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mslz22 did the 1/72 Monster kit, he was discussing a second run of them, if you find the old thread it should be at the tail end. With the rise in the cost of materials i belive the expectation was for there is be a rise in the price. I will say though that if you are in the market and these become available you should buy one, even at that price they were a bargain. It's bigger and weighs more than my sister's dog. Quite an impressive kit. I'm kicking myself for not buying two, if they come out again, unless I don't have the means I'll be picking up a second kit.

That looks incredible as you have it pictured. I think that people who haven't been following your build would be amazed if you showed a common object in the picture with the finished product to get a size of scale, that's such a fantastic piece, one of the best scratch builds I've seen on the internet. Thanks for posting and sharing your build.

Looks great, also looks like I rubbed someone the wrong way a couple years ago Congrats on the finished product looks pretty rad, I'm jealous

I've read a couple of the novels by Doyle, and I know that Holmes isn't supposed to be a wallflower, quite to the contrary, but you'd have to see the trailer to understand where I'm coming from I guess. It doesn't feel at all like a Sherlock Holmes movie from the trailer to me, it looked like Simon & Simon go to England and learn to be ultimate fighters.

ROFL, have you guys seen the trailers for the Sherlock Holmes action combat movie starring Robert Downey jr.? I hope that trailer was misrepresentative of the contents of the film but I don't think it will be, they were bouncing back and forth between Sherlock Holmes being goofy and aloof, to slow motion, big sound, clips of a bare chested, bare knuckle boxing match where he looked like a raging beast. Seriously, it looked like a spoof trailer, or at the end it was going to be titled "Action Holmes, He'll blow your mind, and kick your butt!"

Don't forget that this is a foreign language message board based upon an animated series originating a quarter of a century ago. I'd be surprised if any of "them", whoever you are referring to, were interested enough to ferret out all of the message boards around the world that deal with this stuff. I think we already know that the merchandising licensees are aware of these forums for all the wrong reasons.

Interesting, I wonder if the creator has been selling some kits through a hobby shop, your location says you are in Canada. Does the shop have a website and did they offer any other Macross kits by a certain kit maker?

I fully expect that in T5 at some point Skynet will be hacked by young John Connor in a flashback to write code that gives it a hidden "Robocop directive" that Skyney cannot shoot or crush John Connor, so it has to keep throwing him out of frustration in all of the movies.

Got my PM, made my deposit.

I didn't despise it, I think it could have been a fantastic movie if they would have spent some time refining the dialog to make it not nearly as cheesy and to alter some of the rediculously unessecary and just plain assisnine stuff at the end. The robots and design elements and the gritty film quailty were awesome. Oh, Why the hell were the t-600's wearing ratty clothes? They didn't look like they had the range of motion to put on a shirt, were they supposed to look like scary hobos?

One of the big complaints from true modelers and accuracy addicts is that transformation kits historically have had to sacrifice line art accuracy to make up for anime-magic that occurs in the transformation process, shape changing chest plates, shrinking verniers and thrusters, swing bars, floating joints etc, etc, etc. So having a nearly perfectly detailed static model is much more pleasing to some than having what amounts to a fragile, inaccurate toy that takes many many hours worth of work to complete for a substandard looking end result. PS. I'm hoping that these are going to be essentially Macross PG Kits.

I was betting there would be a laugh to come about how many paypal deposits he got at 12:01am on the 25th I guess I can cancel my calendar alarm (or can I )

Worst case scenario you hit a gold mine and can sell a million of these right But seriously what are you gonna do if actual initial, cash in hand, demand outstrips your inital planned run size? Is the number of spots based on the expected life of the molds? PS: And I normally pay by money order because I was under the impression that you preferred that method to avoid un-necessary fees and such, for the deposit I guess paypal is the method you'd prefer this time?

I'm not making any promises about time frames because my kit queue has gotten way out of control (Wonderfest didn't help) but I've picked up a pretty nice set of resin kits. As I work on em I'll post updates to this thread, but it may be a while. I don't have all of the scales but I've picked up the Howling Wolf raider, I think it is around 1/24th scale. I have a copy of that large scale Raptor kit that John helps master/cast interiors for, a Frank &Moes Mk II viper, which if memory serves is a little closer to 1/20th than 1/24 and a Mk7 and cylon raider in 1/72. I snagged Timeslips NuBSG Galactica kit at Wonderfest as well. If you are interested in tracking down kits I got most of these in the last few months so I can put you on the right track if they are still available.

Cool I'm packing my bag right now to head out in the morning, I'm pretty excited about the con!

I'm in!! I want one! I hope my not checking the boards for two days didn't cause me to miss out. Eeek! And if you fall short an order or two I'll take a second one to help make the run happen. Deposit ready to go.

I'm playing Valkyria Chronicles right now, wow this game is extremly fun, I'm glad i checked this thread and overcame my reluctance to buy it. When i saw the ads I was sure I would dig it, but for some reason I just couldn't pull the trigger, boy am I glad I did. I wonder what the odds are of some Gallian Chronicles model kits coming out, I would really like to build a model of the Edelweiss. I did a quick search all I could find was a few trading figures. With the anime out / coming out has anyone heard anything?

What city are you from, in the event that a Macross auction pops up and is in the right general area of the country?

I don't want to speak out of turn because i've never been before, this will be my first time, but everything I've read leads me to believe that this is a con aimed at a little older and more specific crowd than your general sci-fi comic book conventions. It's supposed to be Science Fiction Model focussed, less about actors and more about model prop builders and behind the scenes people. It's going to be a enw experience, I'm looking forward to it. I think Klywell and HWR MkII have been there before and can speak to their expereinces with with what it's like.

I'm really happy with the new The Prodigy album that came out last week, borrowed it from a friend because I wasn't sure if they still had any gas in the tank, my copy should be at the house tonight. The new Isis record is out in a week, I'm looking forward to that and the new record by Big Business the week after. Slayer is in the studio as well

They've been pretty good about shootnig the shows they way they want, editting for TV and then releasing the full episodes on DVD with BSG, I expect the same from Caprica. I was pleasantly surprised by the pilot/movie and I look forward to tuning into the show.

I'll tell you why I was, because the initial teaser that they showed for Caprica, had no sciene fictiony elements to it at all, it showed Eric Stultz(Spelling sorry) wading through a teen night club and he was asking questions about a missing daughter and something about teen sex party. The end. It looked like CSI- meets 90210 on what we are told is Caprica, there just wasn't a hook in the teaser that looked a little interesting. Now with the actual trailer commercial available I was corrected and will give it a try, but with the Sci Fi Channel bluntly denouncing the Sci Fi Genre as being too limitting, I expected the worst at the time.

Thanks for the review, I had seen this thread last year and was anxious to see a painted verion of The Maxx I'll have to look around, I missed out on the MacFarlane version and need something to go with my comic collection

I got shipping confirmation from Amazon last Friday that they had mailed my copy of Caprica, I've got a half dozen people lined up to watch it with me / borrow it, I'm a little surprised how many of my friends are anxious to watch it, a lot of people, myself included were poo-pooing it when we saw the first teaser.

It was either the Chicago tribune articles series or on the Sci Fi Boards where Moore was responding, but I believe I read that they were waiting to air it on television until shortly before the first season is prepared to air, because they didn't want to repeat the mistake of airing the pilot/movie months before the series and allowing people to forget / disregar the show because of the big break. I'd suspect the early DVD release is just intended to cash in on the acclaim for BSG and the fact that the fanbase was left wanting more and will likley snatch it up When is The Plan supposed to air?