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Agreed, to a point. Even with the tops of the shoulders sitting flush, there is still a little longitudinal gap between the end of the shoulder and the leg. Takatoys' fix seems to be the way to go for complete correction. That said, with a little fiddling, I've got mine to where I'm pretty happy with them unmodded.

There's actually no functional problem with the rear landing gear on the 19 - people just jumped (leaped?) to that conclusion. It is capable of splaying outward of its own accord, though the joint is very stiff as shipped (there is a relief in the top of the landing gear strut to accomodate the 'tilt' movement, as opposed to the 0's notched pivot piece, and it does not require drilling/grinding/notching etc). I also haven't seen a big problem with the shoulders sitting flush on mine; it helps to tweak the top of each of the lower legs/aft fuselage inward just a little bit, then there's plenty of clearance for the shoulders to sit flat.

I have access to CNC and patterning/casting equipment. If there is a high enough demand, I could check out the possibilty of doing some parts in aluminum. I would agree though that a hard resin block would probably be a lot easier and cheaper to do.

I just steeled up the nerve to take my 0S apart and check it. Sure enough, the left shoulder joint is heavily stressed and has started cracking through, though it is still intact. The pattern of the stress is the same as in eugimon's avatar. The right shoulder shows stress marks, but it is not nearly as far advanced as the left. The left shoulder pivot was the tighter of the two (have since loosened the shoulder screws slightly), so the additional stresses stand to reason. I will get pictures up as sson as I can. Might be tomorrow.

Erik, wow, your enviro picks are great, but your oils are just amazing! More, please!

You're not alone kaneda I feel much the same way. In reality, mecha fans have never had it so good as now, what with the huge array of stuff available to choose from. Perhaps the overly picky ones just shout the loudest. Regardless, I'll just continue enjoying whatever I like, no matter how hard somebody tries to convince me that my opinion is wrong

Bumpage Does anyone have any more info on the forthcoming Megahouse Orguss toys? Please?

These look great. I love small scale stuff, particularly if it looks as nice as these do. Jenius (or anyone else), where would you recommend preordering these?

I did notice a stress mark on one of the internal blocks (same as others have reported) upon first transformation of my 19, but no other issue to report.

I quite like the 1/60s. Before the 1/48 arrived on the scene to spoil us all, the 1/60s only toy competition were the old 1/55 and 1/100 designs... And compared to these (and in their proper context), the 1/60 is godlike

, Yep. I like how Kei's name kind of alternates between "Guel" and various other abstract names. Still not too hard to follow though.

I don't think that there are two different HK sets, they are just being advertised with varying levels of accuracy. I just took a look at what is on offer on Ebay, and don't see any differences between any on auction or the ones I have. The set I have is a 4-Disc KO set, with selectable subs (Chinese, English, OFF). The subs are not great, but they're endurable, and like everybody else says, it's Orguss. When in a vacuum, suck it up

..Or, a VF-4 Lightning III I have to admit, that was my first thought upon reading Graham's cryptic message.

Best to send me a PM and keep personal transaction stuff off of the main boards. But you'd probably be looking at ~7 or 8 bucks.

Don't be. It's a cool toy, have had no issues with mine.

I've got a few, how about $45.00 + shipping? Send me a PM if interested. Otherwise, just post up in the 'Wanted' forum, and someone will be along to take your money sooner or later.

It's usually a couple of bucks more, but at generally $35.00-$45.00 MIB for either, not a big deal. Yes, you are

Here's an interesting article on the subject: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189

I'd go for the TRU 1A - has much nicer color than the standard CF... The standard CF is the same color as the 1/48, the TRU is more olive-drab like the old Taka/Bandai.

Out of around 25 Yamato toys owned, I've only had one unexpected breakage (1/72 VF-11 Hip). I did break a 1/60 VF-1 backpack hinge, but that was completely my own fault. Also had a landing gear strut break on a 1/48 CF, after a short flight across the room and a high-velocity crash onto the ground, which was also completely my own fault. Oddly enough, no problems here with either my Garland, or either of the VF0s I've bought. I don't really handle my toys constantly, but they're not exactly bench-warmers either.

Beetras? Batrain?

Yes. Unofficial total remains $122,288.

Me too.

Knight, If you have an integrated LAN on the mobo, here's a couple of things to check. First, enter BIOS and make sure that your onboard LAN is enabled. Assuming that's ok, then go to your mainboard manufacturer's website and download and install the latest chipset driver package. If your ethernet controller still doesn't show up in device manager, sounds like a mainboard and/or driver problem. You could always throw a cheap PCI LAN card in if the mobo doesn't want to play ball.

I agree with David. I think the main problem here is one of visibility - even though the thread is stickied in the 'Toys' forum, it's pretty easy to pass up as it's clustered with all the other stickies. A front-page entry/link, along with headers or stickies across all relevant MW forums would have definitely helped with visibility.