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  2. Urashiman
    My workbench aka „the carpet in the living room“. Got an AMEWI tugboat for cheap. Build it with my kid and went to the nearby (still partly frozen pond) to give it a dip. Done after ~ 5min. Rather quick in the water. My kid also saw my new Plamax VF-1D. He demanded me to build it like the other two bare builds. So we explored the box. The box is rather full. Hasegawa would have used a 2x size box for this 🤣 I squeezed it into the „Todo“ stash after the F-14D.
  3. aurance
    Oh absolutely, I wasn’t implying a robust delaying force wouldn’t be critical.
  4. Angesdad
    I second your thoughts on the plastic quality. The new combo is brighter opaque white with little yellow while the first release is yellowish, translucent white. I took the old one out for a direct comparison side by side and I’d have to vouch for the new version.👍
  5. mikeszekely
    Good gravy does the RAMpocalypse suck. My wife has been wanting to get into the property rental business. She found a property for sale that was owned by some guy who went into hospice or something. The estate didn't want to deal with all the crap in his house, so they sold it with a provision that not only was my wife buying the house, she was buying everything in it. Well, I found a fairly modern Lenovo Ideacentre PC that likely shipped with Windows 10 but was upgraded to 11 (in addition to a much older machine with a Vista sticker). Figured I'd give it a rehab, could always use it as a living room media box or something. But, it's only got 8GB of RAM. No biggie, I think. I know RAM prices are bad right now, but that's for DDR5, right? Nope. A 16GB kit (2x8GB) of DDR4 is sitting somewhere between $100-$150
  6. wm cheng
    Huh, do the side engines not light up now on this Reconnaissance Pod?
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Even if evacuation is your aim, being able to delay the enemy while you prepare that evacuation is pretty important. From that same account in Master File, the 73 ships and ~600 Valkyries of the Spica III New UN Spacy defense force were able to stall the advance of the Zentradi 1,534th Main Fleet for a period of several hours using their entire stockpile of thermonuclear reaction weapons. Their sacrifice buys enough time for a partial evacuation to be organized and get more than 20,000 civilians offworld and out of harm's way.
  8. mikeszekely
    Everyone's picking on Astrotrain for the mass-shifting and the fact that his interior works like a Tardis... I'm telling you, though, the worst offender is Omega Supreme. Dude transforms into an entire rocket base, and just his arms for the rocket, right? Then the Autobots would fly off in the rocket, and when they get there, somehow the rocket can turn back into Omega Supreme even though they left most of him behind.
  9. aurance
    Okay? So 2500 ships supposedly match your lower bound limit of main fleet ships of N00,000 Zent ships. There’s a whole huge range between that and N,000,000, for which I would think evacuation would be the best option. Unless they get lucky with some kind of protoculture shock again.
  10. m0n5t3r
    Honestly, this scene (and others like it) is the only thing I remember about Astrotrain. Even as a kid, I was probably bug-eyed and scratching my head. I mean, Jetfire was already a stretch, Astrotrain is just ridiculous .
  11. Big s
    Do they make action figures or only vehicles and weapons?
  12. Big s
    I feel like there was more of a surprise wit from dusk till dawn. I remember the original ads never showed anything spooky or monstrous. It just kinda looked like it would be an average Tarantino Rodriguez style heist gone wrong movie. I remember after work one day since a theater was less than a block away we all just walked over got our tickets and got all caught off guard when it turned into a vampire movie. Sinners kinda showed the surprise in the trailers and it became more of a dark titanic where you’re just waiting for the ship to sink. Although definitely better than titanic ever was. I definitely feel that Sinners was a good movie, but definitely not worth all the nominations. As far as big creepy films of the year, Weapons was far more entertaining although maybe not all that Oscar worthy either. Just a better overall movie than sinners. Critics and academy voters always have too big of a soft spot for musicals
  13. Seto Kaiba
    He is, but he's also a culture war grifter so accurate reportage is not exactly his thing. 🫤
  14. Big s
    To be fair, he is drunk
  15. Big s
    You can keep plugging that one if you don’t judge me for plugging the movie Hundreds of Beavers for the hundredth time
  16. Big s
    That’s only if you think about it being fueled by liquid fuel. These are powered by energon and the high amounts of cocaine the writers were snorting
  17. Seto Kaiba
    He often does... with highly questionable accuracy at the best of times.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    That's depend on the size of the main fleet... they run from a few hundred thousand to a few million ships. Variable Fighter Master File: VF-19 Excalibur relates the story of an encounter with a 120,000 ship main fleet in 2037 as part of the VF-19/VF-22 development backstory. After losing a colony in the Alpha Virginis system to the Zentradi 1,534th Main Fleet the New UN Forces rounded up every ship and Valkyrie within 300 light years of Earth and proceeded to throw them all at that main fleet spamming pretty much every thermonuclear reaction weapon they could lay hands on until the much-reduced enemy fleet was driven off. Emigrant fleet defense forces of a few hundred ships are meant to be enough to run off or wipe out a Zentradi branch fleet. 2,500+ ships won't run off a Zentradi main fleet the size of Boddole Zer's ~5 million ships, but it will absolutely bring enough hurt to drive off or destroy smaller forces that are more typically encountered.
