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By former ILM Modelmaker John Eblan.

I’m just hoping it’s as simple as a web exclusive release

Thanks for the pics, really cool to see details on how it goes together

Nice sculpt, size, articulation, heft, sturdiness, and transformation.

Booth tour.

Sorry for all the troubles. That water heater had to be tough. We had to have one replaced just the other year. Ours house is on a slope where the main floor is in top and the bottom floor is set up as a bedroom, but we’ve just been using it for storage and laundry. The water heater is behind the bottom room in an odd crawl space where you go downstairs and then crawl up into a an angled floor because of the slope. Luckily it didn’t explode or anything, just kinda died. But getting the replacement was a pain because everything had to squeeze up and take some tight turns in there. And of course it went out right after the pros replaced it. Kept having to crawl in and relight the the dang thing. Turned out there was a problem with the thermo pile and had to get new parts and another repair crew. anyway, the VT-1is looking really cool. Sometimes it’s fun to try some new techniques

I think all of my stuff will come in by 2045.

I'll add this to the TIE variants collection.

https://www.toyark.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=78091&d=1753487007 2nd Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Hook and Long Haul.

That's a big crowd.

Saw it yesterday and enjoyed it. Disney played it really safe with this one....no controversial moves really....unless you want to say casting a Hispanic to play Reed Richards was white-washing....I have read some of the hate online directed at him, but it’s never directly due to his ethnicity....mostly due to on-screen fatigue of him being in all of the most toxic franchises and genres, which unfortunately seem to elicit the worst in folks... Anyway, nothing really surprising or unexpected throughout the entire movie....may even go as far as saying it was a bit predictable....yet still an enjoyable Summer Spectacle...Hopefully Marvel can keep it up for the next round of superhero movies...

I finally got back to my cursed VT-1 after 9 months off the hobby. A lot of stuff had happened, my basement hot water tank exploded and wet the bottom layers of my workbench, then when it was beyond repairs, they replaced it with a on-demand boiler but had to drill two holes for the intake and exhaust. Instead of drilling the holes right close to the boiler, they went across my basement ceiling to drill in the opposite side - right over my hobby workbench covering it with a layer of very fine brick dust over everything (including all my brushes and airbrushes) - ARGH!!! I tried to shop-vac it but it was so fine that it went through the filter of the shop-vac and blew it everywhere in my basement - it took days for the cloud of dust to settle! That pretty much killed any interest I had in completing this model for a while. Then I found out about a new technique using acrylic ink to mottle the paint surface for scaled weathering that I thought I'd try out and learn something new - its mostly more appropriate for the TPS Navy planes like F-14s. It's funny that I spent most of my modelling career trying to paint a smooth finish colour only now to lean ways to make the solid smooth paint look mottled and distressed! Unfortunately again it didn't turn out as I hoped. I hope to let everyone know so many things went wrong with this build, but don't loose hope, whenever I swore off of it, after a few months off, I was able to figure out ways (probably my OCD thinking about it before going to sleep) to fix it (easier when you don't care about it as much anymore and it no longer becomes as precious and I was more willing to experiment). Unfortunately, I was in the middle of also experimenting with new paints (I almost always used Tamiya acrylics because of the easy clean up) but with all these new techiques, I needed a stronger/hardier paint, and started to look at Mr. Color lacquers now. But with this mix of paint (and repaints because of that horrible Alclad clear coat wrinkling eating away at the Tamiya undercoat that I had to re-sand down everything) the Acrylic Ink using the Tamiya X-20A thinners attacked some of my paint underneath again. I was so discouraged that I didn't even take any photos of that, I wished I had. When this technique is done properly, the effects are phenomenal! https://luftraum72.com/layered-ink-patina-technique/ I do urge people to try it - I'm starting to get the hang of it after a few false starts, luckily you can undo a lot with the X-20A thinner (except when it started attacking my older Tamiya paint - you should only do this over top of Mr. Color lacquers) Except I kind of over did it - too heavily weathered for a trainer! So I masked up everything again, so spray the original colours over top of all the weathering lightly so you can still see the mottling underneath but it toned down the effects. I think this is the 4th or 5th time I've had to carefully re-mask everything and respray everything on this model - I felt like I've build 3 or 4 of these now 😛 The final stretch is in sight! I'm finally happier with the finish, its still a little too weathered for a trainer, but I do like the weathering patterning, I will keep the semi-gloss sheen instead of going flat matte to keep it looking a little "newer" or better kept.

I'll let you all know how mine is in 2-4 months...

