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  2. Black Valkyrie
  3. Duke Togo
    Has anyone else been holding off on rewatching Rogue One since the first season came out? Next week I'll be watching all three final episodes on Tuesday night, and will be watching Rogue One on Wednesday.
  4. Duke Togo
    This is why I don't like Filoni being put in charge of all things Star Wars.
  5. Papa Rat
    That’s a great idea. I haven’t made it before and would love to give a go. 👍
  6. pengbuzz
    You might be better off buying a can of MEK and throwing old sprue into it to make sprue goo.
  7. electric indigo
    They could have leaned more towards the design of the illustration IMO, but 1/20 is too small for my ageing eyes anyway.
  8. electric indigo
    I kinda envy you for being somewhat in the dark about how badly many movies are written 😄
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  10. electric indigo
    I have not been so breathlessly hooked to the screen since the golden days of GoT fandom. The last arc was the epic cherry on a cake of epic. On a side note: How it started --> how it's going
  11. Olitech Industries started following Olitech Industries South Ataria Island build - collaboration
  12. Olitech Industries
    Trying to bring some old work to life...3 years later! Welcome to the future. Again. ;] Time lapse shot of the restaurant, based on my old renderings. Olitech_restaurant time lapse.mp4
  13. Papa Rat
    This is the one arriving next tuesday I didn’t know there was an ARII version I kept seeing this and the Bandai
  14. Big s
    I was kinda meaning movie wise. I guess as far as books, maybe most dangerous game might be the og, but I’m not really sure there. I read a few of King’s books when I was younger, but decided that it’s for the best if I never read story books anymore. I figure if it’s a decent story they’ll make a movie. And I really don’t want to be that guy that everyone totally hates that says “the book was better”.
  15. Big s
    Is it the Imai one? because I know for sure that one definitely eats the putty. All four cannons every part on the legs and the rms and the body. Lots of big seams. Also alignment issues as well. Some big parts on the arms were warped a bit as well from what I remember. It looks great if you really put in the work though I’ve never seen the Arii kit actually built, so if it’s that one, I’d love to see all the steps.
  16. captain america
    Captain's log: Thursday, May 8th, 2025. Have a look at pic 37: those are all the cutting and shaping tools I use on the lathe, with the exception of the face-end mill, which you saw in part 1. While they are few, they all serve a purpose, depending on the part needing to be created. The grinding stones on the left are used for shaping more than cutting, so these usually come in when I'm making curved shapes of a particular diameter. You'll see what I mean in the next few steps. 37.HEIC If you go back to plate 32 from last week's update, the missile pod interface joint, we see that same part again in pic 38, only now it's on the mill. I need to make a very wide, cylindrical channel across this piece, so I begin by removing material with the regular steel milling shanks. After that, I use the larger bull-nose shank to round-down those large stair-steps, then go in with the 'lollipop' grinding stone, to refine the curve even further. Then on the last step, I use 80 grit sandpaper wrapped over a cylindrical shape to refine the curve until it looks like what you see in pic 39. This part is now almost ready to hold the large missile container!--more on that in just a bit. 39.HEIC38.HEIC Pic 40 shows the back side of the main body/hull structure. Here I'm test-fitting many of the other parts that will attach to this component. You can still see some of the pencil marks on the blocks which were used as reference point for detail machining. 40.HEIC Because the shoulder missile pods are just too large for me to machine safely on my equipment, I broke-down the component parts and created files on the computer (pic 41) which will be used to make STL files for 3D printing. I enlisted Carlos from MEPTOYS to create those files, which he popped-out in just a few days (THANK YOU!!!), and you can see those shapes in pics 42-44. I didn't need any details to be added on the surfaces; I will do all that by hand to make sure the aesthetics match the rest of the model. Pics 45-48 finally show what I've been working toward. While still lacking refinement, the proportions look great and the parts will be designed to fit with alignment pegs in critical areas to make the model as sturdy as can be. From this point onward, things will be moving a bit faster, as most of the major components are now shaped, so stay tuned for next week's update! 48.HEIC47.HEIC46.HEIC45.HEIC
  17. Roy Focker
    I tried watching that episode of Rebel for the first time. I just couldn't. The animation is ugly. Character designs are atrocious and nothing moves like it should. Dialog and story is too juvenile. I refuse to believe Andor is in the same universe as the cartoons or even the other Disney plus shows. Their tones are completely different. Their rules are completely different.
  18. Papa Rat
    @MechTech Thanks for the pointers. I finally have a monster kit on the way and I hear it eats up the putty.
  19. pengbuzz
    You've been to New Haven? O.o
  20. electric indigo
    Senbai-san delivers another masterpiece
  21. jammaker
    New Figure "Major Booker" https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11194288
  22. Duke Togo
    Who cares?
  23. MechTech
    @Papa Rat Nice fixes to the rear. By the way, use Milliput when it is still wet. It smooths down great with water and your fingers saving sanding, and trim it with blades while still semi-cured. It is good stuff. It just needs practice like any tool. @Urashiman Cool! Getting all electronicy too! I looked through my dad's old Lionel train stuff. There was this glob of aluminum with fins about the size of a small matchbox. I asked him what it was. He said, "A diode"! Technology sure has changed! 😁- MT
  24. JB0
    And every last one of them was brought to Sol by Kamjin, making him the most annoying troll in Earth history! ... Or not.
  25. electric indigo
    Stephen King wrote "The Long Walk" even before "Running Man" in '79 IMO it's the most brutal of the "Battle Royale" type storys.
  26. BroTaku79
    All of my stuff are made in South Korea by Project Blue aka Minoltian. I generally try to restock every month but it is really challenging sometimes. I will be restocking towards end of the month of May though. Thanks.
  27. tekering
    Even worse, they claim that the plaza (where the monument to the Tarkin Massacre stands) is where 500 protestors were killed when Tarkin landed his ship on top of them... Where and how could you land a ship that big in a space that small? 🤔 We know that the circular terrace that surrounds the plaza was erected before the event, since it's clearly visible in the promotional video the ISB officers watch in episode 7. The monument is conspicuously absent from the plaza in the video, dating it prior to the Tarkin Massacre. The geography makes no damn sense. 🤨
  28. mikeszekely
    I upgraded from the original Ally to the Ally X during a black friday sale. The slight performance bump due to more RAM and the being clocked slightly higher at each power level was nice, but the bigger battery and second USB port were what made all the difference. The battery on the Ally X is big enough that I can play on the 25w profile for a solid hour and a half while my daughter's in her Monday dance classes, and the second USB port means I can use my Viture glasses while the Ally X is plugged in. I see that the black Ally 2 has two USB ports, which is great, but if the battery life is worse than the Ally X that could be a non-starter for me.
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