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  1. tekering

    Macross figures

    tekering replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    That just means your Hulk isn't 1:12, buddy. 😅 He seems to scale well with a wide variety of my figures... And he comes armed to the teeth! 😬
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    In the '70s, marketing required the hero pilot to be a teenage boy, so the NewType concept was Tomino's way of justifying young Amuro's piloting skills within an otherwise hard sci-fi setting. Tomino himself tried to divorce the concept from his later Gundam stories, as neither Victory nor Turn A feature any NewType elements. My favorite Gundam series (War in the Pocket, Stardust Memory, The 08th MS Team) have always been the ones that ignore the NewType concept altogether. 😌
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    Oh, good. I've always wanted a miniature puddle of urine to display my Transformers in.
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    LEK is obviously a skilled painter, but he clearly doesn't understand what the word "tutorial" means.
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    So The Book of Boba Fett has officially replaced The Mandalorian, then? Or will the crew of Mandalorian return to the series after Fett has run its course...?
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    Forget it, LEK. That lousy figure is not worth the effort of repainting.
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    Double post.
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    That's what I'd assumed as well. You've pinpointed the precise reason for my ambivalence. I would've assumed the black indicated a recessed surface -- and painted them accordingly -- but I'm not sure the black looks right on a raised surface. Interestingly enough, Chris Vera also assumed they were meant to be raised, rather than recessed: ...and yet, his version of Seifriet's gun pod has the portside detail recessed, rather than raised. Also (like Cap's) it's rendered as a circle, rather than an oval shape, which is obviously the right choice... despite all the other proportional inaccuracies evident on the CG model. Since I have a couple of extra drum parts, maybe I'll try sanding down those raised panels and carve channels into drum instead... 🤔
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    If you watch this hoping it'll be good, you're an optimist... If you watch this expecting it'll suck, you're a realist... If you watch this knowing it'll suck, you're a masochist. Guess which one I am? 😅
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    As an outstanding film? Not necessarily... As a kaiju concept? Certainly. As the work of a filmmaker capable of making outstanding films? Absolutely. Both Dawn of and War for the Planet of the Apes are proof of that.
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    I don't think Japan ever managed to make an outstanding Godzilla movie... I mean, Shin Godzilla was terrific, head-and-shoulders above anything Toho made back in the day, but that's hardly a high bar to clear. I just don't think the kaiju concept attracts the kind of filmmakers capable of making outstanding films. 🤔
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    SEVEN HOURS of special features...? Are they counting The Sentinels, Love Live Alive, and Shadow Chronicles as "special features?"
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    The jury's still out on that one, actually... 🤔 It's a minor issue, and easily remedied with a little sanding (as long as you ignore the recessed detail on the flat side). I'm only going out of my way to reproduce every detail because our redoubtable Captain hinted at a contest... and competition always brings out the best in me. 😎
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    You'll have to wait a few more weeks, I'm afraid. The only parts I've actually finished so far are the gun pods: Satan Claws' weapon turned out to be quite a pain, actually. See, despite some inconsistent proportions, the gun pod used by Seifreit's Bioroid is always depicted with the bulbous disc protrusion on the starboard side (and the rarely-seen etched symbol recessed in the port side)... ...but the weapon included with the kit is backwards, a mirror-inverse of what it's supposed to be. I'm not sure why it was designed that way, but I needed to make changes so mine would be anime-accurate.
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    And MFT's tend to be that much bigger than most of the other Legends figures as well, 3P or official, which makes mixing and matching that much MORE problematic. Thank Primus all the third-parties at least stick to a standard scale for their Masterpiece releases.
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    It probably sounds hypocritical, coming from me, but models aren't supposed to be played with. I treat Gunpla like toys, to be honest, and my Japanese colleagues criticize me for it; anything from the passive "You pose your Mobile Suits like Transformers" to the overt "That's not a toy, Ted!" As action figure collectors, we know that the most well-articulated figures are also the most fragile... and that goes tenfold for models, and a hundredfold for garage kits. It's fun to mess with resin kits in their bare plastic state, seeing how much playability we can squeeze out of them, but things change a great deal once the parts are properly painted. After weeks of work, I'm starting to get an impression of what the final results will look like: ...and at this stage, I'm terrified to change the poses. 😬 The Invid kits weren't so bad, but these 'Lloyds are all overlapping surfaces constantly interacting with each other, and there are few points where moving a limb won't result in parts rubbing together. I'm actually not likely to use much of the articulation I've engineered for these kits, now that I've put so much work into the surface textures. It's just not worth the risk! 😳
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    It means "Please wait for us to make a decision about this product, because we haven't decided whether to include the figure."
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    It's an awesome kit, one of my favorites; impeccably molded, and relatively easy to put together. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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    In North America, maybe... but it'll make a killing overseas. The Japanese box-office returns alone should guarantee a profit; animal pictures are huge here in Japan. Remember this film from 1986? It made TEN TIMES more money in Japan than it did in the States.
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    I think you may have confused "Optimus Prime" with "Optimus Primal." 😅
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    I love the production design in this series. The abandoned Kaminoan cloning facility was a fascinating setting.
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    As did I. Even more fun-fact: Roger Ebert tried to insert Halloween 3 into the main franchise with his film review, having mistaken an android corpse for Michael Myers' remains. 😅
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    $700 CDN? What a score!
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    Wrong continuity, pal. 😅 This Laurie Strode was never any relation to Michael Myers.
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    That'll be super-easy. Barely an inconvenience. Revoltech has got you covered, dude. Have you figured out how to articulate the head? 👀
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