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  2. Big s
    Char is finally available for preorder at American stores. BBTs has it for a $99 price tag, but I’m gonna see if anyone has it cheaper or if I got some points to lower the cost somehow
  3. Big s
    If you do it at an angle, it keeps the part in the exact spot it should already be in, but makes it loose enough to easily pull apart
  4. Today
  5. Papa Rat
    @Big s Such a smart and simple idea on trimming pegs at an angle. Brilliant! Once I ease this kit apart I’m going to trim down those pegs.
  6. Big s
    Rogue needs to lay off those hard drugs
  7. Big s
    Sorry, it’s hard to think of good Disney Star Wars movies.
  8. Big s
    Looks amazing. Taco Bell will make anyone hit the afterburners at some point, just make sure to be prepared or those’ll be your shorts
  9. Big s
    I’d stay away from metal tools since they can scratch or damage the parts when disassembling. Sometimes a piece off the sprew like the long rectangular bits with one end beveled by a quick sanding can do the trick. personally if I’m working with modern kits, I’ll often trim the peg at an angle to do test fitting so the part is far easier to pull apart, and in final assembly I’ll use a dab of cement to hold it in place permanently. I’ll attach a couple images to show a bit later
  10. pengbuzz
  11. Lolicon
    LOL!
  12. davidwhangchoi
    good, i'll be playing it in 3rd person.
  13. derex3592
    😂
  14. Duke Togo
    Guys, just a reminder, this is the movie thread. There's a separate TV thread here:
  15. davidwhangchoi
    lot of anime in it. lol
  16. borgified
    $116 USD, November 2025 - January 2026 release date for those who are getting it.
  17. Papa Rat
    @pengbuzz @sketchley Thanks for the tips. @MechTech Thanks for the link. There is a lot of great details in there.
  18. Slave IV
    That was for the armor ejection gimmick😉
  19. SebastianP
    You can't really scale by "small compartments" though, because in that case I could go "the Nimitz class has really a really small toilet, so it must be a really small ship". And the size of the bridge seems to vary quite a bit. Just for reference, the bridge window on the Elysion at "canon" scale is just over 11 meters wide at its widest point. I think this is a fair bit wider than 11 meters, personally,especially since the window needs to go over the sides of those grey pods too. I just don't have the skills to scale it properly. By single level, I meant that there's only one deck for the fighters, but there's more than that in the back because you also have the upper hangar just below the bridge. And back there there's enough volume for it to go deeper, as well. Not so much in the rest of the ship, since there's visible machinery.
  20. Lolicon
    No, not yet. I'm currently in the process of assembling my newly arrived set of moducases to house the rest of my collection. Magnets worked great on Yamato's releases... when they didn't screw up the assembly. Didn't a few people get copies where the magnets were installed incorrectly and it repelled their fast packs instead?
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Depends on the model, I guess... not so much of an issue for something like the VF-1 or Regult. I've got nothing for a Glue Valkyrie... but when it comes to welding, we've got you covered: https://www.macross2.net/m3/macross7/vt-1-battroidwork.htm
  22. pengbuzz
    Yeah... just a nightmare for accuracy's sake though. O.o *Imagines giant tube of glue being held by several valks as they position a new module in place*
  23. sjr
    Shining, Phantom Gundam and Meteor were all teased at last year's summer fest and expo. Also, the Impulse was unveiled at the 2023 expo.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    I was thinking more of the crew spaces themselves, where most of the onboard shots take place. The Elysion's bridge appears no bigger than the Macross Quarter's, for instance. The briefing room where they hold several of their discussions with Berger and others is barely large enough to accommodate the main cast. To an extent, I suspect this is because of reused interior design from the Quarter. There are some shots in the TV series where the hangar appears to be a split-level affair to permit embarkation of VFs without ladders. As to the size of the Macross Cannon and whether it's present on both ships or just one... that's not officially confirmed AFAIK.
  25. pengbuzz
    Thanks MT!! That reminds me: I need to look up the IMPS standards for real space and sci-fi modeling (for both my shuttle and TOS Enterprises).
  26. SebastianP
    The interior shots make the ship look *huge* if you know what you're actually looking at. To wit, the hangar where the VF-31s are lined up three wide, wings out, boosters attached, has to be able to fit inside the core hull of the Aether, because the ship is in space and the deck is flat. I took the fold-down flight deck extensions off the game model to see what the core hull looked like, and it is quite narrow. But it does have very distinct hangar bay side looking details right under the deck where you'd expect them to be. This is roughly the arrangement used in the hangar bay shot from Episode 12. I used the wrong fighters in more than one respect - since I used the printable models instead of game assets, my computer really doesn't like moving them all around, and since they're Siegfried instead of Kairos models, they're actually taking up less space. I'll see if I have a video game Kairos to use for more experimentation. This is with the Aether at 600 meters, which is *about* 50% larger than the "canon" scale, with Elysion being something like 1450 meters overall. Now imagine trying to fit that on the official size of the ship... As you can see, there's still issues - the ship is not quite wide enough, and VF-31As would stick out more, so I'm going to need to scale it up a bit further (10 to 20%) to make the fighters fit in that section of the hangar. Also, the hangar narrows forward, but there should be room for at least 20 more fighters two abreast in the forward section. And before you go "but you could put them further back where the hull is wider", the problem with that is that there's another shot where Delta lines up five wide below the deck, and that has to fit somewhere as well. And if you try it with the roughly 400 meter long Aether suggested by the Burj Kalifa statement, their wings will be clipping through the side of the hull. Something to remember when comparing Aether to the other carriers is that: 1 - compared to all the others, Aether is really skinny, I mean seriously skinny. 2 - Aether looks like it's designed with a single, normal-height hangar deck along the lines of a real carrier, or Prometheus or ARMD-L, rather than the high-volume hangars of the Guantanamo or Uraga 3 - the entire lower hull of the ship is the Macross Cannon.
  27. mikeszekely
    Apparently it's to standardize the size of the boxes by class for retailers. So as a Leader class he goes into a box that has to be big enough to accommodate the Dinobots. To me, not only is G1 Megatron's alt mode really a gun and not a tank, to truly be cartoon accurate it has to shrink down to something Starscream can wield. And since they haven't invented mass-shifting yet, I was always of the opinion that all I really needed was a very cartoon-accurate robot- the barrel in his back, the split hammer on his shoulders, no visible tank kibble (especially not as a backpack like Combiner Wars/Siege/Earthrise)- packaged with his gun mode as an accessory. As long as they did that his tank mode could be as trash as the one on Bumblebee Megatron. So to me, rather than complain about SS86 Megatron's turret, I'm impressed that the tank mode looks as good as it does. He's checking my boxes and I can't wait to have him in my collection.
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