sketchley Posted December 28, 2022 Posted December 28, 2022 12 minutes ago, jvmacross said: Nice...this is what it will look like without painting? If so, glad I picked one up....mainly bought it as a stand in until a possible HMR Y/VF-19 is released... It appears so. (notes the wrap around stickers on the tails and rear stabilizers, and the slight misalignment of the ones in the top intakes.) Quote
Shawn Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 Shortcut Change series...interesting sub category. I assume that is the official Box art above? So the BW BN HG SC MM MP YF 19 Big West Bandai Namco High Grade Shortcut Change Macross Modelers Macross Plus YF-19...got it! 😛 Quote
sh9000 Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 Yeah it's the box art. That's a long name. Quote
jvmacross Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 7 hours ago, Shawn said: Shortcut Change series...interesting sub category. I assume that is the official Box art above? So the BW BN HG SC MM MP YF 19 Big West Bandai Namco High Grade Shortcut Change Macross Modelers Macross Plus YF-19...got it! 😛 May as well add WWM to it too! Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Bandai should consider using piggy back labels for future products with collaboration branding. Edited January 10, 2023 by nightmareB4macross Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 12, 2023 Posted January 12, 2023 Boy.. that's some chonky box for such a tiny kit. Quote
kajnrig Posted January 12, 2023 Author Posted January 12, 2023 Around the 32:40 mark they talk about the stickers, and like half a minute to a minute later they show a slide about... a new layering technique? Or something? Anyone know what that's about? Quote
Big s Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 6 hours ago, Chronocidal said: Boy.. that's some chonky box for such a tiny kit. It’s probably due to the way it has parts for battroid, gerwalk and fighter. If it was just the battroid, it would probably be the size of a small gundam box Quote
Shawn Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 Maybe they keep the boxes larger, so they take up more space on the retailer shelves, so they can still look fully stocked with higher priced smaller inventory 😛 But unlike the Hasegawa 1/48s for example (you could pack 2x of the kits in one box), the Bandai looks pretty full? Quote
Shawn Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 6 hours ago, kajnrig said: Around the 32:40 mark they talk about the stickers, and like half a minute to a minute later they show a slide about... a new layering technique? Or something? Anyone know what that's about? Did you try Closed Captioning and Auto-Translation? Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Shawn said: Maybe they keep the boxes larger, so they take up more space on the retailer shelves, so they can still look fully stocked with higher priced smaller inventory 😛 But unlike the Hasegawa 1/48s for example (you could pack 2x of the kits in one box), the Bandai looks pretty full? I know they size them to fit the sprues, which I realize they can't really change, but Bandai is probably the most obnoxious manufacturer in terms of ratio of sprue-to-kit. They have the art of complex injection molding mastered, but it comes at the cost of an insane amount of wasted plastic. I have a single Bandai Armored VF-25 box that contains at least a dozen of the kits. Minus the sprue, they each fit into a sandwich bag. The same can almost be said for Hasegawa. I bought two of the super/strike 1/48 VF-1s.. those two boxes contain about six of the actual fighters, and the other is full of super packs and weapons packs. Far as the decals are concerned though.. yeah, no. I'm painting the markings. Bandai's Macross decals have consistently been the worst decals I have ever seen in my life. Edited January 13, 2023 by Chronocidal Quote
eXis10z Posted January 16, 2023 Posted January 16, 2023 How early does Bandai usually release their stuff? I’ll be in Akihabara on 24 Jan and was wondering if I could score one there. Quote
TMBounty_Hunter Posted January 19, 2023 Posted January 19, 2023 Street date is January 28th https://bandai-hobby.net/item/5215/ Quote
Convectuoso Posted January 21, 2023 Posted January 21, 2023 Are you guys planning on building this one painted or unpainted? Quote
Big s Posted January 21, 2023 Posted January 21, 2023 5 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Are you guys planning on building this one painted or unpainted? More than likely I’ll be painting mine Quote
no3Ljm Posted January 23, 2023 Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Edited January 23, 2023 by no3Ljm Quote
Big s Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Firefox21 said: I'll hope for a MG That might be another twenty years . Bandai has been really slow on new mg kits. Most are just rehashed parts these days Quote
Firefox21 Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 I won't be surprised it'll take that long. Quote
SebastianP Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 On 1/24/2023 at 6:22 AM, Big s said: That might be another twenty years . Bandai has been really slow on new mg kits. Most are just rehashed parts these days Part of that may have to do with Covid, and part with a move towards doing more things through P-bandai (which may also be because covid.) We've gotten 8 retail-release MG kits over the past three years (3 in 2020, 3 in 2021, and 2 in 2022), but the year before that (2019) we got seven. Also, Bandai is building a new factory that'll be online in the next couple of years. Anyway, what would count as an MG for Macross? Transforming 1/72 kits? Quote
Big s Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 3 hours ago, SebastianP said: Anyway, what would count as an MG for Macross? Transforming 1/72 kits? I was thinking that, but they haven’t really graded their Macross kits until the hg yf-19. Quote
Convectuoso Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 I got payment request from HLJ for the decals Quote
Big s Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 25 minutes ago, Convectuoso said: I got payment request from HLJ for the decals Yeah, they did the same for me for the decals and kit Quote
Vifam7 Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) Short interview with Kawamori and Itano on their thoughts Macross Plus and the model. Also shows some of the gimmicks of the model. I don't know if anyone mentioned this previously but it's a partsformer. Edited January 27, 2023 by Vifam7 Quote
no3Ljm Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Vifam7 said: I don't know if anyone mentioned this previously but it's a partsformer. Since Page 2. I'm pretty sure even the announced YF-29 will also be partsformer. Edited January 27, 2023 by no3Ljm Quote
Shawn Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Vifam7 said: Short interview with Kawamori and Itano on their thoughts Macross Plus and the model. Also shows some of the gimmicks of the model. I don't know if anyone mentioned this previously but it's a partsformer. Thanks for posting-nice video. It is crazy how poseable this kit is! Quote
seti88 Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 This is going to fit nicely on my desk. Looking forward to see how it looks next to my HMR VF-1. Quote
no3Ljm Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/live/BVrXJJHLTbY?feature=share Quote
seti88 Posted January 28, 2023 Posted January 28, 2023 HG seems to be made for battroid.. On 1/27/2023 at 3:02 PM, seti88 said: This is going to fit nicely on my desk. Looking forward to see how it looks next to my HMR VF-1. but looks like shorter a tad bit than the HMR vf-1 ... kit scales and HMR scales differ?😅 nevertheless looking forward to a mini YF-19 on the desk! 😄 Quote
Big s Posted January 28, 2023 Posted January 28, 2023 12 minutes ago, seti88 said: HG seems to be made for battroid.. but looks like shorter a tad bit than the HMR vf-1 ... kit scales and HMR scales differ?😅 nevertheless looking forward to a mini YF-19 on the desk! 😄 They’ve said the hmr stuff is too big over in that side of things, closer to 1/90 or possibly bigger. Quote
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