You're not alone there. That Starfleet Academy is another unasked-for spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery is likely to make the series a hard sell for a lot of Star Trek fans. You'd think Discovery's status as the fandom's un-favorite and the lowest-rated Star Trek series of all time would given the network pause for thought even before their first spinoff of the series, Section 31, crashed and burned so hard it became the worst-reviewed Star Trek title of all time. Kurtzman keeps doubling down on his bad idea as if he hopes that if he just keeps pushing fans will come around and like it. That's the thing... it wasn't. Earth's role in the story is basically getting sh*t on for hoarding dilithium after the Burn and going isolationist because they assumed the Burn was an attack.

I think first you'd have to find someone here who actually received them...like the gbp armors, they have been missing for years now....at least outside of China

Some very cool stuff....will definitely be Pre-ordering several....if they make it onto BBTS!

My Dress up darling was just awesome again yesterday. I love the other students reactions to Gojo-kun.

Just saw it with my family. Would have been better if the family with the trio of really young kids would have realized that they probably should have left them with a sitter because they didn't shut up the entire time, but hey. I really liked the comic-accurate Galactus. Alternate universe or not I wish they'd kept Norrin Radd as the Surfer. Getting a little tired of Pedro Pascal being in everything these days, liked the rest of the cast.

So, who’s gonna design the -31A conversion kit?

Raising this thread from the dead... Wave is apparently bringing out a new 1/35 kit of the ARX-8 Laevatein (24cm tall). Liking that full cockpit setup with articulated pilot figure.

Awesome seeing a bunch of irons in the fire. 😊 stay busy my friend. Been wanting to find a 1988 Bronco and paint it to look like the Twin Peaks Sherifs department vehicle from my favorite series. One day! @LocusPocusWelcome and thanks for sharing your builds. I’m so excited to get to work on that kit.

That's pretty on-brand for a TOS-era Klingon, mind you. This is one of the uniforms used in TOS. Gold and bronze - not counting epic quantities of skin bronzer - were pretty much half of the Klingons entire color palette in that era. The rest was black. Like Starfleet, the Imperial Klingon Defense Force must be updating its uniforms every so often as fashion evolves on the homeworld. The idea of a fashion-conscious Klingon is an inherently funny thought to me, but the sharp metallics do make them very visually distinct from the Starfleet officers in their bright primary colors. Then again, when it comes to makeup and sartorial choices I'll take the TOS Klingons and/or SNW Klingons over the STD Klingorcs 100 times out of 100 without question or hesitation. Hm... nah. I don't think she'll leave the Enterprise, retire from Starfleet, or fall victim to the Redshirt Occupational Hazard. What I think is going on here is that the writers and showrunners for Strange New Worlds sat up and said "Oh sh*t, we've got two whole seasons in the can already and we haven't done anything with one member of the main cast!" Literally every other main cast member has had an episode or multi-episode story arc devoted to fleshing them out as characters except Ortegas. Even new additions like Scotty and recurring guest characters like Pelia and Sam Kirk. Until this last two episodes, Ortegas's entire character could be summed up in her mantra "I'm Erica Ortegas, I fly the ship!". She's that underdeveloped. The PTSD from her near-death experience at the hands of the Gorn is a good opportunity to explore what makes her tick as a person and not just the redshirt who mans the helm. She's been nothing but flippant the entire series so far, so seeing her genuinely rattled should make for some good character development. Unlikely. A lot of people forget this because he's just so iconic as the Enterprise's helmsman, but Mr. Sulu was not the Enterprise's helmsman at the start of TOS. When he was first introduced in the show's second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Sulu was a science division department head serving under Spock. He doesn't swap his science blues out for the gold command division tunic and a seat at the helm until the show's first regular episode. (Because the show's writers realized there wouldn't really be a need for an astrophysicist every episode, but they did need a regular at the helm.)

I’m new here, love the site and all the talent. It’s mind blowing the work posted here. I saw @Papa Rat acquired a 1/15 mospeada. I purchased two of the Houquet and after a test fit decided to alter them heavily. Here are a few pics, they are a bit hmarly and will forever be unfinished I suppose.

Tamashii Nations Tokyo has the FATTY on display...

Sunday morning projects..... In the words of Morpheus... "He's beginning to believe....", that the Moscato Cats Eye may actually turn into a half way decent display piece at some point! Mr Surfacer Black over the whole thing this morning because well, black hides a lot of things.. LOL... Also beginning to get a good feeling for the POS I mean TOS Enterprise.... LOL. 3rd side project, my buddy at work has been restoring a 93 Bronco and asked me if I could paint a 1/64 Greenlight Hot Wheels size white Bronco the color of his... Pretty happy with it so far! My 1st time attempting to repaint a Hot Wheels size anything!