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  2. KOG Water Dragon
    True. I don't need it to come from Wave. I'd be happy with Plamax or Hasegawa doing it as long as it looks at home next to the existing destroids.
  3. davidwhangchoi
    Everyone should stop panicking, Bandai will release more VF-1's. They are waiting for 2026-27 and waiting to see how the tariffs will shake out, at the worst, they may wait till the transition of the next govt. No one is going to be importing SDF-1 lineups at the moment. Bandai will focus on Macross items that they are able to distribute internationally.
  4. Graham
    Fantastic pics.
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  6. Papa Rat
    Volks 1:144 KOG D Mirage test fit is moving fast. Just need to get the arms/shoulders, and bow trimmed/built. There are few seams that I will actually need to fix which is amazing and speeds things up considerably. I’m not concerned about all of the hidden seams/details on the frame that the armor will cover up in final assembly. The fit is great! The IMS line has come a long ways. The smaller scale packs in detail and is perfect for my limited space. The scale feels a little larger than their others in the line but not too bad. Here’s a pic of the KOG No.7 in the line with Batsh which was No.1 in the line.
  7. F18LEGIOSS2
    Awesome! Are they available in high res?
  8. tekering
    The vertical stabs should cant outward in fighter mode, @Robin-11.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Even then, if you think about it, Armus's evil is still subjective. The species that created him had to decide what traits of theirs were negative and inclining them to destructive behavior and physically removed those aspects of themselves somehow. It's narratively convenient that their definition of "evil" matched Humanity's. It'd be nice if they didn't have him get over it too quickly. Then again, I guess that kind of depends how much of a time skip there is between season 3 and season 4. If it follows on right away then he should definitely still be broken up about it. If there's a couple months in the middle, it'd be weird if he were still totally devastated.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Probably because he wouldn't be able to prove it. Yeah, the deleted scene at the end of Alien: Resurrection is set in a post-apocalyptic Paris. They're not clear on what caused the planet to be so ruined and abandoned in the time between Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, but it was apparently already basically abandoned well before the start of the movie. IMO, it'd be more on brand for the franchise if the reason Earth is a ruin in the late 24th century is because the megacorps that were overthrown by that time simply destroyed the environment through shortsighted pollution and ecological destruction. Like how Boy Cavalier crashed a starship full of invasive species into his own city simply to deny it to W-Y. That is a really good question. I don't think the writers were expecting anyone to ask that one. 🤔 Xenomorph XX121 eggs seem to last basically forever (based on Alien and Aliens), but the other four species specimens (the flies, ticks, man-eating plant, and eye-ctopus) were all shown being transported live both in the lab and the cargo bay. It wouldn't make sense to thaw them out at the same time as the crew considering how dangerous they are. The smart thing to do would be to keep them on ice until after they got back to Earth if they could be frozen rather than risk any escaping. If we assume the writers didn't simply forget or assume nobody would notice, either these alien lifeforms are very long-lived for insects and a tropical plant or the crew were breeding them to maintain the population. The latter case might explain why they have a rotating crew that seems to be awake far more regularly in transit than the crews of the Nostromo, Sulaco, etc. instead of simply putting everyone into cryo until the ship got where it's going. (Teng's human, BTW... he's just weird.)
  11. Axelay
    Here's another thing which is bugging the hell out of me - If the Maginot had been out for 65 years, then how are some of the specimens still alive? Assuming that the specimens were collected at roughly the halfway point in the voyage before heading home, then wouldn't that make some of them potentially be 30 years old...? I am not clear on whether the specimens were put into cryo sleep, or even whether or not it would work on them. Seems like a big gamble to collect specimens and not know whether or not they'd make it back home. And do you think that they left Teng to tend to them the whole time when the rest of the crew was in cryo? The more I think about the writing for this series, the more it bothers me. I wish I could stop trying to analyze.
  12. TehPW
    maybe. What I hope is how they show Pike still grieving into next season...
  13. Palantirion
    Glamour shots, if we're being generous. I was pressed for time.
  14. TehPW
    You need to at least watch MASH. It's a show that everyone on the planet can relate to, morally or humoral speaking.
