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  2. TangledThorns
    Looks more like a video game...
  3. dragontype started following Arcadia SDF-1 Movie version 1/3000 reissue
  4. Seto Kaiba
    "It ain't that kind of setting, kid." Star Wars doesn't run on that kind of logic. Not yet, anyway. Stories set after the sequel trilogy might have to, but only because The Last Jedi gave the First Order the technology to track a ship through hyperspace. The Rebels in Andor don't have that problem. Knowing a place's name isn't enough to actually get you there, you need coordinates. If your destination is uncharted, you're SOL (as seen in Skeleton Crew, The Bad Batch, etc.). Jumping to hyperspace is a de facto clean getaway. Ships can only be tracked between star systems by spaceport logs (in legit travel) or by installing a physical tracking device on the ship that can be detected, disabled, and/or removed as happens often. All that really needs to be done to keep the location of secret bases or facilities secret is to wipe the navigational computer's memory, a security measure we see implemented several times. (This is also one reason droids get periodic memory wipes.) The way interstellar travel works in Star Wars is massively, MASSIVELY convenient for the rebels. There is one example of the kind of security you're talking about, but it was for an Imperial program even more secret than the Death Star in The Bad Batch, and since the waypoint was fixed the secrecy was compromised fairly easily anyway. That is multiply acknowledged in Andor. Not only is that the reason that Luthen recruits/coopts a key member of her staff to serve as an ad hoc protection detail, it's also why the rebellion needed to urgently extract her from the Senate and get her offworld after her speech. She Knows Too Much and can't be allowed to be arrested by the ISB. I disagree that keeping that secret would mean instant doom. After all, there are plenty of politicians who are privy to classified knowledge about black sites and top secret plans who manage to keep that sh*t under wraps in the real world. Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, et. al. were, as directly acknowledged in-series, basically counting on wealth, status, and public perception of them as upper-class twits offended by the very thought of violence to remain beneath suspicion as anything other than possible rebel sympathizers. Whether those plans could've been studied anywhere is doubtful.
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  6. Big s
    That Machinen Krieger knock off looks like a SAFS had been working out. At least the knock off is designed for right handed people.
  7. Valkyrie
    Vertex Nebula does incredible work! I've printed all of his SDF-1 models at 150%, but I haven't had the time to finish any of them yet.
  8. Big s
    I think they’re both degreasers for the most part and have heard that both products work about the same, although I can’t say that I’ve used either one. The last time I had a chrome kit was way back in the early HGUC gundam line with that old gold chrome Hyaku Shiki. Resources weren’t as easy to find at how to do the stripping process back then and I ended up doing things the hard way, by lightly sanding the entire surface to make it just gritty enough to take paint. I personally wouldn’t recommend going through that much trouble when much easier methods have been found
  9. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    Wow this new season in awesome. Bunny Senpai s2 started and it was great. My Dress up darling s2 started and was awesome. City the Animation started. This is the closest we will get to a Nichijou season 2. I watched the 1st episode of game center girl. It was so cute. There was so much English spoken. Nice to hear normal English. Amaki Sally an American does a great job. I am still waiting for Shield hero to start. No Rory Mercury. A new cast.
  10. Big s
    Yeah, too much cg and not enough frames to make up for the look. This might have been forgivable if it was a late 90’s video game cutscene, but it’s 2025 and they could have done much much better
  11. pengbuzz
    I've heard of it, but I know LA totally awesome is safe for plastics; not sure about purple power.
  12. Dynaman
    B5 had an entire episode (granted not one of their best, or even a very good one) that followed a couple of maintenance men around the station.
  13. Dynaman
    No they are not - anyone with any idea where Yavin 4 is should be kept on Yavin 4 or going no futher than a collection point where they pick up and pilot other starships to Yavin from those collection points. Anyone going anywhere else should have no idea where the rebel base is, only the collection points. As for the spoiled rich politicians, sure they could all say they have to know where the base is - but in any realistic universe at all that would have meant instant doom to keep that secret. Star Wars could get away with bad logic like that(*) since as Harrison Ford reportedly said to Mark Hamill "It ain't that kind of movie kid". Andor was trying to be that kind of series. (*) - Leia should never have had the Falcon go straight from the DT to Yavin, they could have had those plans studied anywhere and the Empire would not find the Yavin base (which Leia knew they were doing from her own dialog).
