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Thanks gents! And Bolt, in your quest for cool kits, also check out an offshoot of the 30MM line, the 30 Minutes Fantasy kits. Instead of mecha, 30MF kits use classes of fantasy characters like warriors, knights, and mages. I didn't pay much attention to them until I saw one on sale and bought it on a lark: This guy is whole head taller than the completed 30MM mech at around 6 inches, and would be in good company with the average 1/12 scale action figure. I had fun building this "Rosan Fighter", and it's given me good practice with panel lining. Gotta love the dad bod on this guy.

I just wish Bandai would hurry up with releasing expansion sets for the Hi Metal R scopedogs. So far, there is just the 1 set announced. 😅 By comparison, Bandai has already released 8 expansion sets for the HG Scopedog models.

No just saw it on X (Twitter) but without comments, If I see more I'll post it! But one way or other I'm sure we will be seeing this officially from Bandai someday...

Very interesting. Any details? I would buy those instantly if available.

Preach!!!!!! A completely new Mirage figure that adheres to the look and basic transformation of G! Mirage is a serious omission, at this point, when all of the other G1 characters' toys have been adhering rather faithfully to an amalgamation of toy and toon forms. Classics Mirage is still the closest we have to that, and I love that toy, front wheel backpack notwithstanding. He's still my G1 Mirage until there's something better. And FFS, make the damned Omnibots already! They're spending budgets on made up Junkions, Weaponizers, creating alt modes for Primes who never had them, and doing deep dives into the lore to make really obscure characters into toys, but the Omnibots were part of G1 as well, even if they never featured in the cartoon, an unfortunate omission IMHO. I think they and Tracks should have all been a team, as they all had weaponized tertiary vehicle modes (MASK before MASK was a glimmer in Kenner's eyes!) and would have possibly started a tangential play theme within Transformers. Had they been utilized as such in the toon and comics, perhaps they would have proven popular and spawned more of the like. We'll never know. I would have been down for it, for one.

This is crappy and not rendered (just a screenshot from the model space), but a few views of the spaceport scene I've been messing around with. It's a lot different to walk around in it in the actual game environment, but I couldn't get a shot there that didn't end up just a close up of a shipping container. I'll keep woking at that, but figured I would share the concept at least. The red Thuveral is meant to be a commercially owned freighter (that just happens to also be a terrifying warship). FYI, the spaceport is an attempt to build the 'real' port that Mirage and Mikimo first appear in during the first episode of Delta. And, yes, I'm putting way too much efffort into something that was seen on screen for all of ten seconds, but what can I say, it's the way I roll. 😉

Not quite sure if this is Star Trek or a cheap, half-arsed rip-off of Umbrella Academy.

As per NuTrek's usual, there's an absolutely massive gulf between the glowing reviews the professional critics are penning and the much less positive feedback from verified viewers in the audience. The series is currently sitting no-so-pretty with an audience score of 43 against a critic score of 87. A Discovery-esque 44 point gap. The positive reviews from the critics are full of vague praise for the show's "creativity" and "vibe", and the negative reviews have surprisingly little to say about culture war BS and are mainly focused on the issues with the show's writing and to a lesser extent the obnoxiousness of Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter. The need to make every character "quirky" comes up surprisingly often.

Calling the Arii Bronco II done. Had a bit of a hiccup at the finish line. The matte coat before the chipping orange peeled on me and when I was wet sanding it down I went through the base coat in some spots. Luckily my base coat was very close to the colour of the plastic, so I was able to just even it out in the most affected areas using thinner to remove the paint and redoing the dot filter on the bare plastic. This worked, but made the finish a little dirtier than I wanted, so I ran with that and made her really weathered. Turned out passable, but much more weathered than I wanted. Added some blast marks to cover up some excessive chipping, and all in all I OK with the final result. Final pics Fighter: Gerwalk: With the mechanical arm extended: Don't think I mentioned it before, but like the legs, that door for the mechanical arm closes with a magnet. Thanks again. Hope you enjoy the pics or this rarely built retro kit.

