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Wonder if the "First batch" is for the Kickstarter orders? 1/72 Glaug Project Update Dear Backers, Thank you for your continued support and patience for the 1/72 Glaug. After reviewing our production schedule and overall supply conditions, we would like to inform you that: The 1/72 Glaug will be delayed, with the first batch scheduled to ship in the third quarter of this year. We are working diligently to ensure the highest level of quality and final presentation. Thank you for your understanding and continued support. Key Product Features - Linkage Mechanism Design Sliding the cockpit activates the waist telescopic linkage. - Leg Linkage System Extending the legs drives the rear joints and side rotating structures simultaneously. - High Alloy Content Construction Built with a high percentage of alloy components for enhanced solidity and premium feel. - Sci‑Fi Lighting Cockpit The cockpit features sci‑fi style lighting effects. - Rotating Breathing Light Thruster Combines dynamic rotation with gradient illumination for a realistic propulsion effect. - Full Magnetic Control Switch System Equipped with a magnetic control switch system for improved operation. - Pilot Figure Compatibility Compatible with various pilot figures (sold separately). Shipping & Pricing Notice The first batch is scheduled to begin shipping in Q3 of this year. Quantities for the first batch are limited. Due to the continued increase in raw material costs, the product price will be adjusted after the first batch shipment. Shipping schedules for other related products will be announced progressively. We are actively coordinating overall production and delivery arrangements. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and greatly appreciate your patience and understanding. Further updates will be shared as progress continues.

Been seeing Nathan knocking on doors for a bit now and kinda surprised they decided on an animated series rather than live action. Is it set after the show or during?

For some reason, I thought this already came out.

Sweet! Now just have to figure out how to make them transform! 😉

Bleah. Sorry for the long silence, work has been a monster lately. Not entirely done yet, but managed to pull the arms together and figured I needed to do a test pose in the game environment rather than just a model screenshot this time around. I've still got some work to do to get the movement constraints right (those slider pistons on the arms are very weird, and watching the anime in half speed, I'm half convinced the animators gave up on them as well and just manually set their positions in every frame 😉), and there are a few details still to go, but overall I think it's a good representation. Now to make it dance! 😄

@derex3592 hull yeah! That’s looking great! John Moscato. I’ll look him up and look for the kits. I think I remember a Phalanx kit a year back? I’ll have to search. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for anything in the future. Thanks and I look forward to seeing more pics of your collection. 🤤 Started this reissue of an older 1/144 HM L-Gaim Bat-Shu. It’s only two runners, some hoses and very simple. No decals. Got the test fit done today and will get this rolling next week. I have lots of other more modern kits in the mix too but after the Spartan I want to do another tired old kit.

Drama, mainly. One problem with NuTrek is that the titles without a strong connection to golden age Star Trek shows is that they don't seem to have a good head for detail and struggle to grasp the scale of things even more than Star Trek writers usually do. This is less of an issue with NuTrek titles that lean heavily on pre-Kurtzman shows and movies like Discovery seasons 1 and 2, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Prodigy since the writers of the latter three (esp. Lower Decks) seem to include longtime fans who actually understand the setting. The shows that try to "break the mold" and do their own thing (Discovery S3+, Picard, Starfleet Academy) struggle a lot more. For instance, there's this recurring problem in Star Trek (2009), Discovery (S1), Discovery (S3), Picard (S1), and now Starfleet Academy where an interstellar power with the might to rival the Federation is mistakenly treated as being so small and so profoundly top-heavy that the loss of a single planet, ship, or leader is enough to collapse the whole thing utterly. They keep forgetting these rival empires are civilizations as big or bigger than the Federation, with dozens or hundreds of worlds under their control. NuTrek's 32nd century setting seems to get hit with this especially hard, because the writers are creating new factions to rival the Federation but aren't bothering to think them out in any meaningful detail. The Emerald Chain is the main threat to the much-diminished Federation in 3189. It's supposedly a massive criminal cartel that wields so much power that it's not only a de facto interstellar government... it outclasses the Federation politically AND militarily. We only ever see one ship - its flagship, Viridian - and the loss of that single ship in conjunction with the death of its leader Osyraa causes the entire organization to collapse practically overnight. Its collapse is so abrupt and so total that just a few years later in 3195 the impact of the Emerald Chain is proposed as a historical topic for a debate class at the Starfleet Academy. The Venari Ral have the exact same problem. We're told roughly where they ply their piratical trade, but the scale of their organization is never elaborated upon beyond being "smaller than the Emerald chain". We can say for certain they possessed at least eight ships based on dialog from that very episode, and that's about it. Capturing Nus Braka again is presented as the de facto end of the Venari Ral. Ep6 seems to exist to establish two things: Nus Braka and the Venari Ral are brutal and cunning enough to be a serious threat to the Federation, but lack the military strength to oppose the Federation directly. That it's going to be the cadets rather than the captain who ultimately save the day and defeat the Venari Ral in this series. We've seen that the Venari Ral's ships outclass smaller, lightly armed Federation starships like the Academy-class training ships and the Intrepid-type Sargasso. Presumably larger, more powerful Federation starship classes rival or outclass them in turn. Not to mention Starfleet seemingly has a LOT more ships at its disposal. Nus Braka's plan was, by the standards of NuTrek, actually pretty clever. He manipulated a rival pirate crew (the Furies) into attacking the Starfleet Miyazaki training exercise and taking the cadets hostage because he knew Nahla Ake was in command of the exercise. He knew that the Furies reputation for killing hostages would, bare minimum, get her to panic and use her connections to pull every Starfleet asset in range out of position to support the hostage rescue and thus reduce the number of ships in range to reinforce that starbase when his forces attacked it. Ake's initial panic was enough that Vance pulled IIRC five capital ships out of position to support her. By that point, Braka had already won. That she was so worked up and desperate she went to him looking for a silver bullet solution that would 100% guarantee resolving the situation with no further loss of life gave Braka the opportunity to antagonize her with impunity, further compromise her judgement, and sell her a solution that conveniently required pulling the one ship that was still defending his target out of position too. The starbase's defenses were formidable enough that, even with a clean run at it with no chance of enemy reinforcements, the six Venari Ral ships that Braka sent on the raid still needed almost 20 minutes just to take down the station's shields and we don't know how much damage they took in the bargain. Had Ake not panicked like an idiot and pulled every ship in range out of position Braka's six ship raiding force might've found itself facing the station, the Sargasso, and at least five Starfleet capital ships warping in. A harder fight, and potentially a losing one depending on how powerful those other ships were. Once he finally graduated to the status of a Major Threat, Starfleet sent a force too big for him to cope with and that was Game Over.

