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  2. shazam
    Transformers - Retro: G1 Autobot Seaspray Figure x 2
  3. Big s
    Looks great. So far I’m usually using lacquers since most of my kits have moving joints, how well do those particular paints you are using hold up on non static models
  4. Mog
    Hence, my House of Vecna pet theory. . . . Which they’ll probably overly stretch out.
  5. jvmacross
    Prequels seem to be working for the IT-verse....and there's always time-travel scenarios....LOL
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  7. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I watched it. I agree with all you said. That title is crazy.
  8. jenius
    Looked like there was an interview where they said they're already working on a spin-off related to the rock... A prequel.
  9. Big s
    I kinda have a feeling that that’s what will eventually happen Love it or not, Stranger things was the Streaming show that everyone thinks of whenever original streaming shows are brought up
  10. jvmacross
  11. azrael
    azrael changed their profile photo
  12. Papa Rat
    It’s on! Excited for this. I am going to reference your black bird and stealth for a paint scheme I want to try out in a future mech build. I might reach out a bug you about it when the time comes. Thanks for the inspiration!
  13. Thom
  14. Big s
  15. Thom
    Thinking more on it...
  16. KOG Water Dragon
    Well. It's happened. For a while I was just having trouble getting new Bandai items from HLJ. New Macross HGs, Gundam RGs and MGs... And I was like, OK, I'll just have to get these local when domestic retailers get them. At least I can still get other brands normally through HLJ. But now... I wasn't able to get the Hasegawa VT-1 gerwalk, or the Kotobukiya Armored Core Steel Haze. Both went to backorder without my VERY early pre-orders being fulfilled. What even is going on? Between this and the shipping fees and tariffs, HLJ is becoming a lot less useful.
  17. derex3592
    Primer, pre-shade and painting of the BUFF this morning! Used Vallejo Acrylic Grey surface primer, fantastic stuff! No smell, water based and airbrush straight from the bottle. Also don't know why I don't hear more good things about Mission Models acrylics. They are fantastic! Water based, no smell, NO thinning, airbrush straight from the bottle, dead flat color and soooo easy to put on. Beats Tamiya acrylics by a country mile if you ask me.. 🤔 🙄
  18. F-ZeroOne
    Another memory bank kicked into stuttering life: when "2000AD" launched, the lead strip wasn't a certain Lawman of the Future, but a reimagined "Dan Dare". Originally drawn by Massimo Belardinelli and later by a certain Dave Gibbons (whatever happened to him?) the strip featured a "mothership" for Dan called a "Space Fortress" (I'm fairly sure, but can't confirm, the name was inspired by the B-17) and a smaller gunship-like craft I forget the name of (possibly, and suitably enough, "Eagle"?) both of which featured technical cutaways in the comic and which were great examples of late 70s style "realistic" spaceships. Speaking of Dave Gibbons, also in "2000AD" was "Rogue Trooper" which over its life featured some amazing "future war" vehicles depicted by various artists including Cam Kennedy and Collin Wilson. An animated movie, directed by Doug Jones, is coming "soon". I'll also mention "Starblazer", which will require a bit of explaining - a long-running fixture of British newsagents (convenience stores) were "Commando" comics, little booklet-size comics usually depicting war stories which has been going for a long time (I think it still is!); for a while it had a SF counterpart, "Starblazer". Some of the covers for "Starblazer" featured amazing late 70s/early 80s SF art, some drawn by the much overlooked Ian Kennedy. And finally there was a series of books that haunted second-hand bookshops for years under the "Terran Trade Authority" banner, being essentially a showcase for various SF themed work by various artists with accompanying fluff text written by Stewart Cowley.
  19. Morgen Black
    I utilized Nin-Nin-Game for my pre-order and they are still available at this time. They were cheaper than HLJ, too. Here is a link: https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/moderoid/209702-moderoid-genesis-climber-mospeada-mospeada-vr-052f-stick-model-good-smile-company-.html MB
  20. rsvictor1976
    That’s awesome! Thank you.
