggerated facial expressions and body motions); regardless, it does come across as very jarring to many western audiences.
  7. mechaninac
    Hey Captain, would it be feasible to engineer the kit in such a way as to allow easy modding in order to install working joints?... not asking for the kit to be made posable, only to make it easy for the more ambitious among us to make it posable.
  8. mechaninac
    They charged me 1900 Yen SAL... good thing I had 300 Yen in points so the shipping ended up being only 20 Yen more than what HS or HLJ would be.
  9. mechaninac
    As I wrote in my last post, I did so as well; ordered them at the same time and combined the shipping (SAL) as it may save me a couple of bucks... I can wait.
  10. mechaninac
    Since I bundled my 25G Super Parts shipping with the yet-to-be-released RVF ones, I'll have to wait awhile before my stuff ships from N-Y... not a big deal as I'm not in any hurry, and having them ship together saves me money, but being forced to pay for the latter because the former has been released was a bit of a bother.
  11. mechaninac
    Got my VF-25A from HS in the mail today, 13 days total transit time via SAL... not as good as my previous 7 and 6 days for the VF-25F and VF-27, respectively, but still damn good, and there is no faulting their excellent boxing job which pretty much guarantees the pristine nature of the packed contents. First impressions: Gorgeous color... a grayish beige with a hint of green; I'd call it a light khaki -- taking into account my current lighting, so my perception of it's color may change under other illumination conditions. Wings are not as flat as on my RVF-25... better than my old renewal VF-25F & G, but a slight step back. But at least the gummy antenna is dead straight. Right shoulder block somewhat misaligned so that it does not sit flush with the rest of the upper fuselage... will need to go through a full transformation sequence to correct. Paint apps are perfect. Mold release oil abounds. Tight joints all around. Gunmetal colored gunpod is brilliant... why did Bandai not go this rout with all renewals (I'm aware Ozma's shares the dark colored gun)? The purple stick of the F and RVF is so crappy looking by comparison. Love the canopy tint color in this toy; here's hoping Isamu's 29 will have the same treatment... heck, I wish Arcadia would match it for their upcoming YF-19 too.
  12. mechaninac
    I'd think that a 10% premium would be perfectly acceptable for matte finish; so, on a MSRP of 14000 Yen you'd see a 1400 Yen markup... plenty, if spread across all the Messiah versions + rereleases. True. Once Kawamori insisted on a high gloss finish for the Fire Valk, all subsequent models in the line, sharing most of the same parts, were saddled with gloss as well... which makes all the VF-19s look far more at home next to Bandai's not-quite-as-ultra-gloss (more than semi-gloss, but not as reflective as the 19's show car finish) Frontier lines than Yamato's every other 1/60s. Arcadia could, if they chose to do so, have texture added to the 19's molds (at this point, with the tools already in existence, the cost would be easily amortized by sales at their jacked-up MSRPs) so that future Excaliburs released under their name would have a nice, non-reflective, scale friendly, militarily appropriate, matte finish... but that would preclude them from ever releasing another mirror finish, clownish, VF-19Kai.
  13. mechaninac
    MacrossJunkie is closer to the reason, but it's cost, not ease, that is the determining factor. In order to produce a high gloss finish on a molded plastic part, the tool cavities have to be polished to a very high degree, and in order to achieve a matt finish the inside surfaces of the molds also have to be considerably polished to then be textured, so that a gloss finish is less expensive than a matt one; also, wear and tear on textured mold-tool surfaces is considerably higher that on polished ones (ejection friction, specially on "vertical" faces, plays havoc on the minute bumps and pits that create the matt effect); therefore requiring far more maintenance (texture re-etching) than the polished alternative... matt costs more.
  14. mechaninac
    That's no entirely true. As to whether it's a one-off or limited edition resin kit, I have no idea. More here
  15. mechaninac
    Do hog away, by all means. Fantastic customs, and a real "if only Beagle had..." bummer.
  16. mechaninac
    Fret not, I'm sure Disney will do as good a promotional job as they brought to bare with John Carter.
  17. mechaninac
    VF-25A is back in stock at HS as well, but CDJ's price is better.
  18. mechaninac
    +1
  19. mechaninac
    That would depend on the car, wouldn't it?
  20. mechaninac
    I sure hope the movie, if there is one (guaranteed to happen, I know), will not be the end of the Yamato remake journey; Voyage to Iscandar may be over, but there is still Comet Empire and Bolar Wars that I'd like to see come to fruition.
  21. mechaninac
    Damn you! Got myself a second one to deck out with the upcoming Super Parts... if only the exchange rate were more favorable this would've been a real bargain, but at about $133.00 USD shipped via SAL, I guess I can't complain too much.
  22. mechaninac
    You're a glutton for punishment? Or is it a case of having to laugh to keep from crying?
  23. mechaninac
    You'd think that with those massive wings flipped back, angel like, they'd be able to fold in such a way as to block the cockpit from view from the side; Kawamori's, not Bandai's, fault, however. Another thing I'd like to see is functional wing hard points to share ordnance with the VF-171; heck, I wish Bandai and Arcadia would integrate hard points by default.
  24. mechaninac
    wonky battroid or not, that fighter looks way too badass to pass up... kind of like the VF-4 in that regard.
  25. mechaninac
    Oh, come now... don't you know that Overtech solves all? I do agree, though; the folded-back-from-smallish-hinges wings motif of the Frontier YF-24 derived designs would be extremely fragile in real life, and look very back heavy to boot... not that the hip hangers on the VF-14 and YF-19/VF-19s are any better with regards to fragility.
×
×
  • Create New...