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On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Will Vale said:

There's a rumour going around that Bandai have acquired a license to sell overseas again - via Bluefin in the US maybe? That probably doesn't help the ROW much but might be a promising start.

 

I also spotted this new Mobile Armour from their Gundam line:

 

 
which has fully bilingual instructions, paint guide etc. I've seen the first signs of this in their Yokai Watch kits (aimed at kids) - let's hope it's a trend and Bandai are going for world domination :)
 
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That has been confirmed by Bluefin themselves, though its vehicles only as the figures would step on Hasbro's toes. Not much use to you or I and it'd probably still be cheaper to import them even if you are in the US.  

 

Many of the new Gundam kits are in both English and Japanese now. The new Psycho Zaku instruction booket seems to be more English than Japanese from the pictures I've seen.  

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Im still patiently waiting for a 94cm Star Destroyer, the detail work for Bandai's talented team on that project alone is huge.

Id also like to see:

 

60cm CR90 corvette - Blockade Runner

60cm EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate - Medical Frigate

1/72 Falcon

1/48 AT-AT

Imperial Lambda-class T-4a shuttle - Tydirium

1/12 Lukes Speeder

1/72 B-wing

1/72 TIE Bomber

30cm Death Star

60cm Hammerhead corvette

1/12 Figures with faces like Darth Maul

1/12 General Grievous

 

Pretty please with a cherry on top! :pilot:

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On 12/17/2016 at 6:42 PM, GMK said:

Hopefully Bandai will release the "partisan" X-wing:

 

http://deeplyobsessed.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/rogue-one-partisan-x-wing.html?m=1

Unfortunately the way Bandai does their color by secions of palstic shapes they would have to make an all new tool fo change the markings that much.

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On 12/16/2016 at 2:37 PM, yeehah1 said:

Are there any side-by-side size comparisons of the 1/48 and 1/72 X-Wings? I am thinking of getting some but would like an idea of scale.

Liam

 

There's one comparison shot with the whole family of X-Wings - 1/48, 1/72, and 1/144, all in one shot here - http://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=300640

That's the only comparison shot I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others somewhere. 

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14 hours ago, monsterpartyhat said:

 

There's one comparison shot with the whole family of X-Wings - 1/48, 1/72, and 1/144, all in one shot here - http://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=300640

That's the only comparison shot I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others somewhere. 

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. Even the 1/144 scale X-Wing looks good!

 

Liam

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11 minutes ago, Richard Baker said:

The Bandai 1:144 kits are incredible- I am going to get a couple for displaying next to my Falcon when I get it finished.

 

I didn't know that the vehicle Kit X-Wing and presumably the Y-Wing were 1:144.  Am I reading that wrong, or is that the case? :hmmm:

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22 hours ago, directorcass said:

Both of the vehicle model X and Y are 1/144. Bandai confirms this, at least for the X-wing, in the new Rogue 1 two pack, listing the scales on the box as 1/72 and 1/144.

 

The original trilogy X-Wing is 12.5m long making the Bandai Box Scale 1:145.

The Y-Wing is 23.4m long making the Bandai Box Scale 1:207

The resistance X-Wing is 1:146

the First Order TIEs are 1:140

 

Bit of a Revell thing going on there scale wise!!  I suppose the clue is in the title of the series 'Box Scale', the kits are scaled to fit in the same sixe box.

 

To complete the set the ISD is 1:14,414 and the Falcon is 1:351

 

I have seen but can't find it again pictures of a Box Scale set of Original TIE & Advanced TIE

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7 hours ago, Madmonk said:

The Y-Wing is 23.4m long making the Bandai Box Scale 1:207

 

Depends on which source you go by for the Y-Wing length. Some sources give it as 23.3m, but others give it as 16m, which seems more in keeping with the X-Wing's 12.5m length. At that length, in 1/144, the Y would come in at 111mm which is pretty much spot on for the Bandai kit.

 

By that reckoning, all the box scale fighters are in the ball park for 1/144

 

Andy

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OK, this is not a new model kit announced but it seems it's a right place to share this.

 

I'm building the battle droid & STAP that arrived recently and I'd like to share a jaw dropping feature that I came across with Bandai. Maybe it's been already used for many years (/dothraki voice in: "it's known" /dothraki voice out) but it is the first time I see such thing.

 

While building the arms of battle droid, there is that part that I don't know how they could succeed to mold. Please look to the picture below, the left arm (B-6) is on sprue while the right arm is already disconnected from the sprue (you see it on lefthand side). And as you can see, the joints are moving! I mean, you cut it and with little force the joints are moving, without any assembly/alteration. I don't know how the female-male parts are molded. For storm troopers etc. you build the parts separately and you click the joints to their cradle, but with this one, it's already in their cradle.

 

31910645845_01f81f5fdc_c.jpgBattle droid sprue[/url]

 

 

Maybe it's old news and feel free to make fun of me, but it's the first time I come across such thing. My hat off to Bandai. And if Bandai did not import it from a parallel universe, the use is limitless, few things that come to mind: aircraft landing gears, tank working tracks, all figures' joints can be produced such way

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