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  2. Papa Rat
    Thanks so much for the kind words. Keep on improving. Terror up next and then I want to get that KOG over the 7777 in the mix. ✌️ Oof! Pain! This is going to look amazing once it’s finished though. That blue is beautiful. So with resin you need to sand all or most surfaces for primer to stick? Is the surface just too slick otherwise?
  3. tekering
    Loving the Schpertor, Bruce! You continue to knock 'em out of the park. 👍 Test-fitting painted parts, removing the last of the masking tape... 🫣 Damn. 🤕 I don't think I scrubbed or sanded these resin parts enough before applying the primer. Three layers of paint peeled off in an instant! 😓
  4. Chronocidal
    Like.. ok, I'm all about bonus features. But.. what?
  5. tekering
    I think you'll appreciate GalacticFigures.com.
  6. tekering
    "Converts the pilot (not included) into a recon-type robotic unit..." ...like Canti from FLCL? 🤨
  7. Papa Rat
    Hahahaha. The tingle…Spider sense I mean model sense. It’s so fun to rediscover lost treasures. Excited to see them finished.
  8. captain america
    Kinda looks like something Rey would see in a dehydration-induced hallucination during a sandstorm. All it needs is a sword! Kidding aside, I get that they want to produce new merch, so they need "new" designs, but I'm really sorry, the design is stupid. The AWACS idea with a radar dish is a good idea, but the wings with the blasters don't fold-away neatly enough in Diver or Soldier mode, so they just hinder movement. The jousting lance looks ridiculously out of place (not to mention horribly balanced!) And those canards... yeah, let's put those in the most awkward location possible to create massive lateral blind spots for the pilot! They could have simply redesigned the LERX to make it different, be useful, stow away neatly in Soldier AND not hinder the pilot's visibility. Also, alot of you who've been around here long enough know I'm not just talking out my a$$, because I have a reputation for back-engineering a lot of those Anime chicken scratchings into functional, physical models. Whoever did this simply wasn't trying.
  9. F-ZeroOne
    Hah! Just for context, for those who may be unaware, the original Western release of the "Ghost in the Shell" manga was edited, in at least one scene, for... stuff. Don't try and look it up at work! (also, my apologies if you've heard the "Intron Depot" story before, I'm reaching the "Grandpa Simpson" stage of my personal geekdom). "Fashion" is an interesting one because it can apply to mechanical things as much as clothes etc. You can see it with 80s mecha designs, where the somewhat slimmer early to mid 80s mecha designs kinda give way to the "muscle car" mecha designs of things like "Gundam ZZ". And as has been said, some things are almost eternal; the original AV-98 Ingram from "Patlabor" still mostly holds up today and probably still will twenty years from now. After all, in the future... who knows? On the subject of BGCs "Linna", having recently rewatched the series (again!) one thing I was surprised by is despite all Priss grabbing all the attention, its actually Linna who probably kicks the most ars... posterior!
  10. Big s
    Yeah, at this point the thread should be renamed from What Will Hasegawa do Next to What Did HLJ do Now
  11. Today
  12. danth
    Yeah...adding an additional set of tailfins to the front kinda feels like something AI would do.
  13. Dynaman
    YUP! You can easily trace that back to "Disco Beaver from outer space"!
  14. TangledThorns
    OK... this is pure HBO, lol.
  15. kajnrig
    Ah yes. In hindsight the context clues are obvious. "Hasegawa Death Stranding kit," oof.
  16. Urashiman
    I went into the basement today and looked at my never ending stash and had that tingling. That tingling you get in your fingers when you want to build something. So I touched the boxes and was like … wait a second. I went upstairs without a box and checked the top of my shelf. There are still three kits that are in the works and need finishing. “okay mister; no new kits until theseいう are done.“ is what I said to myself. So yeah, these still need finishing. I can get an easy win with the F-14. It only needs decals and then done. I decided to not add ordnance. I`d never be fully satisfied no matter how I do it. The VF-171 needs masking and then airbrushing metal and black highlights. After that decals. The VF-1 needs priming. So I did that. Primed most of the VF-1 parts today. I will be adding decals to the F-14 later today. Wish me luck Edit: I just saw a weird brown box saying „RC Boat“. I was intrigued … looked inside. Another forgotten project discovered again. Well … I obviously get distracted easily. Another one to finish then.
  17. Alex GS
    There is always some or lots of toys that when you were a kid you didn't have the opportunity to have cause several reasons, for me G1 Grimlock is one of those toys so I put down my Preorder immediately, there is something about that golden chrome and design that make it look so classic and timeless, literally all the G1 dinobots have this original awesome classic look, I hope they release each one of them, I will be happy to POd all of them like this one, and yes a re-release of MP Grimlock or MPG I would be so happy to POd as well
  18. Old_Nash_II
    This movie looks like it was made for streaming. The story (so far) is copied from Avatar but with that childish twist so as not to scare the kids. Hopefully it won't flop, even though it looks like it will.
  19. Zeliard
  20. grogall
    Thanks! It's definitely a series that grows on you... If you think that Takara had a 20 year span on their 1/24 V.O.T.O.M's Line, and they don't really have much to show for it! They basically got stuck in a Doggy dog world and did some fantasy re-coulours and changed a couple of parts here and there but that was it, For Bandai the are getting close to the two year mark with six releases and only one repeated unit, but the future is really brisk with the 3 new Mechs announced in December! at this pace in 20 years you'll need a new house to have room for everything 🤣 It's the diversity of mechs where Bandai is already in the lead at this scale! 😉
  21. shazam
    I was looking through some of my older collection photos and most of these figures have moved on.
  22. MKT
    I ultimately didn't get anything Votoms, but this is a nice group pic.
  23. MKT
    ROFL! I'm a bit ambivalent about this release. This shade of green is not my fav color, and if I'm a bit more uncharitable, I'd say it looks like one of those KO robot toys back in the days that's obviously based on an IP but frankenstein-ed with supposedly cool elements from other IPs. The forward canards are hilariously large.. But I do acknowledge this can be fun and I can get behind what the designers are presumably going for in this line. Might get this as an impulse purchase later on.
  24. Papa Rat
    Thanks! I’m learning that most of these FSS builds call out for some fancy paints. Lots of pearl shimmery stuff and gloss. I’m still on the hunt for that elusive Gaia Star Bright Gold but settling for a mix of basic Mr color gold with some clear orange mixed into it. I’m having a blast experimenting with freestyle paint mixing. Feels similar to my kid making a “potion” out of random household materials and food coloring. lol
  25. Big s
    As long as you can learn something, and it looks like you learned a lot. Great build and the paint looks smooth
  26. Papa Rat
    Thanks so much. It was fun, but full of learning opportunities aka PAIN down the final stretch. hahaha
  27. Big s
    Looks really nice. Very cool
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