Is there a way to get spare parts for the old yamato 1/60 build your own valk, kit?

[Sam]

Howdy all, just wondering if anyway of getting spare parts for that Yamato 1/60 kit that came out years ago, I had some glue get into the upper right leg and it froze the joint =-(

I purchased super parts and it prevents transformation to valk mode due to the frozen joint sadly! 

Any help appreciated! Even if theres a way to buy a cheap broken valk or something, so i can salvage part

 

Cheers!
Sam

[Chronocidal]

Yeah, that's a tricky situation.  You kind of have the reverse of what I planned ahead for, buying a couple of the kits to act as spare parts sources for my valks.

You might be able to find broken or worn-out ones on ebay that you could take apart for replacements, but I'm thinking you might have better luck modeling the part, and having it produced by a 3D printing service (or maybe a member here, if they can do it).

Those parts are still produced for the Arcadia releases though, so maybe you could try and find someone in Japan to request a replacement?

[pengbuzz]

4 hours ago, Sam said:

Howdy all, just wondering if anyway of getting spare parts for that Yamato 1/60 kit that came out years ago, I had some glue get into the upper right leg and it froze the joint =-(

I purchased super parts and it prevents transformation to valk mode due to the frozen joint sadly! 

Any help appreciated! Even if theres a way to buy a cheap broken valk or something, so i can salvage part

 

Cheers!
Sam

What kind of glue were you using?

[kajnrig]

I've seen the kit occasionally pop up on YJA. I know you'd probably rather not have to buy a whole kit just for some spare parts, but if I come across any in the near future I'll post them here.

Is it possible to do as Chronocidal said and basically scratchbuild replacement parts for that section?

[Sam]

18 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

What kind of glue were you using?

The dangerous kind! 😃

 

Yeh kinda slipped with some usage of thin super, and the anti glue agent only serves to make matters worse unfortunately! 

 

Wont be making that mistake again I can assure you!

[Sam]

22 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Yeah, that's a tricky situation.  You kind of have the reverse of what I planned ahead for, buying a couple of the kits to act as spare parts sources for my valks.

You might be able to find broken or worn-out ones on ebay that you could take apart for replacements, but I'm thinking you might have better luck modeling the part, and having it produced by a 3D printing service (or maybe a member here, if they can do it).

Those parts are still produced for the Arcadia releases though, so maybe you could try and find someone in Japan to request a replacement?

Tricky indeed! 😃

 

I've starting trawling for them, but so far its only been Aliexpress' "new" ones! 

 

I'm not confident my 3d parts would hold up to the task, its quite a bit of friction/strain on the joint there, actually feels like the heaviest rachet joint in the whole model =-/

 

Ah so Arcadia might do replacements, but just not for overseas? I did send a message to HLJ in the long hope of them saying 'yeh no prob, we can source that'. I think I purchased it from them years ago, I'm just super slack at building stuff lol

 

 

[Sam]

3 hours ago, kajnrig said:

I've seen the kit occasionally pop up on YJA. I know you'd probably rather not have to buy a whole kit just for some spare parts, but if I come across any in the near future I'll post them here.

Is it possible to do as Chronocidal said and basically scratchbuild replacement parts for that section?

Its probably going to come down to getting a new kit in the end, unless I completely get lucky with HLJ or finding a 'hey broken arm, time to sell on ebay' auction lol

 

Fingers crossed something good happens! It was part of what many would call sacrilege, in terms of paint scheme. After seeing the price of the kitzconcept Jetfire, I just had to do it up in the those colours for the massive nostalgia hit it gives 😃 But I'm torn as to which display it will now go, macross or Transformers lol

 

Thanks ya'll for your input, hopefully something works out 😃 And if anyone does stumble across a solution, I'm all ears! (or eyes, being a forum? eh, dunno)

😃

[pengbuzz]

6 hours ago, Sam said:

The dangerous kind! 😃

 

Yeh kinda slipped with some usage of thin super, and the anti glue agent only serves to make matters worse unfortunately! 

 

Wont be making that mistake again I can assure you!

You could try super glue remover and see if you can work the joint free. Since you would have to replace it anyways, what do you have to lose?

[Chronocidal]

Far as the "used" ones go.. maybe it would be worth finding one of the "third party" versions to cannibalize for parts?

[Sam]

On 10/16/2022 at 11:34 PM, pengbuzz said:

You could try super glue remover and see if you can work the joint free. Since you would have to replace it anyways, what do you have to lose?

sadly, i did try, and my word, that stuff is pretty aggressive! It actually melted the plastic =-( But thanks for the suggestion 😃

 

[Sam]

On 10/17/2022 at 8:49 AM, Chronocidal said:

Far as the "used" ones go.. maybe it would be worth finding one of the "third party" versions to cannibalize for parts?

