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I'll have to grab some of my Yammie 1/60 missiles out of the boxes in the attic (I don't have any mounted on my displayed units currently).

If you have any 1/60 Yamato VF-1’s lying around, you can using their TV missiles (and some adhesive putty and a little red paint) to fill those additional hardpoints. I’m using the Version 1’s missiles on the Legioss and Tread. Not 100% sure about the Version 2’s missiles, but if their pegs are similar, they may work too.

No, I bought that from YJA years before I had my own 3D printer. Your material options depend entirely on the type of printer; DLP or SLA use photopolymer resins, while FFF or FDM use extruded filament spools. Liquid resin is better for highly-detailed miniatures, while filament is more practical for larger projects. Those are my Hiya Toys action figures, actually. ☺️ A brief Google search found several different options for ALIEN figures in compression suits that can be downloaded and printed. There are no limits to scale with 3D-printing; your only restrictions would be layer thickness, and the physical dimensions of your printer. Print anything you want, at any size you want! 😁

Episode 4 was above and away, way better than the first three. My fav of the season so far. For me, nice level of mystery and suspense and I hope they keep this up. My one problem... Thom

They all separate:

It’s definitely before Weyland and Yutani merged, so I guess that would be before Alien. I’m not as up to date on the fictitious dates or anything though, so I’d imagine someone else who keeps better track would know a little more. I could be wrong, but I think it was Weyland Yutani from covenant on. I only remember it being referred to as the corporation in the og movie, so I may have some of this timeline a bit off

Do the individual missiles actually separate from the mount, or are they permanently glued or molded together?

Resident Evil or Cowboy Bebop?

I'm looking to buying a 1/6 figure and saw a good price from Pop Collectibles. https://popcollectibles.store/ Does anyone have any feedback on this site? Good or bad? Thom

Authentic manual secured. Expensive, but it's almost complete.

They have two different missiles that came with the "Exclusive" set. They don't match the missiles from the line art, but I think this is because they have them mountable on legios as well (they use the same mounting system as the gun pods). But I'd be down for more, especially since I have three more hardpoints on each wing to fill up.

It may be plausible that all of these events are happening concurrently due to the length of time for space travel/hypersleep/etc, right? Or maybe that's a stretch based off past canon analysis.

I’m hoping it’s a one and done season. Although at this point with the Alien continuity it’s a bit confusing on what would change it in too much of a way. Now we have the xenomorph before the og movie already released on earth. I guess they probably will have to exterminate it before it spreads and leave no trace otherwise I think that would kinda ruin the first two movies.

Now that’s what I’m talking about. Is that your build? It looks great and I agree that the build and scheme at hand will be very forgiving. Thanks for the heads up on this, appreciate it. $20 for files sounds good too. I’ll have to do some research on cost for printing before I pull the trigger on it though. Being a total noob, are there options as far as materials used in the printing process that I should seek out for this sort of project? Edit* I did notice the figures “Dallas, Lambert, Kane” are not part of the files. Is that something I am able to find elsewhere at the same scale?

I'm not at all into metal, so the soundtrack was lost on me entirely; it was more background noise to me than anything else. Glad you enjoyed it, though. I suppose, for the genre and the events taking place, the music was apropos. I didn't really pick up on that many of the characters being quirky, a few sure, but in hindsight, yeah, I guess there are more than I realized. Despite a few eyerolling moments, the show demonstrates promise; I hope they fulfill it satisfyingly without breaking established continuity and with a building story that beggars more seasons.

Nightwing.

The Woodland Camo is still my favorite! 😍

Something like this? 😎 Gambody's files are on sale right now. I think so. The bio-mechanical shapes and muted color scheme would be quite forgiving, so it would be difficult to screw it up. 😅 Let me know if you're serious about it.

Very cool.

I remember many years ago, there was a vinyl kit that haunted the local hobby shop

I've used Robotoybase plenty of time over the years, including way back when it was known as Chimumgmung. I've never had a problem. My last order was a few weeks ago, arrived no problem.

Yah, I found what I was looking for at an online Gundam store. Pretty much a snap-on model with a tiny windup motor in it. Was pretty easy to build and just had to superglue the Legioss missile rack mount to one obvious spot. Adhesive putty was added to keep it solidly on the wing, and it‘s been locked in place since being put in the display case earlier this week.

