Mommar

You know you could always go for the 19S/F... and if you aren't a fan of the stubby wings the P. That way you get the awesome engineering without all of that red.

I guess Bigger Johnson is out of the question then?

Hey Man, have you had a chance to check this game out yet? I just downloaded it after work/daily exercise routine and it's a real charmer. I've caught myself sitting grinning like a moron the whole time I've played it. Also, the painting in the background of your room is a nice touch... obviously this guy likes The Legend of Zelda.

Why not? I like both and have stated as much.

Other then a few of us who can't find one of these things being irked at someone having more than one I don't see why a Skull Leader color scheme would offend anybody.

Wow, somebody has got an axe to grind. The Hi-Metal is no more or less flawed then a v2. It's got it's ups and it's got it's downs. A big one in my estimation is that the Yammie looks good in all three modes. I do not believe the Fighter or Gerwalk (anemic as far as pose-ability is concerned) are any good on the Hi-Metal, the wings are weird and floppy too and the missiles don't hold on nearly as well. Battroid mode is easier to pose and the shoulders are a good design on the hi-metal (plus the hip implementation is cool though I question how well it would work in a larger scale) but the feet on those little metal ball rotators can become EXTREMELY loose (my Hikaru hangs on by a thread.) I COULD put nail polish on it but then... that's a fan fix, like the shoulders (of which I have had zero break, even on my original Hikaru DYRL VF-1A) so that's not perfect. They're both good in different ways. I tend to pose and repose the hi-metals in battroid more. I actually have Yammies in Fighter and Gerwalk. Like whichever one you like but be realistic about the pros and cons.

"Updates to classic franchises? Fist of the North Star got 3 movies, 2 OVAs and a tv series about Raoh. City Hunter got a direct sequel (Angel Heart) as did Captain Harlock (Endless Odessey) and Cobra (2 OVA’s and one TV series). Not to mention the Golgo 13 tv series or the terrific Cyborg 009-1 spin-off series. Votoms also got at least 2 OVA’s and Yamato actually got a fully-fledged sequel with Yamato Ressurection. Evangelion also got the first 2 rebuild movies. Oh and Towards the Terra received an excellent update in the form of a new TV series that outdoes (imo) the old theatrical version." So what you're saying is that Macross should get a remake?

I'm beginning to wonder if the reason we haven't heard about a Michael or Luca yet is because somebody realized that they either need to spend money on new molds to fix that issue or they just decided to forget it because those two aren't as popular and it will look like crap to paint them so why worry?

Hmm.... super packs for my Max 1J would be cool to have.

I don't have a problem with the way the F-35 looks. Then again I don't intend to see anything called "Top Gun 2" anyway so it doesn't matter.

Good Lord, where would one have space to store something that massive!?

I looked through several of wm chengs build ups but most of what he showed required you already understood what he was talking about. In addition, isn't the plastic on the model kits different from the plastic on the 1/60 Yamatos? Besides, if we get the input from several different people we also learn about different techniques/styles from each other. Not just the newbie people but people with experience could get ideas for different techniques to try out if they wanted to.

Here's the rub really. Two guys above you say it's not that bad. I am in your camp... cannot watch it. I'll gladly keep buying these 17's if they'll keep making them though. Hell, I don't even own an 11B. I prefer the way the 11C's from 7 look more (minus the gun pods.) Now that I think about it I don't own a 21 either, they're all 22's from 7.

Hi guys, I dug around the forum but had a hard time finding anything. I recently came into acquisition of an extra VF-1S TV Roy (because the first one i had ordered for a friend was broken so it's still laying here.) I've yet to fix the broken part, which affects Fighter mode zero and is only a minor issue in Gerwalk and Battroid (still would not be fit as a gift in it's broken state though.) I was thinking I'd try my hand as a complete newb to paint this thing but... I don't know what I'm doing. Knowing what type of paints (hand,spray,whatever) work on what types of plastics is confusing. To say nothing of masking/priming/whatever. And clear coats or whatever else might be used to seal/finish/gloss/yadda. I thought it might be useful to have a pinned thread with lists for this type of stuff just for new people to get started. The different toys, their plastics types, what paints adhere to their surfaces, etc... I thought about this after Benson posted his first few questions about painting side side and intake covers, then I started looking at this body of this thing and I realized I didn't have a damn clue.

Such an interesting/cool design. The P-38 has been one of my favorites my entire life. How far are you going to take this model? Textures? Are you going to beef it up with more polys?

