electric indigo

For those not familiar with the old school kits, Hobbysearch has photos up where you can see what to expect in terms of seamlines: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10129345b/30/1

Here's a small, but clearer pic - the kit is loaded with details! http://happy.ap.teacup.com/runchickens/img/1287025885.jpg

So can we add to the definition that "Mecha" has an internal or external power source for movement (not counting human muscular activity)? Anything without this is just a "mecha prop".

Here's the full magazine page. Can anybody translate what they say about the tooling?

I'd prefer a non-transforming, affordable (fighter) kit, thank you. And the nose/canopy looks totally off.

I just watched "White Tulip" guest starring Peter Weller, and it was the most brilliant story not directly involving the "other side" ever! The series gets better and better. And Weller looks spooky effortlessly.

According to HLJ, the kit has 21 new parts. Some will go to the two new heads, but what else is different on the DYRL planes? I thought you already could build the movie version with the previous kit.

What's all the red pattern printed on the surface?

New Rose Hotel A solid short story written by William Gibson, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken as the leads - it took the unleashed creativity of Abel Ferrara to turn this powerful premise into a painful bore-fest.

I think the engine detail is the same as on the large kit. I can take a picture of it tomorrow. I put up some more pics, click on the photo to get to the album.

Yes, that's the 1/144 Falcon; it's only a tad larger than an A5 size paper. Perfect for limited display space, but with all the details. Fine Molds really set the mark for IP SF kits with this release. (and I deliberately photographed it to look small, using a higher focal length)

Just need to decide if I make a "landed" or "flying" display.

New pictures of the Alter toys: Now that is a really impressive set of extras.

Not so long ago in a Galaxy not so far away...

Just got the shipping note from HLJ. And that box art is just epic!

The Tamiya, Revell und Testors YF-23s are reboxed versions of the Italeri kit. There seems to be another kit made by Dragon. The Italeri model is fairly accurate in shape, but to me the bigger issue are the raised panel lines and the sparse surface details. This is a nice kit, but unfortunately still in limbo.

Oh yes. The Force is strong with this one.

Feels like a ride in the time machine

It's really a crime that Moebius Models didn't let you work on their master. Their new kit has an impressive size, but the engineering is totally last century - look at the detail pics.

A very interesting analysis, but I don't think it works further than the "striking similarities" that Nolan draws to the film making process. If you follow the analogies, what would be the significance of "The Money"(Saito) being shot and dieing, to name just one example. "Blade Runner" was described as a layer cake by Scott, with lots of different aspects worked in instead of one key "solution"; the same description would fit "Inception", too. - I don't remember if it was explained clearly in the movie, but how do you get out of the Limbo? If Saito and Cobb don't get a kick, do they have to commit suicide? Does Saito just shoot Cobb and propels him into his dream again, where he sees the kids?

Looks like Pan's Labyrinth is raided by Charlie's Angels. So Snyder finally joined the popcorn-flick fraction?

The Alter flip knight kinda torpedoes my plans to make a conversion from the Bandai Rafe. But at least I have a defined color scheme now.

Tornado is on the way