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    I can't wait for this to come out! Looks awesome. May 21, 1980 can't get here fast enough.
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    That it is, Mog. That it is. Japanese use the opposite so consistently they can't imagine any other system... and I have to demand my students use the names of the months in English to avoid confusion. They'll express dates like 8/1 and 12/9 with complete impunity, until I shatter their illusions by informing them that there is no global standard.
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    Who would've expected a thread devoted to pointing and laughing at Robotech comics to evolve into an informed discussion of literary sci-fi? So many of our modern science-fiction tropes were born in the '50s, and it was really a golden age of sci-fi. Actual ideas were explored, as opposed to just using the genre to tell horror tales or war stories. One of my favorites is Philip Wylie's The Disappearance, which explores what would've happened to society if (in 1951) every woman suddenly vanished, and how the male population would cope (and in alternating chapters, what would happen if every man suddenly vanished, and how the female population would cope). My favorite bit comes when our female protagonist considers the resulting societal collapse, the failure of industry in a world without men, and imagines how much better off men would be in their situation... ...while, in the alternate universe the men inhabit, they're busy lobbing nuclear missiles at each other.
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    I'd happily build either of those kits... provided they didn't have to be painted in those garish colors.
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    I see it, but I don't believe it.
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    Actually, the Monogram kit is very easy, with a few large parts and no tiny parts at all. It fits together well, and is very accurate to the filming miniature... Except, perhaps, for the cockpit interior. Now, the basic Thunder Fighter is a two-seater, with a pilot up front and a passenger seat in the back; Buck and Twiki escaped from the Draconia in the back seat of Wilma's starfighter in the pilot episode, and the shot of Buck smiling from the back window is featured in the opening of every single episode. While the Monogram kit features the back windows, they don't seem to serve any purpose for whatever junk they stuck back there in lieu of the passenger seat. What's more, the stand is designed to display the model in flight, so there's no landing gear in the kit... but no pilot figure, either! There was at one time an aftermarket resin kit for the interior, featuring two seats, a center stick and actual control surfaces, but it has long since disappeared from the secondary market... as have the pilot figures that a different company (had at one time) sold. The more I see of the show, the more frustrating I find the Monogram interior... ...not that the show itself is any less frustrating, mind you! In fact, it's a brain-dead macho fantasy featuring the ultimate fan-fiction "Gary Stu" character, and is so sexist as to border on misogynistic. What a stupid kid I was to enjoy this trash! So, screw Buck Rogers. I'm using a Revell Snowspeeder pilot, and making this a Rebel starfighter. The biggest pain about assembling this kit is that you've got to install your completed cockpit -- including the transparent window parts -- before gluing the main fuselage together. The resulting seams along the hull will need to be filled and sanded before you can do any painting, so your cockpit canopy will require very careful masking so you don't mess up the windows when painting the primary color, alternating panel shades, weathering, panel-lining, etc. And if you're installing lights, it greatly complicates the wiring process as well... Nonetheless, I can understand why this kit fetches as much as it does these days.
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    Thanks to so many of your wonderful suggestions, I've attempted to incorporate different shades and off-color panels to enhance the level of detail: I'm not sure if I want every surface covered, or how well it will show up in the darker areas, but I'm very pleased with how it's looking on the Hasegawa kit so far. In the meantime, I've built up the sides on the Matchbox Daedalus with styrene, hollowed out the interior and scratch-built a prow hatch: It's starting to look more like the ship I remember from the anime. Now to figure out a hinge mechanism...!
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    So, Jungle sent me a 1:48 Yamato Valkyrie a couple weeks back. The toy is in great shape, but upon removing it from the tray... ...I noticed a bunch of dead bugs under it. And under the tray as well. Be aware, there may be bugs in the Jungle. I'm making one right now... I've decided to go with a Rebel Alliance color scheme for it, but I liked the look of the flat matte base coat so much I photographed it before the primary color gets applied. Shadow Thunderfighter!
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    Wow, TakaraTomy. You've really outdone yourself! That's the easiest pass yet.
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    Thanks for sharing, @sh9000! I'm looking forward to more.
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    Well it's certainly an improvement -- there's no denying that -- but I'm surprised you didn't at least straighten out those shoulder cannons, Mog...
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    Takara has been sacrificing the robot mode for the sake of the alt. mode since before they were called Transformers.
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    There are a couple of Shockwave toys visible as set decoration in Aliens: And of course, Starscream appears as a toy in Top Gun.
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    Bandai's Hi-Metal R VF-4G. They absolutely nailed the battroid mode! Exactly as it appears in the anime. What?
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    Not exactly... Most of the relevant line art isn't colored, of course, but the first 24 pages are in color (amounting to 15% of the book). Buy the book, @roboemo! It's full of the sort of reference material you're likely to find useful in your art projects. In episode 23, Shinobu Takeuchi of the 36th Moon Base Squad arrives with the 2nd Liberation Force. Her equipment, however, sports the ubiquitous Mars Base logo.
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    Having grown up with Ewoks and Droids, I couldn't possibly have imagined a world where cartoons like Clone Wars and Rebels would be so much better than Star Wars movies...
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    If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well... If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer. Nope, just real-world logic. The smaller, the better. Honestly, at this scale, there shouldn't be visible panel lines at all... but if they're too small to be visible, what's the point of doing the work?
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    Indeed, I've given some serious thought to getting laser-cut stencils custom-made for masking purposes, since (as recent efforts have proven) doing it by hand is labor-intensive and ultimately ineffective... The feedback and encouragement is always appreciated.
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    So, I've been experimenting with a way to give those flat, featureless portions of the hull a greater sense of scale... Still using the Hasegawa as a guinea pig, I tried the ol' ILM approach, with intersecting lines and raised panels. This is how the Star Destroyer studio models were detailed. Unfortunately, the results looked crude and sloppy, so I abandoned the analog approach and decided to rely on digital tools instead. I created this pattern in Photoshop, and printed it onto clear decal paper. This is far more detailed than what I could do by hand. The results were definitely more encouraging this time.
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    Who's that playing a video game in your VF-1 cockpit? It's the Plamax gerwalk kit; the grossly inaccurate backpack is a dead giveaway... So is the Plamax gerwalk box it's sitting on top of.
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    I have faith in Kathleen Kennedy. She always hires the most competent of directors... ...and then fires them before their Star Wars films are completed. I have faith she will gut Taika Waititi's film, and the result will be as bland as Solo or The Rise of Skywalker.
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    I see Star Wars: Resistance was notably absent from that clip show... ...but what's this from?
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    Now I wish I'd bought another Clone Wars Y-Wing back in the day, so I could paint it up in that blue-striped 501st paint scheme... Much nicer than the original yellow, if you ask me.
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    I just can't get over how quickly you've done all that, Mog. I'm still blending edges and scribing panel lines, and I'm nowhere near ready for painting...
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    Yeah, I was pretty stoked to catch Caleb there.
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