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  2. derex3592
    WELCOME TO THE 50 CLUB!!! IT SUCKS! šŸ˜‚ @tekering --- Yeh....I'm eventually gonna HAVE to have one of each of those Buck Rogers Designs in 1:48 or 1/32 Scale!!! I always ADORED the single and double seater designs! Was the 3rd one ever in the show???? I can't recall...
  3. VF25-F
    Genesis/destiny full video - part of Azure lane series
  4. pengbuzz
    It was probably the Matata class... another ship in that class was named the Simba...
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  6. Papa Rat
    Oh wow!!! Happy birthday to you and yours. Thatā€™s super exciting. I turn 50 in June. Bunch of bicentennial babies right here. ā™„ļø Please post your VF-1A if you find the time. Would love to see it. Stayed up late lastnight doing the test fit on the Our Treasure 1/144 Gatexion Mark3 Dharmas. This little model has a ton of detail and is going to take a lot of effort to correct seams and paint. Itā€™s really back heavy too. I am going to mess around with the balance when final construction happens. Would like to avoid a stand if possible. I do have to say Iā€™m loving the wild design. Thereā€™s a lot going on here.
  7. TG Remix
    In all fairness, it definitely looks rusted enough to be a bit more then 15 years old, lol. The Macross Chronicle glossary also says it might have originally been a "self propelled colony capsule." I could see it being a development from the old converted ships as well, since the Frontier fleet seems to adopt them as Environmental ships for housing smaller populations. It's just one of those cases where the lore evolves over time, and new stories try to rationalize older things that contradicts it, if not outright ignore it. It's a somewhat messy situation, but a very familiar one being a Mega Man fan as one of many examples. Story wise though, it's more to show how screwed Isamu might have been if it wasn't for his transfer to Eden lmao. That's another good way of putting it though, many things presented in the Zero/Frontier era seemed to be presenting the same concepts from 7 but with further elaboration under different contexts, explaining the science of things like Sound Energy and Spiritia through Fold Waves, Fold Resonances, etc. It's not too out of reason to imply Fold Carbon and Fold Quartz is apart of that too. In fact, we actually have a game that does this, Macross VF-X2, as Mission 3 involves protecting the Embatelion transport ship carrying a material called "hyperspace resonance crystal," which was discovered in 2043. It seems to check some boxes the fold quartz has, as it creates a spatial resonance when hit with vibrations of a certain wavelength, and was used for communication and hyperspatial navigation through the Die Zauberflƶte comm device. Kodachi seemed to made the connection as well, tying them together officially in his Frontier novelization. Not only that, not every government also either doesn't play nice with the UN or more independently minded from them. That was the source of many conflicts with M3 like Cristrania being founded and characterized through Zentradi fundamentalism, the delicate balance between Neo York's planetary government and the New York Liberation League, and the attempted coup by Anti-UN insurgence in Belfan. And with VF-X2, that was the entire conflict! I have a lot of the same hangups with the Master File books too, so I totally get that. But isn't that the beautiful thing about the continuity of Macross? For better or worse, you can pick and choose what interpretation of events, lore, and mechanical details, and make them your own! Headache for some, but opportunities for others I'd say.
  8. David Hingtgen
    I've upgraded my current PC about as far as I can. It's 11 years old, and despite almost nothing being original besides the case, I need "new everything" to really take advantage of any new tech. I've never had a PC this long before. The case itself is an issue at this point, incompatible with USB 3.1/3.2/C. PSU (#3!) doesn't have 6x2 12-pin for modern GPU's, and is borderline for 5070/5080 wattage requirements. So that pretty much dictates "new everything", to accomplish a GPU/CPU upgrade at this point I came very close to buying a 5060 ti on Black Friday, but was still REALLY waiting for the 5070 Super/Super ti to come out. Well, that's not gonna happen now, and everything is skyrocketing. It's either get something now, or be stuck with an old PC for a very long time or pay a LOT of money for something new a bit later. At the moment, I've swung back towards CostCo again. I could buy it, see if it works/see if it's one of the ones with the better mobo, and return it in-store if not. I dread the thought of ordering a pre-built, waiting for it, then something doesn't work. Much harder to troubleshoot "mystery components" and even harder to ship back.
  9. azrael
    So whatā€™s the reasoning? Are you looking for something to buy now, upgrade later or to have a system that provides a lasting out-of-box experience that you donā€™t need to worry about for a while?
  10. Big s
    He looks really happy to be a part of the collection
  11. jenius
    Picked one up at HLJ which is perfect, I can ship it and the HMR Scopedog with my VF-17S and and Toyrise Legioss at the end of the month.