  15. Hikuro
    I've been working off and on with Nissan for nearly 30 years, yeah, pre-teen, and my family and I have always been Z enthusiasts since we owned a 280ZX brand new off the truck back in 1980, so growing up around them I've always thought of it as a dream car. Then in 2022 I sold my old Honda HRV and bought a 2014 Nissan 370Z....sadly the market in the area for them was just terrible and the closest I could get was a Touring model with a terrible paint job and some issues. Spent a lot of time working on it making it better....then I had an incident with a police officer running me off the road doing damage to the car that was entirely his fault and his department refused to pay up to fix. Well when the new Z was released in 23, I'd been sorely wanting it since first seeing the prototype variant at our dealership. Sadly these cars are super expensive for someone like myself scraping by. Well, we had some pretty good deals over the summer, and I had enough of fixing a car that was never going to be how I wanted it. So I was able to work a deal with my sales team and we managed to find me a two tone silver/black sport model for the right price. I've been absolutely loving this car, it handles real well, better at higher rates of speed, the engine has got enough umpf to it that it's made me really enjoy going out for long runs on my weekends off. Just this weekend I took it on a 100+ joyride just having a blast. Ended up picking up donuts and coffee, watch the sunrise then drove home. I've named it Bluestreak in honor of the Fairlady 280ZX the G1 Autobot was designed from. It's got a nice 3 liter twin turbo V6 pumping out 400hp and right now sits as the top of the line now that the GT-R has been discontinued. I honestly don't see myself doing much of anything to it for modifications as it feels and handles nearly perfect for my needs. Since getting it I've had to clear out my entire garage so I can safely store it as we've had some pretty wicked storms with quite a lot of hail falling, and I don't want someone trying to break into it being in a not so great neighborhood. I really need a nice long trip somewhere to really have fun with it, but I have no idea where to go with the limited budget I got.
  16. Palantirion
    Then I did some proper dot filtering with the oils. And drybrushed highlights. Then used Musou Black for the edge. Finished! No, wait, no I'm not. I also had to make a box with foam lining so Chris could transport it safely. The lid (not shown) has foam blocks that stop any Z axis movements.
  17. Palantirion
    THERE'S NO BASE! Oops. So....I stole a one from a Figma figure. I textured it with Smart Mud and some sand pieces. The Smart Mud is awesome at being mud, but it's crap at holding on to anything else. So I have to thin down some canopy glue in order to make sure everything stayed put. Then it primed it with MY NEW FAVORITE PRIMER. This is Molotow's One-4-All line of marker refills. I have had my issues with Molotow's marker paint before, but One-4-All is awesome stuff. It dries almost instantly, yet airbrushes really smoothly. It was so hard that I had to try really hard to scrape any off this base with my thumbnail. It's waterproof...but I didn't wet sand it so I don't yet know if its really waterproof. But this is now my go-to primer, particularly as it comes in various colors and can be mixed to create others - perfect for zenithal or preshading. DOTS! Some wet-on-wet blending action using dot filter randomness. FYI I used a little too much paint. And dry.
  18. TehPW
    I have not yet watched this series yet (between the clips i see on YT and the comments here, i remain uncommitted). As for the use of nuclear weapons, wasn't the end of the fourth Alien film set on a destroyed land scape (possibly Paris, France, depending on the application of Deleted scenery or not)? likely the home world will be nuked... what would be funny? Someone the Octo-Eye is currently driving is the one that pushes the button.
  19. gabuyan started following Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1
  20. Palantirion
    Here are all the materials I used. If you have any questions just ask. Some final detailing touches.
  21. Palantirion
    Then I used water-soluble oils to pinwash the panel lines. And to add subtle heat stains to the thruster. And to add some grime from sitting out on the tarmac for years. Then final assembly. And gluing the canopy - because I didn't catch during parts prep that it's shape slightly interferes with the body cutout and this means it won't stay latched on its own.
  22. Chronocidal
    I'm betting the price is blown out by all of the larger elements involved in ship builds. I don't imagine the keel is built up from normal bricks, and those sorts of ship models have always gone for a premium because of the unique parts involved. That Cobra looks like a beauty though! I should probably think about that one before it poofs, but I'm still debating burning my VIP points to pick up the Shuttle Carrier 747. Plus I'm still really tempted by that Countach.
  23. Palantirion
    So what now? As they say "It's not a flaw, it's a feature." So I pivoted to implying a story with this kit. Instead of simply being Rick Hunter's Fanracer, this kit will now be Rick Hunter taking a last ride in his previously years-long abandoned Fanracer before embarking on the Pioneer Expedition. If you are a fan of Japanese (particularly WWII) aviation then you know what aotake is. And if not: It's a bright translucent (typically) blue/green laquer primer. My thought was to try to make it look like the aotake was showing through where the paint was worn or cracked. And in a few spots the base material (mostly yellow aramid fiber) would be seen too.
