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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Probably not, lol... but he can claim three main fleets and probably dozens of straggler forces up until around 2054.
  3. Big s
    That’s the Imai one. If you look close at the lower right corner, you can see their logo. Bandai bought their molds and it the same kit. So if you see a bandai one, it’s just a more recent production run of that kit. That goes for a good amount of Imai kits. Bandai often rereleases their old models under their name for anniversary specials. Anyway, get ready to really put in some work on those seams and stock up on that glue and putty. You may also want to practice scribing as well. I remember the panels on the face didn’t match too well and it will be easier to fill in one side and prescribe them. I think I had to use hot water to straighten out the arms to align them.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Not a surprising outcome. The difference in tone between the very much for-adults Andor and the more conventional all-ages writing of Rebels is massive. Doubly so since Andor, like Rogue One is largely devoid of the Jedi-centric shenanigans that bring most of the lighter and more kid-friendly fantasy elements into Star Wars stories like rigid Good/Evil alignments and blaster fire being treated like a nuisance rather than a life-ending threat. The rules aren't really different, IMO. Andor, being aimed at a more mature audience, differs from more conventional Star Wars titles in that it leaves the ugliness and trauma of the war on full display instead of hiding it with reaction shots, cutaways, and the like. Rebels has moments just as ugly as Andor's, but they happen "just offscreen" to keep the violence kid-friendly. For example, the Grand Inquisitor is introduced in Rebels when he simultaneously beheads two bumbling Imperial officers with his lightsaber. It's very clear contextually what happened, and everyone but Tarkin is visibly horrified, but they don't actually show the lethal blow or the headless bodies to keep the show's content rating down. Rebels also had a fairly direct depiction of a much more total genocide, but it didn't land quite as hard because we only see the aftermath, the victims were the bug-aliens from Attack of the Clones, and the traumatized sole survivor of a planetary genocide didn't speak English. Yeah, Filoni's work is passable most of the time but he's too much of a fanboy to be an effective creator on the franchise. His shows run primarily, if not exclusively, on fanservice. The new Tales of the Underworld series is a perfect example. Filoni penned two three-episode story arcs around a pair of hilariously one-dimensional recurring minor villains from his Star Wars: the Clone Wars series. Neither story is compelling or even interesting, and both of them read like they were written specifically to pad out that character's Star Wars Fandom wiki page rather than tell an engaging story. I will admit, I'm actually kind of curious whether this franchise-wise preoccupation with Filoni's work is because the franchise has too many "promoted" fans working on it or if Filoni is just that convinced that he's a great creator.
  5. Duke Togo
    @Roy Focker you might find this of interest: https://ew.com/why-andor-diverged-from-canon-mon-mothmas-epic-senate-speech-11729531
  6. Today
  7. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows has its moments. Today's episode was actually decent.
  8. Urashiman
    yeah man ... those big diodes ... They are still around for high voltage/power systems.
  9. Black Valkyrie
    https://batman-news.com/2025/05/08/matt-reeves-batman-part-ii-director-exit/
  10. Black Valkyrie
  11. Duke Togo
    Has anyone else been holding off on rewatching Rogue One since the first season came out? Next week I'll be watching all three final episodes on Tuesday night, and will be watching Rogue One on Wednesday.
  12. Duke Togo
    This is why I don't like Filoni being put in charge of all things Star Wars.
  13. Papa Rat
    That’s a great idea. I haven’t made it before and would love to give a go. 👍
  14. pengbuzz
    You might be better off buying a can of MEK and throwing old sprue into it to make sprue goo.
  15. electric indigo
    They could have leaned more towards the design of the illustration IMO, but 1/20 is too small for my ageing eyes anyway.
  16. electric indigo
    I kinda envy you for being somewhat in the dark about how badly many movies are written 😄
  17. electric indigo
    I have not been so breathlessly hooked to the screen since the golden days of GoT fandom. The last arc was the epic cherry on a cake of epic. On a side note: How it started --> how it's going
  18. Olitech Industries started following Olitech Industries South Ataria Island build - collaboration
  19. Olitech Industries
    Trying to bring some old work to life...3 years later! Welcome to the future. Again. ;] Time lapse shot of the restaurant, based on my old renderings. Olitech_restaurant time lapse.mp4
  20. Papa Rat
    This is the one arriving next tuesday I didn’t know there was an ARII version I kept seeing this and the Bandai
  21. Big s
    I was kinda meaning movie wise. I guess as far as books, maybe most dangerous game might be the og, but I’m not really sure there. I read a few of King’s books when I was younger, but decided that it’s for the best if I never read story books anymore. I figure if it’s a decent story they’ll make a movie. And I really don’t want to be that guy that everyone totally hates that says “the book was better”.
  22. Big s
    Is it the Imai one? because I know for sure that one definitely eats the putty. All four cannons every part on the legs and the rms and the body. Lots of big seams. Also alignment issues as well. Some big parts on the arms were warped a bit as well from what I remember. It looks great if you really put in the work though I’ve never seen the Arii kit actually built, so if it’s that one, I’d love to see all the steps.
  23. captain america
    Captain's log: Thursday, May 8th, 2025. Have a look at pic 37: those are all the cutting and shaping tools I use on the lathe, with the exception of the face-end mill, which you saw in part 1. While they are few, they all serve a purpose, depending on the part needing to be created. The grinding stones on the left are used for shaping more than cutting, so these usually come in when I'm making curved shapes of a particular diameter. You'll see what I mean in the next few steps. 37.HEIC If you go back to plate 32 from last week's update, the missile pod interface joint, we see that same part again in pic 38, only now it's on the mill. I need to make a very wide, cylindrical channel across this piece, so I begin by removing material with the regular steel milling shanks. After that, I use the larger bull-nose shank to round-down those large stair-steps, then go in with the 'lollipop' grinding stone, to refine the curve even further. Then on the last step, I use 80 grit sandpaper wrapped over a cylindrical shape to refine the curve until it looks like what you see in pic 39. This part is now almost ready to hold the large missile container!--more on that in just a bit. 39.HEIC38.HEIC Pic 40 shows the back side of the main body/hull structure. Here I'm test-fitting many of the other parts that will attach to this component. You can still see some of the pencil marks on the blocks which were used as reference point for detail machining. 40.HEIC Because the shoulder missile pods are just too large for me to machine safely on my equipment, I broke-down the component parts and created files on the computer (pic 41) which will be used to make STL files for 3D printing. I enlisted Carlos from MEPTOYS to create those files, which he popped-out in just a few days (THANK YOU!!!), and you can see those shapes in pics 42-44. I didn't need any details to be added on the surfaces; I will do all that by hand to make sure the aesthetics match the rest of the model. Pics 45-48 finally show what I've been working toward. While still lacking refinement, the proportions look great and the parts will be designed to fit with alignment pegs in critical areas to make the model as sturdy as can be. From this point onward, things will be moving a bit faster, as most of the major components are now shaped, so stay tuned for next week's update! 48.HEIC47.HEIC46.HEIC45.HEIC
  24. Roy Focker
    I tried watching that episode of Rebel for the first time. I just couldn't. The animation is ugly. Character designs are atrocious and nothing moves like it should. Dialog and story is too juvenile. I refuse to believe Andor is in the same universe as the cartoons or even the other Disney plus shows. Their tones are completely different. Their rules are completely different.
  25. Papa Rat
    @MechTech Thanks for the pointers. I finally have a monster kit on the way and I hear it eats up the putty.
  26. pengbuzz
    You've been to New Haven? O.o
  27. electric indigo
    Senbai-san delivers another masterpiece
  28. jammaker
    New Figure "Major Booker" https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11194288
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