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  2. Papa Rat
    Cool. I’ll try searching here instead of google
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  4. Big s
    I think there was a guy that did some mods here in the model kit section that may have some tips. Personally I think it’s fine as is, but anything to make it look more like the line art is a plus
  5. Papa Rat
    Sounds good. I love the color scheme and general design. Looking forward to it! Maybe I lengthen the arms?
  6. Big s
    Yeah, I’ve built that one. Love it actually. Not nearly as bad a fit as the monster and the pilot can be half set into the armor and actually looks pretty great. The arms are a little on the short side compared to the art, but it still looks cool out of the box. The big feet are a major advantage for balance
  7. Papa Rat
    Not sure where to post this but I decided to grab one of these old IMAI Nousjadeul-ger kits. It will be on my bench after the Monster and VE-1 are done. Does anyone here have any experience with this build? Been searching online for images of a completed build and surprisingly came up empty handed. Just curious.
  8. TG Remix
    I was more talking about local defenses, because with a looming threat like a Main Fleet hanging around everyone's heads, one forgets the ones that can pop up in their backyard. It's presumably a reason why places like Sephira and Al-Shahal had ground forces to begin with, and presumably places like the 90% water Eden-3 would have a blue water Navy, with VFs specifically tailored to those roles (namely the VF-4S as an atmosphere-specific type for anti-warship and the VF-5 which had sea landing capabilities for those type of planets....Where did we learn about that, or the other Sea Dart comparisons actually? It's hard to find another source that even mentions the VF-5 like the This is Animation Special - Macross Plus book and Digital Mission VF-X manual, the latter of which had to get it from somewhere else.) It's bio in The Ride's website and visual guide book seems to suggest it found its niches outside the Galaxy Fleet, as it's described to be a second generation Destroid that's considered a valuable asset in fleets and immigrant planets. The galaxy's (Not the fleet, army, or Macross class ship!) huge, and especially with how big the Macross world seems, I wouldn't be quick to assume that what we see or read about is the only place they'd appear in. It seems like we get a few exceptions barring the odd stationed NUNS Marine unit. M3 had the independent colony Cristrania, which was described to be a "natural planet for the development of life for Zentradi," which seems to suggest for Zentradi fundamentalists at least, was a planet that allowed them to live naturally as giants, whether it was because of the gravity, terrain, resources, etc. On the other side there seemed to be a populace of civilian Zentradi on Ouroboros that work through life as miners and presumably other industrial jobs. Now this could also mean they'd have a miclonization chamber on standby like in Trad City, but at least with 30's novelizations, the woes of the made berserk Zentradi about being treated like "living Destroids" shows that it's common to some degree. Not to put down any effectiveness any little Destroids might have (because otherwise why else they keep popping up lol), but on the VA-3's This is Animation Special - Macross Plus pages, variable attackers were designed to have superior deployment capabilities in regards to the role Destroids had for localized attacks. Makes sense as VAs are more ground orientated then the general purpose VFs, So I guess if one wants more advanced Destroids in the franchise, maybe lean more into variable attackers? They need the attention anyways, the VA-3 has been starved of it since 7 Dynamite and we never see its predecessor, the VB-171. We don't even have a design to work off from aside from presumably sharing the basic shape of the Nightmare Plus. It has a Destroid Mode, surely that counts for something lol. I feel like Aegis would probably disagree about it being a glass cannon, whether on the receiving or giving end. Jokes aside, since it's a playable unit in Mission 7 and in the post game, I'm wondering how he was able to pilot it all by himself when unless it's installed with the EX-Gear system, it needs a pilot and 2 bombardment officers. Maybe VF-X pilots are just that cracked, who's to say? The Queadluun-Rau was said to be favored for their dogfighting abilities by UN pilots, so my literal mind at least thought that there could be dedicated Spacy/Air Force units/squadrons/divisions/etc. somewhere as well. The entire talk about the battle ships made me think about the new Battle 13 captained by Kim Kamirov by Frontier, which I thought was a novelization thing, but it turns out the Macross Chronicle also mentions that in its glossary. Would it be a ship that's more or less the same to the Battle 13 that Aegis and Vinderance blew up, or played with by you and SebastianB, a different model of the same class of ship but in the colors of the original? It's fun to think of either way. Technically VF-X2 got the drop first in that regard. Long before Frontier, the game itself introduced the "hyperspatial resonance crystal," which is essentially fold crystals in a different name, and from its discovery in 2043, it was used for the UN's Die Zauberflöte and presumably the Sound Jamming System since the UN through Latence was trying to achieve complete communication control though its military might.
