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  2. MKT
    Still yet to receive the Tread, but should have it quite soon. Agreed on the pilots - if it would cost say, just a few hundred yen more for Sentinel to have them painted, I would gladly pay that price.
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  4. Actar
    From my investigation, the head fits snugly in the cavity in fighter mode. However, extending the torso causes the cavity to move as it's on a slider separate from the head. If the torso gets extended while the head is in that cavity, it gets misaligned and scrapes the sharp points on the head like the tip of the red fin or black head crest and maybe the face. So, when extending the torso from fighter mode, it's best to raise the head first. That's also why the neck cover splits when in Gerwalk mode. The head can't sit properly in the cavity and puts pressure on the neck cover.
  5. VF25-F
    Happy Halloween from May'n (she stitched the costume herself)!
  6. Mog
    Have you gotten a Tread yet? Back to the Legioss, Sentinel did do a bunch of nice tweaks to really compact the fighter mode and to shrink down the length of the nosecone in soldier mode. Yeah, it's a bit of a messy underside. But at least, it sorta makes sense that the intakes and exhaust all follow one straight path. Also, really wish they had painted the pilots.
  7. myk
    "Mai" first 1/6 figure. Get it? Mai instead of my, lol. Anyway, those pictures aren't of mine, but you guys get the point. That's the prettiest, sexiest version of Mai Shiranui I've ever seen, so I had to have her. This the 1/6 Ninja Cat...
  8. Impeesa
    Duties, or just regular sales tax? Pretty much everything gets hit for domestic sales tax, whether it's coming by Canada Post or another carrier, while toys and stuff are normally zero extra duty or anything as far as I can tell (unless you were just ordering from the US, then I have no idea what the tariff situation actually is right now). And when you get your sales tax bill, every carrier will charge a brokerage/service fee. Canada Post charges ten bucks, every other carrier is more but if you think DHL's is egregious, try UPS sometime. It seems like DHL's fee will almost always be the minimum threshold amount, which is maybe nine bucks more than Canada Post. If you live near a major CBSA office, you can also file the paperwork yourself and avoid the fee. DHL's up-front actual shipping cost also always seems to be higher than any regular post options, but that's another matter. I've never actually seen a separate up-front handling fee like that, I wonder if it has something to do with the current situation shipping to the US and filing those tariffs specifically.
  9. myk
    I feel now as I did then: I'd rather talk to some of you guys on here, or maybe even on social media, than the people I have to face in every day life. How's the family, Mike?
  10. myk
    Lol. Look at all of us old-timers in here, lamenting the relentless march of time. I'll never forget my first post on macrossworld, asking about the tail fins on my V1 Yamato YF-21. I would spend HOURS on here for the next decade or so...
  11. pengbuzz
    Then there's whatever cats are made of: part liquid, part solid. And all fuzzy.
  12. sh9000
    Thanks to this forum I've met some cool people in real life and attended some of the best Macross conventions. Thanks to Shawn and Graham for starting it all.
  13. myk
    What a coincidence. I came here tonight seeking the same thing that you're talking about: a sense of community without the superfluous nonsense and garbage that social media invariably has. Yeah, it's easy to open up my IG and Facebook and have the latest developments spoon fed to me, but i don't feel as connected or focused on what we're talking about like I did during the heyday of forums like this one in the early 00's. The quality of information and posts by members doesn't match the quality of the forum posts from BITD. I would rate the quality of posts on social media as I would a post count whore from BITD. Progress comes, and we can't do anything about it as things change. Nevertheless, nothing is perfect, and the sincerity and better focus of the forums will never be matched my social media, in my opinion. I miss you guys, I miss this place, I miss those times.
  14. mikeszekely
    I mean, I've been hanging out at MW since I was in college, like 25 years now. I haven't met a single person from these boards in real life, but there are people that I interact with enough that I like some of them better than the friends I do have IRL. As for social media, I used Twitter mostly to keep up on sports and news that I might not see otherwise. And I seriously just started using Facebook this year to get in touch with an old high school friend. So I guess it's a little hard for me to feel nostalgic for something I never stopped using because the thing I never used got crappier. Still, cheers bud, we definitely agree on one thing. We got a relatively small community compared to some other forums and junk, but frankly, I think we're a tighter knit for it. Kudos to @Shawn for keeping the lights on all these years.