Sorry guys, I've just been busy and not online enough to post. @pengbuzz NOTHING better than getting your wife back and some model building! Congrats. I pray for a solid recovery for her! I ran out of "likes" trying to like all the awesoe work you guys have been working on! Quick post. This is my "living room model" I build in the living room while watching TV with my wife. That way she's not a "hobby widow". This is Bandai's Shin Musha Gundam. Mostly stock. Redid the shafts for the staffed weapons and the matchlock styled canon. Also added a steampunk styled weapon from an older Gundam model that fit this style perfectly. I'm putting it in this case my wife got for me years ago from the thrift store. Gotta get going! - MT

Good start. They got the vibe right. Casting is solid. The only downside is how late it's on.

Almost caught up collecting the Generations Autobot cars. I'd like new release of Mirage and a clean looking Hoist. Like @M'Kyuun mentioned before, I would also love the Omnibots to get released.

I don't plan on watching the show but this is a nice 60th Anniversary intro before the show.

Hot Wheels Silver Series '84 Pontiac Firebird x2.

Paid for my 2 but I don't plan on shipping them out anytime soon.

You do have a nice cel collection. From what you post on instagram.

Getting ready to watch Starfleet Academy's 2nd episode... pray for me. 🤮 Still wanna know where my Cerritos and Protostar are in this new 60th Anniversary eyecatch... maybe the showrunners are just jealous that both shows are jealous that both shows are something fans actually liked. OK, right off the bat... what is with this series and the f***ing piss filter? Seriously. First Bajor looked like we were watching it through a used coffee filter and now San Francisco looks like we're seeing it through a pint mug of cheap pilsner. Like, I realize the visual effects team is probably three unpaid interns and a AI tool but come on. At least send the interns out to touch grass and maybe see the sun for once... unless they've been in captivity for so long working on Discovery they've devolved into Morlocks. What happened to Starfleet? Before the Kurtzman years, Star Trek treated Starfleet Academy as a not-quite-military college with various postgraduate programs that was designed to take the Best of the Best and turn them into consummate professionals. The sort of people who didn't need to be told to make their beds or to get to class on time. The Starfleet Academy series is treating it like high school, full of inept children who need their hands held at every moment. Like, I don't even like these characters and I'm still offended on their behalf by how patronizing this is. I will say one thing in its favor. I do like that they've gone to the trouble to include a decent helping of alien cadets in the academy class even if most of them are minor background characters. There's one particularly noteworthy blink-and-you'll-miss-it minor detail among them too. The Ferengi cadet is wearing a skirt, and is likely female... meaning at some point in the intervening millennia their species finally got its sh*t together. Lots of reused makeup here. Several of the aliens towards the back are clearly wearing prosthetics that were used for background aliens on Discovery. The Federation War College apparently has a lot more aliens too, their representative closest to the camera appears to be Romulan. A Prodigy-style Brikar shows up at one point. We don't see any Cardassians but there are apparently enough of them to have their own student association. A singer who belongs to the same species as Natalia from Star Trek: Beyond appears at one point (a rare Kelvin timeline reference). There's also a Starfleet Exocomp whom the subtitles reveal is named Almond Basket. We keep cutting back to this stupid f***ing speech. Holly Hunter's voice is rapidly becoming The Most Annoying Sound. They are doing one thing right about depicting her as an educator. They've successfully depicted her as someone who is simultaneously in love with the sound of their own voice and incapable of writing an actual speech anyone might want to listen to. I'm not gonna criticize the jerkass behavior of Cadet Reymi. Even Kirk had to deal with a classmate like that... so much so that his fantasy on the Shore Leave planet was a chance to sock him one. Interrupting a lecture to poke fun at a fellow student... not funny, just annoying. All that before the OP! Ugh... As for the OP itself... this doesn't really say "Star Trek". It's mostly just watching buildings get built and cherry blossoms blow down hallways. OK, there's a Lower Decks reference. There's a Starfleet Exocomp just hanging around in the turbolift. It keeps having to move out of the way because the Doctor apparently still can't read body language despite 900 years of