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  2. Chas
    Holy Crap! Once you build that thing what do you do with it? Take it apart, put them in boxes and store them in a closet? It's awesome, but probably one of the most impractical models I've ever seen.
  3. mikeszekely
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  4. MKT

    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    Dial up the exposure x 1000.
  5. MKT
    Excellent! I’m wondering how’s the quality of the stand in the Deluxe version.
  6. sh9000
  7. sh9000
    1/48 Monster by yuna9004.
  8. JNordgren42
    Thanks for the welcome everyone! I put some time in on the kit pilot figure and decided that the sculpt sucks (the arms, especially the left one, are very weirdly proportioned). So I bit the bullet and ordered a 3D printed F-35A pilot from Reskit (I've used their aftermarket weapons before and I'm very impressed with the quality of their products). The body is printed integral to the seat, but I think it should be fairly easy to trim the seat off and any loss of detail will be on the back, so it should be fine. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it fits in the cockpit without too much difficulty.
  9. sh9000
    Nice setups. I still love the green Joons VF-1J too.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Emigrant governments do have some surface-based defenses, but as seen in Macross VF-X2, Macross Frontier, and Macross Delta... but they're pretty consistently shown to be rather minimal. One could even call them token. The ground-based defenses in Macross VF-X2 are inevitably overpowered by a single platoon of Valkyries or sometimes even just a single Valkyrie. The Frontier fleet's ground-based defenses don't fare any better. They have infantry, some tank destroyers, and some AA destroids. All in all, the infantry isn't much use against anybody, the tank destroyers may be able to hurt something like a battlepod but they're not mobile enough to be effective, and the AA destroids only show up as jobbers. There's never really been a good explanation for why some of those atmosphere-focused designs exist. The VF-4's Navy variant is a great example of that. Who the hell needed that? Granted, the writeup in the Macross the Ride Visual Book does claim that "second generation destroids" are seen as a valuable fighting force by fleets and emigrant planets. One would assume that "second generation destroids" mainly means the Cheyenne II, the only one we've seen that is used in more than one place. As far as we know, the "Super Defender" isn't even widely used in the Macross Galaxy fleet never mind elsewhere. It's only mentioned as being used aboard the resort ship Evna. In the actual story, the remarks about it in the Visual Book are treated like in-universe ad copy and it absolutely does not live up to the performance claims made about it... to the considerable dismay of its operators in the Macross Galaxy Corporate Army. On paper, they're meant to be capable of reliably shooting down 4th Generation VFs like the NUNS's VF-171. In practice, even in a target rich environment they struggled to hit anything. I'd even question the claim that the Super Defender - explicitly a modified ADR-04-Mk.X - is a "second generation" machine. It's a modified first generation machine, not a new design. From what we're told in Macross Chronicle and other works, places that allow Zentradi to live as giants seem to be quite rare in the galaxy. Enough so that Sheryl Nome, a touring idol on top of the charts across the galaxy, had apparently never seen one before visiting the Macross Frontier fleet. Ouroboros seems like a pretty good example of why most planets don't allow giants. The inevitable rioting. To be fair, that was also the ethos behind the idea of combining the walking war robot "Battroid" with the next-generation fighter project that became the Valkyrie. We haven't seen very many Variable Attackers in the franchise but a big part of that is likely that most Valkyries are designed to be multirole strike fighters. Maybe Aegis had two redshirts riding along who just didn't get any voice lines? That seems likely... though as we saw in Macross Frontier, even the NUNS Marines have aviators. In the TV anime, they use the Queadluun-Rhea/56 like SMS's Zentradi pilots do. In the novel, they use the Neo Glaug bis too, IIRC. I'd assume the second Battle 13 in command of Earth's defenses is probably a newer model Battle-class more similar to the Battle Astraea or Battle Frontier since it was several years newer than even the first Battle 13. Battle Astraea is supposed to have been a standard central NUNS Battle-class before Cromwell went rogue, stole the ship, and had it modified by the Epsilon Foundation. It seems relatively safe to assume that Battle 13 might be a similar or even the same design. As I mentioned, that's one of the connections the novels draw. Fold carbon and fold quartz had not been established yet at the time of Macross VF-X2, so the "hyperspace resonance lens" was just a new gimmicky macguffin Manfred Brando's company had come up with. The Macross Frontier TV anime established the existence of fold carbon and fold quartz and how they fit into existing technology. Then the later novelization of same came along and connected a bunch of Macross VF-X2's plot to Macross Frontier's including making Manfred the sponsor of the 117th research fleet, the resonance lens a piece of fold quartz acquired from the Vajra, and Dr. Nome's theories about the Vajra's hive mind the basis for the Jamming Sound.
  11. sh9000
    Python Patrol Destro and Tiger Force Flint.
  12. sh9000
    New from Ramen Toy.
  13. sh9000
    Heat Ray Godzilla. Oracle.
  14. davidwhangchoi
    Saw this posted
  15. sh9000
    6/24.
  16. sh9000
    Ghostbusters.
  17. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Retro X-Factor Jean Grey x2.
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  19. treatment
    from TNO's twitter page for the HMR VF2SS Silvie reissue: https://x.com/t_features/status/1935992534347792644 web-translated: direct link to the video...
  20. Negotiator
    New Goku body TAMASHII NATIONS Action Figure https://a.co/d/1e8Kk07
  21. Big s
    Looks really great and definitely has that been there destroyed that kinda weathering
  22. Big s
    It’s mainly those upper arm cylinders that look too stubby, maybe cut em in half and space them with some styrene sheeet definitely do a test fit and see if there are other things that may need some improvement. I remember really loving that kit, unfortunately it’s boxed away at the moment and I’m actually at the moment hoping for a newer one from hasegawa
  23. davidwhangchoi
  24. Papa Rat
    Cool. I’ll try searching here instead of google
  25. Big s
    I think there was a guy that did some mods here in the model kit section that may have some tips. Personally I think it’s fine as is, but anything to make it look more like the line art is a plus
  26. Papa Rat
    Sounds good. I love the color scheme and general design. Looking forward to it! Maybe I lengthen the arms?
  27. Big s
    Yeah, I’ve built that one. Love it actually. Not nearly as bad a fit as the monster and the pilot can be half set into the armor and actually looks pretty great. The arms are a little on the short side compared to the art, but it still looks cool out of the box. The big feet are a major advantage for balance
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