  15. sh9000
    https://www.hallmark.com/ornaments/keepsake-ornaments/star-wars-a-new-hope-let-the-wookiee-win-ornament-with-video-light-and-sound-5QXI8682.html
  16. sh9000
    DC Direct Batman TAS Man-Bat x2.
  17. sh9000
  18. MKT
    Appreciating Legioss Fighter.. its truncated slope behind the cockpit may look weird at first, but I have come to like it as one of its defining features. If I look at it more objectively, the underside can look to be a bit of a mess of various kibble - more TF than Macross. But I still love it as much as any Macross jet, and that is even before it's combined with the venerable Tread.
  19. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  20. Roy Focker
    I'm aware of how tacky it looks for a Moderator to make a "look how cool our place is" post. I still have to make a post about it. With the rise of social media, we saw the decline of many traditional methods of online fan gatherings. Like forums. While useful most forums are very subject specific. Many fans have multiple interests.Those who wanted to be well informed would have to visit multiple forums a day. Social media made being a fan of multiple interests more convenient. Just visit Facebook, join a bunch of Groups and read all the news about your hobby fed directly to your timeline. Then came the enshittification, AI Slop, scammers and the meme spammers. Way too much clutter. You can't keep track of things. I now find myself starting to lurk old forums of the past. Wondering if I can remember my old login information. Social media has been helpful finding locals who share the same interests but for day-to-day online interactions to learn something new and share opinions I'm seeing forums as the superior method. Anyone else feeling nostalgic for the days of online fan communities before the age of social media?
  21. sh9000
    Iron Man Mark 3.
  22. sh9000
    Happy Halloween.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    When it comes to most forms of Overtechnology Material (OTMat), the particulars of how they are created is left unspecified except in one odd case. "Space metal" itself is not a specific material. Rather, it's an umbrella term that bordering on being a brand name that encompasses an array of different exotic alloys and composites that a firm named Dyna-Metal developed based on reverse-engineered OTM and produced in space-based factories. There were a bunch of overlapping names for this family of new materials based on Overtechnology including Space Metal, Space Alloy, Dynametal, OTMetal, and OTMaterial. Among the few details we do know is that there generally aren't any fictional exotic materials involved in their creation. They start with ordinary everyday raw materials like carbon or aluminum and they're processed into engineered nanomaterials and then those are combined into alloys or composites to achieve the desired balance of properties. The composite armor of things like ships and Valkyries and Destroids are functionally-graded composites that combines layers of a bunch of different materials with different properties to get to a balance of different attributes like structural rigidity, flexibility, weight, projectile resistance, etc. Hypercarbon is probably the engineered nanomaterial that crops up the most, used heavily as a superior analogue to carbon fiber and in various nanostructure arrangements like fullerines and nanotubes. The one material that explicitly uses exotic/fictional materials is also the only one for which we get some description of the actual manufacturing process: fold carbon. That one's pure sci-fi, being a crystalline material made of exotic particles that catalyzes the creation of exotic particles used for gravity control. Because it catalyzes the creation of the raw materials it's made from, it builds up naturally inside of running thermonuclear reactors and fold systems. Specially modified reactors are used as crystal growth furnaces to mass produce the stuff.
  24. Powered Convoy
    I just managed to get a bent arm Minmay for around $120. Pricey but cheapest I've seen / and I managed to get about $30 off.
  25. Big s
    That and I really wish they used the manga style designs for the exo suit
  26. Big s
    He’s changed his style drastically over the years. He was really famous for popularizing preshading, then he went with a rainbow splat undercoat and now it seems to have evolved away from airbrush to brush painting more often
  27. Big s
    I’m sure someone is into her. One man’s barf is another’s cuisine
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