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  2. Looks really great for such an old kit
  3. And that would be due to poor writing Not necessarily. People that knew her wouldn’t have expected that kind of attempt at all. The propaganda from the empire over the situation wouldn’t even have been bending the truth very far , especially with all the living witnesses
  4. Well I think it’s done but I want to go back in for some weathering and a matte topcoat. Had a lot of fun with this one. Paint was sloppy in spots, but I just pushed on. Some Orguss M.Lover, ♥️♥️♥️
  5. It's still at ridiculous Japanese Media levels of over-priced but for the month of May Plus is at $134.99.
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  7. Been poking around trying to find things - are there any decent references for the YF-29's Super Packs? Been unable to find any on the Macross Mecha Manual. Worst comes to worse I'll find the issue of Chronicle it's in and scan them myself, but was wondering if someone else has done it for me. I've been unable to find the specific issue the Durandal is profiled in too, so anyone who knows which would be immensely helpful.
  8. Dropping an update... TLDR: I worked on the fastpacks a bit, reworked supports for existing parts, moved over to the higher res printers, reduced the layer heights, adjusted tolerances (some more), enabled AA and the results were great! I got the colors dialed in decently well (aside from the AAL Antennas, there's a reason, lol). I've realized I sunk quite a bit of time color matching. The good stuff:
  9. I also didn't like the Max Steel reboot, it strayed too far from the original. I hope that in the next version, they bring back what made the previous one what it was. As for He-man, the behind-the-scenes photos aren't really convincing me to like him. OK, I know that the initial plot is that he "lost his memory" due to a plan by Skeletor, and was sent to an "Earth reality", leaving Teela to go and save him. I think that even the plot of the film canceled by Canon (which later became Van Damme's Cyborg) would have been much better.
  10. The point is that they didn't have enough people to lock down the entire building like you're proposing should be easy. Anyone who actually knew her would know full well that she wouldn't hurt or kill anyone. Mind you, it doesn't really matter in the end. Those senators who are inclined to [believe in/support] Mon Mothma are going to question the Imperial official account of whatever happened no matter what and likely assume the Empire is lying or at least distorting the truth. Senators who are inclined to support the Empire are going to accept the sanitized Imperial propaganda version of events likely without question. Some of them have already seen one of their colleagues in the process of getting disappeared by the ISB, and are doubtless going to suspect that if Mon Mothma's escort did kill someone they did so in defense of their charge.
  11. So true. Those are some great examples
  12. My daughter absolutely loved the old max steel cartoon. I can’t remember much of it, i think it was a cg show. But she loved it so much when she was only a few years old that she made me buy her the toy of him and she took it everywhere. I remember her disliking the movie though. She always did like the less girly shows even when she was younger. Anyway, this does already look like they’re butchering He Man.
  13. I saw these on instagram, but was really skeptical about the source. The images kind of have that AI look and I haven’t found any information that they actually started shooting. That’s also a pretty full costume for just set pics in that last one. I’d love for these to be real though, but I’m gonna wait to hear from some better sources
  14. When you are given the chance to use an IP and your not really trying. 🫤
  15. I’m complaining because it was too easy the way it was done. It basically felt like it was barely an inconvenience. A better writer could’ve made a great escape scene while building tension because they couldn’t kill on the way out, or had to dispose of bodies to avoid ruining her fragile reputation I don’t see why anyone would side with her after seeing what just happened. She wasn’t disappeared, she murdered her way out. And others would easily have seen it that way. It basically makes the imperials actually seem like martyrs I can’t come up with one where it wasn’t under a riot situation. This was just three people in only two groups Looked more like she didn’t like her driver and had him murdered. And the witnesses barely cared anyway. They just were casually walking up to a guy that just got shot dead and the others didn’t even hear the shot fired and were casually walking on.
  16. It does make me wonder how exponential the process of the mass cloning project bolstered up the human population prior to its ban. It didn't seem like it took them long at all to start, since it was initiated in May 2010. By the 2040's they seem like the majority, and then the Frontier and Delta era subtly play with the concept that a good chunk of everyone has some mixed heritage one way or another. It's always been such an intriguing narrative concept that even for a little bit, Zentradi was the majority of "humanity" during that time, to the point where their technology through ships, mechs, and cloning itself was widely adopted. I'm assuming you're referring to the Die Hard episode when Zentradi stormed the building? I was under the assumption that they only acted like that is because of Sivil's presence amplifying their instincts as a Protodevlin, like it was explained later on. We need more assault/landing ships in this franchise, I still think that there could've been room for a Daedalus successor in Kawamori's Macross if everything didn't heavily lean towards carrier based fleets, exceptions like the pre-Protodevlin Varauta Army and Critical Path Corporation oddballs notwithstanding. Always appreciated the remodeling of the VF-1s in the II timeline, though it makes me wonder aside from the obvious production reasons, how come it took over 7-8 decades for there to be a proper successor of the VF-1 there? iirc here was a large war with a Branch Fleet that caused the revamping? I'm not sure if that's Eternal Love Song's story or another incident with the timeline. So there was more Megaroads then the one we see launching in that timeline! Never get a feel of those exploration fleets since II and the PC-Engine games more or less stay in their Solar System bubble. Though I didn't know there was Macross ships made to be flagships for those fleets either, unless you're referring to the Macross Cannons?
