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  2. sh9000
    I'll probably get a few of the ones that don't transform into dinosaurs.
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  4. sh9000
    Preorders go up on 2/5.
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  8. Papa Rat
    @wm cheng that chrome looks great! Giving it some extra attention and love makes a huge difference no question. šŸ‘
  9. Papa Rat
    So excited to see these! Hope you are safe during this storm. Heard itā€™s going to be brutal. Iā€™m in the PNW and we are just getting the wind portion of the storm. No precipitation.
  10. Bolt
    Another new one (to me ) on Pinterest. I had originally been assuming it's hasegawa. But it doesn't have the picatinny rails on the guns.. Love the underslung gear.
  11. Bolt
    Not sure if this has been posted. Already up for pre order at HLJ.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    ... actually, now that I think on it, there's more wrong with it than that. You see, a Service Academy and a War College are NOT two different names for the same thing and the War College in Starfleet Academy isn't a war college. šŸ¤” A Service Academy is an educational institution that takes in new recruits as officer cadets and provides them with the necessary education and training for future commissioning into the academy's branch of service as a junior officer. Many also provide students with a university-level education ending in a bachelor's degree. A War College is a higher educational institution that trains experienced senior officers (like Major/Lt. Commander and up)for promotion to senior command and flag officer ranks. It offers Master's degree level qualifications. The War College in Starfleet Academy is presented as a rival service academy to Starfleet Academy, training classes of officer cadets... so it's not actually a war college at all. If it were, its students would be people like Lura Thok or Commander Kelrec. Lt. Commanders and up with a decade or so of service in the officer corps being trained for further promotion to Commander, Captain, and the Admiralty. The implication behind the War College appears to be that the Federation decided to change the curriculum for future Starfleet officers after the Burn led to the Federation's collapse and forced Starfleet to switch from focusing on exploration to focusing on defense. Why they felt the need to create a whole separate institution for that is a mystery. You'd think it would be simplest to change the curriculum at the already well-established Starfleet Academy with its dozens of campuses and call it a day. The implication behind that implication seems to be that the showrunners would like us to think of Starfleet Academy as a gentle rebuke of Discovery-era Star Trek's overly militant mindset with Starfleet and Star Trek once again shifting back towards space exploration and diplomacy. I'd guess the intended arc is that the War College is going to continue to be this wrongheaded, paranoid, aggressive antagonist until it's ultimately dissolved in favor of the Starfleet Academy training program.
  13. Roy Focker
    I'm surprised the latest episode did end before it even began with charges of assault being placed on the war colleges cadets. I assume that it is illegal to transport someone against their consent. What if besides being transported to an embarrassing location one of the freshly showered cadets slipped and impaled themselves after transport? The show is just stupid and annoying. I thought strange new worlds was pushing it with the comedy. Academy follows many of the tropes about school comedies. Where there's some misfits trying to make it with some stuffy squares trying to stop them. But this show doesn't have any stuff squares to act as a comedic foil. Every character is the quirky misfit. This is Seinfeld if every character written as if they are all Kramer. Imagine if Holly Hunter's character wasn't the school's dean, but an unconventional substitute teacher assigned to a class of misfits all on the verge of failure. All the other teachers, coaches and students are played serious. You've seen this countless of times because it works. Instead, everyone is a misfit. Even the characters from the rival school are misfits. The show needs some serious characters to react to the quirky antics of these misfits.
  14. Big s
    I donā€™t know, seemed more like she semi abandoned him till she could slightly sober up after a party trip
  15. Chas
    What temperature was the water you tried? I don't have any experience with Florry's, but if the water you added was room temp, I would try the hottest tap water you get at home and see if that helps break down the clumps.
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  17. Thom
    The chrome on that Zero is looking nice @wm cheng!
  18. Thom
    Well, she did leave him with her cousin, which was a responsible thing to do.
  19. Chronocidal
    My family still has the original changeables toys in a bucket somewhere, my brother and sister and I essentially filled an old 5 gallon laundry detergent bucket with them as kids.
  20. Big s
    I just donā€™t like drunken mopey animal neglecting Supergirl.
  21. Big s
    I was expecting total cringe, and even though thereā€™s definitely some odd moments in the trailer, itā€™s definitely not as bad as I thought it would be. And surprisingly it seems they got more stuff right than wrong here so far. Looks like a major step above the old movie at the very least. Throw on the dc movies as well. Just not excited for any of those projects yet. Maybe if good reviews pop up I might check em out, but as is Iā€™m definitely more interested for He Man at this point.
  22. Big s
    Could try a softer solution of alcohol. The 70 something percent usually doesnā€™t do much to set paints. I usually donā€™t see a reaction until almost 90 percent mixtures
  23. wm cheng
    Thanks @Big s, I have tried just adding water to it and it doesn't do much. When you first get it, the particles of clay are so fine that its like super thin paint, but over time (like several years) those particles seem to clump into bigger particles that don't flow as nicely as it was brand new. The best thing about it is that its water, totally non-reactive to anything beneath it. If I add alcohol to it, it would make the solution reactive to some things beneath it, losing its best quality. I always knew the surface prep was key, the better the prep, the better the paint job - but like a child who doesn't like to brush his teeth (even though you know better) šŸ˜› I always skimp on surface prep because it's part of sanding which I hate and never have enough time for. Now that the Entertainment Industry is in the dumpster, I have a bit more time, and having a nice well engineered kit that just falls together means I can spend the time I usually take fixing and detailing to spending some time on the black undercoat for a Alclad Metallic finish. I've always interpreted the Cosmo Zero greys in the anime as a chromed silver and wanted to try to replicate that. I actually sanded down the gloss Mr. Color black with 6000-8000-10000 sanding sponge which I hardly ever do unless I'm trying to remove a canopy seam. Boy was that worth it! I haven't ever gotten such a chromed effect from all my years using Alclad Metalizers before, I could almost see myself in it! I broke down the parts to get some different shades like Stainless, Magnesium and Steel as well. Now I just have to have enough patience to not touch it for a while to let everything cure.
  24. Big s
    I donā€™t know if thatā€™s a positive review or negative, but sorta trying to be nice. Itā€™s hilarious either way
  25. Big s
    Not 100% but I think that since itā€™s supposed to be water soluble, maybe just add some water and mix. Could also try a glob and some alcohol outside the bottle to see what happens. I wouldnā€™t just experiment with adding straight to the bottle until you experiment a little. Honestly, Iā€™ve never used the stuff since no one seems to carry it or it just gets sold out fast.
  26. M'Kyuun
    I like transforming toys, but these and Hasbro's Bot-Bots do little for me. I dig the idea, but the execution is underwhelming. These got me to thinking, though, I remember getting a transforming locket sort of toy for my sister when we were kids. I couldn't remember the name of the line by rote, but some Google-Fu did the trick. They were called Sweet Secrets by Hasbro. I got the bird for her, likely b/c it was unique amongst the rest and had more of a Transformers quality to it. Not sure what she ever did with it or if she even remembers it now. These came out in '84, so I'm thinking Hasbro was trying to apply the popularity of one transforming theme for boys to a girls' line.
  27. pengbuzz
    What bothers me here is that Starfleet has a "war college". I thought they were peaceful explorers? Seriously though: they could have named it "strategic college", or "planning" something or another. "War"? Erm, not something the Federations starts...
  28. Urashiman
    Ahā€¦ that is bad. Cancer sucks. Wishing you all the best and a fast and successful recovery. šŸ˜¢
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