DyNo Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Some additional pics from yamato blog: I can't wait....I must have it now!!!!
Dobber Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 BTW, those pictures are gorgeous!!! Love the launch config pose. Chris
kensei Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 I stand corrected. Perhaps you were thinking back to the times of the VF-J Hikaru. I don't know about the singles, but the super Pack was never clearly shown, all we saw was a side profile, and it wasn't in focus. We just knew that the box was going to be fat.
Scream Man Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Its defionitely a sweet looking toy, but Im still going to hold off for the purple one.
Repiv_Onex Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Its defionitely a sweet looking toy, but Im still going to hold off for the purple one. Actually I did prefer the Nora Type too. However I doubt Yamato will use the right purple for Nora's and I think Yamato's going to fail Nora's original scheme(Hard to get the purple we saw in Zero to material like this).
kensei Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Kinda easier to do the Ivanov for the first run. I can't wait to see how the wings hold up.
jenius Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 That thing is begging for a flexi-stand from LOS. I'm sorry, i think all display stands should be transparent.
do not disturb Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) hmmm...... Edited May 16, 2007 by do not disturb
doodler7 Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 I've always thought the look of the SV-51 in black is like the Angel of Death. Pretty scary looking. Can anyone, if they get a chance, verify the top speed of SV-51? Mach 2.81 ? They displayed this fighter on Macross Plus to be very agile and really fast, out-accelerating and out-manouvering the F-14s...which are not that slow at Mach 2.4 top speed.
Dante74 Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 That thing is begging for a flexi-stand from LOS. I'm sorry, i think all display stands should be transparent. Agreed. Even though I think it's pretty cool of Yamato to add the stand in the package. hmmm...... SNAP! (wouldn't want to piss off areaseven so I took the pic out ) Looks scary doesn't it?
dizman Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) EEEP! that looks really fragile there. I guess all we can do is hope that that joint is made of some pretty sturdy materials... Edited May 16, 2007 by dizman
Lonewolf Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 That bird is really nice, I really hope to be able to get my hands on one someday when my wife and wallet let me.
David Hingtgen Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Can anyone, if they get a chance, verify the top speed of SV-51? Mach 2.81 ? They displayed this fighter on Macross Plus to be very agile and really fast, out-accelerating and out-manouvering the F-14s...which are not that slow at Mach 2.4 top speed. You really can't judge from the animation, they didn't come anywhere near top speed. No dogfight has ever occured supersonically AFAIK nor likely ever will. Planes just can't turn well then---also, F-14's always have their wings swept back past Mach .95, and we see them swung out a lot during the fight. (not that M0 had realistically-moving F-14's) An F-14 can only hit Mach 2.4 when it's nearly empty, at very high altitude, with no weapons, no drop tanks, no pallets, no pylons. Which never ever occurs in combat. Add in the load Shin's was carrying and you're talking Mach 1.8 tops---and not at the low altitude they were fighting at. Very few planes can go past 1.8 with external weapons. No matter how fast you are, you basically have to slow down to sub-sonic to fight. The Sv-51 certainly has a huge power/acceleration advantage, but top speed would be of little use in combat, since it's unachievable. Speed-wise, the Me262, F-18, and F-15 are about equal in a dogfight, despite large differences in top speed. But the F-15 has the best acceleration and sustained turns due to its higher power.
Mog Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Wow, those are some pretty impressive poses in those blog pics. Much better than what we've usually seen in the past. BTW, have we seen pics of the final product standing on its own two feet yet?
do not disturb Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 BTW, have we seen pics of the final product standing on its own two feet yet? no.
eugimon Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Agreed. Even though I think it's pretty cool of Yamato to add the stand in the package. Looks scary doesn't it? I'm not too concerned, looking at this link: http://www.yamato-toys.com/dev/cont_009/index.html it looks like that joint will be metal.
