electric indigo

I'm not too crazy about the box art, but seeing those art books, I know I've gotta have it. So I'm glad I've got it pre-ordered with Amazon. The Mave looks pretty cool too. It's got the weapons loadout from its final battle, including the laser weapon

And it's 1/200 scale... kinda makes me wonder if it's based on Omo Ore Toys' ill-fated Yukikaze model project. They had prototypes of just about everything in 1/200 scale.

I wonder if they ended up at Alter

Hmm, the Platz kits have been postponed to Jan. 18th, instead of, like, August, which gives me some hope they might make it this time.

-i-

Why is Ozma so surprised to see Ranka at the concert? It was him who got her in there, wasn't it? (Note that he uses the skull as his avatar on the FrogPhone)

Wow everbody went into turbo mode in the holidays.

Reconnaissance VF-171

I think you should lengthen the nose a bit while you're at it.

Oh, the inanity.

The best part about this is that I didn't receive this in my email, but I received an email bounce from the route chosen which included this as a nested attachment. I nearly nuked this message as things went...

Same here with the bounce probe thing. They surely messed up their system for good.

BTW does the figure have two heads? I notice that the eyes look in different directions in the closeup photos.

(...)Second, unfortunately, we need to apologize profusely for an stupid clerical error on our part that occurred over the weekend which resulted in our mistakenly canceling most of the orders on file for the "Comic Gunnm Side Story w/Figure" (http://www.hlj.com/product/SYU08061). The message you received about our being unable to fill your order for this item was completely mistaken, and sent in error. (...) This is the first time an error like this has ever happened and we hope it's the last. Fortunately, it was not caused by a systemic or computer problem, but by a string of multiple human errors that we believe will be hard to repeat.

Somebody obviously had his head cut off at HLJ

If you're not afraid of paint, go for the Medicom toy

I still have hope for a proper toy/kit.

Are there additional street scenes in the workprint that didn't make it into the Final Cut?

Same here. So far for pre-ordering...

Hobbysearch has pic of the Hellhound up >clicky<

Surface detail is not too great, and I think they did a rather boring paintjob on the demo kit.

here's my workbench-warmer

i'm building it to look like a Leopard2A6, so far only the head looks the part

hmmm... Swedish Rex

Wow.

What's the thingy hovering behing the Rex (not the chainsaw skull)?

I wonder why the woman explodes though?

I wonder why the city explodes. Collateral damage from the military's actions?

Found it: http://www.themist-movie.com/

directed by Frank Darabond (The Green Mile), so I will keep an eye on it.

I wonder if Cloverfield will go Blair Witch all the way, i.e. everything we get is the handheld tape, nothing is explained, everybody dies.

Better stock up on Aspirin.

There was a Stephen King short story in which a milityary project ripped open a door to another dimension, and in came not one big specific monster, but a whole wildlife of mean creatures. So we can have city-crushing giants and people-bursters and other nasty stuff from all directions.

The pilots that came with the old 1/72 Hasegawa Shinmeiwa seaplane were so small that they fit nicely in a 1/100 plane. But I don't know if they were common in other old Hase kits.

-i-

edit: I just noted that this set has two seated pilots (kinda)

WAVE's 1/24 Armsuit, March release:

http://www.hlj.com/product/WAVKK-26

Appleseed impressed me since it was the first manga (along with Akira) that I bought. I went crazy over all the mechanic design, but once I tried to get into the story, there were many shortcomings. IMO Shirow failed three times, in Black Magic, Appleseed, and GITS, when he tried to paint a big picture and lost himself in police routine or his attempts at humor, with the political plots never really working out, let alone the philosophical debate. The conspiracies are so over-contrived that you feel constantly pulled at a nose ring by the author, and the abundance of his smartass comments doesn't make it any better.

I see the first Appleseed movie the same way: The 3D CG action is terrific, but don't waste too much attention to the plot.

The first GITS movie managed to pull all the good stuff from the comic and turn it into another great Mamoru Oshii movie. BTW I recently purchased the GITS 1.5 Human-Error Processor comic collection and was surprised how much elements from there went into the movie.

Oh and here's the link to the new Appleseed movie site:

http://www.exmachina.jp/

Check the wallpapers!

-i-

PS on the subject of CG in animation: Say what you want about Yukikaze, but IMO it is a good example how to blend the CG objects with the traditional animation look.

What do you think of the new movie?

http://www.exmachina.jp/

I use a double action AB only for transparent paints, where I need good control over the layer thickness. Everything else is done with my trusty single action Badger 150.

Do any of the art books contain 3 view drawings of the Mave?

How about this: http://www.platz-hobby.com/image/air/ssy/mave4.jpg

The book from the DVD does not have 3 view drawings but a small walkaround section.

Does the Blue & Purpre book have more detailed drawings of the Flip Knight version? I'm thinking of scratch building something...

Cyber Formula, Crusher Joe Minerva, Appleseed, Patlabor, another Garland - what other overpriced toys could you want for the next year?

http://ga.sbcr.jp/mreport/008075/

I wonder if the production design collection is the same as the "Blue & Purpre" artbook.

Where did you comandeer the landing gear?you put a shroud/radar on.. LOOks good...

The back landing gear is the one from the kit, front is from Bandai's Falken, the wheels are from the 1/100 Rafe/Mave EX kits. I usually build my planes gear up, but the helos sit nicely on the ground.

-i-

Jigabachi is finished

Aww, where's my jawbone...?

The "eye" looks totally fantastic, along with the rest.