I just got my box of Konami SF Premium Packs from hlj yesterday
and the SID model looks great.
What's next from Konami?
(maybe Ed's car, moon mobile, the alien figure, etc)
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[hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got my box of Konami SF Premium Packs yesterday from
> Hobby Link Japan, so now I have 6 toy SIDs!
>
> As I suspected from the photos, the SID just doesn't
> seem to me to be as accurate as the rest of the Konami
> UFO toys. I think the shape is fine, but perhaps
> the paint job is off -- I think the toy is "too white"
> in general. Looking at a photo of the "real" SID,
> some of the parts of it seem much darker than the
> toy. Also, due to the harsh lighting in the series
> for the SID scenes, I'm not sure if any toy SID
> would look right under normal lighting. Things
> like the shiny solar panels in the series are just
> a plain, flat blue-gray on the toy.
>
> But don't get me wrong -- it's a nice little model...
> just perhaps not as accurate of a paint job
> as the others...
>
> Marc