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I can't bring myself to. It's one thing to pay shipping costs and tarrif cost... it is entirely another to also have to pay hlj the same cost + some in handeling fees. My breakdown is something like: $65 fedex shipping $44 tarrifs $112 handeling fees It be one think of my warehouse was older than 1-2months old where I could understand it a little better. I think my oldest item is 2.5 weeks.

Milia is onsale an restocked at hlj! https://www.hlj.com/macross-do-you-remember-love-milia-639-hsg65892

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Not much time this day as finishing up other project before winter hits. Visiting the backlog and pulled out on a whim. Feels good to finally be making progress on this old gal.

The lines you see on the close up of the underside barely can be felt with a finger nail. It is mostly visible because of the way the printer finish. 2 coats of MR. Surfacer 500 and you likely won't see 80% of the texture. Add in a pre-sand and post sanding and it should be cake walk, I use a small 400g sanding sponge attached to a vibrating tool to make most of the sanding rough work.

Based the size roughly from a data sheet comparison with all the calks scaled next to eachother. The measured of the Hasegawa VF-19A and had my friend printed it at 15.5" (nose tip to foot.) 1/48(ish) Will be a test bed for plastic type, painting and how it reacts to traditional modeling. If all is well, I've got a Lucifer and Durandal ready to go to the printer too!

Glad to see how this turned out! Minmay looks great! What Misa figure is that?

Pretty happy with how quickly I got the base kit together! I think I can re-break down and process the parts individually. Focus now on blending the individual kit' styles together. MS Mixing recipie: Robot Damashi torso/arms/binders Studio Reckless head/shoulder/skirts HGUC backpack/verniers RG Gp01 legs and feet The base is Bandai's 'new' 1/100 kit base. To adapt to the damashii connection point I simply used on the the included hex/allen bit tools and glued the head to the bases's arm. I really like these cheap action bases. They look really clean and I see tons of used outside of Bandai. Should easily support a 1/72 valk and not too pricey either!

What retailers in North America are carrying Milla? Only place I can find is even is AmiAmi japan. All the usual places I get Hase kits seemed to skip over the resin.

Finally got the courage to tackle one of the oldest kits in my backlog (16+ years) and also a "holy grail." It probably tje last time I ever build 1/144 again. A Studio Reckless X RC Berg Gp03s Stamen from Gundam 0083! It wasn't for a lack of trying though... this kit, despite being an original, is really, really small and very rough even by 2010 resin kit standards. The majority of the parts have warped as the armor is so thin it is see through despite being opaque resin. The box, decals and manual were damaged in a hurricane years ago making the puzzle even more fun to put together. All the pinning is so far done with a 1/32" drillbit and brass rod. I thought to mix this with [at the time the only] HGUC kit. Now I'm considering either using the Robot Damashii ver.ANIME figure or the RG GP01 Bandai model kits i mainly needed joints to ultimately place it into flying pose, ejecting from the HGUC Dendrobium. Lowkey feels good to have resin in hand again.

Prime 1 Stuido

Taking a break and remodeling the 25 year old PG for the 30th anniversary. Already did the Katoki styling so this one I'm using the HiRM as inspiration.