Chronicle 2007 and Factorys 05-07

Rubel Colus · Post by **Rubel Colus** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:03 pm

juz happened to search for it today.

http://www.hlj.com/product/TYP020

Rubel Colus · Post by **Rubel Colus** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:46 pm

hmmm seems like the re-print of Factorys 01-04 got a new cover now

http://www.toyspress.co.jp/storystore/index.html

contents looks to be the same, so those who didnt get it the first time might want to get them now...

BTW, i've seen some pages of Chronicle 2007, not sure if there's gonna be much new info (probably not), but i think the more obvious addition is the Vol12 (JP) characters and i dont see any new pics.

(the new pics i've seen are only in School Designs)

Post by **Tachyon** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:50 pm

Thanks for keeping us posted. I'm always on the lookout for new FSS books. I'm hoping the school designs (whatever it's called) shows up somewhere where I can get it.

Rubel Colus · Post by **Rubel Colus** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:04 pm

np tachyon

and omg!! Chronicle 2007 is out of stock?! WTH?

i didnt manage to order mine!!! >.<

Falk · Post by **Falk** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:14 pm

Ahoy^^
Though the announcement of FSS Designs 2 enlightens my heart, like most of you I presume, I suddenly realised I totally forgot about Factories 2007...

Is it worth it ?

Factories 2004 was not that interesting but this one looks better, with more pages for the kits rather than a building notice^^.
And the 20 years of LED kit may be interesting too (even if I don't feel like there's been much evolution (except V3)... the LED's design has always been quite perfect, or at least bad-ass, right from the beginning, as well as many of it's resin representations).

Some fullpage pictures of the mighty series makes it almost worth it just by itself.

Might be nice to have those kits on paper rather than on screen

Post by **Tachyon** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:52 am

What? FSS Designs 2 has been announced? Where? I totally missed that info!

Nu Soard Graphite · Post by **Nu Soard Graphite** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:34 am

Yep, in this thread:

http://www.gearsonline.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1838

Can't wait!!!

The only thing better will be when FSS starts back up in Newtype.

Post by **Tachyon** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:24 am

I have to wait til June?! Can I wait that long?

Falk · Post by **Falk** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:26 am

Just received Factorys 2007, can't remember someone doing a review, maybe I missed it.
Nice book, not really groundbreaking but nice anyway, I'm surprised it's stapled rather than squarebound, 'should have chosen the bootleg :þ.
I hadn't bought Factorys 2004, so I thought I'd get this one.

-About 30 pages of LED Mirage's kits history. There's a full table-list of all the kits, for a total of 59 :p There are some comments by the sculptors, would be interesting if I could read it :þ

-About 30 pages on FAC 2005 & 2006.

-About 40 pages on kits from 2004 to 2007 (10 on WSC, 10 on Wave, 18 on Volks (MH and fatimas), 3 on Kayodo).

A few critics though, some pictures seem slightly blured, or not sharp, and others could've been a bit more saturated, particularly the 3 Mighty.
And some shots are a bit annoying (plain front, or side with the big shields on both sides...

).
3/4 is still the best for such dynamic designs.

And I'd gladly trade a few LED or FAC pages for more mighty series

(ok, I'd buy a book about those 3 MHs only...)

And a certain quantity of name inconcistencies. Calvary on a page, Calvery 6 pages later :p
On the same page, the T-233 is labeled as "Boctok T-233" and "Boowray T-233".

The "Bell Creal" battleship is named "Belle Clair".

Rogner is now F.J. Rogner

for "Falk Jugendlich Rogner" (jugendliche is adolescent in German...) (Previously the U was for Ugentrig...)

Fatima La Kratoughma is named La Krautoma.

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:08 am

Thanks Falk.

Rubel Colus · Post by **Rubel Colus** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:11 pm

Falk wrote: Rogner is now F.J. Rogner for "Falk Jugendlich Rogner" (jugendliche is adolescent in German...) (Previously the U was for Ugentrig...)

Could it be the young rogner? (lazy to dig out my Factorys 2007 xD )

Anyway, the Chronicle 2007 has an advert page for a new set of books, "Characters Box", which consists of 11 mini-sized books of the past Characters series of books - including:
1 - Mirage
2 - Colus
3 - Water Dragon
4 - Fatima
5 - 3159
7 - Dragon Klein
8 - AKD
Characters Plus 1~4

pre-order starts late May. Other details unknown atm...