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That would be interesting to see. I'll have to keep a look out for any pics where modelers have made that swap.

I don’t know about the translation, but the way the back in designed, it should be easily done

Am I understanding this right? At about the 38/39 min. Mark in that video does he say that we would be able to replace the Armour Valk boosters with the super/strike pack boosters?

And still available over an hour later!

Maybe it's just the doctrinal name for energy weapons of that type. They're probably not dissecting whether it is a charged particle beam or laser they are shooting, it's just "beam". Having precharged rounds would mean less strain on the engine/powerplant and reduce power spikes in your electrics. I guess, not an EE.

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1314822586&ref=list&dispCount=240&keyword=macross&lang=en wow! The price dropped again it to 22K yen.

@F18LEGIOSS2 Goodsmile has a Europe-based shop: https://goodsmileeurope.com/collections/moderoid They're a bit behind the schedule, so you have to wait a little longer, but you avoid customs & intercontinental shipping.

Gotta love brownies

Maybe check those stores in a couple days and see if they get added

Where can I preorder them without paying additional taxes and ship them to France?.Shops like Gundamit and Showzstore offer included taxes.

They did got Namor completely wrong. In that Wakanda film. Wrong actor and look. Looks nothing like Spock on steroids

Model show cannon fodder got me a bit excited 🤩

I really don’t get it either. There is a lot of empty space in there for no reason. The runners will just be sliding back and forth

Sharing self build stand ,not sure if this is right place.

For now, this is what it looks like. Once I trim the inner backplate and finish massaging the calf it will blend well together.

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So I normally get an anime calendar from CDJapan every year... The selection this year is small and there is nothing that really interests me. Oh well... Maybe next year.

Technically, the pilot is 1/18 scale. But as with most GI Joe vehicles (especially the planes), it’s very underscaled. Did have fun customizing this Skystriker over a decade ago . Even customized some Cobra killmarks back then to spruce up the bird:

Maybe Hasegawa is trying to win big box of the year...stealing the prior title from Aoshima for their VFG Konig Monster. Seriously WHY does it have to be so dang large? Shipping is going to be tough..

Looks like a perfect match. Might even look good on his Queadluun Rau, possibly with a little white mixed in to lighten it up a little

The space cruiser Algenicus (アルゲニクス, Arugenikusu) is one of those few proper nouns in Macross that I haven't yet been able to come up with a definitive explanation for. (It doesn't help that it's intermittently referred to as a battleship (戦艦 senkan) instead of a cruiser (巡洋艦 jun'youkan... sometimes within the same entry, e.g. the game manual.) Normally, Macross's Earth UN Forces and New UN Forces give easily explicable names to their ships, fighters, and so on. A lot of the earlier Variable Fighters are named for pre-existing aircraft (e.g. XB-70 Valkyrie, P-38 Lightning, A-10 Thunderbolt, etc.) and later ones (particularly in the Kodachi era) have Meaningful Names that reference their role in the story and/or their faction. A lot of the earlier ships are named for pioneers of space flight (e.g. Oberth, Goddard, Tsiolkovsky), famous warships (Invincible, Enterprise, Ranger, Akagi) or the heads of state (Harlan J. Niven, Robert A. Rhysling, Bruno J. Global). Later military ships are predominantly named for places (Uraga, Guantanamo, Northampton), for other ships (Bluenose, Stargazer, Saratoga II, Valhalla III), or the occasional in-joke (Lucy). Civilian ships tend to have theme names tied to their purpose and/or owners, a tendency that got more blatant in Kodachi's era (the entertainment ship Hollywood, the seaside resort ship Riviera, the agriculture ship Sunflower, the Polish bank-owned transport Twardowski, etc.) with the occasional punny name thrown in (factory ship Three Star, a pun on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries). There are a couple that have issues or just aren't clear at a glance because the romanization is wrong, unintuitive, or the reference is just weird or obscure. You've seen me chew over the problem of unclear romanization/meaning behind the Macross Galaxy Riviera-class resort ship Evna's name. The YF-27-5 Shaher is another example, as the English spelling of the intended name is wrong in the visual book (it's supposed to be Shahar). There's an older and more unintuitive example in the Macross 7 fleet's West Point-class training ship. Its name is romanized "Beginhill" in every artbook that has a romanization but is actually meant to be "Biggin Hill", being named for the RAF station at Biggin Hill during the world wars. Algenicus, though... I've been unable to find anything on that one. It's such a specific name, and they went to the trouble of spelling it out in English... I get nothing for any possible spelling of it, and the kana doesn't produce any results in the Japanese wiki either.

Same here. I would’ve had the extra money back then

Yeah, they went all out in the cool stuff

That is freaken enormous!!

I'll be picking up reissue Gigawatt today. Now that I've had Agent Knight for some time I wish that his vehicle mode was the same size as Gigawatt's.