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The ads keep getting better. Hopefully a good sign. Even better is it comes out when I'll be visiting back home with a really great Imax theater nearby.

@505thAirborne Cool $25 plus shipping and handling! Just kidding!! PM your address and I'll get them out.

Steven can keep trying to outdo himself but he'll never make an alien encounter film as good as his own Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Really? The official writeup of the Destroid Works is very blunt that it's literally just a Cheyenne II that's been stripped of its military hardware and given a coat of hi-viz orange paint. The Cheyenne II is a barely-there presence in Macross Frontier and Macross Delta because Destroids in general are pretty useless in a post-First Space War world. Destroids as a whole were designed around the idea of fighting a land war in a conventional alien invasion scenario. Something that just does not happen in Macross. They're land warfare weapons in a space war setting. Making it transform would defeat the other key attribute of a Destroid... being cheaper than a Valkyrie so that they can be fielded in larger numbers. Not that a transforming tank would be any less useless in a space war than a regular non-transforming ground-bound robot. The main reason the Frontier fleet uses them is because they wanted mobile AA defenses they could deploy inside the dome. Outside the dome is protected by more cost-effective static beam CIWS and missile phalanx systems. So... that's not quite how it works. Let me explain. It's not as simple as just "Destroids don't need to split power so they should be a lot tougher." You're assuming that all things are equal, and they're not. Valkyries are aircraft as much as they are giant robots. Their armor has to be kept thin and lightweight in order to preserve their flight performance and leave room for the internally carried fuel and other vital stores and systems. As such, they have to rely on more advanced and expensive composite armor reinforced by energy conversion armor driven by their pair of high-output thermonuclear reactors to achieve the required defensive performance. Those reactors HAVE to be high-output in order to meet the needs of the various other energy-hungry systems on a Valkyrie too, like thrust generation and active stealth, which makes them incredibly expensive. Destroids are walking AFVs and artillery built for land and surface warfare. They don't need to fly, and that means they don't need to make the same design compromises that the Valkyries did. They can achieve the required defensive performance by just having thicker composite armor. Not needing to provide plasma for thrust production or feed energy-intensive systems like active stealth and energy conversion armor means they can get by with a single, much cheaper and lower-output reactor instead of a pair of expensive high-end thermonuclear reaction turbine engines. At the end of the day, this makes them much cheaper than a Valkyrie. The early Destroids were about 1/20th the cost of a VF-1 back before the First Space War. Of course, this also means they don't have tons of extra power to throw around because their systems are tailored to their needs not the far greater needs of a Valkyrie. Because Destroids are inherently groundbound in a world where most combat is in the aerospace domain, keeping Destroids as cheap as possible is the only thing keeping them going as a supplement to even less expensive conventional anti-aircraft defenses like beam CIWS guns and missile phalanxes. If you were to give a destroid all the same tech as a Valkyrie, you'd have just made a Valkyrie mode-locked in Battroid mode and gotten rid of most of the cost advantage.

GALACTICA SITREP, first off, thank you everyone for the suggestion & replies, I appreciate it. My buddy who also knows how to add lighting to model kits stopped by, we got the engine section off and checked the wires/connections, everything looked good, but it comes back to the LED's I chose to use, they just weren't quality lights. We tried an LED strip I had not used yet and it failed to light up. So the wires were good, but the lights were duds. In the end, this Battlestar will be a highly detailed, aged & weathered display. As a backup plan, I'm looking into glow-in-the-dark paints, maybe go for the SDF-1 PF effect. @Thom I absolutely appreciate the offer on the guns & I'll take them!! @derex3592 The USS TEXAS is looking great!! @Papa Rat Those kits & your painting skills are top notch!!

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Was excited to see Good Smile put up a teaser for their Plamatea model kit. Gonna be fun to dirty up. Also just finished up the season. I thought it was really great. As much as I liked the Bots, I think that Fallout is more for me. In my opinion it’s the best live action show on Amazon and really glad they were able to deliver a great second season of the show. I’m really hoping the next season can keep up the quality of the first two.

Yeah, I feel that way about a few properties lately. If these were more affordable I’d definitely be in for them

Yeah, I think it’s a rerelease, but I may be getting confused with the 1/72

I had seen that paint listed recently and was kinda tempted by it. Might have to give it a try

Not sure if this is a new or a re-release? VF-1 weapons set in 1:48 scale.

The arms are definitely weird on the Delta version. I need to go back and watch the episode clips again to see what each piece is meant to do. I thought I remembered the hands and forks being opposite ends of a reversible arm (like the Cheyenne does with its guns, and has the hands on its elbows until needed), but that line art makes it look like the hands fold down from the upper arms. Will see what I can find in the animation. I actually always had the opposite feeling on Macross designs: if Valks can be made so tough when they're dividing the power between flying and holding themselves together, then a destroid with a dedicated power source should be a lot tougher. Mobility vs sitting duck, I know, but the armor on a Cheyenne should still be an order of magnitude greater than a Valk just because it can afford to throw a lot more power at it. Transforming tanks would be cool, too, though. 😉

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Final trailer.

R2-D2 looks like a cake decoration in that image. He probably never considered every area of the model should of been broken down into individual sections and meticulously crafted as though it needed close up screen time. All the props to that guy putting in the effort in buildings the X-wing with his own thoughts in mind.

My friend's store is called Moonbase Toys. He mainly sells sofubi figures. He was selling his own personal collection of Macross figures from which I bought both the Bandai 1/55 scale Max and Miriya VF's plus the ARII VF's (Miriya type) figures. https://www.instagram.com/moonbasetoys

Which store? If you don't mind my asking..

Annoying figma or Figuarts aren't making Claymore instead...

More MGS3D images. It's 2026 and this company is still insisting with sh!tty rachet joints and those horrendous double ball point shoulders with just a floaty cover.

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