Lonely Soldier Boy Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Yeah, but the piece connected to it is still made of plastic. We'll just have to be extra careful when transforming it.
eugimon Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Yeah, but the piece connected to it is still made of plastic. We'll just have to be extra careful when transforming it. true... as long as it's POM and not yamato's brittle-tastic ABS, i think it will be okay. I'm more concerned that the joint is basically a friction joint. Pretty soon, it will be pretty floppy. Unless there's some hidden locking mechanism that actually locks that wing assembly in place in gerwalk.
recon Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 (edited) As the joint is made of diecast, im more concern with the circular joint that is connected to the diecast module, unless that is made of pom, im not sure whether would it be able to withstand the stress caused during transformation. Remember the similar shoulder problem seen in the VF-0S/A Edited May 17, 2007 by recon
Dante74 Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 That whole section connecting the wing to the die-cast piece seriously needs to be POM. The combined weight of the wing and the booster, missile/fuel pod, missiles is hanging from that single piece of plastic.
eugimon Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 well, hopefully graham will be able to find out for us.
Graham Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 Meeting with Yamato tonight, so lets see if they bring me any goodies to play with Graham
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 Pics of the sv-51 looks great. Looks menacing in black. I wonder how heavy this will be? Will the joints be tight (not to the point of cracking something hopefully) and rely on friction or be clicky? Skinny robots always make me worry. I'm going to be extra careful with transforming this.
Dante74 Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 (edited) I usually don't transform my VF's all that much when I find a good pose to display them in, but I'm gonna have a hard time choosing a mode/pose to display the SV-51 in. It may take a lot of transformations to decide what mode to display it in, which kinda scares me because of the fragility this toy will almost certainly have. Meeting with Yamato tonight, so lets see if they bring me any goodies to play with Graham G-man, could you ask the Yamato gents what changes/improvements will be made to the YF-19 for the FB combo? Thanks! Edited May 17, 2007 by Dante74
ruskiiVFaussie Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 nudge nudge ask em about the 1/60 YF-21..... pwease.
kensei Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 nudge nudge ask em about the 1/60 YF-21..... pwease. No, I could deal with the good news a lot later on in the year.
pfunk Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 No, I could deal with the good news a lot later on in the year. no doubt, lets stick to the task at hand
Vic Mancini Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 Meeting with Yamato tonight, so lets see if they bring me any goodies to play with Graham Gold canopy? It looks like it's going to be clear and it's probably too late to change now. Oh well...not a deal breaker by any means since it looks okay clear, but I think a gold canopy would be such a sweet finishing touch on those beautiful F and G modes.
mechaninac Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 (edited) It looks like it's going to be clear and it's probably too late to change now. The change from clear to tinted canopy would only be a material's spec change; no retooling required. As such, they could decide to go with a golden canopy as late as a few days (it all depends on how fast their plastic supplier can deliver) before start of production. The only reason to go with clear over tinted is cost savings since they already spec the clear for all other VF canopies. Edited May 17, 2007 by mechaninac
Hurin Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 The change from clear to tinted canopy would only be a material's spec change; no retooling required. As such, they could decide to go with a golden canopy as late as a few days (it all depends on how fast their plastic supplier can deliver) before start of production. The only reason to go with clear over tinted is cost savings since they already spec the clear for all other VF canopies. Wouldn't this be a super-easy mod as well? I mean, can't you just paint some tint onto the inside of the canopy? I wouldn't know. Haven't modeled in over a decade. . . . I shake my little tush on the catwalk!
Scream Man Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 u could but getting a smooth finish on clear, especially a surface as large as a canopy, can be tricky. certainly doable, but i ouldnt worry about it myself.
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 I usually don't transform my VF's all that much when I find a good pose to display them in, but I'm gonna have a hard time choosing a mode/pose to display the SV-51 in. It may take a lot of transformations to decide what mode to display it in, which kinda scares me because of the fragility this toy will almost certainly have. For me it's battroid mode on the stand. Looks so evil in that mode. The intakes don't bother me much in fighter, just like to have battroid modes displayed with the exception of the VB-6 monster. If the anti-un won, all the future VFs would look like human-chicken hybrids. Maybe they could do a marvel comics thing and make an alternate universe story where the un lose to the anti-un and have to fight the aliens? just kidding.
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