Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1

[drumondo]

27 minutes ago, drumondo said:

Preparation in progress, thanks N-Y!

...and now shipped.

Excitement building!

[F360]

1 hour ago, Tenbatsu said:

I see, thanks for the heads up. As it stated that it's the ranking for selling the most hence am not very sure.

"Anime Robot/SFX Weekly Ranking Selling the most (Updated at 10:00 and 22:00 (GMT-5))"

Ah, I might have confuse it with another site.

But since the release date was on the 11/23,,.. . it could just that one time long reopening (couple of minutes)  adding with the rest of the preorders.  

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by F360

[Corrinald]

There's my NY preparation email. Looks like they are making their way through orders

[Toonz]

I have made my payment to AmiAmi but I haven't heard from them for two days.

No notification about shipping whatsoever. 

Are they sleeping?

[spanner]

Got shipping notice for my 1S from NY! 

Not a bad response from them after a little email encouragement! hehe! 

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by spanner

[Rossy]

Yeah I also just got word from NY my VF-1S is being prepared for shipping. My order no was in the 7014 area.  Must have been your kind words spanner to get the ball rolling haha

Edited November 29, 2019 by Rossy

[Kanzaki]

Returning from the Customs and picked up my unit from HLJ after paying some import tax. Managed to bulldoze my order in on release date. Considered myself lucky.

Hope everyone's getting their shipment sent out soon!

[Lolicon]

Any of the more experienced modelers around here know a way to strip the "100" tampo off the stabilizer without messing up the paint underneath?

Let's hope Bandai doesn't give us mirror images of 011, 012, and 013 later on. 

[chyll2]

someone share here, maybe on previous page.  A friend of someone from here was able to make the correction.

[Anasazi37]

4 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Any of the more experienced modelers around here know a way to strip the "100" tampo off the stabilizer without messing up the paint underneath?

Let's hope Bandai doesn't give us mirror images of 011, 012, and 013 later on. 

I'm wondering if no one caught it on the production quality control side because the first two releases were 101 and 111, so mirroring the numbers was perfectly fine.

[007-vf1]

I emailed NY a couple of days ago regarding the lack of shipping updates since the toy was already in shelves and they responded by next day.

They apologized and told me their supply didn’t arrive in time. My guess is that product to them arrives in waves and not all at once. They ensure they would try to fulfill my order as soon as they could and thanked me for my patience.

so waiting I am, but glad I got an encouraging email from them.

i also think this is the appropriate way for them to keep their international customers. Maybe the bad rap they got from the 31’s conundrum got them thinking it wasn’t in their best interest to keep people in the void and eventually lose those potential customers for future sales

Edited November 29, 2019 by 007-vf1

[eXis10z]

Anyone got from CDJ? It re-stocked briefly.

[Anasazi37]

Wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you were planning to order Missile Sets through the proxy service FromJapan, you won't be able to. I placed an order for two yesterday and they cancelled the order today, immediately refunding my payment, with this is as the reason:

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The seller/store has set a limit on the number of units that a single customer can purchase for this item and FROM JAPAN has already reached it.

I'd never run into that problem before with them. Makes me wonder if proxies are caught up in Bandai's response to what happened with the first round of SSP sets, which sold out almost instantly. Maybe Bandai is taking the scalping situation more seriously than we thought? (HA!) Setting the limit low for individual customers would definitely slow down the people causing problems for the rest of us, but it won't stop them.

I'm more surprised that FJ is viewed by Bandai as a single customer. You'd think they'd have a bunch of accounts set up on the P-Bandai site, one per employee, to deal with this situation.

[sjoebarry]

Does anybody have a link(s) to somewhere I can get the Strike Parts still?

[crackpot]

33 minutes ago, Anasazi37 said:

Wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you were planning to order Missile Sets through the proxy service FromJapan, you won't be able to. I placed an order for two yesterday and they cancelled the order today, immediately refunding my payment, with this is as the reason:

I'd never run into that problem before with them. Makes me wonder if proxies are caught up in Bandai's response to what happened with the first round of SSP sets, which sold out almost instantly. Maybe Bandai is taking the scalping situation more seriously than we thought? (HA!) Setting the limit low for individual customers would definitely slow down the people causing problems for the rest of us, but it won't stop them.

I'm more surprised that FJ is viewed by Bandai as a single customer. You'd think they'd have a bunch of accounts set up on the P-Bandai site, one per employee, to deal with this situation.

They've always had a limit to how many orders they can place for TWE. It just means somebody has placed their order ahead of you.

[Matt Random]

I got the prep notice from NY. I guess it probably won't ship until next week since I think it is already the weekend in Japan.

[takatoys]

5 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Any of the more experienced modelers around here know a way to strip the "100" tampo off the stabilizer without messing up the paint underneath?

Let's hope Bandai doesn't give us mirror images of 011, 012, and 013 later on. 

Not an expert, but what I will do with mine is I will cover the “I” with black and paint a new one on the other side. It won’t look perfect, but at least not inverted.

[DYRL VF-1S]

1 hour ago, eXis10z said:

Anyone got from CDJ? It re-stocked briefly.

Sweet did you land?

[sqidd]

2 hours ago, 007-vf1 said:

I emailed NY a couple of days ago regarding the lack of shipping updates since the toy was already in shelves and they responded by next day.

