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On 4/19/2024 at 4:08 PM, Big s said:
This is just how Japanese teach sex education and the subject of fertilizing an egg
I get the sneaking suspicion that somehow, LSD was involved in the making of those "credits".
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3 hours ago, jvmacross said:
The TV SDF-1 on the boxart should give you a clue...
We've never noticed a joystick on the SDF-1, so I'm afraid you've lost us there. 🙄
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Hard. Pass.
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8 hours ago, electric indigo said:
Nice job so far!
BTW: I know it doesn't have it's legs yet, but it kinda reminds me of what Jaws would look like in the year 3000!
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37 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
For some reason, Southern Cross's writers and the design team "Ammonite" seem to have had it in for the Logan.
Despite already having a bunch of secondary fighter designs that were specifically and explicitly made to be destroyed onscreen, the Logan's the one they saddled with the rep of being replaced because it was ineffective on the battlefield. That the Logan's a bad fighter in-universe is one of the few consistently mentioned details about it. Even the show's promotional materials get in on it at points.
(That Marie Angel's hangs on for as long as it did is apparently more an indicator that the "Cosmo Amazon" just that good.)
Too bad we couldn't get some Logansin as patrol craft for the cities in the next Macross series as cannon-fodder to get blown up.
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Nice weathering job on both; I couldn't hep notice though a couple of nitpicks here (minor ones) that jarred my eyes while looking at these wonderfully done models (second video):
1) The odd offset placement of "U.N. SPACY" on the black wing stripes and "001" with black stripe on the engine nacelles/ legs (1:02)?
1) Anyone notice the huge gap between the canopy and the rest of the nose on the Strike Valk (11:52)? I wonder if the canopy was somewhat warped during manufacture?
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Finally got my Missing Link Convoy/ Optimus Prime C-01 yesterday:
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21 hours ago, Shawn said: that's just sad looking!!
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44 minutes ago, azrael said:
I'd wager all merchandising, given the context in the photo.
It would help with comparison to know Gundam merchandising numbers (and how much smaller Macross is compared to Gundam).
Gundam Franchise Earns Record Sales Topping 131 Billion Yen (May 2023) (for context, 131B Yen = ~$900 million in 2023)Bandai Namco Quarterly Financial statements
@Seto Kaiba is correct. Even in the 1990s-2000s, whatever short-term gains Macross or any other popular anime of the time (Evangelion; for example), they would always be a tiny piece of the pie compared to Gundam. Always.
Yeah...Gundam may as well be the mech mascott of Japan and of all mech anime as a whole.
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3 hours ago, Shawn said:
They are either going super serious, so we'll get a 1/300 Prometheus, or they'll go crazy themed
From their webpage under anime characters-they are definitely different! lol
https://www.fujimimokei.com/item/category/39
only 2 more weeks to speculate
While they're at it, how about a 1/300 Daedalus and a 1/300 Macross to go with it?
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52 minutes ago, Shawn said:
Anyone need a case of VF-1As!!!!??? Wow-that is even the original Imai shipping case!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256465611086
or 60 Nupetiet-Vergnitzs'?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256475586151
I believe these finds are from that secondary warehouse they showed us.
I seriously wish I had the money for all those, Shawn! Right now, I can't even afford modeling supplies!
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21 hours ago, Thom said:
Nice looking guns, @pengbuzz. And that display stand looks great.
UPDATE: thanks, but I ended up with some trouble:
1) The internal support for the sponsons tore out on me while I was doing final adjustments for the non-weapon sponson covers. It took with them the entire support structure for the wheels, wheel wells and cracked the bottom hull plate of the model, requiring a rebuild of the lower hull plate.
Anyways, a friend on another forum is sending materiel support, so in a few days, I should have this back on track.
Stay tuned...
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6 hours ago, TMBounty_Hunter said:
Welp, and here we see exactly why Valk proportions do no work for a Battroid
Doesn't look all that bad to me; I think we all got spoiled on "anime magic"....
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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...
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1 hour ago, cheemingwan1234 said:
Make this a cross with Delta so that Mirage can join in.
🤯
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3 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:
I actually thought about maybe doing that. Or Gaia Notes Clear Black would do it too. I did a Hasegawa Eggplane Girl wearing a bunny girl costume, and I used the Clear Black on her pantyhose to give it a sheer look. The effect was pretty nice.
You could try using #0000 steel wool lightly, then some ground up black pastel to add the color differentiation. It would allow you to do so without adding a lot of layers to the paint job, and as a bonus, be subtle about it.
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8 hours ago, JB0 said:
In fairness, Gamlin was also shown struggling to draw out the full potential of Millia's VF-1, which he got destroyed. Never forget!
It would be funny if in the next Macross series, they had a one shot of her and she's still upset all these years after Gamlin wrecked her VF-1!
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6 hours ago, Thom said:
Cool seeing the guns on her... except they look a little oversized IMO. Do you have any thin metal tubes? If not, most hardware stores carry some, like K&S brand, that are not that expensive.
This is just an example.
Loving the progress on the Lady!
Yeah, the 50 cal. barrels look a little big in particular on her, especially in comparison to the photos of her actual guns:
Thankfully, nothing is glued in yet, just taped on. I sized them directly from the parts layout on the Aoshima kit instructions, but I think they look a little big as well. I don't have any thin metal tubing per se (and money is tight right now after some unexpected expenses), but even if I have to use stretched sprue and cut off the old barrels to fit them in, I'll get it taken care of.
