tekering
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Yeah, that was the Shizuoka Hobby Show in May of 2009. Promotional images were posted on Toyark. I had to scratch-build a set of landing gear for mine back in the day, since the only way I could justify displaying it without a pilot was parked on the tarmac. The lack of landing gear would've been acceptable if there'd been a pilot figure, but the lack of both pilot AND landing gear was inexcusable. 😡
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Another significant detail absent from the Cygnus CGI model I'm printing are these "croquet hoop" fuel pods on either side of the prow: Even from photographed from the back end of the ship, they're still prominently visible up front. Nonetheless, I had to kitbash my own because -- even at the tiny scale I'm working at -- the 3D model just isn't adequately detailed. This "weekend project" has already occupied most of my free time this month, and I'm nowhere near finished...! 😅
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Of course, scratch-building the whole thing would probably be easier. 😂
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Oh man, that YouTube video isn't doing Pose+ any favors. The fighter mode looks positively awful. 🤢 Still works for me... although PayPal is no longer an option on the site. 😞 Maybe I can find a viable alternative... 🤔
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Not masking tape... reflective tape. 😉 It might be a viable alternative to painting the vintage POS. 😂
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No argument there. I imagine the design team were aghast with every decision the factory engineers in China made. Oh, I'd forgotten I'd even done that. 😅 And I keep telling you guys, it's "Brough," not "Blow." The Brough Superior is well-known to motorcycle enthusiasts the world over, including Shinji Aramaki. That's why his VR-041 is called the "Brough Superior" in Mospeada. The marketing team at Tatsunoko didn't know "Fuke" from "Houquet," "Lei" from "Ray," or "Brough" from "blow," and more importantly, they DIDN'T CARE. Imai, Arii, LS et.al used the English alphabet simply because Japanese pop culture thinks it's cool. None of these companies had any concern for the Western market, because it simply didn't exist back then. Four decades on, we know better. There's no excuse for Sentinel to still be using "Blowsperior." 🙄 Apologies for the pendantic rant; I'm an English teacher in Japan. 😣
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Maybe I can be of further assistance. Drop me a DM and we can discuss options. The Black Hole? What a glorious disaster that film was. 😅 Incredible miniature photography, awe-inspiring production design, a deeply haunting score, and some jaw-dropping visual effects... 😯 ...along with some miserably poor dialogue, a cartoonish disregard for science, and some truly awful compositing. 🙄 Be careful what you wish for... MPC's kit was over-simplified, proportionally-inaccurate, and entirely molded in solid grey. Just try lighting that one, bitches! 😂
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Nothing you haven't seen before, Mog. You know Sentinel's ride-armors look better with Aoshima helmets... Aoshima boots... Smoked visors for the helmets... ...and Houquet requires a new face AND a total repaint. I can't abide this. The Evolution Toys Legioss were cheaply-manufactured, poorly-made toys, certainly... ...but they were nonetheless they best-looking Legioss we'd ever had, far more accurate than the Gakken, Toynami, Aoshima, or CMs that came before them. Heck, they still look better than the upcoming Pose+ Legioss does!
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As I begin painting my tiny Cygnus, I look to vintage promotional photographs for reference: This model was larger and more detailed than any ILM had produced for Star Wars, and the lighting scheme was particularly complex. See all those little yellow and red running lights, surrounding the docking ring in straight lines along the bow? How am I going to reproduce those at this scale? I came up with a unique solution for painting them, which required additions to the 3D model itself: Each of those lights is represented by a cylindrical protrusion 250 microns in diameter. If your eyesight is not significantly compromised by age, they might be visible to the naked eye. I can barely make them out myself... They're substantial enough to catch the edge of a small paintbrush or acrylic marker, however. ☺️
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Yes, the Pose+ will require complete disassembly for parts replacement and repainting... just as the Sentinel ride-armors have. 😑 The upcoming Moderoid model kit may be the very first Mospeada merchandise I haven't had to modify for anime-accuracy.