That's a very nice custom @Mog. The gatling is really the icing on the cake, and wow it's motorised too.

Well, I still don't have a date for Mixmaster. But I haven't quite run out of new stuff, because everything is kind of coming all at once. From Pulse's latest exclusive two-pack, here's Hearts of Steel Bumblebee. This one's an interesting one for me, because while some of MMC's earliest projects did include Optimus and Starscream, I never owned them. What I do own is Mech Planet Hot Soldiers Centurion, a figure I reviewed all the way back in 2018. At the time, I said he lacked the polish that more expensive 3P figures usually have, and lo and behold when an official toy comes out from Hasbro it's already looking a bit more refined. The gray plastic is a bit darker and, to my eye, a more accurate color, the head is more defined and less derpy, and he's sporting a lot more paint in ways that make him more accurate, like the blue marker lights on his tummy, the silver gears in the boxes on his shins, and the insides of the slats on his toes. Ultimately, though, they're pretty similar. Both end up with similar kibble in similar places. Hasbro's figure is a little more hollow in the forearms and the backs of the thighs, and you can see a little more into the inner workings in his back, but on the other hand his shoulders aren't as droopy and he's got less kibble on his back. Like Centurion, the official toy comes with a hammer. It's colored a bit more accurately, and although it also has some plastic saving cutouts they're kind of under the hammer head, and less obvious. The official toy gets a pistol that Centurion doesn't have. Bee's head is on a ball joint that has some slight up/down/sideways tilt. Shoulders are also ball joints, and they can swivel and move 90 degrees laterally. Biceps swivel, and elbows bend 90 degrees. No wrist swivels, but due to how they fold for transformation he can tilt them down for poses where you want him pointing the hammer or holding it in a more relaxes fashion. His waist swivels. His hips can go 90 degrees forward, backward, and laterally. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend about 120 degrees. His feet can tilt up and down, and he's got about 45 degrees of ankle pivot. For those keeping score at home, that's mostly on par with Centurion, though the official figure ultimately wins due to pins and hinges for the hips instead of ball joints, a deeper knee bend, and the fact that his entire foot moves when his ankle pivots and not just his pilot toes. Bee can hold either weapon in either hand, but he doesn't have any bot mode storage. Bee's transformation is extremely similar to Centurion's... with obvious train parts in the feet, legs, chest, and shoulder pads I'd like to believe that's simply the most obvious, logical way to get from the robot to the train, and not a case of Hasbro's team copying someone else's homework. The biggest differences are that Bee's shoulders shift deeper into his shoulder pads rather than fold under them, simply bending his elbows to get in place under the rear of the train, and the shoulder pads shift just a bit more cleanly without the need for gap-filling flaps. I'd say the entire transformation is just a bit smoother, really. Once again, the official toy comes off as just a bit more refined. Obviously, the paint again, including the "BEE" written on the sides (that was part of Guido Guidi's concept art for Bee, though I don't recall seeing it in the actual pages of the comic), but also small details like the flap at the bottom rear, the lack of visible hands, and molded details on the back that better resemble the comic. Bee has storage for his accessories in alt mode. There's a 5mm port between his forearms that you can plug the gun into. There's also a hollow space under the pilot. The head of the hammer fits into it, and the handle snaps into place between Bee's legs. It's super secure, but it does fore his legs slightly apart and creates a gap in the pilot. On the one hand, Bee's half a $60 set, and my initial reaction was that seems a bit much for a Deluxe-class figure. But, as part of a Pulse-exclusive set, I don't know that it's actually fair to say that he is a Deluxe. The size and engineering seem pretty Deluxe, but after our recent round of Studio Series Deluxes I'm inclined to think that Bee's sporting a bit more paint. And compared to Centurion, a figure that I recall retailing for around $35 in 2018 (which is closer to $45 in 2025 dollars), Hasbro's offering is little smaller but overall more refined. I don't know that I can fairly complain that Bee costs a little more than a normal retail Deluxe then turn around and tell you that he's better than a toy that's $15 more adjusted for inflation. Because, yeah, between the two I do like the official figure better. Ultimately, the decision to buy or not comes down to how much you like his pack-in pal, who we'll be looking at in the next episode.