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Well for season opening, I felt that was rather luke warm.

Our thoughts and prayers to you and Mrs Pengbuzz! Good things happen around this time of year, so I hope you get your fair share. Thanks for the update. Some more slow progress (it will slow even more as the holiday activities pick up I'm afraid). So much pre-prep work on this kit before I can even to the fun part of painting! Ended up having to cut off and rebuild all the canard and rudder pins as they are so weak and don't go very far inside, so I had to glue up some solid plastic inside the holes to re-drill the holes so they go deeper and can grab better. So many little things to do like internal braces because the kit just "squashes" the middle of the airframe when glued together or leveling up pieces so they sit flush, I hate work that you never even see when finished! Looks kind of cool with a much lower profile canopy or as a drone unit 😛 So many gaps to fill and sand! masking the canopy inside and out (has the same internal black brace as the F-35 uh). More tiny masking! Sanding around the intakes and getting that tail serrated engine area to fit was a bitch. But its starting to look more like a plane. After a lot more sanding with the spot Mr. Surfacer primer highlighting all the spots that still need more work, after a few tries/days, I get it pretty smooth to a point ready for paint. This is my most hated part; sanding and more sanding, but I've learned the hard way that if I skip out this step and race towards the paint, the next step highlights all the mistakes. After I thought I had addressed all the seams and I sprayed everything with the primer - it showed me there were sink marks all over the place in areas not even close to the seams. I hadn't seen sinks marks on models for 20yrs or on non American kits 😛 I don't even normally primer the entire model, but I am glad I did with this kit. I ended up filling all the depressions with Mr. Surfacer 1000 brushed over and re-sanded smooth. I think I got most of them. They have the colours reversed in the instructions, the light grey is called out as the Mr. Color number for the dark grey and vice versa - luckily I caught that before I started to paint. I should own stock in Tamiya Masking tape, I'm going through quite a lot of it - it really is the best stuff for not pulling paint up with nice sharp lines. I then masked the Spinter Camo pattern which I love. Ended up a bit dark (a little too contrasty for my tastes from all the reference photos), but this ended up working out even better than I had hoped. The next stage I was going to try to replicate that metallic sheen you see in all the newer stealth F-22 & F-35 greys. This was going to be my test bed to lightly mist Alclad Dark Aluminum over the camo so both the lighter grey and darker grey gets the metallic sheen. It ended up lightening the entire model and tying together the two greys really well. Now I know to exaggerate the camo pattern on my F-22 & 35s. The Alcad was the smallest metallic particles I could get in paint, and its not bad, works better on the lighter grey than dark, but really changes with the angle you view and with the light source. Sometimes it looks too light, and sometimes it looks too dark - weird but its more like the photographic references. I was worried that the masking tape might lift the really fine misting of the Alclad, but luckily it didn't - again this Tamiya stuff is worth every penny! Again more masking for the lighter carbon edges of the scheme. Can you tell I'm paranoid with overspray 😛 I'm learning masking for these 5th gen stealth fighters are going to be a bitch! I'm trying to paint most of the details on as there's a very limited decal sheet that was supplied, but also all the photo references has shown me a very clean aircraft with very limited data stenciling. After 2 weeks, here's where I'm at. I've sprayed everything with a gloss coat in prep for decals. I'm really liking the sleekness and lines of this aircraft, I thought it was kind of awkward but maybe because I've been looking at it for too long.

Best wishes for you and yours. Hoping you can get a little cheer in these tough times. Definitely a tough thing to go through during the holidays, hopefully she’ll be out soon and getting well

Looks like that lady was already crapping her pants

With the way things are going, yours is the better path to enjoy FM5.

Loved the show, first season at any rate, and it is liking losing a piece of my childhood.

I'm not crapping on it, I'm crapping on the crappy trailer. The job of which is to get people interested in seeing more.

I am watching Digimon Beatbreak. I am really starting to hate tomoro and gekkomon, I wish they would both stop whining so much. It is getting on my nerves.

For Gil; the vocal version of the Buck Rogers End Title Theme ("Suspension"):

If anyone was curious, I found out the problem. After cutting away at the back of the head with an x-acto blade, I was able to pry the head apart with a thin spudger with good leverage. Anyways, here's what the inside of the head looks like. The culprit was excess flash on the washers. These washers rotate along with the head laser and then get jammed when they hit the bumpers. Thankfully the washers are easily removable and plastic, so filing them down with sandpaper is easy. Now that the excess flash has been filed down, I don't have to worry about snapping the head lasers when rotating them around. Hope this helps anyone who encounters the same problem Fugu FG-01 Jetfire. I don't normally buy bootlegs, but I don't see anyone ever making on official version of this toy since it'd be a licensing nightmare.

Probably the best A-stance I can pull off with this little fig’. . . . especially since I lost one of the battroid feet and need to use the Gerwalk foot as a stand-in 😬:

This dvd set has been sitting next to my desk the past year, I picked it up shortly after Thom Christopher (Hawk) passed last December and just started watching an episode here and there (watched 21 so far) which kinda makes this hit harder ... many fond memories watching his adventures with my brother.

Man, I still remember him in Sidekicks. R.I.P. Mr. Gerard.

Ohh man, this one hurts! R.I.P. Captain Rogers!

RIP Mr Buck Roger - one of my favorite shows on TV growing up.

Size Comparison between Type 01 & Type 02

$116 USD, June - Aug 2026

Okay, here's goofy for ya: And an extra bonus:

Taking it seriously made it far my goofy IMO, it's still the same absurdity, but they tried to make it edgy, realistic and cool in the same setting with the same characters, it made me laugh as much as the Van Damme film. I will never not laugh at Ryu staring down a giant villain then they start shooting off fire and lightning, you just can't escape the stupidity and over the top nature of the source. It's cool, and a fun movie, but goofy as hell. Attempting to adapt the source material seriously won't just make audiences take the absurdity of this franchise more seriously, it's just another avenue that leads to the franchise being goofy and over the top, trying to take it seriously is cringe. I think that the only decent balance was the YouTube Legacy and Assassin's First series, even then, it still fell into the trappings of trying to take an absurd series seriously. It looked real, they took the source more seriously and attempted to ground the characters, setting and fighting, but it was still dudes fighting and shooting multi colored fire balls at each other. Better to just lean into the chaos.

You've already been too kind, my friend. Appreciate your support no matter what form it takes.

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid, Citing “Significant Risks” The move, while widely expected, will likely result in David Ellison launching another, higher bid for WBD. (Hollywood Reporter.com)

If I can find it on Mandrake that would be ideal for sure

And the hits just keep coming. Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 (Overclock3D.net) Samsung reportedly raises DDR5 RAM prices by 100% with 'no stock' left (Tom's Guide.com)

Remember to also check Mandarake since they have great service and check everything before it's shipped! 👍🏻

Good deal. Maybe I'll be able to get one as I was away from my computer during the first round. And as much as I am a die hard Anime Export fan because of their stellar service, that current price is just a bit out of reach in Tariffs are included.