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Wow. It’s looking great. Getting closer!!!

Pretty sure he's just drawing her in his more modern style. IMO, it doesn't look that far off how she actually appears in the animation:

Hmm... nah, I wouldn't go quite that far. It's a real stinker, for sure. I've seen a lot of fans on Reddit and Facebook saying it's the worst episode of Strange New Worlds to date and I'd be hard pressed to disagree. I think a lot of them are going too far saying that it's one of the worst episodes in the franchise, though. It has a nonsense plot that clearly sounded a lot cooler in the writer's head and it's badly acted, but it's not rife with Unfortunate Implications the way most of the franchise's very worst episodes are. Like the insane sexism of "Turnabout Intruder", the very blatant racism in "Code of Honor", the comedic handling of a sex change in "Profit and Lace", the implicit rape in the nonsense plot of "Threshold", the de facto sexual coercion of "Elogium", the normalization of racism in "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans", etc. I hope they do better with season four. I'm still intensely thankful we're getting both a season four and five because this is still hands-down the best of new Trek.

Seems they’re really hoping this will bring new fans, Bandai is adding the main character to their 30 minute missions line of kitshas removable armor and doesn’t look too bad so far, but I’d hope they eventually do the og samurai troopers/ronin warriors as well

Looks awesome despite the little decal flaws. Can’t wait to see how the KOG turns out.

All that work is definitely paying off

Hey all, while I have a post in the WANTED section, just asking here too, does anyone have a spare sheet of decals you're willing to part with for a 1/48 Legioss Zeta model kit/Jupiter Base? I no longer have my red MPC Beta or the stickers for my Dark Tread project. Thank you.

All done. Had another junky stand laying around from Amazon that worked great for this little build. Bummed on those old messed up decals but not surprised at how chunky they went down. Work with what you got. Hahaha Next up is Volks 1:144 scale KOG. Super excited for this one. 🤩

More updates.

Alternate title: The Worst of Both Worlds....

Why is Mikimoto-san drawing Ishtar a child's face now?

Good thoughts, I think I agree about the outline on the tail fins, though it might work if I add a grey fleet or squad marker there, but you're right about the blank back side, good call there. When I get some time, I'll put some squad and plane markings on it in the appropriate greys. Top of the head does need some lightening, too, agree on that. Hope to get some time next week, but it might be until the week after before I can mess with it again. Thanks for the feedback!

Great write up!!!🔥

I will try to get one, since the prices to ship to the EU are not outrageous. Nice Devastator review @mikeszekely. To me the biggest criticism would be the black hole in Devastator’s chest. It is very unsightly to me. The upsides is that DNA has a lot to do and Hasbro can improve over the Studio Series one. With only three data points it is hard to determine but assuming the releases of new Devastators is getting faster and faster I predict that the next one from Hasbro will be in 2029.

DHL is going to cost 3300 yen plus 15% of the price of the item. You should be able to easily do the math from there.

Lookin' good. The artbook promises to be a bit of a doorstopper. It's 60% bigger than planned, up to 240 pages from 150.

Ordered a couple of Tomahawks at Hobby Genki. A little cheaper than HLJ.

I never was able to get their Optimus so I probably won't even try to get this one either.

https://www.toyark.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=78302&d=1757096871 2nd Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Megatron.

The Summer 2025 simulcast season's drawing to a close. A lot of the titles I tried this time were pretty mediocre at best, though there are a few excellent standouts. I'm definitely hooked on Secrets of the Silent Witch. Enough that I'm eyeing buying the light novel and I really REALLY want a second season from it. My Dress-Up Darling is having another excellent season, which makes me wonder why it took so bloody long to get it. Marin and Gojo are just adorkable and I love them. Betrothed to My Sister's Ex is recovering a bit in the home stretch now that they've finally decided to sh*t or get off the pot when it comes to the sister thing and is finally getting some proper closure. I wouldn't call it great, but it's head and shoulders above a lot of the rest of the season. Ruri Rocks is still great edutainment... though it has one of the thirstiest fanbases I have ever seen and it doesn't even have much fanservice. Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl remains cute and inoffensive to the end. I kind of wish they did more with the Lily's comically overprotective dad. The Water Magician is worth watching. Not because it's good, but because it's genuinely impressive how indistinct it is. It is isekai at almost maximum possible genericness, to the extent that its most distinctive point is how little it has to distinguish itself from the rest of its genre. It's a fascinating paradox. I had high-ish hopes for Detectives These Days Are Crazy!, but its humor ran out of utility pretty fast and ended up being less a detective parody and more just pratfalls and jokes about how Mashiro's stupid. Dan da dan started out pretty interesting, but it's honestly not doing anything for me after the Evil Eye got introduced. I was pretty shocked that See You Tomorrow at the Food Court ended up being just six episodes long. It was fun in sort of Azumanga Daioh way. It feels like it should have been a full season.