Every single pre-order has sold out...

The Hi-Metals in Battroid are easily more pose-able then the V2's are. The V2 hips alone are geriatric (like my horrible, horrible back) by comparison.

Sorry, I couldn't get pictures taken. I injured my back Friday morning and it's been a long fun weekend alternating between twenty minutes laying on ice and twenty minutes standing completely straight.

I guess you could say the difference is the influence of the productions. The "nightcore" stuff is obviously influenced by Trance production techniques, just sped up to a ridiculous degree. The older Happy Hardcore is influenced by early house and drum n bass (the hats mostly) productions from the early 90's.

I'll try to make some time tomorrow to take a few pics of my 1J Hikaru and Max's for you.

I've always found that extra bit with the A's head laser having to move for the landing gear to come down was pretty silly. The J and S don't have that issue but why make one that requires that extra bit of engineering when landing... especially when it's the Cannon Fodder version too. It would make more sense to have a J model with a single laser if you really had to differentiate.

I kinda get sick of these reused sounds with new labels. Nightcore IS Happy Hardcore. Pretty much inside and out. It's just like when all those kids in the early 2000's were into "psy-trance" which was really just Goa from back in the early 90's. Also, that eye of the tiger track was easily more endearing then noise that is most Dub Step.

Or it could be a great vehicle to explore other "human" relationships in the same world with some action tossed in. It depends on the writing and the subject, not the general setting.

I guess it would be more fair to say Macross isn't in the place that you would ideally want it to be. To me the SDFM is the best for several reasons. While Hikaru was stupid and immature... aren't we all when we're young. I never really thought of him as whiny. And how many of us knew a good looking, popular girl who was just a little too spoiled and little too immature like Minmay? And once you finally grow up and sort yourself out how many of us have learned to appreciate someone more like Misa, someone who behaves like a woman instead of a child? I think the characters, while still caricatures, were realistic from a universal perspective. The later series had characters that were, for lack of a better term, too Japanese. They were what has grown out of the Japanese anime culture which I feel is unrealistic and stupid for everyone. So in terms of character I think the later Macross miss the mark. Plus... still had some of it but I'll get to why it wasn't nearly as good in a minute. In terms of gravitas they all lose to the original. Genocide of humanity, the complete loss of the human race versus... losing a few colonies, or in the case of Plus Guld (I'm ignoring the AI taking over SDF-1 thing because that felt shoe-horned, stupid and completely unnecessary to the plot.) Macross 7 and Frontier had no real consequences. Hell, even the principal heroes of SDFM eventually befell the fate that almost happened to the Mac 7 and Frontier cast so it's established in canon that losing colonies means nothing. You lose a colony, you send out another ship. It worked for the British West Indian Company, why not earth? Other then maybe liking the characters and not wanting them to die losing the conflict meant nothing. In SDFM the world was destroyed. Even in their victory it was almost complete annihilation. You can't beat that... well, ironically Robotech revisited that devastation of Humanity which maintained the gravity but lost everything else, including the animation. The argument is that each story covered a different topic and annihilation may not be important. Frontier is about privatization of military forces... but it ended with an emo whiny kid blinking off into the aether with super crab lady after flying in with his "super plane." Mac 7 had a guy flying a plane with a guitar and firing speakers at his enemies. SDFM was animation but it was adult. Mac7 and Frontier were cartoons by comparison. Plus... had potential to be a very personal, tragic story but ended with a silly AI controlling a giant super powered space cruiser. It became silly fanboy masturbation fantasy. What if one Valkyrie went up against the SDF-1??? I don't care, it's a bad idea. Isamu should have been forced to kill Guld and he should have been kicked out of the UN Spacy for it. Then his minor reappearance in Frontier as a member of a private security force would have at least shown us he hadn't given up or there was life for him afterwards rather then... hey, here's that older guy you used to like! *wink wink* In my last point everyone's involvement was important. Nobody in SDFM had a "super" fighter different from anyone else. The final battle wasn't one by one person. Even as good as Max and Milia were, it took everyone. The SDF-1. The Zentraedi who switch their allegiance. The non-violent like Minmay contributed in their own way. There was still unified fronts in Mac7 and Frontier but they came down to "chosen one" type characters which was silly and not like SDFM. Plus does not apply here because it was a different sort of story, which I commend, I feel it should have been about the tragedy of two talented men in a broken relationship falling from grace... not a battle with AI controlled toys.

It seems more like a medieval crest on armor than "dark and edgy" to me.