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  1. tekering
    Frankly, that's irrelevant to the stated goals @505thAirborne has outlined. To assemble "a squadron of Legioss fighters (Hasegawa or WAVE quality) in 1/48 scale," the vintage Aoshima kits have been found wanting. I totally get that. However, there remain no modern alternatives available. Trying to track down a resin kit like Moscato Hobby's Legioss would be cost-prohibitive, and is at a different "1:48" anyway. So, unless you're content to wait and hope another company produces injection-mold kits at the size and style you're after, your best bet is 3D-printing your own. As I've experienced over the past few months, there are tremendous advantages to 3D-printed miniatures. The biggest, of course, is having absolute control over scale. Every Macross fan knows the headache of trying to establish logically-consistent scale within any hand-drawn anime production. Mecha was drawn to illustrate the story on a scene-by-scene basis, with overworked and underpaid animators simply doing their best to ensure a coherent narrative. Often there were no established dimensions to work with, and even when studios provided such statistics, they frequently contradicted onscreen evidence anyway. Geeks like us will nitpick any visual inconsistencies, and apply our own head-canon so it all makes sense. When merchandise is manufactured, designers have to make similar decisions, which is why we end up with massive discrepancies in pilot and mecha sizes even when the stated scales are the same. 3D-printing your own models allows you to match the size of whatever mass-produced kit or toy you want to complement. Furthermore, just about everything you'd possibly want to print has already been modeled for you, and there is a wide variety of software available for manipulating 3D models, making it easy to adjust proportions, add or change details, and basically customize your ideal mecha. You're only limited by your own resources. Personally, I think Sentinel has already produced the definitive 1:48 Legioss, so I see no need to print my own... but that's purely subjective. ☺️
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    Mixing and matching the products of different companies rarely works out well... Apart from the different aesthetics each company brings to their product lines, you'll find a great deal of disagreement about what "1:48th scale" means...
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    I always thought the proportions were awkward and ungainly... ...compared to the model kits, at least.
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    How lucky you are, then, that Aoshima is constantly re-issuing their 1:48 Legioss kits: The Toynami "Masterpiece" toys were based on Aoshima molds, so they ought to scale perfectly. 👍
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    I was just thinking the same... If anything, it's worse. 😒
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    In hindsight, using a mysterious alien biomass as a power source might not have been the brightest idea... 🤨
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    Fine, I'll do it myself. 🙄 A length 184¼″±1½″ can be interpolated from the original blueprints, based on the stated 10′ 0″ wheelbase. The blueprints state the width as 8′ 1″. The Medicom versions I have are just over 10 inches, making them a reliable 1:18th scale, meaning the ThreeZero works out to 1:48th scale. 🔒
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    ThreeZero's promotional material begs a few questions: Okay, great. Exactly what scale is this "small-scale" vehicle? Could you define that for us? Why are you pretending this is from 2049, when it's clearly from the original 1982 Blade Runner? You're even using a background still from the original film as your primary promotional image (the PAN AM logo is a dead giveaway)... Is this some kind of attempt to skirt around copyright issues? 🤨
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    WOW! $329 is a very reasonable price, if the Kickstarter succeeds. Pledge your support now!
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    That's the KitzConcept, of course. The pornstar mesh bodysuit is a dead giveaway. 😝
  11. tekering
    Oh, I like the sound of that. It definitely helped Godzilla Minus One. 👍
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    Reaction to the film has been surprisingly polarized, much as it was with Prometheus; some embrace the positives, while others highlight the negatives. Tim Brayton's stellar review is one of the most thorough I've read, and one of the most critical as well: https://www.alternateending.com/2024/08/alien-romulus-2024.html
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    It's neither articulated nor posable, that much is clear... 🤔
  14. tekering
    I love your shelf of T-800 endoskeletons. 😎 I see Toynami products in your display... 😝
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    I think you've already proven as much. 👍
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    Great pics, @jvmacross, but... it does look more like a rave than a cockpit, doesn't it? 😅
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    Oh, a new Jurassic Park trilogy figure! That's Dieter Stark, Peter Stomare's character from The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
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    Not before Christmas, likely.
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    Yeah, that was announced SEVEN YEARS ago. I'll believe it when I see it. 🤨
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    As much as it's off-topic here, I can't ignore this: It appears in both the first and the fourth Bubblegum Crisis OAVs. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled transforming motorcycles. 😉
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    Christ. 😒 NETFLIX gives us a CG-animated Transformers series set on Cybertron in the distant past, with all the characters looking exactly G1, and it's appropriately dark and serious... but so frustratingly hamstrung by its limited budget that every voice actor is a non-union hack and every character model gets reused ad nauseum. Paramount gives us a CG-animated Transformers film set on Cybertron in the distant past, with all the characters looking generic and childish, and it's wall-to-wall jokes... but so well-funded that every voice actor is an established movie star, and so heavily-marketed that a whole generation of kids will associate juvenile humour with the brand. After 40 years of this franchise, it's sad to realize that James Roberts' run on IDW comics (and Transformers: Prime on television) was the pinnacle of the brand... and it's all been downhill for the last decade and change. 😐
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    Testing colors and decals: I want markings reminiscent of Macross, but visually distinct. We've got plenty of reference for detailing ATAC, TASC and GMP armor, but the mecha is uncharted territory... 🤔
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    Preorders are expected to go up by December, apparently: With confirmation of size, finally! The 1:100 Master Grade Gundam (ver.2.0) stands 18cm tall. 🔒
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    As a massive Linkin Park fan myself, I wouldn't say The Emptiness Machine is "better than their usual stuff," but I absolutely love it nonetheless. It's polished and clean and perhaps better suited to mainstream tastes than the ragged, raw stuff from the early days of the band, where it felt less about making great music and more about processing trauma... Honestly, hearing Emily Armstrong scream those lyrics the way only Chester could, it absolutely brought me to tears of joy. I was not surprised to learn that, over a few years and a few sessions with surviving band members, they slowly came to the realization that they could actually put the band back together. They weren't looking for a new vocalist, but Emily's sound suited the band so well that it suddenly seemed like a foregone conclusion. I'm hotly anticipating the release of their new album on Sunday, and I'm overjoyed that Linkin Park has finally risen from Chester's ashes.
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