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  2. Radioguy started following Legos, anyone?
  3. Radioguy
    Said it before, and will again: Trek, like Dr Who, and DUNE, doesn't have staying power in Lego, and I don't think it has to be to be a success. I think the DUNE Ornithopter was known to be a potential one-off, hence it having the full cast of minifigs whether they rode or even appeared in a scene with a Ornithopter. The 1701-D had more reason to include the whole TNG cast, but I think the core reason was the same - include them now because we may never do more. I REALLY wish that had been true of the TARDIS console room, but that had been in the IDEAS line instead of ICONS, to its disservice, and might explain that. A shame, though. I'd have loved an official multi-Dr set.
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  5. M'Kyuun
    LEGO Iron Man Mark 3 Collector's Edition (set 76344)
  6. M'Kyuun
    I built this this evening. Iron Man Mark III Collector's Edition, set # 76344 I love the design of the first red and gold suit Tony wore in the film franchise. Let's face it, the suit design was paramount to the movie's success, so they had to get it right, and IMHO, they succeeded beyond expectations. This is the first such set of a regular IM suit, and like the Hulkbuster sets before it, it's mostly a statue, although it does have a limited waist swivel, the shoulders can rotate through both abduction and flexor arcs, the wrists can rotate and flex upwards for the famous repulsor blast pose (as you can see), and the fingers are all posable thanks to a compact and ingenious design. I didn't take a pic of the back, but he also has two panels behind his shoulders that can raise up, similar to how the various panels moved in the film. I'm not sure if that was the intention, as there's no call out in the instructions and the hinge is required to accomplish the proper angle for those panels, but it's there if you want to use it for effect. There are a number of drum lacquered gold pieces in this set, and eight printed parts: two 3x3 round tiles at the hips with mechanical design, two 2x2 round tiles with repulsor prints, two 2x2 round tiles with mechanical design for his audio receptors, one 2x2 round tile with arc reactor printing for his chest, and one 2x6 tile used for the placard. The IM Mk III minifig has new torso printing front and back as well as arm prints, and printed legs. The head is double printed but I'm not certain if its unique to this set, and I'm not concerned enough to verify. I do want to call out the designer, Aaron Newman, one of the contestants on the first season of LEGO Masters. He may not have won the final round, but IMHO, he scored a far greater prize by becoming a set designer at Billund. If this set is representative of his future projects, we're in for some amazing sets. This set utilizes a lot of assemblies positioned at complimentary angles; placing those bits on the model and seeing those perfect alignments is so fulfilling. I wish I was that good with angles in my MOCs. There is a little bit of repetition, since the arms and legs are built similarly only mirrored, but everything goes together smoothly which makes for an enjoyable build. I wish these sets were more action figure and less statuesque, but the focus with this type of set is both capturing the subject as accurately as possible within a manageable scale (about 12") and achieving stability. IMHO, Aaron understood the assignment and carried it out brilliantly. Definitely recommend.
  7. Stratagos
    Hello, I know I'm a little late. But I just discovered this 1/48 Southern Cross Spartas thread now. Does anyone know if the 1/48 Southern Cross Spartas kit is still available for purchase. Because, I'd like to purchase a kit. Thank you.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Hopefully we'll get news of the western release soon.
  9. Big s
    I just got one. I already have the biggy, and just needed a lil one for my 1/100s
  10. Big s
    Totally preordered. And yes those are the correct arm packs
  11. Seto Kaiba
    They have their own approach to it... The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has a profound love of theme naming. In most cases, all the ships of a particular class follow the same theme. You've got the usual ones named for provinces, towns, islands, peninsulas, etc. Then you've got the ones where they really went ham with it and every ship of the class is named for kinds of rain, or wave, or ocean current or just different adjectives stuck in front of a common word. <Something> Dragon, <Something> Moon, <Something> Whale, etc. China does something similar, with all their submarines of a type have the same name. All the boomer subs are Long March #, and all the regular ones are Great Wall #. Maybe farther down the road, once some of these emigrant governments in Macross are more established, we'll start seeing more idiosyncratic naming schemes for their warships. (Though I guess it's pretty hard to maintain a theme across potentially hundreds of warships.)
