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Its on the wall at work now

ahhh right. There IS no such thing as a 1/72 VF-17 and VF-171 is there?

Are those models in the Wall display area 1/72 or 1/60 ones? I'm making the same thing for my hallway and like how simple and clean it all looks but some of those planes arent available in 1/72 I thought.

Its a PC world now... like seeing oxygen thieves doing BETs (Battle Efficiency Tests) with lightened loads and assistance - WTF!!! Nasty Nigels arent going to assist you before they fire at you!! Or alternatives to the RFL tests (Required Fitness Test) where the Overweight admin desk jockey gets to walk the 2.4km course in 30plus minutes and thats called the same as the rest having to run it in 8mins! Those same guys and girls still put their hands up to get sent to the sand box or any other mission where they may just have to move their ass into cover at speed! Thats ok, Nasty Nigel will wait while they walk to the bunker before raining 81mm on their heads. Nigels good like that. The funny thing with all the PC rules is seeing the things they ignore... Like firing 155mm proximity over the top of the biggest ammo depot here. Or sitting in the carpark at the ammo dump and transmitting between LAVs about whats for dinner... right in front of the Radio Hazard Signs! You swear at one of those sensitive wee armoured souls and they will be in the Padres office crying harassment faster than lightning but you dismount a forklift without the correct 3 points of contact lest you fatally fall 10cms to the ground and you'll be written up or volunteering to run MHE safety lessons for the next month.

These are ones going up against Anti UN ground armour like T90s, BMP-T72s, Namers and Merkavas so VF-0s and VF-1s for now

I'm running an i5-4690, 16Gb Ripjaws gaming Ram, 2 SSDs, Gigabyte GTX970 4GB, Gigabyte Z97X board (I think) and its a beast for the little it cost. Runs Warthunder on Maximum/Movie settings at 145fps. About to test it out on Battle Fleet Gothic: Armada... that should tax it.

Question... I need some hands for my 1/72 Valks. I need to be able to make them more expressive and have dual hand weidling gun pods, face palm gestures, waving gestures, shrugs and gripping random objects like building corners and lamp posts for golf clubs. Are any of the gundam hands close? And which scale?

its not shot damage, its 13tons leaning on it none to gently damage. As an aside, the 13ton 12m tall Valk facing off against a 65ton Merkava III... its hard to reconcile the weights of those two... Also smokeless powder would work better in your matchhead idea.

Its a revamp of the recently failed (spectacularly too) Mechwarrior Tactics turn based game

Dremel time on that canopy! The mating surfaces on the canopy has straight edges where as the body has curves. I see you use Florys as well!

HO/OO 1/72,1/76, 1/87 and 20mm wargaming scale, roughly considered around 1/72 scale... yeah right!

Need some advise on how to damage the outside of a Walthers Apartment Block building. Its Styrene with a Slab Concrete and Brickwork patterned exterior and Black Ali window frames. I've gone down the route of building it and painting it complete then going back and damaging the parts that need it. The type of damage will be from a VF-1 lending against it. A foot taking out the foyer doors and cracking the pavement, the shoulder and remaining Fast pack scraping the walls a few floors up and the hand gripping a brickwork corner. Anyone tried this before? Guessing the glass will need to be blown out on the foyer and maybe the windows behind the booster and shoulder and some fallen brickwork on the pavement. Wondering if the windows on the side facing the street where the booster was blown off need to be blown out and curtains fluttering. The attack will be from a 120mm HEAT round or a LAHAT Tandem charge ATGM fired from a Merkava. So there would be some blast but most of it would have been directional down the street. I've already chewed up the head laser, shoulder sensor and top portion of the FAST Pack and the FAST back will have a small fire burning in its remains. The Valk has a scorched head and shoulder. Dremel the building face? open a wall to the room behind? I have a bent street light and damaged car that the Valk stepped/stumbled over

The gear on the EA-18G Growler is pretty top notch and covers about everything at its time of release. One thing that would be interesting, aside from holding an unplugged Fluro tube in your hand and having it light up like a lightsaber near a Growler, would be to see just how much radiation the crew is absorbing while its in use. The Black Box I carry when working on IEDs is pretty scary in its output. Glad I have all the kids I want already. Good article on the Job of a Warfare Officer http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/confessions-of-a-us-navy-ea-18g-growler-electronic-warf-1694954599 Love the comments on trying to keep up with Brit Tornados and being left in the dust at 200ft and 1000kph or so...

next logical step... adding sound...

How about a Reaction missile at the moment of detonation... Or a Phalanx unleashing

http://miniscaping.com/art/15/diorama Found a ton of them here!!!

The how to guide for it all... http://dioramas-and-models.com/how%20to%20do%20it.html

http://www.gundamkitscollection.com/2014/09/custom-build-with-led-and-diorama-hggt.html http://gundamguy.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/hg-1144-gm-thunderbolt-ver-explosion.html http://dioramas-and-models.com/Hans%20Ulrich%20Rudel%20and%20his%20Stuka.html

The full article including the how too on the Carrier strike diorama http://dioramas-and-models.com/cutlass%20ramp%20strike%20(1955).html

You just need the Google Translate app in a smart phone and it reads it as the camara looks at it. Point your phones camera at the image on the PC screen and tell it to look for Russian. Then just highlight each line of text the app picks up for an instant and surprisingly accurate translation! The results will be identical to whats been posted above. Useful for our model instructions too. Wish they had this built into an EoTech unit, would have been useful in Afghanistan! To wire one up there are two wires going from small poles/posts to each end of the "flashtube" or bulb (actually a gas chamber). These are the ignitor wires. Extend these wires from the circuit board to the tube and you're good to go. Just remember its 240v/110v you're messing with. Also there is no plastic sheath that hes built. He means the actual bulb, guessing in Russia the bulbs are plastic, in NZ they are glass. Smallest Bulb size I've found so far... http://lapintop.en.ec21.com/G9_Micro_Full_Spiral_Micro--3774744_3916384.html

Dont forget all ground based military models are most common in 1/35... yet another scale! Atleast in 1/35 we could add Battroids and Gerwalks and even parked or crashed Fighters to our displays with ground forces! but no.... I've been having a nightmare time sourcing civilians in 1/72 - 20mm scale for mt city scenes to go with the Hasegawa and Wave kits. There is plenty of HO and OO scale train stuff but thats actually 1/87 and 1/76 scale!!! And NOOOOOO one makes 1/72 running, panicing and fleeing civilians! Not even Shapeways.

That was the plan... Everyone here makes brilliant models... now to see what you all can do with a total display, something you dont see often with Macross stuff.

ahh... saving that for the UN Airforce Special Ops Team, Dual wielding Super Pack Valks

remember, NONE of these are mine, these are ideas I've found on pinterest that got me thinking about my own dioramas I'm doing.