  19. Big s
    A friend is f mine had a couple of these that he scored at a swap meet before they became temu junk stops. I was always a little jealous that he found them
  20. Big s
    He’s got something to say about everything, right or wrong, but always plastered
  21. Big s
    Can’t wait to see this dinosaur brought back to life.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Presumably it varied a bit depending on how similar the technology in question was to what we already had or whether they were simply practical versions of technology that already existed in theory. After the establishment of OTEC in 2000 and the Earth Unification Government in 2001, the investment in OTM research was both global and massive. Human-made imitations of at least some OTMaterials were available as early as March 2001 (after about 2 years of study), and once they solved certain core principles the dominos started falling faster and faster with a crude OTM thermounuclear reactor being brought online by November 2002, etc. Practical laser weapons seem to have also been developed quite quickly, first seeing use in the mid-2000s. That is a bit different, IMO. Scotty didn't hand the formula for transparent aluminum to a multinational research organization with unlimited funding backed by a world government. He handed it over to a material scientist turned plant supervisor at a small plexiglass manufacturing company in 1980s San Francisco (or Burglingame, per the script). What little information we have on the subject indicates that both US and Russian-made "legacy" fighter designs like the F-14 and Su-27 that were improved with OTM were mainly receiving structural improvements/reinforcements using early/crude pseudo-OTMaterials to make them more durable and slightly stealthier. At least where the F-14++ Tomcat is concerned, it's often mentioned that these were old/retired/mothballed airframes being rushed back into service with whatever improvements could be thrown together quickly due to a critical shortage of viable aircraft. Such improvements were typically limited to replacing certain parts with harder-wearing ones made from early OTM composites, avionics modernization, and newer model engines. Master File opines that the experimental SuX-27 Flanker its writers invented for backstory purposes also received a prototype laser cannon similar to those that would one day be adopted by the Octos and VF-0. We see that MiG-29 deploying early infrared-guided micro missiles, and Master File suggests that those and early hybrid-guided longer-ranged missiles like the OTM-based hybrid guidance AMRAAM2 were also on the table. Since VFs with active stealth had yet to really make their presence known, most of the weapons used were conventional NATO and Warsaw Pact hardware like the AIM-9X, AIM-120D, etc.
  23. aurance
    I feel like even 2500 ships of various sizes wouldn’t stand up to a Zentraedi main fleet. I wonder what types of mass evacuation strategies they have created for the population of Earth itself to survive, other than the existential colony fleet plan.
  24. Bolt
    Very nice! Though the pilot must be more reclined to sit in the cockpit, it seems.
  25. TG Remix
    I went through a personal journey of going through Variable Fighter Master File for the VF-19, and I came across it's detailing on how Earth orbital fleet is structured. Of course it's not official per se, but it's a nice perspective regardless. As of 2050, Earth's defense line has up to 17 task force fleets (excluding special and 30 patrol fleets), including the reserve fleet, and each of them has an average of 150 ships. That's a whopping 2550 ships between Earth's orbit! Much bigger then any fleet we've heard of. It certainly felt that big when we saw it in Plus, they really don't want another repeat of SWI, huh. Interesting how it points out Jupiter and Mars being the second and third lines of defenses with two fleets each. Makes sense due to their positions, but aside from the Jupiter satellite cities, I'm not aware of the planet itself being noteworthy like Mars is with its cities and Apollo Base. Each fleet is described to be composed of an amphibious command flagship, an amphibious assault ship, a guided missile cruiser, an Aegis destroyer, a stealth frigate, an aircraft carrier, and auxiliary vessels of the logistical support force such as supply ships. Fleets on the first and second defense lines may also be accompanied by beam gunboats and jamming stations. The composition seems a lot more varied then what animated material gives us, mostly being carrier based with frigates and the odd cruiser (exceptions like the Varauta Army notwithstanding.) The amphibious command ship I'm assuming is a Uraga, the frigates and carrier most likely the Northampton and Guantanamos, the amphibious assault ship I'm not sure if it's supposed to be either of the Zentradi or Meltradi types, but it'd go with the MF's notions of the remaining Zentradi fleet being deployed as the Solar System's first line of defense, and VF-X2's utilization of the latter type as both cargo and combat ready ships. I have no idea what the guided missile cruisers would be, much less the Aegis destroyers. Doesn't seem like it'd be the transforming Destroyer in VF-X2, but the mention of beam gunboats could allude to the Atlantic-class Vandal from the same game. I always wondered, what are the differences and additions OTM technology would give to regular aircraft? Certainly not the transforming limbs, unless you count the F-14's wings lol. I'm not aware what would OTM-based munitions would be, unless they were laser based weapons.
  26. electric indigo
    Pochiwan0183's custom designed & printed VF-2SS
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