Chances would be extremely high that they'd end up Masters of The Universe-ring or Tomb Raider-ing it, if not downright Velma-ing the thing... soooo many examples of how off the rails it could get. Better leaving it alone as a time capsule of when shows were mostly good instead of almost all bad.

I presume like the Regults, this will be self-standing, but I love the look of this in flight. Has anyone aside from @jenius found a stand option? I wish there were a bracket or cradle that would allow a Yeti/Archi to work with these.

F**k yeah!

Firefly was lucky to get a movie and it was a good one!. I just hope the animation doesn't suck.

Toggles/options are fine, the problem is now you need registry hacks and/or entire 3rd-party programs just to restore basic options and functionality that used to be present. If I could simply "click a long list of options" that'd be fine and only take minutes. But instead it's a game of "touch and go" for "how many registry alterations and programs can co-exist before they start causing problems"?

Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling is a pretty good show. I am enjoying it enough to read the light novel.

@Papa Rat - The Invid are all from the master himself John Moscato or @captain america here on the forums. All resin kits. The purple shock troops were my first attempts at multiple part resin kits that required pinning together so they look a little less good than the rest of the Invid. I got better with each release. He sometimes re-releases kits so keep an eye here on the forums. I'll take some better pics of the two big ones when I try to get LED lights in the cabinets. In other news, ALL Texas parts are now painted, clear coated and ohh my!!!, we must be making forward process if she has her numbers on her hull! 😁

Browncoats!! They’ve been hinting this for weeks Let’s hope it returns https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=YW1rNW50bnBhcW1i

Hahahaha thanks

Real good looking mech @Papa Rat! Should change your name to Big Papa! And a lot of god looking models in those cases @derex3592! Quite the collection, and I love that big Zentradi ship.

Box art.

Hot Wheels Premium '96 Nissan 180SX Type X and Nissan SilEighty. Hot Wheels Premium Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno and Fleet Street.

The question pops into the head as to what Ep6 was even for..? Braka's ships are apparently far more powerful than anything in the Federation's Glass Jaw Fleet, so why the need for subterfuge? It's clear, two ships could have easily handled the Sargasso and raided the research facility, and probably without anyone knowing who did it. Which turns that episode into even more of a waste than it already was. They could have used the confrontation dialogue between him and Ake in the finale, and probably to better effect. Unless, it was just a vehicle for Braka to monologue, and to show how this new Federation is willing to put millions of lives at risk for the sake of a dozen cadets.

I truly hate store exclusive releases: Several attempts to hunt this set down at different Target stores during its release date were unsuccessful, so I lucked out when I found a vendor who wanted 8 bucks over its original price.

Thanks. Hahaha. Yeah there are some rough spots for sure. No zooming in on the photos allowed 😂 I really enjoyed this one. Super fun

You’re 75% is more like most people’s maximum effort. I can see the flaws only if I go through the trouble of expanding the pictures. Like the hands are a little rough and some of the joint bits, but beyond that it looks amazing and if it were seen in person, I bet most people wouldn’t even notice those rough bits.

I have successfully brought the Spartan back from the dead using new DNA technology 🦖. Wait, wrong movie. It has its issues but like I said, I gave this 75% effort 100% of the time or something like that. I think it came out alright for a $20 kit. Please give us a modern version of this beautiful design you cowards!