  24. Palantirion
    I then wet sanded the small parts with 6k then 10k (note: Japanese grit scale!), and polished with Tamiya's 3-step polishes. Liking the results I started wet sanding the main body... And then this started happening! Micro cracks slowly appeared all over the kit. Looking back I now suspect that my airbrush's water trap was too full and had stopped trapping water, contaminating the Tamiya hybrid acrylic and changing how it cured, which then got trapped under the airtight Future clear and that led to this. I sanded, VERY carefully, through the cracked clearcoat and polished as best I could. Worked fairly well on some of the smaller parts. But not as well on the main body. It was clear that the only way to get rid of the cracks was to sand down the the primer and re-shoot the model. BUT since I didn't know what had caused the reaction that didn't seem like a wise use of time.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Perhaps, in the future, check your facts before attempting to argue and not after so I don't have to explain basic concepts like I'm ChatGPT? Just a suggestion. 😜 Yes, what works in the US market doesn't necessarily work in Europe or China and vice versa. When it comes to EVs, the biggest barriers are more in the US's systematic negligence of infrastructure. Range anxiety is not a wholly separate issue from the fact that the grid is so badly maintained and so far behind in development that it's simply not possible to make EV charging stations as common as gas stations. All the work being done with ANL and USDoE on "smart grid" applications, DR, rate-conscious "smart" charging, etc. on EVSEs and in-vehicle only goes so far when the grid is a creaking ruin in a lot of states. A-segment and B-segment small cars are never going to sell here regardless, that's just a fundamental difference in needs. Thermal runaway is a nasty topic, the subject of a lot of back-and-forth between the industry and regulators over the last seven or so years. The EU's latest package of emissions laws and regulations (Euro 7) has some new requirements for OEMs on that front, as do some updates to China's GB/T standards for vehicle-to-cloud regulatory communication. China's EVs rotting in ports... yeah... they're massively over-exporting in a braindead go at conquering the EV market through sheer volume. Between the brands being new and suspicions about the connected features spying on you and concerns about good ol' Chinese quality they're not finding an audience as big as they hoped for. Tesla's having a similar problem now that its CEO is one of the world's most hated men and has alienated the vast majority of his customer base. 😆 Despite the growing pains of EV technology, EV sales are still up 25% globally in 2025... most of that being outside the US though (which only grew 6%). Considering how badly designed and badly built Teslas are, was it ever safe? Hardly a quarter goes by without someone suing Tesla for false advertising over their "autopilot" feature that keeps causing high speed crashes because Tesla lied about its actual capabilities. Their current flagship is a pickup truck held together with glue and wishful thinking that can't go offroad, can't drive on roads in snow, can't carry cargo without risking permanent damage to its tailgate and truck bed, can't tow for sh*t without risking frame damage, can't charge without risking the connector getting stuck in the inlet, can't charge in hot or cold weather, shorts out and fails during basic fording tests, frequently bricks itself, is often mistaken for a skid full of garbage by racoons, and is a writeoff in anything more than the most gentle of fender benders. 😆 What part of that sounds safe to you? 😆 Your lemon being tagged by an irate protester is the least of your worries. Their safety record is so bad we're starting to see talk of states banning the sale of Tesla vehicles.
  26. Palantirion
    If you don't yet have some Musou Black GET IT. Stupid web stunts aside it is an incredibly unique and valuable modeling tool. Unlike any other black paint it is both dark AND flat. Meaning you can use it to literally paint shadows. So in the case of these little exhaust vents that don't have recessed holes, a little Musou Black makes it very convincing. Similarly the far depths of the thruster now have more depth. I put the model into my dehydrator after clearing but didn't turn it on, just used it as a dust shield. I cleared it twice. Finished base painting Rick. Unmasked after clearing. Test fitting Rick. Then I had to fix the red area behind the canopy that was partially covered by the mask. I did this by brush, thinning the Tamiya a little with Mr, Color leveling thinner. The gap of the canopy hinge will be painted Rubber Black later. Detailing Rick, weathering looks a little heavy up close but reads well at normal viewing distance. More Musou black for the engine and radiatior intakes. Rick is now glued in place.
  27. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Yeah, eat your heart out Bungie Inc.:
  28. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Yeah, if it was larger I'd get one. It doesn't even have any figures of Liquid or Grey Fox (R.I.P.) to establish scale.
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