  17. There was a really prominent example that happened in a major First World country about four years back... Oh, absolutely. The Emperor is the origin of the Empire's systemic arrogance and belief that they have everything and everyone under their control. He played the Republic so completely and so well that he has reason to believe that there's nobody who can pose a real threat to his rule. Mon Mothma's story arc in the Andor-adjacent novel The Mask of Fear is basically a longform explanation of why the Emperor doesn't consider Mon Mothma any real threat. Her outspoken pacifism and naive attempts to curtail the Emperor's power through Senate legislation unintentionally buys her years of being beneath suspicion as a possible rebel in the eyes of the Empire. The ISB was never able to link her to any rebel activity despite years of surveillance since she wasn't actually involved in any. That was all Luthen/"Axis". So when the ISB starts planning her arrest, they misjudge the situation quite badly because they think they're going to get no more than token resistance from a pacifist bleeding heart senator who would never hurt a fly. This is a person whose idea of political violence is a tersely worded letter. Odds are the Empire probably didn't consider her a real threat even after her escape was aided by a rebel agent. She was just an unpopular senator from a wealthy family. Cutting off her access to her family's money and monitoring her associates would be enough to render her powerless in the Empire's eyes. As a rebel leader, she'd be more hindrance than help due to her naivete and reluctance to take decisive action. They were probably more interested in using the knowledge that she had rebel ties to help identify actual rebels and arrest them than they were in bringing her in as a "rebel mastermind". You're assuming - without evidence - that the Ghorman Massacre is just the events that we see onscreen and not something that continued after Cassian fled town. After all, this is explicitly described as a worse event than the so-called Tarkin Massacre that killed 500 people. You're assuming the people in the story have the same omniscient knowledge the audience does. Bail Organa's guards - and the ISB agent infiltrating them - were dressed as civilians and using weapons smuggled into the Senate. What bystanders saw was some random lady try to grab Senator Mothma away from her escort, shout about being an ISB agent while brandishing a blaster, and then get shot as a rebel spy by the senator's own security. The bystanders are NOT going to have a clear picture of what actually happened there... esp. since the ISB is unlikely to publicly admit that the two people who died were ISB agents. Considering the Imperial reputation for gung-ho violence that recently saw a massive massacre on Ghorman occur, some of the public might assume that the people who died (e.g. her "trusted" driver of many years) died trying to get her to safety while she was being abducted or something along those lines. Audiences would be complaining that her escape was too easy if nobody got hurt. The senators siding with her weren't going to do so openly, for fear of being the next to be disappeared by the ISB. They would already have been skeptical of the Empire's story too.
  18. I kinda did the same. I had a bad feeling that it was gonna be one of those permanently shelved projects. one of those jokes where nobody was laughing. Hopefully this ends up just as fun or even better than the first one.
  19. That’s what it’s looking like. It’s gonna be weird if the go to live action movie still remains the Dolph Lundgren version. It’s such a low bar, but if they can’t clear that, it will definitely be a waste of time
  20. I can’t think of any active type incidents that went down that way. And they didn’t expect a chance she would speak, otherwise they wouldn’t have gone through the trouble or infiltrating papa Organa’s escape crew. I personally would think it extremely believable and far more realistic that would have happened. Her speech was a bit flimsy and there seemed to be a lack of evidence over what occurred. Not only that, but far fewer people were killed there than the squishening incident that happened not too far before this and I don’t think they’d have cared much. Then there’s here actions during her escape that would’ve realistically sawed people on her side to have changed their minds. There was a security member murdered in front of several witnesses(not saying she didn’t deserve to die), but also a limo driver in front of others. A smarter writing team would’ve found some way to get her to escape the situation without leaving any bodies behind, or at least to do it in a way to hide what had to be done. If they had done that, it would’ve made it far more reasonable to believe that other senators would’ve sided with her
  21. Crazy that we got to see anything. What a joke that the lawsuit is.
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