  9. TangledThorns
    We all know the Dinks was singing the theme from Bridge On The River Kwai but it just dawned on me that film also starred Alec Guiness. So decades later I now wonder if that was intentional or coincidence? lol
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  11. Papa Rat
    Another beautiful hand painted Glaug HJWEB
  12. shazam
    Fugu Model FG-01 Macross (Transformers - Jetfire) VF-1S God of Flame w/Fast Pack Armor Deluxe Version x 5 units
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  15. sh9000
    6/20.
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  17. sh9000
    Valentine 2.0.
  18. sh9000
    GI Joe Classified Low-Light.
  19. SteveTheFish
    That seems to be a cultural difference when it comes to modeling. While modeling is held in a much high regard here in Japan than in America (where people just think it's something that kids do), IPMS is not so popular. Modeling events in Japan, or at least the ones I've been to, are not about a contest but rather just coming together and enjoying the hobby. The biggest event is the Shizuoka Hobby Show. One convention hall is used as a tradeshow with companies' booths while the other convention hall is a private exhibition hall. Individuals as well as modeling clubs have their models on display. Dorobou Hige has his table as does Wild River, there's the Studio Ghibli Modelers group, a group for Yamato/Starblazers modelers, the lovely Tomoe Ogoshi 054 has her group of women modelers, etc. There is no contest; it's rather a celebration of the hobby. And the level of imagination on display there will blow you away. A Gundam taking a crap on a toilet reading a magazine, Hatsune Miku in a Power Loader from Aliens battling an actual crab, a psychedelic-colored Messerschmitt, an Easter basket of eggplanes painted like Easter eggs, a Hello Kitty Starship Enterprise... It's unreal. Way more fun than dealing with stuffy judges with their heads up their ass or grown-ass men throwing temper tantrums because they didn't get first place. Anyhow, sorry for going off-topic. I haven't been been to the Shizuoka Hobby Show since 2016, and even then I had to work at the event and couldn't really enjoy the sights. I was stuck babysitting a Lamborghini for two days straight and my feet were killing me.
  20. M'Kyuun
    A little hope is better than no hope at all. Thanks, Mike.
  21. Bolt
    It really does !
  22. Seto Kaiba
    What he said. As far as I am aware, both from written material and from line art, the VT-1 and VE-1 are supposed to be using the same kind of conventional bell nozzles as the VF-1 in their Super parts. From what I was able to find on a quick search, this appears to be a particular eccentricity of the Hasegawa plastic model kits for the VT-1 and VE-1. The Bandai DX Chogokin and Hi-Metal toys show a conventional bell nozzle like what's in the line art.
  23. PointBlankSniper
    That's not them expositing to explain themselves and to close out the story. That was just them using old mysteries as a springboard to invent more new bs to add to the chaos.
  24. sketchley
    To the best of my knowledge, the nozzles are exactly the same on the VE-1. Perhaps it was artistic licence on behalf of the modeller that made that specific kit? Compare to the nozzles here: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Statistics/VF-1/VE-1.php
  25. Apok451
    It does come with a few autobot tickers, but that’s it. Damn, now I want something other than those. Oh well. Overall a very nice piece. Obviously not the quality of a Bandai or Yamato, I can’t speak to the Arcadia it’s ripped off from.
  26. Tking22
    Finally snagged a 19 at a good price, I've had the sound booster since release. MOD NOTE 1). Maximum uploads of 3 pictures of a toy even if you bought two. That means if you bought DC Batman you can post a combination of boxed and opened pics of up to three here. Anymore than three will get the post deleted. If you bought another copy of the same DC Batman toy that does not constitute as a different toy and does not earn you three new photos. The moderation team considers that spamming and will be deleted. Text link to an external photo gallery if you have more than three pictures to share. 2). Image size: Height maximum per toy will now be set to 2400pixels for 3 pictures combined. That means one high resolution picture at 2400pixels or three decent resolution picture of 800pixels each.
  27. DeltaE27
    Thank you! Yeah, they are very different. I believe originally made by different companies too (ARII vs Imai) which could explain it, but in practical terms they differ in detail, shaping, articulation, construction…basically as different as you can get for something that’s in universe the same basic design. Grabbed some random images from online that show the difference between the ARII tomahawk and Imai defender (which I stole and transplanted onto my Tomahawk) molds. Not a big fan of the horizontally stretched out search light. And no I don’t know why this modeler installed the tomahawk foot upside-down.
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