derex3592
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, ever since 2020, ANYTHING as complex and needing to be made to the exacting standards as these high-end toys have to be made to, being made overseas, is going to be a total crapshoot as to whether or not they are assembled in a "good" factory and assembled "correctly". It wouldn't really surprise me if we don't start seeing quality across the board go back up until at least 2025. I hope I'm wrong, but so far the 31AX tells me I'm not. And yes, I have this and the Max 29 pre-ordered, so I'm in the fingers crossed crowd around here as well!
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The Titanic and I HAVEN'T gone down with the ship!! LOL..May has been just the very definition of insane with work and home life. Anywhooo...I have some cool WINS to report...1st off.. the 1st warped POS deck is DOWN and almost completely flat (only it's really slightly curved as the ship is actually curved from bow to stern) I weighted each section down as I went with some of granddads old 22 ammo boxes and just worked my way along the length of the ship with CA glue. It's on so whatever, few spots to putty up but not tooo bad all things considered! Today I got the 1st side wall of the prominade deck on and used big fat rubber bands and did the same method of working my way down the ship length wise. I also had my 1st encounter with a photoetch stair case! FUN! ... or not in 1/350 scale, however you wanna look at it. Bending the rails, no problem, easy with my PE bending tool, bending the steps at this scale???...yeeeeh...Whatever, the 1st two are painted and installed. Tomorrow I'm going for the other prominade side wall! Stay tuned!
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NOPE!!! Sorry Bandai. No sale at that price. Already have the Arcadia. Wanna support the HM-R line but Mac Zero is one of my least favorites, so can't justify that price.
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LOOKS WICKED AWESOME!!
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@Benson13 EPIC START!!! Loving the dark grey paint!
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I'll echo @Sildani's sentiment, I had a blast. Ours was a smaller theater probably about 50-person capacity, and I'd say it was about half full. My wife had never seen this movie, my brother in law is a huge Trek fan and he had never seen it on the big screen, nor had I or my father in law. The 10 minute intro with the SFX team about the models was great! As an avid modeler, I really enjoyed that! This movie isn't for everyone, and I understand the dislike for it, not one phaser firing!!! Haha! That being said, I never really liked it or disliked it, it was basically a Star Trek movie that you saw on cable on Sunday afternoon as a teenager and thought, yeh ok, I'll watch that one again. Now that I'm older, it really IS a love letter from the SFX model builders to Star Trek. My GOD the models in this were just breathtaking on the big screen. I know they did use CGI in this new version intermixed with the original all be it cleaned up SFX shots, but the entire experience is still quite moving on a large format screen. The sound and picture at our theater was perfect. Surround was on, subs were ON, musical soundtrack and dialog were well balanced and not overbearing. The picture was amazing. Looked like a brand new movie apart from some of the bridge shots especially in the wormhole sequence, but it is what it is. 10/10 for quality and the restoration of the original. New shots of the VGER ship were brief, but welcome! Already got our tickets for KAHN in September!!! Load photon torpedoes!
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
derex3592 replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
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Outstanding news!
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@Shawn - Going this afternoon with the wife/ brother-in law and father in law! I'll report back tonight!
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@arbit I think the glasses and everything else about Max looks BADA**!
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RIP Fred! Thanks for the laughs!
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Those look GREAT!
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I'm all in! Just let me know payment details!
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Love that Low-Vis grey! Great job!!!
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@Thom @arbit - you know.....I have the Bandai 1/500 in the closet...I need to tackle that sucker after the current project! @MechTech I vote painted and weathered to match the plane!
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PRE-ORDERED from Kappa Hobby. $225 Free shipping and no tax to TX. Can't beat that! LOVING WWM Macross releases so far!
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The fruits of my labor yesterday....Most complete mockup pics to date...A better man might light each single deck, but at this scale...I don't have the skill to do it. 1/200 would be another story. Each of the upper decks will get SOME light now though, and in the end I think it will be fine. Still a million things to do, but starting to feel slightly better about this whole endeavor! (saying that quietly, don't want to jinx myself)....
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
derex3592 replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I NEVER put that together!!! But in my defense, Boy Meets World was a little past my time. -
Noooo......I NEVER did that with the Best OR Service Merchandise OR Toys R Us OR OR OR.... bunch of OLD farts around here I swear..oh wait..
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@pengbuzzThe old Enterprise and Rickaru are look GREAT! SDF-1 never gets old that BIG! Great mods to that! Titanic UPDATE - Actual REAL progress today - Step 1 - Mark lines for additional spaces to cut for lighting to shine up. Step 2 - Drill guide holes using micro drill - Step 3 - Carefully cut out new holes using hot knife. BAM! Lots of new spaces for LED lights in hull to shine up through. Tomorrow... final small upper deck light blocking and more coloring of planks..UHHHGGGG. SOooo sick of doing that! ONWARD!
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Plug in gear like HMR's would be fine IMHO.
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Jurassic World Dominion (Jurassic World 3)
derex3592 replied to sh9000's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
My eardrums hurt from just thinking about this in a Dolby Cinema... -
no MAN is/was perfectly acceptable grammar in this instance.