  14. sh9000
    Looks like the average price for the Fire Valkyrie brand new on Mandarake and Jungle are around 8000 JPY. Not bad.
  15. sh9000
    I like it. Looking forward to Bruticus, Defensor, and Computron.
  16. sh9000
    Exosuit.
  17. sh9000
    Bad Plan.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    They are on a tight leash. We're told directly that comings and goings from Yavin IV are strictly monitored, require authorization, and so on. We're directly shown that unscheduled/unapproved arrivals get intercepted and taken prisoner if they cooperate, and shot down if they don't. We also directly see General Draven chew out Cassian and his team for leaving without clearing the op they're headed out on for Luthen with command or filing a flight plan twice. It's strongly implied that Cassian's breach of regulations was only overlooked the first time because he had more or less singlehandedly rescued Mon Mothma from the Senate and delivered her safely to rebel agents after her speech denouncing the Emperor. The second time... even though he extracts a valuable rebel intelligence agent, his ship is escorted down by rebel fighters, he's greeted by a sizable unit ready to shoot him on sight, and is ultimately grounded and confined to quarters. Perhaps... but as we see in the series and in Rogue One, it's difficult to say "No" to the spoiled rich politicians who are literally bankrolling the Rebel Alliance's activities. Bail Organa does acknowledge that they were basically all supposed to go into hiding anyway and were relying on their status to keep them from being arrested and interrogated. Not using a codename for the base may be mildly excusable in the sense that one of Star Wars's favorite tropes is the idea that there are star systems so irrelevant or so far off the beaten path that they're either effectively unknown, forgotten about, or simply ignored on navigational charts.
  19. Lolicon
    Still working on my displays when I turned off the cabinet lights and saw the SDF-1's paint was glowing, so I snapped a quick pic.
  20. Robin-11 started following New Hokuto No Ken : Fist Of The North Star anime releasing in 2026
  21. Robin-11
    As big fan of HNK this trailer was a huge disappointment. It looks like bad CGI and bad character design all over, probably even worst than Berserk 2016. I would have settled for a quality like the one of the new movies but here it seems like everything is going down the toilette. Kenshiro, you didn't deserve this. Please, let the legends rest in peace.
  22. VF-1A Grunt
    My plan is to basically swap the decals with a regular 1/48 VF-1J/A kit. I’ll build the standard kit as a Black Aces and the Super kit as a brown cannon fodder Super VF-1A.
  23. Papa Rat
    @Big s @pengbuzz thanks. I’ll report back once I track down that LA cleaner. I did some research online and people also use this stuff called purple power? Any experience with that stuff?
  24. Thom
    Dude, that is phenomenal! Love the added detail you gave to it. Will you be adding Destroids and Monsters to the decks?
  25. Knight26
    It is so wierd, not sure I would ever want it. And since it is a transformer we are garunteed a ton of underside kibble.
  26. Hikuro

    Macross 30

    Hikuro replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    I've been replaying this game, trying to find guides for quests and maps with some sort of translation to it. Granted, been using my phone for some of this stuff, but I'm having just a pain in the butt time completing any objective side quest that isn't "Go here and fight these guys." Still though, game is just as enjoyable to play as it was a decade ago when I first got it.
  27. derex3592
    Absolutely incredible @tekering! Can not WAIT to see it painted up and on display! All your hard work and dedication to the hobby and material is evident here!
  28. pengbuzz
    Right; that's why I suggested stripping it, and why I also suggested testing the stripping on sprue. I'd truly be upset with myself if something I recommended ruined a project on someone else!
  29. Big s
    I guess that the Star Wars a Janitor’s Story will be a great series.
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