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Great concept! 

I'd try masking off the white areas and the decals and apply a couple more coats of blue.

5 minutes ago, mechaninac said:

I got the distinct impression that Boshi(?) wasn't just a Rankor, but THE Rankor

https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-bad-batch-muchi-not-rancor-return-jedi/

On 5/28/2021 at 11:16 AM, sh9000 said:

That is delightfully '70s.

Incidentally, episode 5 "Rampage" features more female variants on established male characters, both a female Trandoshan (like the bounty hunter Bossk) and a female Rancor (like the one Luke killed in Jabba's palace).

#theForceisfemale

1 hour ago, vladykins said:

they totally got some of the original names wrong

Speaking of getting names wrong:

14 hours ago, Podtastic said:

Ligaa = Scout

I don't know if the role-playing games can be blamed for this one, but the error is a simple one; in Japanese, the elongated イー sound gets Romanized as "ii" (which is not a spelling pattern native to English), and since it's common for proper nouns to be capitalized in English, the "Iigaa" spelling is often misconstrued as representing a lower-case "L" instead of the upper-case "I".  In Japanese, it's pronounced "Eager," and that's the preferred English spelling (if only to avoid confusion).

14 hours ago, Podtastic said:

Gurab = Shock Trooper

This one gets all sorts of spellings (in this thread alone, it's spelled "Grab," "Grub," "Graub," and "Gurab"), and while each is a valid Romanization of グラブ, I think "Grub" is what the Japanese clearly intended, given all the insect analogies used to describe the Invid in Japanese publications (and even their Mospeada Wikipedia page).

3 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m not a big fan of transformable gundams since the usually turn into a pile of junk.

I’m not a big fan of transformable Gundams since it turns the whole hard sci-fi premise of the series into a pile of junk.

Giant humanoid robot war machines require suspension of disbelief...

Giant humanoid robot war machines piloted by children require even greater suspension of disbelief...

Giant humanoid robot war machines piloted by children with psychic powers is already straining suspension of disbelief to the breaking point...

Giant humanoid robot war machines piloted by children with psychic powers that transform is a bridge too far.

I mean, what's next?  Giant humanoid aliens incapacitated by pop music and kissing?

4 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

How much effort to remove the lower engineering hull?

Not much.  The warp pylons are attached to a surface large enough to grip onto and use as a fulcrum, and it's really just a matter of applying enough downward pressure to snap the few plastic rods that hold the engineering hull together.  No big deal.

7 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

Is the dish easily removable?

Absolutely not.  Mine wouldn't budge, even after ripping apart the secondary hull...

7 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

Could either frost the backside, or paint it silver.   

Given the dish is glued to the upper part of the secondary hull, the best I could do was mix a similar duck-egg blue color and paint the rest of the interior surface of the dish to match the glued portion along the upper edge.

I must say, it looks better as a deflector dish than it did as a window.

7 hours ago, Dobber said:

It’s biggest problem is a pretty bad paint job....particularly the secondary hull.

Yes, but it's got such a lovely turquoise window in place of the navigational deflector...

I just love how clearly you can see the warp core in there, holding the secondary hull together.

His work is definitely improving, but those are going to be much bigger (and more expensive) than his "oversized" Grub...

...and the Gamo doesn't appear to have any articulation whatsoever.

2 hours ago, Podtastic said:

I just concluded that it was an economy of scale thing, so the price would be the same for either version.

That would be a valid interpretation...

50 minutes ago, JB0 said:

at 800 preorders the toy gets bigger.

That's an entirely different (but equally valid) interpretation.

Unfortunately, his text is misleadingly vague -- and his images are no less confusing -- so further clarification is required either way.

21 hours ago, Mechapilot77 said:

do i really want to duplicate my collection in every scale and continually upgrade and replace those of same scale?

Are you suggesting there's another option?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

12 hours ago, jvmacross said:

...and who else has even teased the possibility of an updated TV SDF-1 in some sort of "DX" scale...they definitely have the ability to pull it off...just needed to un-Hasegawa that last prototype.....descale it to 1/3000....oh and work on the colors.....

