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44 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

UPDATE: chain guns revised-

I know the 40mm cannon still looks a little big, but it's probably because it's light colored in contrast to the rest of the craft. We'll see how it looks painted, but comparing it sizewise, it seems spot on to the specs.

Also; I got my idea for the stand going:

 

Stay tuned...Archangel and Marella want a word with me about something...

That’s a pretty cool display 

This episode was one that’s tough to talk about without a spoiler tag

5 hours ago, VertexNebula said:

Jack Black as Basara 

I’d watch the dub version just for that. But to be honest, it will probably just be a bunch of the usual no name over actors they usually get for modern dubs.

Christopher Walken for Exedol’s head in Macross 7 please

3 hours ago, jvmacross said:

It also doesn't help that it apparently has nothing to do with the upcoming DC-Gunn-verse....more interested in how that plays out than giving any more time/money towards more "stand-alone" DC movies...

It’s one of these things where DC is spreading itself too wide. Too many non connected films and confusion over what is connected. There’s also the whole The Batman thing as well. But I guess I’m less interested in this since the first film felt one and done and I think I’m tired of Harley. Nowadays it just seems like you can’t have joker exist without her. That and this one is a musical and I’m really not a fan of musicals

Some of my favorites from that line of models

20 hours ago, jvmacross said:

It'll be a Max viewing for me

Yeah, for some reason I’m not all that excited for this one. I liked the first and saw it in the theater, but so far this just doesn’t interest me as much. Maybe it’ll be greater than I expect, but for now I’ll just wait and see

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Number 57 1/24 Armored Puppet Knight of Skyfrog.

I like these little kits. They’re fun to build and I think I’m gonna have to get this one. One of my odd favorites is the weird frog power armor. They have another one with fishes that’s on the way that’s equally as silly.

2 hours ago, Mog said:

Even at this 1/18th or 3.75” scale, a lot of these planes are surprisingly underscaled.

I know a few folks on the board showed off what a true 1/18 scale fighter looks like.

Those things were beasts. 

If the were the proper size, my aunt would never have bought me that Rattler for Christmas. Or give my brother the Sky Striker. We never did get anyone to buy us the uss Flagg. And if that thing was actually in scale, only the richest of spoiled kids would’ve owned it

The question isn’t whether The Mandalorian has anywhere story wise to go, but if Disney can give him a story worth watching. I could easily watch a bunch of episodes of him doing the whole bounty hunter thing to earn cash or rescuing a random village from whatever. I just don’t want a story that’s written badly and I really don’t want to waste my time seeing him constantly getting captured and needing rescue constantly.

On 4/8/2024 at 10:26 AM, Jeff J said:

Maybe the real issue is just that I'm 30 years older, but I feel like when the Fox Kids X-Men first aired, it was unapologetically for kids, like Baby's First X-Men stories. The release of X-Men 97 came with so much fanfare that comes with anything Marvel Studios releases that I kind of expected the show to be written with a bit more depth than what the actual product is.

Guess I just came in with unrealistic expectations.

I feel the same about the original episodes after my rewatch. But I was kinda expecting the hype to be from people that just remember the show being better than it was. As far as my expectations, I was on the opposite end and kinda expected a lot more of the same with more cringy moments. I haven’t seen today’s episode yet, but for the most part the show was far better than I expected.

There’s still some cringy moments like Cyclops scooting around the ground with his eyebeams or that whole jubilee in a video game episode and Goblin Queen going full Sailor Moon, but I’m liking far more than I thought I’d dislike. My biggest problem so far with this and the old episodes is that it does that Disney thing of expecting that you have prior knowledge of events that happened previously in other media. One minor example would be the whole thing about Morph’s face. Last we left off he just had emo shadows around his eyes. I hear there’s some story in the comics that explains things, but I stopped reading those years before Morph was actually in the comics. At that time he was a cartoon original like Harley Quin. If I remember correctly there was a similar character that showed up once in a while named Mimick or something, but I don’t really remember that character much either.

I just wish that if they had a cool story to tell, they’d do that in the show rather than expect you to pick up a thirty something year old comic to fill the gaps or worse, a recent Marvel comic

On 3/20/2024 at 9:45 AM, Froy said:

Both my 19 and 21 should by hitting the post office today.

These will be my very first Macross model kits.

You picked a couple of good ones in my opinion.

25 minutes ago, Gabe Q said:

I really want this too but when they did the TV sdf-1 they just gave us the DYRL version with the TV colors. 

