oh, no, the GERWALK joint is perfectly fine. i've only lost the extreme outboard leg canting afforded by the troublesome upper thigh swivel, is all. also, i have no intentions on adding either the FAST packs or the GBP armoring, for what that is worth...
Thanks for the pic. Is the retaining screw shown on the top left or is that the socket it goes through? Do you have more pics of that section taken apart? That is the major disadvantage when it comes to taking any modern Bandai Valkyrie apart. Yamato’s were far easier to take apart for maintenance. Before you fixed your copy, did it seem like the leg might eventually fall off on its own at the drawer joint, through repeated posing? The wobbly drawer joint issue isn’t widespread but it the most reports came from both Hikaru DX Valkyries. I think I’ve seen a handful of reports for the Max VF-1A. Seems to primarily affect the left leg, some copies did show a much shorter screw than the one used on the right leg. You can tell if your copy is affected off the bat when in fighter mode. Merely click the leg downward 1 detent(as if you’re starting transformation to her walk mode) and see if the drawer joint connection wobbles a bit. This is something I noticed immediately upon unboxing my DX VF-1J.
On my copy, the left drawer joint was probably going to stay on if I was careful enough, but that screw was definitely loose. The gerwalk joint is pretty tight and if you kept using it I imagine the screw inside the drawer joint might unseat itself.
Thanks man, guess the Bandaid mitigation right now is to use cardstock to increase tension between the drawer joint and intake(so it won’t wobble as much). That way the screw should unseat less(hopefully).
God, am i ever Relieved. the repair job seems stone-solid, and able to handle the torsion stresses handily. i was feeling feeling mighty bummed for a moment there, figuring that i just might have ended up with total lemon on my hands here. i was unable to pry the lower-thigh screw-hole covers off without reaming out a purchase hole dead center in each. if i had advanced modeling skills with puttying the holes in and refinishing them, i could probably make them look like they've hardly been tampered with, but i lack that sort of skill, and in any case i can live without the covers if i must. i suppose if i was a Japanese customer, i might be able to request a set of spare covers from BANDAI? well, there are these photos, courtesy of a fellow member on these boards;
I believe so and as you can see it's almost stripped. I think my picture is also a little misleading as I believe I put it back into the plastic portion of the intake. This same screw needs to connect the large hole of the diecast assembly of the drawer joint and then to the plastic portion of the hip/intake.
Thanks man I’m getting a clearer idea of how it’s assembled now. If that’s the screw in question I can definitely see how it’s too short. That design should’ve been simplified. I think if I can possibly seem some Gorilla Glue or thread locker into that cavity, it should mate the bottom of the intake to the top of the drawer joint and possibly seep into the screw socket to tighten the threads. The hopeful end result would be the top of the drawer joint being stuck to the bottom of the intake while preserving articulation. Leaves me wondering why Bandai overengineered that area.
This picture should illustrate where the pieces are supposed to line-up and connect into as well as what is actually holding all of this together.
my two most cherished Anime items of all time; the Anime girl i only dreamed of having 15+years ago, and the VF-1 i've dreamed of since first falling hard into MACROSS back around 1995/1996, no more than 13/14 years old. today i'm 38, -going on 39 in Jan.- and the circle is now complete, the wild dream finally reality;
The more time passes, the less I'm looking forward to new Macross releases. VF1D was never my thing so that's a sigh of relief, and even though I've tentatively secured a Roy 1S and Super packs PO I'm not as keen on them as I would expect. Maybe it's DX VF1 fatigue? I've put away my VF31S and Kairos for a few months now and don't feel like I'm missing much. Is there still a market for them?
They still sell well above their MSRP. I would like to have a Kairos but not at the current asking price.
I fatigue on everything. Generally if I "shelf" it for long enough I come back around to being excited about it. I'm having toy fatigue right now too. I'm just kinda "meh" about the whole thing......................................so I got a few guns to play with.
You keep posting that same Meltrandi figure, @Tasuke, and I keep wondering why she's wearing a badly-tailored Japanese schoolgirl uniform, instead of a proper Meltran flight suit... And speaking of which, why isn't Hikaru wearing his FAST packs?
Hmmmm, I wonder how a DX will hold up to 285 grain of .338 Lapua Magnum at 3000fps. The scope and bipod are some junk I had laying around. Waiting on the pretty stuff to come in.
Nice! I ordered a gun over 7 months ago and I have zero updates on my order. Service there is giving NY a good name! But seriously, I know it’s not completely their fault considering how shitty the gun laws here are. Man, how I regret doing that with some of my toys when I was younger. Some very nice pieces from my collection met their demise from guns and fireworks.
