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I wanted a somewhat heavy and splotchy preshade, closer to black basing, but this went a little overboard. Also, in hindsight I now see a issue here with the spray pattern that I think was the cause of the big issue later. Then the white base coat, using Tamiya acrylic. Then masking for the red color.

This was my first time scribing lines, and I didn't do a great job of it. These long curves panel lines under the wings were done freehand. Priming. Scribing the front landing gear doors using scribing tape. Worked really well. Then I masked around the cowl and airbrushed it. And also gave it a little interference blue to better tie it in with the rest of the cockpit.

I will point out that there are factory errors with this model. One is that the pilot's hands are both on side console controls but there is supposed to be a center control stick. And also the rear landing gear doors were scribed but not the fronts! I wanted to keep this a strict "what's in the box" build, so no scratch built bits. I used a few layered drops of Tamiya Clear Blue to build up thickness and give the impression of gauges. I dipped the cockpit in Future. and then lined the underside lip with Tamiya's Rubber Black to represent a seal. And then with the cockpit and canopy finished I joined the fuselage halves. Very annoyingly the center seam goes right through the cockpit cowl. Which means I needed to fill and sand there, and then repaint without overspray onto the cockpit or canopy.

Very nice work!

It was indeed deafening in the theater. I may have posted about it the night I saw it. Well worth the price of entry.

I base painted Rick and the cockpit, based on screen shots from Macross. The colors are not consistent, nor is the lineart, so it's open to interpretation. Then I thought the green was too green and so I desaturated it a bit, lightened the lighter green-gray, and repainted the cockpit. I used Molotow Chrome for the gauge bezels and two details that look like latches behind the seat. Then distressed the leather seat with thinned acrylic glazes. I still through the cockpit looked a little plain. Since the colors changed from shot to shot in the show I thought that maybe a little interference blue over the top of the lighter green would give it a subtle accent to catch the eye.

Looks like it’s coming along fairly well

Greetings all. Below is the chronicling of my Fanracer kit build. This kit was given to me by Chris from Scorched Earth and I built it so he could review it with the Bandai DX toy for this video: First, cleaning! I use Simple Green and a toothbrush (or strainer for tiny parts). It's cheap, available, rinses completely away with water, and won't react to any plastics. Then priming. At this time I was still using Vallejo primer. I have since switched to a MUCH better primer, but more on that later... For gap filling I used homemade spru-goo. Not my favorite filler, as it shrinks a little, but it welds the styrene parts together making the seams stronger than a simple filler. Sanding. And more sanding. Then some more sanding. But a note on sanding: Frank from Thingergy recommended 3M's "Flexible Abrasive Hookit Hand Sheets P400" and while very expensive they are AWESOME! Totally worth the price! They are flexible cloth so no sharp paper edges if you bend or fold them. They fold and refold without damage (unlike paper), wet sand (of course), and their tooth is much more durable than the Godhand foam pads I used to prefer. I used one little cutting from one sheet for this whole project and then used it on my next project too. They seem to be comparatively unkillable. Then priming again.

City the animation was hilarious today. That Shogi match was ridiculous.

I might have some parts, but they are yellowed. Let me know what you need and I'll see what I have for you.

The only thing Mafex related I'm aware of is the AoA Wolverine and Cyke are due out September 27th. Anything after that nobody at the Mafex store seems to know yet.

holy moly! $4500 for a VE-1? this reminds me of ebay back in the early 00s where 1/55 strikes were basically getting gobbled up by 1 or 2 whales and driving the prices up artificially. Side note, I managed to acquire a 1/55 Matsushiro Jetfire that needs some parts.. most of my old links for these are dead.. any good sites for parts, like back packs or other random stuff for repair?

if you work in the "industry" as you claim then less talking to people like chat GPT to get your point across. . The US is not Europe, and what works in China and Europe does not work here. Not even going to get into the thermal runaway issues and the fact that China has millions of EVs sitting in fields brand new and rotting. Is it even safe to drive your Tesla again? or is some whacko gonna come and vandalize it?

