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  2. ImChris5115
    Welcome! I had a look into your deviantart artwork, Ganbare !! No worries, Test assemblies in solidworks or nx, between parts can be easily determine contacted surface or collision detection, unless if back in those days where we build papercraft to check contacted surface, rotation point, gap etc. Have everything plans earlier then have less headache while going complex builds. Step (5) in solidworks have to be minor tweaks or add on without messing overall proportions, if in solidworks that will be surface panel lines works and small details, which can easily delete or add later. Aerodynamic or implement NACA profile/etc, adjust them in step 1-3 and run flow stimulation or Ansys for flow study if curious about the data.
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  4. davidwhangchoi
    Picked up these 2 DS titles this afternoon.
  5. Chronocidal

    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Boy I hate when people don't baseline graphs at zero. Still yes, nice to see it hitting half the original price. I still have a pair I have not shipped, since I was waiting until better shipping options opened up.
  6. m0n5t3r
    My thinking now, of course, is I saved some money . I canceled my preorder for the SS86 when I heard about the heel issue and I never got around to getting one whether online or when I saw it in a couple of stores in HK (Takara ver.). Didn't think it was worth the price anymore and I had also just gotten DCS OP to replace the Earthrise OP I sold off... and I was content at the time. I am planning to get that Magnus version when it becomes available from my go-to seller.
  7. mikeszekely
    My original thinking was that I'd be fine with SS86 Optimus for regular colors, and that I'd just get the Magnus and Nemesis versions of MD005... but then I went and preordered the Optimus colors. My just arrived this week, and I showed it to my wife alongside SS86. I asked her to guess which one was the KO, and she picked the official. One of the smokestacks on my copy was a little loose, but that wasn't a big deal since I'd bought some aftermarket stacks for the official. Once I swapped them onto MD005 the figure is darn near perfect. My only serious complaint with the mold is that the fillers they added to the parts of Prime's legs that fold up from his calves do too good of a job; one of those cutouts on the official figure is the right shape to plug in the magazine of Prime's rifle, allowing you to store it without putting it in the trailer. Speaking of trailers... I prefer the blue stripes of the G1 toy (among other toys). I ordered the Toyhax trailer labels. I'll put them on the MD005 trailer and get the look I want while allowing the official trailer to remain pristine.
  8. m0n5t3r
    Sorry for resurrecting an old post. Wasn't sure where this goes... thanks for this and other YT reviews, I finally received my regular MD005 OP copy. Although I had to wait almost 3 months for this 4th batch to become available... good thing though, cuz I got in before the price increase. Amazing. All this for only $35. And the subtle aesthetic improvements make a world of difference... better colors (imo), no visible screws and seams, windshield options with no holes, head options, chrome wheels and rubber tires. Plus, qc on this thing (at least my copy) is close to perfect, which, sadly, I can't say for 1 out of every 2 or 3 Hasbro TFs I get, especially when they started with those open window packaging (paint touchups, joint tightening etc.) Wishful thinking, but I wish all TF releases would be like this.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Sitting down to watch this week's new episode... Ko'Zeine. Honestly, the episode title sounds like a sleep aid. (Not even being sarcastic there, and I work for a company where like 2/3 of the staff have made the joke that our company name ALSO sounds like a medication.) So apparently this one's premise is that the students go home to see family during what we're not going to call Spring Break but is definitely Spring Break? I guess we can't show the cadets going to Cancun (or Risa?) for Spring Break because it would be weird and out-of-place for them to be horny on main like they've been for the last six episodes right after that disastrous training exercise that got so many people killed. Of course, it also bears recognizing that Nahla Ake has been Chancellor of Starfleet Academy's Earth campus for a single semester and she's done such a rubbish job of it that there's now a death toll directly attributable to her irresponsible conduct. Honestly, the acknowledgement that the events of the previous episode were capital T "Traumatic" for the cadets and that they're still processing it even with the help of therapy is a rare thing for Star Trek and shows the writers are thinking. "You've got four pairs of boots in here! You don't even wear shoes!" - my candidate for line of the episode. "SUNSET MOON" is certainly a choice of caption. It makes no sense, even as a placename. "The Khionian Realm" isn't much more helpful. It's another planet subjected to the Piss Filter, because that's how you know you're outdoors... the sky looks like you're viewing it through a yard of cheap pilsner. The fan phrase "Dadmiral" has now graduated to an official part of the Star Trek lexicon after being used to refer to Admirals Paris and Mariner. Maybe the reason Darem's so worried is because all the decor on this moon seems to be shaped like a buttplug. The director's foot fetish is back. This time it's Reno's feet being jammed into the camera. Seriously. I am SO close to calling an exorcist to remove the vengeful spirit of Quentin Tarantino from the studio. Honestly, not a bad episode at all. This series seems to do character writing much better than it does anything to do with space adventure. Another licensed song over the credits this time... "We watch the stars" by Fink. Pretty much, yeah. Starfleet Academy's main problem is that the writing is horribly uneven. When the series wants to do character-focused drama, they actually do a pretty passable job at it. Some of the episodes (e.g. Kraag's focus episode) are almost worthy of the title of Star Trek and could be made quite good with only a few tweaks. But both times the series has tried to do Space Adventure in a vein similar to past Star Trek titles, the bottom has fallen out quality-wise and they've served up some Discovery-tier idiot plots. A secondary problem is that the show's writers want to do humor, but the kind of humor they want to do doesn't seem to be something they know how to integrate into the story organically. So the attempts at humor are very forced and unnatural and you can practically see the writer's wild-eyed desperation and unspoken plea of "Please laugh". Colbert's involvement is purely "humorous" in the sense that he seems to exist in the story purely to serve up "funny" non-sequiturs that aren't actually funny in-context or out. Many of the non-sequiturs involving one particular science officer's badly-behaved pet. (Why this needs to be announced over the tannoy instead of being called in to that officer directly is anyone's guess.)
  10. sketchley
    Thanks for that description! I've also designed my own transforming jet fighters*, so it's neat seeing the similarities in our workflows. That going back and forth and refining the design as we do basic and test assemblies is a pain in the butt, isn't it? 😅 For step (5), I refer to that as "making it look cool." (cool being a combination of making it look like it could actually fly [refining the aerodynamic features, etc.], and artistic polish that makes a design pop.) * https://www.deviantart.com/studiootaking/art/CFs-Generation-3a-Master-File-Chronicle-767383491
  11. sketchley
    I'd say it's worth a view—even if it's just to see a "what if Kawamori-san wasn't in charge of Macross". If memory serves, there is a massive drop off in animation quality in the last episode.
  12. sketchley
    From the descriptions*, it sounds like the show runners are having their cake and eating it, too: they want an academy setting with cadets, but also want to do the standard Star Trek ship-doing-space-adventures. I'm not saying it's impossible (DS9 pulled off something similar), but from the sounds of things, this show's writers haven't figured out how to do it. * stopped watching nu-Trek at the end of the second season of Discovery, so my impressions may be biased...
  13. jvmacross
    It's also listed as a VF-1C in a few books...and if you take a look at the old ARII(or was it Imai?) 1/100 Gerwalk kit....the head pieces look suspiciously like those depicted for the "VF-1C"...perhaps they produced the kit mold before BW made the decision that there would only be an S, J, A and D....
  14. Valkyrie Hunter D
    I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater: Wish I did.
  15. Gabe Q