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As a huge metalhead myself, I've been stunned week after week with the end credit music. I mean, getting the rights to a Metallica recording used to be impossible (so impossible, in fact, that Paramount had to commission a whole new song just to get them on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack), and not since Tool's debut EP -- 33 years ago! -- has any Tool music appeared in a movie. 🤯 When Stinkfist started playing over the final shot of "Mr. October," I honestly assumed it was some kind of software glitch on my computer. 🤨
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On the contrary, it's very much a guy in a suit... ...with cable-actuated animatronics.
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Oh, I'd forgotten this thread existed. I actually have something new to contribute... Doesn't look particularly rare, admittedly... at least, not from the front. The back, however, tells a whole 'nother story. 😎
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Remember that fever dream episode, where they all had swords to slay the dragon? Just because it didn't actually happen doesn't mean POSE+ can't fleece you for a sword accessory! 😅
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Hours of delicate drybrush work await me. 😑 Can't wait to see the result! My experience as well. Don't try to pose it! 🤕
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Episode 2 is a lot worse. Noah Hawley ignores decades of continuity, reinventing the Xenomorph as a Terminator... 😑 ...an impossibly efficient and indiscriminate Terminator, even. 🙄 No hive, no incapacitated victims, no instinct for reproduction or propagation of the species... just Jason Vorhees in a cheap rubber suit. 😑
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Those of us in Japan got the first Sentinel Legioss release in June of 2020. It seems hard to believe it's been five years already... 😯 ...but it's even harder to believe Mexico got it a year earlier. 😅
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Cullen Yutani had previously appeared in both Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and The Predator.
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That's a work-in-progress. It still needs a lot of surface detail applied... ...and I need to replace the batteries, too. 😑
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Maybe, once it's painted and properly lit... I've got 40 chip LEDs being delivered tomorrow. 😅 Actually, she agreed and cut her hair for the role. Unfortunately, a drunk-driving incident left her injured at time of filming. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/we-never-had-an-ending-why-disneys-black-hole-lost-star-wars-1262526/
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No, I bought that from YJA years before I had my own 3D printer. Your material options depend entirely on the type of printer; DLP or SLA use photopolymer resins, while FFF or FDM use extruded filament spools. Liquid resin is better for highly-detailed miniatures, while filament is more practical for larger projects. Those are my Hiya Toys action figures, actually. ☺️ A brief Google search found several different options for ALIEN figures in compression suits that can be downloaded and printed. There are no limits to scale with 3D-printing; your only restrictions would be layer thickness, and the physical dimensions of your printer. Print anything you want, at any size you want! 😁
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The Woodland Camo is still my favorite! 😍
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Something like this? 😎 Gambody's files are on sale right now. I think so. The bio-mechanical shapes and muted color scheme would be quite forgiving, so it would be difficult to screw it up. 😅 Let me know if you're serious about it.
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I enjoy pushing the limits of a 12K resolution printer. 😎 The Cygnus files I bought were disappointingly low-resolution, so I figured the only way to justify my purchase was to make a Hallmark ornament. 😉 Plus, I already have a variety of ships displayed at the same 1:3000 scale: Actually, ALIEN was a July release; The Black Hole came out in December of 1979, only two weeks after Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Fun factoid: Sigourney Weaver had originally been cast as Dr. Kate McCrae, but the zero-gravity sequences in The Black Hole required her to cut her hair. 😅 She refused, and the role went to Yvette Mimieux instead. If Sigourney Weaver had agreed to Disney's demands, Veronica Cartwright (who had already been cast as Ripley) would've been the big star of the franchise... ...and we'd be living in a slightly different alternate universe today. ☺️
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My giant SDF-1 languishes while an even older ship design lies on my workbench... I'm sure some of you are old enough to recognize this one. ☺️ Despite its diminutive size, it demands a great deal of internal lighting... ...not all of which I've managed to achieve so far. What's more, I want it to display it with the Palomino, at a matching scale of 1:3000: A daunting task, for such a tiny model!
