>>6255503>>6255518Welcome! I'm finding them pretty good for pre-ordering web exclusives from due to the usually 50% deposit instead of 100%. Only time it was 100% was for Millia's VF-1J, which supposedly just shipped despite MyKombini saying they were on vacation until the 3rd.
As for the Draken itself, the tampo thing seems to be isolated instances of putting the protective film on too early unfortunately, quite glad mine didn't have that problem. Did have a tiny bit of the gold paint chip off under the air intake however, but it'll never be seen aside when transforming (which moves the intake "spike" around and caused that bit of chipping) so, meh. The big problem with the transformation is carefully extracting the right arm from the spine of the aircraft, then contracting half the plane's assembly down to hook a piece in where that arm's fist was and clip it all together with a piece from the hip. It's mostly trial and error in my experiences so far, either you just sort of magically get it all to line up for that hip piece to clip into the backpack or you don't and you have to keep carefully messing around with a bunch of different joints to try and get it to line up. It's pretty much just a matter of taking everything slowly and carefully while you figure out tolerances, because there's all sorts of hinge and swivel joints concentrated in that area and putting too much pressure on them seems like a bad idea. The other point of concern is how the gerwalk mode thighs and the "hip" are in incredibly close proximity, so if you're not careful you can rub off paint or scratch things while moving the legs around. The hip joints are so tight you'd have to do it on purpose, though. It's just something you want to take it slowly and carefully with while you figure out what you're doing. I think I took around an hour for me to transform, roughly half that trying to get everything to properly clip together at the end.
It looks so damn nice in Gerwalk mode, though.