Best start over from scratch on that one.  There's more wrong than right with it.

18 hours ago, uzernaem said:

Anyone else thinks that "Rick Hunter" decal under the canopy for VF-1J and future re-release VF-1S reduces the market for these toys?

I would imagine there are just as many collectors out there who would be happy with (or even prefer) "Rick Hunter" nomenclature as there are fans that would insist on "Hikaru Ichijo..."

...just not on this site.

On 5/15/2021 at 2:25 AM, sh9000 said:

Damn, the Happy Hogan/Mark XXI set is a Target exclusive.

1 hour ago, General Rasp said:

MRD Zeta Gundam back-up on HLJ.

It says it's only 14cm tall.  That can't be right, can it?

¥16,500 for a 1:144th scale Mobile Suit?

15 hours ago, Special Sauce said:

It's like he's holding his baby boy

19 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

MODEROID [VOTOMS × OBSOLETE Collaboration Model Kit]

Sacrilege!

17 minutes ago, sqidd said:

Is the Takatoku 1/100 Conversion kit the only option for 1/100 Tomahawks?

Outside of vintage model kits, yeah... but either way, they're too small for HMR (which is generally closer to 1:84th scale).

On 5/19/2021 at 2:51 AM, vladykins said:

@sqidd isn't a SD fan; otherwise he'd have them!

I buy any super-deformed Valkyrie I find...  I'm proud of every Roy I own that sqidd doesn't.

Banpresto's 1999 VF-1S Fokker Special is pictured here with the DX Chogokin, in a feeble attempt to steer the thread back on-topic. 

There's an inconsistency with pronunciation that's beginning to bug me.  Despite both hailing from New Zealand, Michelle Ang pronounces her character's name as "Oh-mee-gah," whereas Dee Bradley Baker calls her "Om-egg-ah." 

Since their dialogue is presumably recorded separately, the cast is likely unaware of the discrepancy, meaning the voice director's at fault.

12 hours ago, pafy6285 said:

So for now, the couriers are the only options to ship to Canada

Ouch, I sure hope that situation doesn't last long.  Yikes! 

10 hours ago, Anasazi37 said:

Definitely better than taking all of the money out of the company as quickly as possible, loading it up with debt to get even more money out of it, and then letting it collapse.

I still can't believe they did that to the largest toy retailer in the world.

9 hours ago, Mechapilot77 said:

i can't now unsee the canons being super low now.

It didn't bother you before...?

9 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Not 100% lineart/anime accurate but it brings joy to the people who loves the show and loves any toy form coming out of it.

Are you that guy who keeps buying Super7's deliberately bad "ReAction" figure lines?

I mean, somebody must be buying that retro crap, 'cause they keep making it...

3 hours ago, bioscythe said:

Where do you feel I didn't capture something properly? Is it one thing in particular or something more general?

I appreciate you being open to constructive criticism, because there is an issue I noticed that bears mentioning.  It's a problem inherent to the medium, particularly when adapting hand-drawn artwork, but 3D models have too many perfectly straight lines, too many perfectly flat surfaces, too much perfect geometry evident.  Tatsunoko was particularly known for alien mecha designs that looked organic -- grown, rather than constructed -- and Southern Cross is a prominent example:

While your models show a tremendous amount of time and effort, I think the individual shapes need more refinement to achieve that lumpy, botanical look.

In other words, your math is showing.

5 hours ago, lechuck said:

Another new feature was the recreation of the “alternate transformation” or hovering form. As this was frequently used in the cartoon I definitely wanted to be able to recreate the look.

I wonder what this could possibly be referring to...?

9 hours ago, Sanity is Optional said:

In other words, both are government entities, and are not operating for profit.

While I admire your utopian ideals, that's not how capitalism actually works...

Japan Post, for example, is only 57% government-owned.

6 hours ago, slaginpit said:

I just preordered this man

Hmm...  Looks more like a robot to me.

It cries for a filthy, Mad Max-inspired paint job, which I will most assuredly give it.