I concur with the sentiment of mediocrity this season. There are some standouts.. Dandadan S2 - Its still entertaining. Not as good as season 1, however it has its moments. I need to play catchup only on Ep 9 as of this post. Sono Bisque S2 - Ending theme is an earworm.. I am enjoying it even with the amount of content getting cut. At the speed they are going I am willing to bet the climax is the Haniel cosplay and will probably end as abruptly as they did with the manga. Sakamoto Days S2 - nowhere near as good as S1. Its not bad, but as of late the whole plot has gone of the rails. I am current but this seems like filler to me unless it just ends with no S3. Shield Hero S4 - Actually not bad this season, I didn't think I would keep this going with the general disdain I had going from past seasons. They are still well off into the weeds at this point with the waves almost forgotten outside a mention a few episodes ago. Rascal does not dream of Santa Claus - meh. This season is going at a breakneck pace, anime only viewers god speed. LN readers.. god speed.. lol Kijin Gentoushou - I am enjoying it still. I think this is another title that started extremely strong but started to fizzle out. It probably will never be super popular but its worth a watch. Summer Pockets - I am way behind on this since I picked up the VN. I don't wanna spoil anything further, so will address once I finish the game. Futari Solo Camp - pretty meh. Its another not bad, but not good either. Basically a camping promo anime.. And a whole bunch of dropped this season, probably higher then normal.

I was a bit worried since it had that A24 tag and my lady seems to hate every time I suggest one of their movies ever since The Green Knight

Cool pics

As KOG said, it’s very unique. The only thing that might be similar are the missile hatches and even those don’t look exactly the same.the main reason that wave probably decided to do the main 3 in 1/72 and the prototypes for those 3 in 1/100 is that other than a few little bits on them, the lower halves are the same. I don’t think they ever even teased a spartan, although they did tease a 1/100 monster many many years ago. Maybe if the demand is high enough with the main three they might consider a 1/100 Spartan. I wouldn’t doubt that Plamax or even Hasegawa are thinking about it since they’re both running low on 1/72 og Macross mecha and wave had that fairly recent rerelease of the big three destroids and a 1/72 monster from those companies might be a little tough on the joints.

But you're in the wrong thread! This is Macross purchase only.... 😱

edit: Woops, thought this was the general purchase thread.

Got the Cobra and Sega controller GWP

Finally i had a couple of days off and had some time to play with the legioss and tread. I really like both toys and, even though the legioss seems a bit smaller to me, combined they are really fantastic. Hopefully we will get a tread also for the green and red legioss. I will be waiting for the missile kit to arrive before trying to transform them, meanwhile i hope you enjoy these pictures in fighter mode. And if you like follow me on my insta page https://www.instagram.com/alpha_toys2.0/?igsh=MTJveHpkbDMyd3pxaw%3D%3D#