  12. borgified
    Rumor says that Nanjin has also be contributing into Factory Entertainment 1/6th figures (from what I read on Collector's Freak) and the the uncanniness of the face sculpt and paint on his EXO-6 Star Trek line is very similar (either it's dead close or totally looks like total abysmal), So when EXO-6's Trek license expires on 2027 (the beginning or latter 2027 is unsure), then there is a very good possibility that he might go with the Factory Entertainment line. Edit after further though: After reading further in the JP figures on Collectors Freak: It's $350 USD for each and the the pics are very doctored by AI since it's based on the statues that was created by Iron Studios (you have to look very close to see the teased pics). Will it be like Star Ace in which they do a real s*** job on the products and charge what ever the prices they feel like? Mondo's Tri-clops is up for grabs if anyone wants it tomorrow, but you got to pay the tariff fee and shipping. Is it worth $255 USD for a "Limited Edition" figure? It's you're call.
  13. DONW999
    aha, cool!! Honestly, its my first time using this forum, and didn't expect any reply this soon!!
  14. MKT
    LOL I see Devastator is already put together.
  15. kevco
    @treatment Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I will check out the references! -Kev
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, this is what happens when Dave Filoni has creative control. IMO, there's not a lot of difference between his output and an AI tool's. They both mindlessly regurgitate and recombine preexisting material into a glorified mad-lib story because they lack imagination. The AI does it because that's all it's really capable of. Filoni does it because he thinks that's actually a good way to write. Everything has to be a crossover, a callback, a continuity nod, or a cameo. Every character has to know, meet, or be related to every other character with the fewest possible degrees of separation. I'm sure Filoni didn't think it out any farther than "Well, Mando's going to an ice planet so we have to have tauntauns". One more callback in a promo that's been nothing but.
  17. GMK
    Beat me to it!! So good. It’s up for pre-order at the usual sites. Looks like the correct arm armour packs for the TV super?
  18. Bolt
    There's a lot of nice posing options there.
  19. sh9000
    VF-1S Roy Super Valkyrie.
  20. sh9000
    Paid for 4 Tomahawks.
  21. sh9000
    I posted your cool VA-3 in this thread: https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/48334-the-hey-look-at-this-really-cool-model-build-i-saw-post/page/48/#findComment-1759553
  22. sh9000
    Neo.
  23. DONW999 started following VF-X VA-3 Invader 1/60 scale, the dead horse rises again
  24. DONW999
    This is my first post, and it looks like a mega dump of the progress so far. Follow Haotian Niu or DONW999 on facebook and Instagram for WIP and videos demonstrating mechanisms. Now to the main thing. I know this thing is unpopular, otherwise there would have been Bandai or Yamato/Arcadia toy already. And to be completely honest, I don't think it has any right to be. It looks weird and buffy to say the least. But in a round about way, it also looks kind cute. So I decided to have a go at it. Took me about a 2 weeks to get where I am now, which is most of the transformation mechanism is completed. Studio Experten(http://experten.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/va3/index.html) is a huge inspiration, which I got the links from this forum. Thanks a lot. I cant find any high quality Studio HalfEye version, and yes, I have looked through the achieve, which is the low quality I was talking about. So far, I have replicated the Experten mechanism through their photos, Great, GREAT reference. However I also notice there are quite a few very weak points that requires a lot attention. The printed model is very flimsy at the moment. The torso transformation mechanism has these for swing hinges, that are almost impossible to secure. The hips are on these, in comparison, tiny parts. I can't imagine their 1/100 scale is any more sturdy. Other than those, I also reinforce the wings some and developed the best possible printable ball joints. There are many things that need revision and I can see this would be a long and arduous journey. But I promise you this, I will finish it.
  25. Bolt
    Looking forward to more.!
  26. RangerKarl
    Sad, but I guess Culture-style ship names don't come off the same way in Japanese
  27. davidwhangchoi
  28. treatment
    Pretty sure there's been alot of it, but it's been years since. I'm too lazy to dig out my Strike-Hikky, but here are some from others that I can still recall: Hacchaka has this static from his 2020 review : https://hacchaka.net/archives/52052122.html Here's MarkH's attempt from his yt-video at 12:39 time-stamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHcRqCMykg snapshot sample: hope these help you out! add/edit: here's a couple of recent ones from Robolabo's video at 11:05 and 13:17 time-stamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dojg1jYJSCc snapshot samples:
  29. JB0
    It's definitely original toy-accurate! But I think general consensus is that the original Devastator is the worst of the combiners and kind of a mess, especially from the back. Whether toy supremacists or toon supremacists, people seem to want a cleaned-up and idealized Devastator.
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