practice and Captain Ake is practically fleeing from him. There is a brief moment where this series comes dangerously close to being self-aware about how unfunny it is. They're really committed to trying to sell the idea that everyone's just so quirky. The Chancellor of Starfleet Academy just wanders the campus out of uniform and without shoes. Even her colleagues look annoyed. We of course have to have a Discovery character remind us how stupid their plot was before being interrupted by Caleb. Why bother setting a series at Starfleet Academy if your entire cast save for the annoying girl are characters who firmly believe they're Too Cool for School? This is worse than boring, it's downright frustrating to watch. Every class they attend is just a venue for them to act out. Honestly? The biggest problem with this episode is that the writers suffered a Critical Research Failure about what Betazoids are. They seem to have mixed up a combination of traits from the half-Betazoid Deanna Troi and the Ramitisian mediator Riva from TNG "Loud as a Whisper". Instead of the dark-eyed telepaths who can speak but communicate mainly via telepathy they are in every other series, these Betazoids are light-eyed mute empaths who communicate via sign language. Actually, another huge problem with this show's logic. Why are the negotiations for Betazed's reentry into the Federation taking place at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco in front of a class of cadets? It's not even the right place or audience for it. Betazed's reentry into the Federation should be something negotiated between the Betazoid delegation and the Federation Council headed up by the Federation President. Those absolutely critical stakeholders aren't even on this planet. They're at the Federation Headquarters space station! I have a feeling that quite a few of the people who worked on this series either never went to college at all, or only went to art school. The tour of the Academy only seems to visit a coffee shop and the quad between some buildings where the students are reading outdoors, tossing around a ball, playing frisbee and hacky-sack, and generally doing everything you only see in the staged photos for college brochures. They couldn't even be bothered to make a replicator for the replimat... they just have cups appear on the serving area of a completely modern-looking espresso machine. That might actually be worse/lazier than Picard using an off-the-shelf 3D printer as the La Sirena's replicator. No corner left uncut. Honestly, it feels like it's more rewarding to watch this series for the background continuity nods than the actual story. At least there it feels like there's some affection for Star Trek as a whole... even if it is entirely superficial. ... ok, when your plot is so badly written that your antagonist starts to sound distressingly like the voice of reason, it might be time to reconsider your entire plotline. So after some fairly weak rationalizations, the plot wraps up with Starfleet seemingly arbitrarily deciding that the Federation will put its next capital on Betazed instead... noting that the entire Federation council and Federation President have been absent this entire time and probably ought to weigh in on that. This kind of further diminishes the relevance/significance of Starfleet Academy on Earth. It would've meant something if the Federation had reestablished the capital in Paris as it'd been since the founding, which would have made that Academy campus the de facto flagship campus again. Now there doesn't really seem to be a reason for it to exist there at all, since there are many other campuses with presumably better staff and conditions than what's available on an Earth that only came out of isolationism two or so years ago. This episode is... "better" feels too much like praise. Let's go with "Less awful". It's following a very old Star Trek diplomacy episode formula that's been used since TOS... but it's just not doing it very well because it's not committing to the bit. It wants to keep drama at arm's length and focus on being "quirky" and "funny" in a very forced and unnatural-feeling way so it ends up in this emotional flip-flop where there are scenes that were meant to be tense and dramatic that are just bland and emotionless because the series keeps trying to shift attention from the drama to a kid in the background who won't stop playing with his zipper to the great dismay of the adults.

I kind of liked the first episode.... interested, where they will go with this?

A long forgotten edition. Wish it has something of a more flamboyant scheme, or at least metallic white akin to the special 25S/F ones.

Didn’t seem to hamper Stranger Things one bit.....grown-ass adults playing high schoolers and twenty-somethings was just a minor inconvenience....