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The next wave of Age of the Primes is hitting... at least online (local stores seem to have Devastation Optimus, TFOne Bumblebee, and maybe a few Bonecrushers, and that's it). I'd prefer to write reviews on weekdays, since a lot of you seem to read them at work, but we're going to have a lot to cover. So let's jump right into it with Deluxe-class Skydive. In keeping with the rest of the AOTP Aerialbots so far, Skydive is definitely a case of two steps forward, one step back. Like, sure, he's a bit closer to the animation model than the Combiner Wars toy. His head has less of the almost Bayverse-esque extraneous mechanical details, his limbs are blockier, and his pelvis is red. That said, aside from the head and the jet parts on his back and the backs of his legs, he's pretty much a cut-and-paste of Air Raid. Same arms, same feet, same fronts of the legs, same pelvis... even the front of the torso is basically the same, except the left side of his chest is filled in to better match the cartoon. Hasbro probably figured they could get away with it since Skydive and Air Raid do have pretty similar animation models... it's certainly not the crime that Legacy Breakdown was. But it does mean that crotch bulge with the line and triangle that Air Raid does, instead of the three squares his animation model has. His forearms are entirely gray with black hands, instead of gray with black cutouts at the wrist and gray hands. The black part of his chest is missing a protrusion, and his shin details are a bit off (to be fair, they're a bit off from Air Raid, too, almost like they were planning this from the beginning and split the difference. Air Raid comes with, surprise, a pair of guns. Note that, out of the box, his vertical stabilizer is not attached. Since it just uses a 5mm peg to connect, it can technically be held like a weapon if you're into that. It probably won't surprise you to hear that a toy that's 75% Air Raid has the same articulation as Air Raid, but I'll go over it again real quick. Ball-jointed head swivels, can look up and tilt sideways slightly, no real downward tilt. Shoulders swivel and move 90 degrees laterally. Biceps swivel, elbows bend 90 degrees, no wrist swivels. Waist swivels. Hips go forward, backward, and laterally 90 degrees. Thighs swivel, knees bend 90 degrees. Feet tilt up due to transformation, but not down, and the ankles pivot 90 degrees. He holds his guns fine, and they plug into the wings for storage. Transformation is, for better or worse, also the same as Air Raid. Now, I know the jet lovers in the audience already hate this alt mode, but as it's NOT a licensed F-16 I see no real point in comparing it to one. I'm just looking at it compared to the animation model. And, well, the stubby wings and single vertical stab with the lightning bolt designs are certainly more accurate than the Combiner Wars toy. His arms are still just chilling there in the open, which isn't worse than the Combiner Wars toy but still sucks. You can argue that the the entire block of robot under the jet sucks, but frankly that's mostly accurate. Less accurate are the two exhaust nozzles, another unfortunate side effect of recycling Air Raid's parts, and I maintain from my Air Raid review that they really should have come up with a better way of stowing the feet. Weirdly, though, I think the thing that's actually bothering me the most is just how flat the fuselage is. Like, yeah, you want the F-15 to be flat, but the F-16 is much more curved along the spine, and it's one of the F-16's details that the animation model did retain. The jet parts on his backs and the backs of his legs, aka the parts that form the bulk of the fuselage, are some of the only parts that did get new molds, so why not get that detail right? Anyway... same as Air Raid, the chest opens up to reveal a front landing gear. And his guns plug into the undersides of his wings. Through the first three releases Air Raid was the worst of the Aerialbots, and I could tell you that Fireflight would instantly be better than Air Raid even if he were just a new head and red paint on an otherwise unchanged Slingshot. But to me, Skydive is worse. He fixed none of the things I disliked about Air Raid, and I think that has more to do with keeping them interchangeable as legs and saving money than an inability to do so. I mean, folding the head into the chest and folding the arms up above the torso, like Slingshot, would have not only solved the arms just hanging out on the sides but could have created the illusion of the F-16's big intake. Changing the legs could have ditched the dopey underbelly feet and giving him the proper single exhaust. And even when they did mold new parts it still seems like they got stuff wrong that they just didn't need to, like the overall shape of the fuselage. Despite Skydive being a bit of a disappointment, he is still better than the Combiner Wars version. And for a lot of collectors, I don't think it'll ultimately matter how how good or bad the individuals are, it'll come down to how good Superion is. We'll get to Superion later in the week, after I have Fireflight in hand. But if you don't mind the spoiler, yeah, you're probably going to want to pick up Skydive.

We watched WARFARE last night on HBO, a good solid movie. It has that combo of you've been thrown straight into combat like BLACK HAWK DOWN, the nighttime is very Zero Dark Thirty and the visual impact of Saving Private Ryan. It's an hour & a half film that gets right to the point and no need to drag it out. The sound of the rifles, shell casings and that cracking sound must have been deafening in the movie theater.

It does not. Its pretty unique.