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    Macross figures

    Shaorin replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    gonna have to get me one of those to go with my CM's GUTTO KURU Minmay...
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    fairly jarring difference, even in the photo. one would indeed be better of taking the head from the unassembled kit and painting it as close to match as possible. even a raw TAMIYA COLOUR tan would match better than the sandstone hue of that finished -1D head, i think...
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    -nope, standard skin. based on the similar skin/pattern found in the 1989 SEGA GENESIS game "HERZOG ZWEI"
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    god, this thing is beautiful, durable as all hell too. precisely what i had dreamed of and hoped for in a YF/VF-19 toy/scale replica since over a decade ago. it sure took over ten years for someone to deliver, but deliver did they ever, and boy was it ever worth the wait...
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    i dunno guys; that looks like it's gonna be awfully delicate at 1/72. 1/48, not a problem, but 1/72?!? i really don't know... i'm certain that i'll be sampling at least one of these, but with so much intricacy going on on such a small scale, i don't entertain much hope in the finished model's long-term (or even short term) durability. hopefully i'll be proved a flat-out Gaijin Barbarian Doubting Thomas, we'll see...
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    you ever try tightening all the accessible screws? that usualy helps greatly with loose/floppy mecha-toy joints...
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    they've physical presence, but not much else, IMHO...
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    there is little to no chance that YAMATO/ARCADIA owns a factory of any sort in china or anywhere else. esoteric Audiophile companies, producing high-end high-dollar Hi-Fi audio gear in chinese factories do not own any of the said factories that produce production runs of product for them. they merely commission a factory to produce a specified number of units of specified products for them, to their specifications for parts, fit and finish, and overall cost per unit. this would basically be how YAMATO and many other "toy" companies have been operating for decades now, and, depending on the selected factory, "YAMATO's production line" could have been producing anyone's cheap toys and/or high quality collectibles at any time before and/or after conclusion of any given production run of YAMATO MACROSS product throughout the last decade. naturally, the higher quality and better skilled the factory, the better their final products will be. and, naturally as well, the higher the commission costs for a production run. YAMATO's last few products, before their untimely demise (VF-19k/S/F/P, VF-4G) were entire orders of magnitude superior, in materials and fit and finish, to everything the firm had produced then prior to. that meant a higher grade of factory was selected, one that was better suited to produce the quality of product YAMATO obviously desired to have made. unfortunately, with that kind of high standard came high production cost, evidently far more than YAMATO was able to achieve a return upon, even with the rampant price hikes towards the end consumer. YAMATO evidently attempted to at least break even, and failed. there just wasn't a market large enough (and/or well-heeled enough) for their niche product to sustain them, with the high-production costs of their higher overall standard of product quality... ((smaller size of consumer base = smaller size of production run = higher cost of product per unit = expensive niche market product)) ((fewer units made per given production run = higher cost per unit required to produce = higher cost per unit to end consumer))
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    i'll likely be waiting for the Focker -1S...
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    you're very welcome. YMMV as always, but the 19S is an infinitely more aesthetically pleasing 19 variation than the "McDonald" 19k. a painfully obvious, no-brainer (IMHO) choice made all the easier by that $30.00 price differential. i congratulate you, sir, on an exceedingly wise purchase. i guarantee you will not be disappointed. this bird's built for lovin'...
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    expensive as all hell, but still attainable FTM, i suppose...
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    your photos are broken...
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    not likely. HG has the Western market legally cornered so far as MACROSS/ROBOTECH is concerned, which means YAMATO/ARCADIA cannot directly service Western-based customers of their MACROSS products in any way whatsoever...
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    just scored a 1/60 VF-19S myself, probably the last Yammie i'll ever be able to get at a reasonable price. i'm really loving the beauty up though; it's become my no.1 Yammie Valk, in fact, and i'd love to buy another as a spare while the excellent clearance price HKC has on them lasts...
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    you can get a much better BATTROID stance out of that thing by canting the torso back at the hips a little, while angling the intakes forward at the GERWALK joint a single click. a pic of my own YF-19 might illustrate what i'm getting at;
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    not even once, in the dozen transformation cycles i must have put mine through in the last couple days. the wings do indeed have very fine razor-thin edges, but i don't personally seem to find them dangerously sharp in any real particular way. i must have tough fingertips or something, i dunno... in related matters, i found the one issue i was having with BATTROID transformation; the nosecone linkage wasn't slid inward correctly, preventing the chest assy. from coming down upon the torso fuselage low enough to lock into place for BATTROID. that could very well be what fellow member "eugimon" was noticing in my photos. good eye there.
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    yep, i remember buying a replacement right arm for my first ever 1/55 (TF JETFIRE) from Jerry's VF-1x.com back around 2000/2001ish, around the same timeframe i got my very first Yammie Valk, that gawdawful 1/72 VF-11B...
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    it ain't all that much, really...
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    budget and space are extremely spare, so i have focused on what i wanted the most. for the most part i have it all. i'd like to add a VF-11C, (11B would do in a pinch) and perhaps a 1/55 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. (TAKATOKU or BANDAI reissue) and, in a perfect world, (ie. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN) a VMF50 DYRL Minmay. but what i currently have does just fine by me, all considered; * 1/60v.II VF-1S Focker DYRL * 1/60v.II VF-1J Hikaru T.V. * 1/72 HCM VF-1J Hikaru T.V. * 1/60 VF-19S Docker EMERALD FORCE * 1/8 GUTTO KURU Lynn Minmay DYRL - indeed, that is pretty much the core of all i ever felt i couldn't live without in the end, MACROSS wise, and anything further will be merely icing on the cake for me...
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    i don't know, i might have had it wrong there, but i pretty much had the hang of the hip mechanism straightaway, but i just might have fooled up there, i dunno. does this look right? - indeed, the tolerances are tight on this puppy. reading through this thread in it's entirety, i can definitely see just how impossible the notions of repainting/customization of an existing VF-19k/S/F/P, or marketing of an unassembled kit form of the -19 series actually is...
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    secure yourself one at HKC's current price ASAP if you possibly manage it in any way at all. you will not regret it.
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