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  2. Big s
    Max Factory does really great small scale figures
  3. Big s
    How about “ Blame Canada”?
  4. VF25-F
    May'n in Hangzhou (China and speaking Mandarin) buying a taro pie from Mc Donald's after the 'Strawberry Music Festival'
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  6. moonjet
    moonjet changed their profile photo
  7. GreenGuy42
    Man. I really hope this means we may get an Excalibur ‘19 or even other Macross 7 toys. I’d kill for a SOC VF-11.
  8. Thom
    Just figure/shape looks really good on all of those!
  9. Powered Convoy
    Thanks! Yeah, it's a good looking box. Also need I find the super parts for the S now. 😅
  10. pengbuzz
    *Imagines Char singing The French Mistake*
  11. grogall

    1/55's revisited

    grogall replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    No, I don't think it's a nock-off! I think sadly someone was lazy and put a Bandai VF-1S in a real Takatoku VF-1J box! Sad since the box is somewhat of a good shape! Maybe someday you can find the Maximilian Jenius VF-1J and put it back in this box!
  12. Powered Convoy
    I figured it was the wrong box but wasn't sure if there was a knock off with a Hikaru S in a Max J box.
  13. grogall

    1/55's revisited

    grogall replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Well since the box says VF-1J and it's clearly a VF-1S, I would say it was packaged incorrectly!? and also Takatoku never produced D.Y.R.L VF-1's!
  14. Powered Convoy
    I won this 1/55 VF-1S Hikaru. Anyone know if it's a matter of being in the wrong box or is it some other release or knockoff that came in a Max VF-1J box?
  15. shazam
    Masters of the Universe - Evil-Lyn New Eternia Masterverse 7" Scale Action Figures x 2
  16. MKT