That’s something I’m a bit worried about as well. It would definitely be a dealbreaker if they pulled that move again 

2 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

And the SDF-1.

Sorry, forgot about those, although that still isn’t much more to the list 

2 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

Ya, I doubt Hasegawa will do a battroid 1D around the same time as the Max Factory kit comes out. Going to have to wait a while. I don't get why they didn't do one already though. They did the 1D gerwalk pretty quickly after the first gerwalk releases. 

I know the battroid line probably didn't get a ton of love. There's only been a couple special re-issues like the Minmei Guard and the special scheme armored battroids, compared to the numerous special re-issues of the fighter kits. But then again, the gerwalks have NO special re-issues, but still got the 1D right away. 

I think the big thing for Hasegawa has always been aircraft. They have done more robotic type stuff here and there, and recently have become a bit more adventurous. That’s probably why they tend to focus on the fighters for Macross. The fact that they even attempted Zentraedi mecha at all was a real surprise to me. Up until that it was mainly the battroid kit of the VF-1 and Zero a few Virtual On kits and a bit of Ma K stuff.

Super 7’s favorite instrument seems to be bassgotta love a good four string.

maybe Steve Harris and Geezer Butler will be soon

22 hours ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

Spice and Wolf episode 2 was great. I am just a huge Holo fan.

Personally, I really hated the original series and only watched it because people kept telling me that it was a must watch show. Is the new one any better or more of the same 

There sure are a lot of rereleases of old movies these days. I guess nobody has a new movie to put out there

39 minutes ago, shazam said:

 

They don’t call him the “Master of the Splits” for nothing. Maybe one day they do the JCVJ figure 

3 minutes ago, MKT said:

After looking it up, am only realising now it’s an X-19. Are these the same as below video & really vintage items?

That was actually the last GI Joe vehicle I ever owned. Around that time GI Joe was going out and Turtles were the big thing coming in

4 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

Maybe. Probably? But I want a Hasegawa version that won't look out of place with my other Hasegawas.

Maybe the fact that Hasegawa went down the 'realistic' route and Max Factory went the other way with anime styling and detailing will keep the chance of a Hasegawa version alive.

I sorta get the feeling that the two companies are trying to awkwardly co exist. Max Factory put out a movie version VF-1 fighter in 1/72 and easily could’ve done a movie battroid to go with it. Then not too long after Hasegawa did a slightly updated movie Battroid VF-1s and Max Factory went with a tv 1J. There’s also the announcement that Max Factory is doing a VF-19 from 7 battroid while hasegawa is doing the YF-19 from Plus. I’m not saying they won’t cross over and Max Factory do a movie Battroid VF-1 and a YF-19 while Hasegawa does something Max Factory had put out, but I think they may give eachother some time on the projects so they aren’t directly competing with eachother. Maybe a wait time of something like a year or two. But who knows for sure.

8 minutes ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

1/72 VF-1D battroid

I have a feeling it will be a while before hasegawa does this one since MaxFactory is already having theirs coming pretty soon.

1 hour ago, electric indigo said:

After the TV Q-Rau plz.

I have a feeling that they will probably do the cannon fodder purple from the movie first, but I hope that they do something a bit different for the zentraedi. Tv Queadluun Rau would be great or the movie version of the Nousjadel Ger would really make me happy. To be honest I’d be happy with the Glaug or Gnerl as well. 

24 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

The gloss white/gloss black scheme is interesting, but unfortunately I think I applied too many layers of silver paint, making the black panels a bit too subtle. The wing flaps are Mr. Color 8 Silver, while the rest of the plane is Mr. Color SM201 Super Fine Silver 2. You can barely see that the nose, engine cowlings, rear parts of the nacelles, and vertical stabilizers are a bit deeper color. I should not have applied too many layers of paint and let them show the darker color more. It was my first time attempting this, and I thought that after the paint dried, they would be more visible.

So... I dunno... Do you think it's worth re-masking and giving these panels another shot? Or just fall forward?

BTW, in the background you can see the old Imai 1:100 Armored Valk that I am building up as Millia's red VF-1J.

I think it looks great, I can see the differences in the shown pictures between the different metals. I’m not sure if you have a real world example that you’re trying for that has a bigger contrast. If you’re personally not satisfied though then go ahead and give it another darker coat, but I think it looks great as is.

16 minutes ago, Froy said:

Blue Angels SV-51. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MacrossFanCentral/permalink/2119235155103900/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

I like that Blue Angels paint job. It looks great

16 minutes ago, Thom said:

Many newbies died that day...😢

But did they get the Plans for the Death Star?