Thom

@wm cheng I'd counter and say I can still see a lot of detail in there. They look good. For the canopy, did you have to add material to the lower edge?

@Urashiman A Milia Army..? Yes please!

@SteveTheFish I don't think I have ever seen a VF-5000 before. Very sleek looking plane!

4 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Nice use of Las Vegas Sphere.

 

 

LOL!

It looks really good. I just hope it keeps away from too 'fanciful' situations and just keeps it real.

I liked that one! Some heavy subject matter and they dealt with it very well. I'd watch a second!

Looking forward to see this on my next weekend off. Always liked Larson as Captain Marvel and I liked the other two in WandaVision and Ms.Marvel.

Looks like next weeks viewing is going to be pretty good. The Marvels on Tue and then binging Loki S2 on Wed.

15 hours ago, Big s said:

I thought this was a sequel starring the cast from the last one with more cameos from the old cast

That's what I think it is too, though I certainly wouldn't mind the OG crew having more than ten minutes.

Getting my proton pack on! (not really, as I don't have a proton pack in real life, but you understand.)

Nice to see the cast from Afterlife in this as well and hopefully with more of a merging with original.

And after holding off for so long on doing a sequel, it looks like Murray has had a change of tune.

@Urashiman Quickly getting closer to perfection!

@derex3592 You truly have a really busy table! The black on that SR-71 looks fantastic and I would love to see that Cat's Eye moving forward. Reminds me of mine sitting so forlorn on the Shelf o'Doom...

16 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Just substitute "cones" for clowns (although in BoBF's case, it might be accurate).....

cones?

@Urashiman That VF-1 is looking great. Love the decals.

Great to see your collection growing @pengbuzz, and your plans for more!

@derex3592 The BONE sure is a sexy plane. There was a proposal in the early aughts to reengine it and turn it into a missile truck, called the B-1R (regional) Or, wait for it... BONER.😜

2 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

Makes you think maybe his fate in ROTJ wasn't that bad at all. 

Looks like it could  be a fun movie.

2 hours ago, Big s said:

Blue Thunder was pretty cool, but the theme music wasn’t nearly as epic. You gotta remember that the quality gauge of the 70’s and 80’s is one part cool concept, one part cool characters played by cool actors and one part cool vehicles and one part cool title and six parts cool music to get that perfect 10 score. 
 

 

I love the math on that!

3 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

There was a also a lot of that in season 3 of Mandalorian too. That butch former Imperial officer and especially with Bo-Katan Kryze which gives me hope that we'll see Katee Sackhoff in Filoni's STAR WARS movie 😍

I'll take more Bo Katan!

22 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Bring back Taylor

This one looks to be set about a hundred years after the last one. They have to get through 2000 more years before the Icarus shows back up.

16 hours ago, Big s said:

I kinda figured when an A-Team movie came out The Fall Guy would be soon to follow. I guess it took a little longer than I thought 

now we wait for Air Wolf the movie 

It was called Blue Thunder.😜

Seriously though, that would (could) be pretty cool.

3 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Lots of movie trailers today. This one came out of nowhere but looks fun.

 

 

This does look like it will be a lot of fun.

9 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

I had collected all of those 12th scale figure kits by Imai but I sold them all at Book Off a year or so ago because I realized that I would never get around to ever building them. Proportions aren't very good, the hair looks a bit flat, etc. Hikaru's supposed to have messy cowlick hair but the figure's hair looks pretty tame. 

I did keep my Bandai Macross Girl. The actual kit doesn't look as nice as the box art, but it's alright, I guess. It's made from that heavy, solid ABS plastic that those early '80s Tsukuda figure kits came in. It's not styrene. Plus it came with stickers. I scanned the sticker sheet and printed them onto clear laser printer decal paper. The engine bells on the fast pack are solid, so instead of trying to hollow them out with my router and make a mess of them, I think I'll just cut them off and use some replacements from Kotobukiya's Modeling Support Goods line.

You can see an unboxing of this kit on my Tumblr feed here:
https://stevethefishdotnet.tumblr.com/post/166390759684/bandai-112-macross-valkyrie-lady-plamo-unboxing

Have you thought about getting a 1/12 scale generic female figure and using that as a base for the kit parts? You'd definitely have to cut up the kit to separate the mech portions, but it could give it some more realistic proportions and make it posable.

There were other beings in the room too who saw Han being carbfroze. All they have to do is tell a few tales to the right people and then everyone would be using it. Heck, even Vader could have taken ownership of the idea and profited off of it.

Some great improvements on that cockpit, @Urashiman.

@wm cheng Those figs do look good, and can't wait to see the VT-1 taking shape. As for superglue (CA) as filler, I've used it successfully to erase panel lines and even redo the entire wing join on a Do335. I messed up when adding it and had a really bad seam. This is after CA, sanding smooth and then scribing a new seam line.

For my SM.79, I encountered a problem. The back half of the hump on the back, can be opened to allow the gunner to move about and return fire. However, this kit only has it modelled open, and the parts suit that.

The two pieces still on the sprue are for the very rear of the hump, and can be added closed up or folded out

BUT, there is no piece for the middle section that folds forward and inside. Or I should say it does have that piece, but not another piece to model that areas closed, which leaves a big gap. And since (before realizing that) I had decided to make the plane all closed up, I  left out a lot of the interior detail inn the middle fuselage. So leaving it open is not an option. There is only one other kit of the Sparviero in 1/72 and that's the old Airfix kit. It's a lot more simple on detail compared to the Italeri kit, but it actually has open/closed options for the upper hump. However, I do not have that kit and I don't feel like spending $20 minimum for a kit that I'd only use one part from.

I do though, have a lot of stryene strip! I cut that part off of the model to work on it and started laying down the styrene.

I'll let that dry, 'painting' CA onto the inside for strength, and then again on the outside before I sand it all smooth and then add the panel lines and such.

Thom

13 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Since I bought the Max Factory Valkyrie Fighter VF-1A that only comes with stupid stickers by mistake (I actually didn't expect them to do something so stupid), if anyone here has purchased the new version with decals, could I ask a big favor? All I need is just a scan of the order form that shows the prices of replacement parts, decals, etc. Of course it'll be in moon runes, but it should be pretty apparent what it is. I just need a scan of that order form and I'll be able to print it out, send it to Max Factory and pay for the decals that they should have included with this kit initially. Let me know! Thanks.

Could you contact Max Factory and see about procuring a sheet direct? Or there are aftermarket decals available for the Hasegawa model.

@wm cheng No, that's the decals from the kit.I had to cut them up some in order to use them on the D-version control panel, seeing as the decals are for the A-version Puking Dogs scheme. But no PE or 3D set was used. They bedded down wonderfully.

As for the seats, I was going forward with the kit ones before decided to change them and, at the time, I was doing this in a GB so there was a time constraint and I didn't want to wait for resin seat so show up. So I took a set from a Revell FA-18F and started to combine them with the kit seats. And then I ran out of time and ended up putting the kit aside anyway.

As to the quality of the kit, I have no experience with the other manufacturers, but found the Academy kit to go together very well. I'd rather buy another one of these (and have) because it has a good amount of detail without being overly gimmicky and it is a little cheaper. Or was, at least when I bought it last.😁

@derex3592 Academy does a really nice F-14. I haven't finished mine, but its a good kit so far. I 'splurged' and got some resin intakes though, rather than deal with the seams in there.

And the seat, on the Puking Dogs boxing, needed some work.

Before I get back to it, I may get some resin seats to replace those.

Current build though, and the internals are painted and loaded up.

There may be some seam work to take care of...

But that'll be after the upper panels are added and the glue has set.

Thom