MacrossJunkie

Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!

I wish those guys came with helmets. Also, is it just me or does Russ look like Val Kilmer to anyone else? Madmartigan with blonde hair.

I thought the SV-262 transformation was okay for the most part as far as difficulty is concerned, but the parts I hated was getting the hands in while taking it back to fighter mode without breaking the dang thumbs. It was also really fiddly to align properly sometimes. On top of that, it was stressful trying to transform it with the tight tolerances giving little room to move certain pieces while trying to avoid scraping off paint. It's the stress and worry that made it not fun for me. I hope Bandai's 21 will not be so stressful that I have to worry about parts breaking or paint scraping off.

That's a pretty amazing rendition using Legos. You'd think Kawamori himself put that together while prototyping the design.

Armored Alto version when? I'm still missing that and would love for it to be reissued.

Okay, this is pretty awesome. Joytoy revealed Leviathan dreads for IF and SoH. At 1/18 scale, these are going to be pretty massive. The Redemptor dreads were done very well and had a lot of presence on the shelf and I expect these to be similar in that regard also. More pics found here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BreCcbb3_0sRA6TgfrjBTA https://www.joytoy.com/products/imperial-fists-leviathan-dreadnought-with-cyclonic-melta-lance-and-storm-cannon https://www.joytoy.com/products/sons-of-horus-leviathan-dreadnought-with-siege-drills

Yeah. There's trying to get customers with money to burn and then there's this... $300 could get you something actually good like a DX VF-1 or something. Well, if there are suckers that are actually paying $380 for these things, good on Toynami for finding people to bilk. 😁

Holy crap! 😮 I was like what's this $300 item he's talking about? Then I realized you were talking about the above toy which I thought was only maybe $15-20 and I thought I was being generous with that estimation. What drugs were they taking and in what vast quantities?

Yeah, pretty positive they'll make him. Aside from Abaddon, they're kind of lacking in the named SoH characters at the moment. IF at least has Sigi and Faf.

Even so, given that there is an official mini for him, I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility.

Indeed I have and I don't feel like I missed out on anything worthwhile. 😀

That's amazing! They must use some actual "robotechnology" in the making of this toy! 😁

LOL I didn't even notice the ejectable fists until you mentioned it. Where the heck did they pull that from? This isn't Mazinger! And this is an officially licensed toy?

That KX139 painted up like that does seem very similar to the VB-6 Konig Monster. Very nice!

More Sons of Horus stuff from Joytoy revealed during Toyfair and up for pre-order. Disappointed that they haven't done Garviel Loken yet. Hoping he's coming at some point. Another SoH praetor Tartaros pattern terminators

It's about all things WH40k. Tabletop wargaming is not really my thing, so I never played. Played a bit of space hulk way back though. The very first Dawn of War game was what got me into WH40k and I dug into the lore and such after. I liked the minis and thought about collecting them, but the size and fixed poses turned me off on the idea. The JoyToy stuff was perfect for what I wanted, though I didn't start collecting until Roboute came out which gave me the push to start. Before that, I had gotten a couple of the early McFarlane intercessors, but they just didn't do it for me when I got them in hand.

It was probably inevitable since they they were doing the space marine portion of the Leviathan box set with the new terminators, Agemman, librarian, chaplain, and sternguard. So now they're doing the other half of it with the nids. Hopefully they sell well because it's nice to have more than just SM. Yeah, the sculpts are great and I think they've done a good job of hiding the joints. The colors aren't quite right for Hive Fleet Leviathan though which is strange because normally they do a good job matching the colors to those of the official minis. The overall skin should be more pinkish. The gun shouldn't really be the same color as the skin. Not quite the right purple for the carapace either, but good enough I suppose. I expect that I will need to fix the colors when I get them.

JoyToy finally revealed their first space bugs.

Might need to thin it a bit. If I had to do it again, I would probably just thin it enough to airbrush it on as my paint brushing skills are not the best. I recently got some Citadel contrast medium and it seems to help the citadel paints flow better as well when brushing. Small are touchups like I did in my pic should be fine. Doing something like a whole strip, I'd probably use my airbrush.

Here's a pic with it partly out. It does seem pretty far forward, but not nearly as far forward as it appears to be on the toy.

Horus Heresy Space Doggos stuff announced. Contemptor: https://merch-usa.warhammer.com/collections/latest-releases/products/joytoy-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-action-figure-space-wolves-contemptor-dreadnought-with-gravis-bolt-cannon-1-18-scale-preorder?shpxid=0ef30804-28e0-402d-9815-dfb5dfcb92ae Geigor Fell-hand https://merch-usa.warhammer.com/collections/latest-releases/products/joytoy-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-action-figure-space-wolves-geigor-fell-hand-1-18-scale-preorder

Wow, that's a really nice find. Some nice art in there. That's pretty funny they actually listed gerwalk in there.

Apparently a new UM terminator chaplain is also coming. I like this one a whole lot better than the other termie chaplain JoyToy has already released.

I was wondering that too. I really hope it's darker like that. It looks better that way, imo.

Got my IF despoiler squad and a breacher with the graviton gun. They looked pretty good already, but I decided to do a bit more with them. Joytoy said it wasn't feasible to have their workers paint up all the studs and such, so I took it upon myself to do that. Painted up the studs on the armor for the despoiler marines and made my first attempt at painting a plasma pistol because it didn't look right by default. I think the extra effort makes these guys stand out more.