First, a quick reality check. Most OEMs develop a common platform for multiple markets and rebadge as necessary for different trim levels. Second, another reality check. Brand "nationality" is mostly BS. Pretty much every large OEM is using parts developed and manufactured all over the world and the only thing that makes that brand belong to a specific nation is where final assembly takes place. The era of an automaker's development being localized to a single country is long since over and most cars are as multinational under the hood as your average Star Trek cast. Third, a point of fact I can't really blame you for not knowing. The Hornet/Tonale program was not brand-specific or region-specific during development. It was a single program developed as a common platform for multiple markets and brands. It's quite inaccurate to say that's "attempting to sell an Alfa Romeo as a Dodge". As to why we don't see more of them... well... they made the mistake of having the Hornets built at Pomigliano d'Arco alongside the Tonale version. 🙃 Only in the sense that final assembly does not occur in the US, to be frank. It's only really a "European" engine in the sense that initial production was in Termoli. That's not where it was designed, and it's not even the only place it's built. This also contains a lot of inaccuracies. The main factor slowing adoption of EVs in the US is a lack of charging infrastructure and the woefully neglected state of the US electrical grid. Western Europe and China's more cosmopolitan provinces don't really have that problem, which is why EVs have been much more readily adopted there. EV adoption is only accelerating in developed nations, and the US's temporary regression is not going to have a substantial impact on the growth of the EV market because pretty much every OEM is by default developing for global sales and that means still having to comply with emissions regulations in South America, Europe, Asia, etc. It just means a temporary reduction in the number of EV options on offer in the US. Those emissions regs will get tightened again, and we'll see more electrification because that's the most effective way to improve the efficiency of these systems. Bro, I think you may want to dial the arrogance down to a more reasonable level and recognize you are attempting to BS someone in the industry. 😜 Clearly you DO need the explanation, because almost nothing of what you've said has been correct thus far. You missed my point completely, I'm afraid. As I explained previously, there are company standards that are internal to a single OEM, but there are also government standards and international standards for which compliance is not always optional. Every OEM selling in America has to comply with FMVSS, for instance, or they will be prohibited from selling their cars in the US. It doesn't matter if your car was made by Chevrolet or Dodge or Ferrari or whoever there are hundreds upon hundreds of applicable standards (many of which are non-optional and government enforced) in its design. They do not "each do things their own way" in most things. Standards governing things like the pitch and depth of screw threads have been a part of the industry since the 1910s. Every conceivable part of the car has at least one, and often far more than one, applicable government or international standard involved in its design. They're still on the road because, well, combustion engines are a mature technology that hasn't really changed much in the last sixty or so years and older models from before the advent of computerized control are a lot simpler at the cost of being a lot less efficient and safe. See the above about a lack of infrastructure... which is more a government problem than an EV problem if we're being honest with each other. There is a very definite problem in that it does take quite a bit longer to recharge an EV with a 480V or 800V battery than it does to just pop a nozzle in your fill door and pour out some 87 octane. That's one reason why electric vehicle standards are evolving as fast as they are. The search for a better, faster charging system to get that time down to around the same level as just hitting up the gas station. With Teslas, of course, your main problem is going to be that goofy J3400 connector that only works with Tesla-branded chargers. Unless you're bringing one of their adapters (a device that bears an unsettling resemblance to a bit of equine anatomy), you're kind of hosed in a lot of places where Tesla doesn't have a presence since most public chargers are the older J1772 design that isn't compatible with Tesla's charging inlet. If you're stuck using the Level 1 wall-wart... yeah you're going to spend a small eternity charging your car's battery because that's sub-2kW charging. Believe you me, I am intimately familiar with the technical limitations of EVs... I am literally spending my workdays inventing ways to overcome them. 😜

Hoping for a good recovery for you @pengbuzz!