I was just having a sticky beak on aliexpress and ebay, I saw the 'valkyrie factory' ones on there, had no idea if any good, but they are still around 120usd average price ( so about 180-200 aud for me) so still pretty pricey for KO's! I miss the days a KO meant cheap option lol! I'll keep searching though thanks 😃 

[dtwn]

2 hours ago, Sam said:

I was just having a sticky beak on aliexpress and ebay, I saw the 'valkyrie factory' ones on there, had no idea if any good, but they are still around 120usd average price ( so about 180-200 aud for me) so still pretty pricey for KO's! I miss the days a KO meant cheap option lol! I'll keep searching though thanks 😃 

If you can try and figure out taobao, they used to be substantially cheaper there.

[pengbuzz]

4 hours ago, Sam said:

sadly, i did try, and my word, that stuff is pretty aggressive! It actually melted the plastic =-( But thanks for the suggestion 😃

 

Ouch! I'm so sorry, I didn't figure it would do that!

I'll keep my eyes out for parts for you: meantime, try picclick.com; they have a much better ebay search (it's free) and brings up stuff that you normally wouldn't see on ebay.

[kajnrig]

13 hours ago, Sam said:

sadly, i did try, and my word, that stuff is pretty aggressive! It actually melted the plastic =-( But thanks for the suggestion 😃

9 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Ouch! I'm so sorry, I didn't figure it would do that!

Unfortunately, super glue cures into a hard plastic not too dissimilar from the ABS/polystyrene/whatever types that are used in toys and model kits, etc.

Super glue remover works by dissolving the super glue... and if the super glue and plastic are made of the same/similar material... yeah...

 

You might - MIGHT! - be able to mechanically break the bond. Super glue has good tensile strength - ie hard to pull apart - but very low shear strength - ie easy to snap. Depending on what's glued and how, you MIGHT be able to twist the joined parts apart. But I have the feeling that's not possible in this situation.

[pengbuzz]

3 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Unfortunately, super glue cures into a hard plastic not too dissimilar from the ABS/polystyrene/whatever types that are used in toys and model kits, etc.

Super glue remover works by dissolving the super glue... and if the super glue and plastic are made of the same/similar material... yeah...

 

You might - MIGHT! - be able to mechanically break the bond. Super glue has good tensile strength - ie hard to pull apart - but very low shear strength - ie easy to snap. Depending on what's glued and how, you MIGHT be able to twist the joined parts apart. But I have the feeling that's not possible in this situation.

It's also not too good when submerged in water; I wonder if soaking the joint might help?

[Sam]

Thanks everyone!, well I ended up buying a Valkyrie Factory Fokker from aliexpress which worked out the cheapest way I could find, and will swap out the hip joints as I'll just use the new sacrificial one without super parts attached, and make something random from it! (I'll nee to remove the paint on it safely though, I think it has intake tampo and stuff on it...)

I did try to mechanically break the joint, but it being on the part that has quite small area pivoting, the glue ingress was just too bad sadly! 

Actually I have one of the old vf prototype heads from the comic from ages back that I purchased from shapeways years ago that I think someone on here designed(gosh I'm getting old, cant remember things lol) So it wont be a complete loss, just ... a more expensive venture than originally planned 😃

When its finished I'll pop up a pic on here as thanks as well, even though it is a Jetfire colouration 😃  I do want to design and print some decals for some areas that are too hard to paint, hopefully looks ok

Thanks again 😃
 

[Sam]

On 10/18/2022 at 10:55 PM, dtwn said:

If you can try and figure out taobao, they used to be substantially cheaper there.

I didn't get to look at them as yet, but is Taobao a trustworthy site as well? I dont think I've ever used them before 😃 Thanks! 

[dtwn]

20 hours ago, Sam said:

I didn't get to look at them as yet, but is Taobao a trustworthy site as well? I dont think I've ever used them before 😃 Thanks! 

It's a giant marketplace akin to Amazon Marketplace. There are official stores and resellers. 

 

You're looking for 女武神工厂 (Valkryie Factory).

Here's what sort of prices to expect. I'm not sure about shipping costs.

 

[Sam]

On 10/22/2022 at 12:20 PM, dtwn said:

It's a giant marketplace akin to Amazon Marketplace. There are official stores and resellers. 

 

You're looking for 女武神工厂 (Valkryie Factory).

Here's what sort of prices to expect. I'm not sure about shipping costs.

 

Thanks 😃 I'll have a bo peep!  😃

 

[Sam]

Well just as an update I guess, I did get the valkyrie factory, ended up being around 150 aud all said and done, so not what I'd call cheap, but it did the trick at least. Of note, the parts are not quite identical, the intake covers for instance, seemed off by a mm and wouldn't directly fit in. But end result is, is that my Jetfire inspired colour scheme was successful 😃 Thanks again for everyones help 😃

 

[no3Ljm]

Looks good!  

Did you also apply paint on the canopy heatshield?

Edited April 6, 2023 by no3Ljm

[Sam]

6 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Looks good!  

Did you also apply paint on the canopy heatshield?

THanks 😃 Nope, decided to leave the heat shield off, purely to be more Jetfire-y lol. I would have done it red though for sure, if I had 😃