Ghadrack

I completely misread your post, sorry I was taking a jab at myself on the "standard" units of measure.

I suspect you've got the heathen thing backwards I was going to post both standard and metric but since I was guessing there wasn't any reason to be that specific. "A foot" is pretty universally understood right? I'd like to think that most Americans can tell you the rough equivalent of a Meter, at least in terms of a few of the generic measurements.. It will be interesting to see if this is just dipping a toe into the pool or if Hasgawa has plans to jump into the 1/48th scale market, they may be willing to tackle the VF-1 Two Seaters where Yamato did not, that would be kinda nice. I might consider ditching some of my Yammies if Hasegawa did some great model representations.

I picked up a copy of the 1/48 resin kit that was around several years ago, it's actually on my art desk now partially assembled. I am at the office but I would guess that th 1/48 is a little over a foot long. it is a pretty nice size, not tooooooo big, but definitely not a little thing

I intend to read up on the display / contest end of things, I have never been to the con, most of the ones i have been to in recent yeas have had no real model contests so i don't have any idead what the process or competitions look like. I was really just planning to be a spectator this year and scope it out. I have finished a couple Moscato kits this year though so I might change my mind. And it's in Loisville kentucky may 16 and 17, here's a link to their site http://www.wonderfest.com/flyer.html

I've seen discussions in the past about Wonderfest, I'm shying away from the big cons this year and thoughts I'd check this one out. Anyone else going this year? I don't really know what to expect, this seems to be a much more focussed con than the ones I have gone to over the past few decades, like Dragon Con, which is awesome but it is just total chaos. Anyone got any tidbits of advice to share? My vacation is blocked off and my room is booked, I just received my 2 of my Bandai Frontier kits in the mail this week too Hooray!

This seems like as good a thread as any. Has there been any rumor or serious discussion of "Perfect Grade" style Macross Frontier Kits? I would be extremely excited about a PG version of any of these kits.

Thanks, I'll have to check it out!

Do you have a link to "MMC" or the contest, I'm not familiar with it and you've piqued my curiousity.

My pilots arrived yesterday, lickety split considering they came from the opposite side of the planet. Thanks for the smooth transaction!

I desperately want a studio scale Tie Interceptor and B-Wing. Some day

Not a spoiler, but for those planning to Tivo / record the show tonight remember it's 2 hours and 11 minutes, it is supposed to run over several minutes beyond most standard DVR overlap caches.

Well just speculation here, but I'd guess, the Five had a scientific prototype sort of set up, the Hub was a large scale, mass production / server farm type factory facility.

I kind of read the ressurection ships as being like a wireless router, their consciousness had to be in range of a hotspot so they could transfer their information into an available conduit, the ressurection hub was the machine that actually processed and reformatted their information and installed it on a cleanly formatted machine.

Also, while they may not be able to crank out a bunch of fresh ressurrected skin jobs, there's nothing to say that they can't start up the old production line cranking out old school robot cylons to fight their war for them.

I'll have to go through my collection but I may have an extra copy of his "Full Moon" kit. I'll check later and get back with you on details if I do.

Placed order for a couple sets just a few minutes ago. Thanks for the offer. If you do Destroid pilots you'll see my business again. -Zach

Was it the Japanese or Korean Spiderman that had a uzi and was not afraid to use it?

Awesome build, painting and weathering. And I have to say that parade picture puts a smile on my face every time I look at it Thanks for posting!

I agree to some extent, and when you look at these things they have to have wide enough appeal, to the collectors who would buy them for the Captain to cover his time and expenses to make the things, but if people don't go through the books and pull out new ideas who knows what might get overlooked. I want to think correct me if I'm wrong) he's usually looking to make at least 30 to 50 kits to justify making a master and molds. if you know what the kits run, you can basically see the low end of the ballpark you would be in if you wanted to commission him to do a private run (I'd suspect, if whe was even open to the idea), so something that only a half dozen people want isn't going to get made unless you have deep pockets. I am enamoured with the Zent designs in Macross, I'd absolutely be into a kit of the first design, probably not so much on the second

Wow, those are cool designs!

I can't wait to see the 'Stupid people" reaction coming out of the theatre with their gap toothed kids. Where was Spaaaaperman diddy? WTH was that, them wasn't sooper heroes! I expect the buffudled reaction of the people who have no idea what they are about to see will be will be as satisfying as the movie.

I agree to some extent, it wouldn't be as plausible whcih is why we added in the last part at the bottom of the spoiler post. Going back and dividing up from there would be more plausible.

Oh jeez, I'm sorry I missed this thread, I'll try to get my order in over the next few days. The sculpts look great and these are a sorely needed fig for Macross modellers. I too look forward to your destroid pilots if you decide to do them.

I'll believe it when I see it. I guess it's par for the course in the course of a recession / depression but I hate seeing entry / mid level enthusiast cars getting eliminated or weeded out because they aren't practical enough. It's painful to look at the really neat concept vehicles and know that there is no way they will ever be built and companies like Toyota poo-pooing things like the Supra that has a loyal following but certainly is a niche market car. Those fun cars are what keep people from thinking about cars like stupid appliances, so we aren't all driving around refrigerators on wheels.

A friend of mine's GF may has come up with what I see as a pretty plausible ending for the show. I think it fits so well I am gonna put spoiler tags on it for those interested. We have been talking about the show for months at least twice a week. She thinks: I think that aside from the fine details her idea fits so well with the show that it will likely turn out to be pretty close to spot on.