    HMR VF-19P

    Gabe Q replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Wow, that's a big price drop!
  16. 505thAirborne
    Watching the movie FALL on Netflix, if you have a fear and anxiety of heights, this movie turns it up to 11!!!
  17. Big s
    Interesting that they used that head for the 1D
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Holodeck malfunctions, at least, don't require the crew to go and waste time making expensive, idiotic, and entirely unnecessary concessions to a bloodthirsty space pirate to resolve. When the safeties do go out, the program still doesn't go off the rails. The only hazards that exist are those that were already native to the program and simply being NERF'd by the holodeck safeties. Simulating the Miyazaki salvage operation would not have put the cadets in danger of being violently murdered by space pirates unless someone had deliberately programmed in a group of murderously violent space pirates. Otherwise, the only safety risks might be asphyxiating in the event of a hull breach or injury in the event that they had one of Star Trek's trademark exploding consoles. (If you didn't want the students to know they were in a simulation, all you'd need to do is beam them into the simulator from the ship.) "Come, Let's Away" was the story of a completely preventable disaster that resulted in the deaths of a cadet, an Academy instructor, and an unknown but implicitly large number of other Starfleet personnel aboard the USS Sargasso and Starbase J19-Alpha because the Academy chancellors decided to do this training exercise for their first year cadets in the most irresponsible and unsafe manner imaginable. Not only in uncontrolled conditions aboard a derelict ship, but in unsecured contested space no less.
  19. Big s
    The more I see it, the more it reminds me of Murderface just a little less fuzzy
  20. Shawn

    1/55's revisited

    Shawn replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    I don't ever remember seeing the packaging for that one, actually looks like they spent some time on it. Space Castle...super endless transformations, neat What is Space Castle #1? Then the obvious, is there #3 and more?
  21. borgified
    That’s the issue with Justin.. He will brag about anything about how Hot Toys is great and skip over any criticisms/flaws if there is any and give bantha podo comments about Sideshow, shills and sings about Pop Collectables (and formerly Toys Wonderscam as well) about the privilege of being connected to him to supply his 1/6 crack habits. Name one famous 1/6th collector out there and Justin will be highly on that list. A fair chunk of 1/6 collectors do not approve of him (including his other fellow shillers).
  22. jenius
    I would say it's definitely worth the time because it doesn't take much time at all... It's movie length.
  23. Old_Nash_II
    My first official contact with Doctor Who; until then I had only seen and referenced it in materials like the RPG All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
  24. Papa Rat
    Hahahaha. And I like her too. What’s going on? Nah we are very silly laidback people and she is so thoughtful. That being said, she’s actually a bit sassy for a 80year old. Swears like a sailor and doesn’t take *%#<%#*^%% from nobody. Hahahaha
  25. Hikuro
    He's incognito 😛
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  27. Thom
    A mother-in-law who likes you?! Doing something right @Papa Rat!
  28. wm cheng
    Hmm, not of fan of either Italeri or Revell... maybe I should just wait.
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