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Hawke: "DOM!! I NEED CHAIN GUNS!!!"
Santini: "YOU GOT"EM STRING!!!"
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4 hours ago, Thom said:
Got that theme song reverberating in my brain, @pengbuzz!
Here ya go then, Thom:
https://www.airwolf-online.com/openingintro
1 hour ago, Big s said:With the stand, it would look really cool with a sandy look. I always remember a lot of scenes of it flying low along the desert
Was considering that, but I have another idea I want to try....
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UPDATE: New sponson/ weapon end doors made and undergoing final fitting. Also started on a stand for this one:
Stay tuned...
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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
It's like he totaled a borrowed Lamborghini Aventador and tried to replace it on short notice with a riced-out Ford Pinto.
I feel that's being uncharitable to Ford Pintos. 🤣
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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
To be frank, I really don't think so... it's something similar, but not that specifically.
For as long as I've been involved with the fandom, the main thing I've seen driving Robotech's pre-reboot fans to remain invested in it is that their tendency to create their own personal "pseudo-holistic" interpretations of the Robotech setting.
No new animation was forthcoming in the period between the failure of Robotech II: the Sentinels in 1987 and the announcement and immediate failure of Robotech 3000 in 2000, so the fans had to find other ways to remain engaged with the property. They had the novels, the comics, the RPG, and of course home video. The novelization wasn't much use because it was a very poor adaptation that didn't much resemble the series it was supposedly based on. The early comics were adaptations and therefore not all that interesting, while many of the later comics were side stories that did little to nothing to expand the setting and frequently contradicted each other and the series. The Palladium Books RPG, meanwhile, was off in left field making sh*t up as it went. So the fans spent years analyzing, debating, and theorizing around every little detail of the animated series. Elaborate theories were crafted to add meaning to throwaway lines, information was cherrypicked from different publications to fill in gaps and plot holes from the different works, and extrapolations from even the most trivial remark were used to try and expand the view of the setting because the writers simply wouldn't. So when all's said and done, what kept the fans occupied was essentially creating their own personal version of Robotech in their heads based on whatever collection of works suited their individual preference.
It's why I've often said that most Robotech fans are not truly fans of Robotech, but rather of their own Robotech fan fiction.
Of course, quite a few of those long-time fans take it rather personally when their personal Robotech headcanon is at odds with facts from the Robotech post-reboot official setting.
It's one reason I wish Robotech would stop doing side story comics like this latest Robotech: Rick Hunter miniseries.
Robotech's story is already a very narrowly focused narrative where nothing happening outside of the immediate proximity of the TV series protagonists really matters. Making ever more side stories and interquels with inconsequential stories where the conclusions are either foregone or simply don't matter in the greater scheme of things doesn't do anything to advance the story or grow the setting. The franchise has been in a holding pattern with nothing noteworthy going on for over seventeen years now since Shadow Chronicles flopped. At least let the licensees do something with the setting besides run circles inside the ringfenced plot of a forty year old TV show, y'know?
No matter how much the Robotech: Rick Hunter miniseries builds him up, Zeraal really can't be anything more than a speedbump because this is an interquel set between the end of the Macross Saga and the start of the Sentinels arc. He can't seriously hurt or kill the protagonists because they're Saved by Canon due to being main characters in stories set later down the timeline and he can't really do anything significant to the Earth since the timeline has no major conflicts in the period between Khyron's death and the departure of the SDF-3. He can run to the end of his leash and bark, kill some redshirts, and that's about it. He's a toothless foe because the ending is a foregone conclusion. So all the comic really does with the setting is reaffirm that the Southern Cross Army are a redshirt army of xenophobic dirtbags ... and that didn't really need to be reaffirmed IMO.
Okay...
SpoilerSo they built their own versions with stuff they created to fill in the blanks, protected their individual versions viciously, then got cheesed when the official versions' answers invalidated their favored take on it?
Please forgive my density here (approaching depleted uranium, I'm sure!); sometimes my comprende vous is comprende-shot!
2 hours ago, Bolt said:The intro art was cool but these VF's all look stubby and mis proportioned . And don't get me started on the "VHT prototype Zero.."
Rick looks mad that his perm came out like crap.
Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV
in The Workshop!
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UPDATE: some long overdue progress shots:
Final configuration for the stand base:
Main logo and the file number from the series' briefing (at the start of the S1 episodes, IIRC):
A pic with the unextended sponson ends attached:
Bottom shot without and with ADF pod:
Rare Earth magnets embedded in both hull and ADF pod:
Sponson ends: normal and chain guns deployed; both attach via a series of posts:
Airwolf's weaponry at a glance:
3/4 rear view port; extended exhausts for rotor engines and turbo boost nozzles in place:
Work done to hollow out and rebuild turbo boost intakes and cooling intakes for rotor engines:
Main rotor hub:
The helicopter still needs work: a final buffing down of the hull (lumpy in some areas and the shine is too much), refining some details, and a couple fo other nitpicks. But overall, this project has succeeded beyond what I had hoped for!
Finally... a shot of "The Lady" coming straight for the camera:
Stay tuned folks....