  21. sketchley
    More nerdery stuff for you 😉: The big question is: is what we see in Macross Zero what actually happened, or is it an artistic representation? Based on the "what we see is what happened" and the "lightning indicates the extent of the mushroom cloud"*, we still have to contend with the curvature of the Earth, and the proximity one would have to be to see that much of the smoke plume. Let's presume that the plume over South Ataria is the same scale as the one produced in the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption, that reached a height of 58 km**. One would have to be within 870 km just to be able to see the very top of the plume***. To see a large portion of the plume, Shin would have had to be much closer. For argument's sake, let's say his house is located on a 1,000 m tall hill. At 500 km away, he wouldn't be able to see the bottom half of the plume (the bottom 12 km [approx.]). That puts us into the ballpark for his maximum distance from South Ataria Island based on what was shown. As per the Macross Compendium's location of South Ataria Island (24N, 141E), Tokyo, Okinawa, and Guam are all over 1,250 km away; too far to see any part of the plume (Wake Island is even further, over 2,500 km East). However, islands like Hahajima and Chichijima are within viewing range, at around 315 km and 360 km distance (only the bottom 4.8 km of the plume would be obscured on that 1,000 m hill—well in the ballpark for what is shown). So while I agree that Chichijima doesn't fit the East-West travel, its location does fit with what we're shown in Macross Zero. That said, Macross is not the same as our world. If islands like South Ataria and Mayan exist, then it is possible that other islands also exist. Maybe there is another Guam-like island (in the sense of being a US territory and mountainous), somewhere near Iwo Jima (92 km NNE from South Atari) and South Iwo Jima (54 km ENE of South Ataria)—perhaps due south or to the south east of those real islands. This heretofore unseen, fictitious island would satisfy all the conditions surrounding the ASS-1's "landing", and be where Shin could be in order to see what was depicted in the show. * If Shin was on Chichijima, it would take about 17 min. for the sound to reach him—plenty of time for a plume to grow really big before being woken up and seeing it. Not to mention that plumes over nuclear detonations and volcanic eruptions also develop ridiculously fast... ** the sustained height is indicated as 30+ km—the viewer would have to be closer than 630 km just to see the very top. *** according to the Earth curvature calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature
  22. geck started following What will Hasegawa do next?
  23. geck
    That's insane what they are charging. Looks to me that they are taking advantage of the situation. Meanwhile...when any of these kits come out...I can easily get them off of eBay with decent shipping costs and price straight from Japan. This is provided you shop around a little and are patient. Granted...eBay may be subsidizing shipping...but still.
  24. JB0
    It does. If I recall, some later print sources attribute it to the humans not knowing what they're doing, which is hard to align with the statements in the show. Not just Global Report, though it's the only part that just straight-up has to be cut out. When they switch from anti-grav to rocket thrusters while falling, Global says something like "at least those were made on Earth". Which could easily just be angry snark at the poorly-understood space magic that exited stage up... but then Global Report says the snark was justified and human error wasn't the cause. Meanwhile, the replacement gravity controllers are considered trustworthy when they're hovering over canadain population centers, so clearly the homemade replacements work fine. I think they use them when landing on Mars too. That strongly implies the flaw wasn't with the hardware. It is certainly possible that flaws in the terran-made units or operational procedure were identified and addressed offscreen between Booby Trap and Burst Point. But again, you still have Global Report's explicit root-cause statement denying that as the primary issue.
  25. Big s
    Could try hobby search or another site. Seems None of the American sites are gonna carry them unfortunately. Saw a few moderoid releases pop up on American sites that had preorders after the Mospeada ones and it’s been several weeks since then for Mospeada ride armors.probably a harmony gold blockage due to naming. Places like bbts usually have listings within the same week for preorders after the Japanese sites and often the next day, but it’s been a while
  26. rice_1204
    Here are a couple of my threezero poses with banked/angled setups in fighter and battroid. As expected, the gokin stand finally unlocks more interesting displays. I'm not the biggest fan of the gravity-held factory threezero adapter design but it works. As a test, I included a sample with an extreme near 90* bank, but I really wouldn't trust it to hold. Probably the most extreme safe fighter bank angle would be 30* or 45*.
  27. shazam
    TOMIX - FM-035 - Series E259 N'EX "Narita Express" x 2
  28. Scream Man
    God I love this sort of nerdery I don't think ASS1 turned. The only animation we have of it falling is the original series, and it arcs right down and in, not turning. I can buy slowing down, but even that may have been accomplished with modification of the angle of descent as opposed to reverse thrusters of some kind (Which we see no evidence of.) I'm also I'm not sure I buy it aiming for South Ataria as a way to aim the main gun for the Booby Trap. i mean MAYBE, and I have no evidence to support that it didn't, but it doesn't... feel right to me? Based on the condition of the ship herself? I dunno, I'm willing to be convinced... I lean towards it being the trail as it came in. The way the electricity arcs COULD be something similar to lightning in a volcanic eruption, but the way the scene looks and feels I think that everyone ran outside as the blast is happening from impact. A Smoke plume that large would take longer to appear, and I think this is a "This just happened" moment, as the shot before is Shin waking up from the shake from either the impact or the shockwave as it flew over head. I think I'm largely with Seto; It came in East to west, slowed itself and hit, passing over somewhere in or near California. Given the size of the Macross and the trail it left I'd imagine it would have been visible from a vast majority of the western coastline. Bolt says it even looks a little like San Francisco or somewhere near it, so I think thats probably on track. Whether it did an orbit first or not I'm less sure.
  29. Valkyrie Hunter D
    I cannot recommend the Entry Grade kits enough to anyone who wants to get into gunpla. The parts can simply be pushed off the sprues and the color separation is nice. I built the Nu which looks great right out of the box. It just doesn't have the fin funnels though.
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