They apologized and told me their supply didn’t arrive in time. My guess is that product to them arrives in waves and not all at once. They ensure they would try to fulfill my order as soon as they could and thanked me for my patience.

so waiting I am, but glad I got an encouraging email from them.

i also think this is the appropriate way for them to keep their international customers. Maybe the bad rap they got from the 31’s conundrum got them thinking it wasn’t in their best interest to keep people in the void and eventually lose those potential customers for future sales

I emailed them a few days ago about if they were going to be able to fill my orders. And then again the next day. They haven't gotten back to me (yes, I checked my spam). They have until tomorrow morning and I'm filing a PayPal chargeback.

[Anasazi37]

1 hour ago, crackpot said:

They've always had a limit to how many orders they can place for TWE. It just means somebody has placed their order ahead of you.

I know that there's always been a limit, but FJ either hit it a lot faster than usual or the limit has been lowered.

[Chronocidal]

7 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Any of the more experienced modelers around here know a way to strip the "100" tampo off the stabilizer without messing up the paint underneath?

Let's hope Bandai doesn't give us mirror images of 011, 012, and 013 later on. 

I'm actually curious if you'd be able to just strip the numbering and leave the black like on the YF-19.  I forget if it was you or someone else who removed the white lettering from the left wing with some kind of alcohol, and the black underneath was left untouched.

[Sandman]

16 hours ago, Ridden001 said:

I was years ago.  The golden rule is to rotate and move joints as close to the joint itself as you can.  For example: if you want to lift the arm, don’t grab it by the hand and lift, turn it by the shoulder.  
 

but as the other member stated, the VF-1 is solid.  Enjoy it.
 

It’s normal to feel the way you do when you drop $300 and know in your heart that if it breaks you likely can’t get another one.  
 

Don’t get like me, I’ve let my fear of ruining valks lead me to buying two of every release so the Tyler Durden in me is always ok

“ no matter what, I’ve got That lime green stripe couch situation checked off”

 

I have the same problem. I was buying 3 of everything for that same reason. Lately I've cut down to 2 and usually just 1 of Arcadia products (because they are so expensive).

[crackpot]

1 hour ago, Anasazi37 said:

I know that there's always been a limit, but FJ either hit it a lot faster than usual or the limit has been lowered.

When did the PO open for the missile reissue? In my mind, it has been up for a while now and FJ's limit on how many TWE orders they can place have always been on the lower side compared to other proxies. 

[Ridden001]

9 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Any of the more experienced modelers around here know a way to strip the "100" tampo off the stabilizer without messing up the paint underneath?

Let's hope Bandai doesn't give us mirror images of 011, 012, and 013 later on. 

The only way I would try it would be to paint over the entire 001 and then lay down a water slide decal from a 1:48 Hasegawa and then top coat it.  Honestly, I would leave it alone.  There are just too many unknowns, you don’t know if they used laquer or acrylic paints, the top coat may not match, a lot could go wrong that would make it look worse.

its really not that big of deal.

[Saburo]

Got a chance to play around with the VF-1S, all the joints seem tight and no major issues found, besides the Modex.  Here studio shot of gerwalk mode.

[Anasazi37]

2 hours ago, crackpot said:

When did the PO open for the missile reissue? In my mind, it has been up for a while now and FJ's limit on how many TWE orders they can place have always been on the lower side compared to other proxies. 

Looks like 15 Nov at 4pm JST, so two weeks. They might have hit their limit sooner than that, but I'm not sure. Something to keep in mind for the future when ordering through proxies: even if the P-Bandai site says that orders are still being accepted for an item, weeks or months after the initial offering date, you might be out of luck if you don't pull the trigger within a few days.

[sqidd]

Wow! I haven't transformed my other DX's yet. These are SOOOOOOOO nice! Yamato what?

First of three showed up today. Come one other two! COME ON STRIKE PACKS!!!

Hopefully some GBP Armor some day too......

 

[sumyumgoy]

Nice shots @sqidd!  Love the pose.

[Sanity is Optional]

 

4 hours ago, Anasazi37 said:

I know that there's always been a limit, but FJ either hit it a lot faster than usual or the limit has been lowered.

When I ordered the Metal Build Gernsback they had the same issue, some lines/items just reach the limit faster. Metal Builds in particular are a very low number.

I suspect the second set of strike packs they did limit the number per address lower than the first due to how quickly that one sold out.

[Grey728]

Mines has landed! Just need the Strike pack and to fish my missile set from storage (Sorry for the potato cell phone image)
 

[borgified]

Since the Strike Hikaru has the mis-matched modex number, is it possible that Roy's will also have it also? 

If so, then maybe not getting it. 

[Sanity is Optional]

Really hope mine shows up before I head off on my business trip next Wed.

[nathans82]

VF-1S has arrived from Nippon Yasan and a couple of other things.

[gerwookie]

@sqidd can I ask what yeti stand setup you have for the Dx vf-1s? I never bit the bullet because I couldn’t tell what to order.

[sqidd]

1 minute ago, gerwookie said:

@sqidd can I ask what yeti stand setup you have for the Dx vf-1s? I never bit the bullet because I couldn’t tell what to order.

Easy peasy

One Of These Stands

And this adapter

 

If you want to bank it in fighter mode you need this adapter.