    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    Is that a new can of spam or kept from years ago? lol Bit of regret didn't get the PF YF-19..
  17. davidwhangchoi
  18. Bolt
    Awesomeness.
  19. Papa Rat
    Nice thing about the ceramic blade is that it has either 4 or 5 flat sides depending if it has a curve. Sort of like an ink knife or mud knife for drywall. Make sense? It can’t cut your skin but at the correct angle it shaves off plastic with ease and never gets dull. I guess it can be a bit fragile and break if dropped?
  20. SteveTheFish
    That's how I remember them to be, so it's why I asked. I went to the IPMS national convention in Phoenix, AZ in 2010 and the showroom was row after row of models built exactly as they are supposed to be built. Not so much inspiration or originality. The SF section was just along one table and that was it. The IPMS club I attended once was mostly just grumpy old geezers who couldn't appreciate anything SF. I'm glad to hear that it's changed, but the contest judging remains obstinate from what I hear. My friend in Canada built a Bandai A-Wing to look just like the Ralph McQuarrie concept art. It looked beautiful with the blue and white scheme, and displayed it for the IPMS event there in Calgary or wherever it was. He was demerited because it "wasn't weathered enough." Well, tell that to Ralph McQuarrie. I'm sure that the judges know Star Wars, but beyond that they probably didn't even know what they were looking at. Anyhow, my Rei and Asuka are done. I have them both placed on a wooden plaque. I'm thinking that I might paint the plaque and print out an Evangelion or Nerv logo decal (although I honestly don't really care for the show). Yesterday it was 34 degrees C (I think that would be 91F) and last night I saw that Asuka was leaning forward. Drat! It's because of the way their feet are made, in segments. If they were just one piece, I could fill them with plaster better. As it is, sofubi tends to bend when warm. I removed the 2mm copper rod and I will replace it with a much longer one to give her leg more support. Also, the two girls have those life support backpacks or whatever they are. On Rei, I put some superglue in the wrong place and it turned out messy. It's that semigloss black section on her back. I wetsanded most of it off and now it doesn't look so bad. I'm not sure if I should risk trying to remove more or not.
  21. Big s
    Never used one, but lately everyone has something new worth trying. I’ll keep an eye out. The newest stuff I’ve tried that I love are glass files and water color pencils and both of those work great. I’ll definitely give one of these a try and see how it goes
  22. Big s
    Low viz actually works well here
  23. VF8000G started following Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru GQuuuuuuX
  24. VF8000G
    Maybe I'm getting old but I feel so cynical about this show. It's like an even lazier version of Disney's Star Wars sequels. This feels less like an attempt at a real show and more like a corporate mandate of specific iconography and imagery meant to evoke nostalgia in a cheap key-jingling way for people who were fans of UC Gundam and Evangelion. I suppose it's fitting that they chose the character designer from Pokemon.
  25. Papa Rat
    So this is a PSA from my bench. Get yourself a ceramic “blade” tool. I wasn’t sure about it but once I started using one I was changed forever. lol not only good for mold lines, it’s also great for smoothing/scraping without cutting if that makes sense?
  26. Papa Rat
    Beautiful
  27. SebastianP
    It's not really the cost of the material itself that's giving me pause, it's the shipping. Excuse the rant: There's an ancient treaty from back when China was still an Empire, under which China, as a developing country, is exempt from having to charge their own customers for the entire delivery to overseas customers, because the wealthy paternalistic developed nations would shoulder the costs so the (then) poor Chinese public wouldn't have to. This translated into Chinese companies being able to send absolutely colossal amounts of online shopping towards Europe, with free shipping - company wasn't being charged for it by the Chinese post office, so they weren't charging their customers for it, and when all this mail got to Europe, the European mail services had to pick up the entire tab for sorting and delivery. They were understandably upset with this because of the sheer amount of online shopping, so they tried various methods to put brakes on it, after the deluge started in earnest during the pandemic. *My* country decided that the best method would be to apply a 7 euro (ish, we don't use Euros) flat per parcel fee, to be collected by the Customs service on behalf of the post office, for *any* out-of-EU shipping. And since the Customs Service were the ones collecting the fee, they'd *also* automatically process it for import duties and sales tax while they were at it. This makes Chinese internet shopping about as expensive as within-EU mail order shopping. But Japan Post already charges through the *nose* for shipping, because they lost their "developing nation" status under the postal treaty before WW2 I think. And the way the import duties and sales tax are levied, they're on the entire amount paid at the point of sale - so if I've paid 18 euro for a thing, they'll charge me 25 euro to ship it from Japan, 7 euro to handle the package, 20% of the 50 euro in import duties because I'm at 50 Euro or above, and then 25% in sales tax on the 60 euro up to that point, for a total of 75 euro for an item that - before this whole crapshoot started - would have been 18 euro for the item, 12 euro for the shipping, no processing fee, no import fee, and even odds on not being processed for sales tax, meaning on average 33-ish euro. (Actually, before the pandemic, some of those items could be bought straight off of Amazon with Prime Free Shipping for the Japanese prices if you were lucky). Same thing applies to packages from the US - insane shipping, and then I get our insane import duties and sales tax when it shows up.
  28. mikeszekely
    Agreed. But you should be able to find him (at least for a little while) on Amazon, Hasbro Pulse, Gamestop, BBTS, etc. I haven't heard anything, but there is a new Tron movie this fall. Now'd be the time.
  29. Seto Kaiba
    The easiest way I've found is just eBay or Yahoo Japan Auctions via a service like Buyee. It can be a pain in the butt, but good quality secondhand copies of a lot of these books are surprisingly cheap... or at least not hideously painful. Then again, after more than 20 years of importing books and magazines and DVDs and Blu-rays and so on from Japan I suspect I have become numb to the insane cost of physical media in Japan. The short story collections are going to be one of the first subjects for my new book scanner, since unlike my absolutely ancient flatbed scanner it has built in OCR so I don't have to do all the transcribing by hand. (The Windows Input Method Editor and I are the most bitter of enemies.) Yeah, Aegis's VF-19A is probably the most iconic machine from the game. Enough so to appear in other games, get plamodels, several toys, etc. VF-X-related baddies seem to really lke the VF-22, possibly as a result. Manfred's signature VF-17 in the game notwithstanding, his cyber-ghost comes at Ozma in a VF-22S and Havamal's commander Ushio Todo also has a personal VF-22.
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