  12. danth
    Thank you! A while back, I sketched out some jokey ideas for spaceships -- one based on a triangle, one based on a rectangle, and one on a circle. This is the triangle ship. I designed it in Studio, and since I was also in for a copy, I only used pieces currently/recently in production. I figured that way, if anyone likes it (including me), they can easily/cheaply bricklink the parts. Well, semi-cheaply. Europe seems to have way more stores and better prices. Dang, the head doesn't rotate? I guess with the back of the helmet flat against the top of the air tanks, there's no way for it to swivel. I definitely would have preferred an astrofig to the droid, especially in a color we haven't gotten yet (blue, black, or light bley like you said). I was also hoping for some sort of gimmick, like opening the backpack to reveal some trans yellow panels and a computer room or something. It'd be cool if the back of the printed panel had another print, something like these:
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  14. sketchley
    That's kind of assuming that those ultra-high efficiency renewable energy sources and thermonuclear fusion power capabilities are being freely shared. As the Macross Galaxy Fleet suggests, not every government plays nice with its civilians. However, putting all that to the side, this could be a sign that Kawamori-san had the concept of Fold Coal and Fold Quartz in mind all alongā€”akin to the Energy Conversion Armour idea that he purportedly had way back at the time of SDFM but didn't formally introduced until Macross Zero. It also goes a long way to justifying why there was a mining settlement on the planet Basara visited in The Galaxy Is Calling Me. (Perhaps a precursor or initial attempt at the idea that got refined and clarified in the Macross Frontier materials as Fold Carbon & Quartz?) I agree that those explanations are neat. However, due to some other oddities and unusual hangups in those books, I can't fully accept them into my head cannon... šŸ˜…
  15. sh9000
  16. SteveTheFish
    Oh wow, you must've procured those designs elsewhere. I think I saw those on Thingiverse. All I did was send you the cockpit interior STL files. I can send you the rest if you'd like. As for myself, I think I'll finally get started laying down decals on my Kakizaki green VF-1A from DYRL by Hasegawa. It has a gloss coat now and is ready to go. I've been slowly working on this for a couple of years now, always getting distracted. I can post pictures of it tonight. It would otherwise be a slow evening after work and the perfect opportunity for hobby time tonight, but today is the commemoration of the female spousal unit's manufacture date. She turned 49 today. Which is fine, but I turn 50 on Sunday. Crap.
  17. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  18. Angesdad
    I got in the mail today an old used copy of a regular version purchased from Mercari, spent about 250cad all in for the arm joint basically. Some dishonest Japanese sellers on Mercari by the way, because it came with no neck cover and 3 of the arm screw covers were nowhere to be found in the blister. The description certainly did not disclose all that while the seller bragged about having all the parts.. Getting real fed up from my recent series of unfortunate events, being turned down and lied to, over some toy. Based on my experience this time around I will think twice before buying another Arcadia and stick to manufacturers who provide support globally - Because crap happens.
  19. sh9000
    HG 1/100 VF-31S.
  20. sh9000
    The Bride of Frankenstein.
  21. sh9000
    Wave 15.
  22. sh9000
    GI Joe Classified Cobra-La Royal Guard.
  23. davidwhangchoi
    As long as you feel confident with buying direct from MSI and their customer support, it makes sense since you have the 990 evo's and need more ram. I feel safer with Costco's hassle free warranty. it's not an easy choice weighing the pros and cons
  24. Bolt
    Sounds like a good time at the big screen.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I've been trying different builds at MSI's site, vs CostCo's version. And I keep circling back to RAM---even if I lucked out and got the 4-slot version from Costco, it'd cost $400 to upgrade it to 64GB RAM. If I also downgrade to a 5070ti instead of a 5080, I still have a 50xx 16GB card, and have 64GB RAM, for only $20 more than the Costco one. Of course, I could literally just walk in and pickup one from CostCo, plus the warranty/return issue...
  26. Big s
    My lady loves the game of thrones stuff. Personally it reminds me of her real housewives shows where there isnā€™t really a main character and everyone is mad at each other and struggling to be a main character and attacks their enemies in the junk verbally or physically. But she loves it, so I have a feeling that weā€™re getting the paramount whatever whenever it happens.
  27. davidwhangchoi
    My friend got from costco, an identical spec and cpu 9900x for 2300 around blk friday. I tried to convince him to get the 9850x3d but it was sold out and he really wanted the 5 year warranty from Costco and settled for this one. some of these brands are terrible with RMA's if you got an issue.
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