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Thanks. I wasn't able to go last year, but I went the year before and I hung out and had pizza with a guy I know who is responsible for brokering the deal between Big West and the villainous Harmony Gold after catching HG lying in a court trial. (They were using Valkyrie designs from DYRL and claiming that they were from TOS and since the info on the case was available online, he caught their subterfuge!) He now works for Big West and we're now finally getting Macross internationally. I swear, if HG spent more effort on making anime fans happy than going after people with their stupid lawsuits, maybe we'd begin to respect them.

I decided to try to crack off a pair of the Gerwalk shoulders. It's a little bit more than just a peg holding on there. One had very little glue and I was able to work it off then trim the nub with sprue clippers and polish down. The other was kind of a mess. There's a little bit of a dent.

Exciting stuff. Have fun.

That's terrific Greg! Thanks for letting us know. Now I won't have to searching in hopes of finding pics of those figures!

Awesome news! Looking forward to seeing your picks

I'm planning to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show on the 17th. I'll take pictures and video of the event and share pics here of the new stuff. I hope to get closeup pictures of their VT-01 figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa.

I don't mind if the DX VF-17S lacks the gunpod internal storage/ejection gimmick. I just want the toy to: Be slightly beefier in Battroid mode, especially the lower legs. Have all the correct panel lines according to the VF-17 lineart. At the moment, the legs, backplate and shoulders are completely wrong detailwise. Resculpt the head to get of that raised cowling at the top of the head. Get rid of the hardpoints on the wings. Adjust the crotch peice in batroid mode so that it points down instead of being angled forward.

Not entirely sure what you mean by "clone strains" there. Macross Chronicle's WorldGuide sheet for the Zentradi describes there as being essentially three main types: Ordinary soldier type (e.g. Warera, Roli, Conda, Milia) Records/Staff officer type (e.g. Exsedol, Tranquil) Commander type (e.g. Vrlitwhai, Quamzin, Laplamiz, Boddole Zer) We do see Commanders occasionally take to the field with their troops. Quamzin's the poster boy for that. He's a Commander type and his men are ordinary soldier types. Macross Chronicle's Character Sheet "Zentradi Soldiers" (SDFM TV Zentradi 08A) has a note on the line art of the various Zentradi background characters used in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series that explains why they all look different. The Zentradi are all clones, but they're cloned from a large number of different genetic patterns so each force has considerable diversity of attributes among its soldiers. (Presumably this is more advantageous than just cloning the same guy a billion times the way the Republic did in Star Wars.)

Well, I was a glorified logistics troop when i was in, so . . . . probably a smear mark on a wall somewhere, as extras do not seem to last long in this series.

Good looking railings and stairs @derex3592! That is one of the things that makes me hesitant to do my 1/700 and /350 ships.

Do the Zentraedi mix different clone strains together in the same unit when it comes to foot soldiers or are there Zentraedi units with only one clone type for foot soldiers?

Well, if they decide to retool the legs of the VF-17S, I don't think it can do the gun pod ejection gimmick properly since Yamato had to split the gunpod in half and store it in the backs of the legs.

oh man! those pre-order missiles🔥

Great job! Looks good. Did you anneal the photo etch before folding? I've found that makes things much easier, as it removes the spring-y-ness. Of course annealing doesn't help much when you drop a piece.

It is that railing; "PE" or photo-etch is thin brass that has been chemically etched to achieve finely detailed parts that would be too small, weak or incapable of such detail in plastic alone. This is a video on how it can be done at home; this is just to show the process. The kit-makers have better machinery and tools for it-

I don’t know what PE is but I’m assuming it’s that beautiful railing you have going on there. This looks awesome!

How I spent my last two days...... 1/350 photoetch is........not my favorite thing to do. I'll just leave it that. Only messed up one spot, I'll have to dig out some extra Titanic railing to fix it, but overall, I'm gonna give myself a thumbs up on this. Never rolled PE before and never folded tiny little three dimensional baskets either... And PE staircases are my nemesis! I need a LARGE drink... LOL. And this is only the first tower I've completed... 🤔 🙄 😂

Let This Grieving Soul Retire! (Second Season) Picks up shortly after the events of last season's finale, though most of the episode is given over to an extended flashback to how Tino's first encounter with the members of Strange Grief and a stolen brooch spiraled into Strange Grief gaining fame as heroes. The animation and writing are both on par with the previous season's. Not great, but "pretty good" would be fair. The main weakness of the writing is just the story's central premise requires the writing to jump through a LOT of hoops and use a lot of contrived coincidences to avoid making a strong argument for Krai either deserving his reputation as the genius strategist hero or being a Flashman-style dirty coward who's been mistaken for a great hero because of his proximity to the other members of Strange Grief. Hands Off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun ... okay, yeah might have to write Crunchyroll about doing a better job with content advisories. This series is flagged under "sports", "comedy", and "romance". No indication on their simulcast page of what this series is really about. Even the series page in their app doesn't give any indication besides a tiny "18+" icon the size of a single grain of rice next to saying it's subtitled and the above-listed genres. The only indication that this is... something else... is buried in "More Details" extended description. It's ecchi bordering on softcore p*rn. Why is this even on Crunchyroll? That's HiDive's bag, not theirs. They've put it in the same content category as Berserk, which is an odd choice. Ordinary High School Student™️ Koyo Kotesashi has taken a job as a live-in caretaker at the rather rundown Maple Lies dormatory in order to pay his way through school in order to pursue his dream of studying sport/exercise medicine. On his arrival, he learns that the tenants under his care are all elite nationally-ranked athletes from his new high school (Seiwa University HS). When one injures herself falling down the stairs, he examines her and discovers some mobility issues stemming from untreated sports injuries. He tries to help her by applying the seitai therapy he learned from his family. (A pseudoscientific "alternative medicine" practice based on Chinese traditional medicine AKA "unscientific nonsense" that is somewhere between chiropractic "medicine" and actual physical therapy mobility exercises.) The end result is the physical therapy version of Shokugeki no Soma's foodgasms. Eminently skippable.

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Blackfire. Red Tornado. Batgirl.

Black Panther Kinetic Energy Charged.