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their back up. Loop, how are you figuring out how many they have in their inventory?

yeah. it sucks.

nippon back up

it says the date it is supposed to be released, or its current status. like if you order one that is backordered, it will say backordered. if it is still available to order, it will say the release date.

hella yeah, thanks neo!!

damn...thanks for posting this. i have been sans any news today. he was an amazing talent. (even though he was 92, i still feel like i have been kidney punched)

Kicker, those shots are epic. i love they way those leds are reflecting behind him in the last shot.

hey. the styrofoam idea is actually kinda brilliant!

apparently that "gundamplanet.com" website mentioned above. HLJ won't put their pre-order out for another month if they do what they did with the Luca, so my money is on amiami.

thanks for the clarification jv. your link does show the one i'm looking for.

still looking!

esthertool did the whole thing with the dollar off counter offer, free shipping excuse AND the "your item is wet" excuse, then the refund with me too on a Vf-1s. The next day it was reposted for 50$ more. i wonder how they would respond if one of us said we didn't mind the wet box?

damn. that's very cool.

this might sound stupid, but i use fingernail files, like you'd get from a boutique or beauty shop. the soft ones, not the emery boards. they make insanely fine files, like in the thousands grit and i have used them on both plastic and painted surfaces with quite good success. i mean, if they are used to buff a woman's freshly polished nails, which is an enamel most of the time or fake acrylic nail, it seemed to me that they'd work. the finest ones don't even feel like they have a texture at all.

krylon makes a clear coat that is a uv protectant. incidentally, i have had good luck with that fusion product of theirs that they claim bonds in a unique way. i used it to make my victory leo white again. the white was damn near the exact match for the parts of leo that hadn't turned.

hey guys, i have read that there was a wonderfest model out there of this. i have tried looking around to see what it looks like. if you have one, i would certainly like to know more about it. i.e. if you simply have a picture of the kit/build i'd appreciate it.

those are cool. are the 1/200 still available?

According to the Macross Mech Manual site, it was never animated. During the final fight though, you can see all the other Meltrandi ships blowing the hell out of stuff and likewise being blown the hell up. Tne Meltrandi gunboat you see used to great effect mostly, and I suppose this is the next size up?

So using Cabbit Commando's example of war movies and Macross,

what if a hardened Supervision fleet intends to attack Earth or Eden. The army retreated looking for factory satellites/other remnants/cloning facilities whichever. They found enough resources to be a serious threat. Hell, you could even have Protodelvin in there but have lost there need for spirita somehow. Like they traded all their cheesy invulnerable super powers to sate there hunger. Hell I don't know. Just make them a little more serious and less furry/godlike. Like they took notes from Gary Oldman's performance of Dracula. You could have some larger types that they keep around to use like the trolls in Lord of the Rings, heavy tanks (but you can kill them) and I guess you can keep the females uniforms with the breast pasty things. Kind of sexy evil vampire elf chicks. I digress. Maybe they are simply looking for the Macross based on the last Supervision transponder signal before we tee-tiny Earthlings rebuilt(broke) the SDF-1(broke the transponder that is, reverse engineering is a bitch). I always got the feeling that the Macross was supposed to be special in someway besides crashing here, so maybe it is.

The SMS/UNS intercepts signals/warning of a planned attack and the expeditionary/colony fleets send their Quarter/Macross class ships to protect "the motherland". They start getting the crap kicked out of them. The big baddie starts talking smack just as he is about to do whatever big baddies do. Glass Earth/Eden, break dance on the moon. you know. What ever they fancy. Right about that point Hikaru/Misa busts in. Pin-point super-long range de-folding having been perfected on the Megaroad. They bring a ton of new and retro designs of valkyries (to fuel Bandai and their funding for the movie) and destroids (hey, they need love too). Have Aegis Fokker/Komilia and Isamu's old asses having assembled periphery colonies valkyries so we can bring in ALL the old designs and tie in the dozen game characters out there with no love. I love it when a frachise ties up all their loose ends and connects everything. The OVA would fuel another decades worth of toys. We would get more singing (if thats your thing) and lots of explosions.

So, it would be "Tora,Tora,Tora" and "Midway" in movie parallels.

it might sound stupid. but i'd watch it.

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Wonders whose toe is that in the upper left corner?

Oh sh@t! That is awesome!

Please let me know if anyone happens to have one. Thanks

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I wouldn't imagine Future being a good primer. I think of it like this, you would primer wood or porous surfaces to keep from having to continually dump loads of paint on it as it would wick it away, the primer would also afford some measure of a moisture barrier. With plastics, primer gives a model tooth, like was said previously, the desired coat of paint can adhere better to the primer because on the smallest level, the primer is rougher then the slick plastic would be. If you were using enamel on plastic or lacquer you could skip priming because the thinner in both melts the surface of the plastic just enough for the paint and plastic to bond. Any primer based paint will do that. Try spraying styrofoam with thinner based paint and you'll see what I mean. (don't do it on something important, it'll melt it).

Now I paint most of my figure models in acrylics. Acrylic is mostly water based (like Future) with suspended pigments of plastic. They work like glue, it goes on, makes a surface tension and sticks. But you can scratch that off pretty easy.When you scratch it it comes off in sheets sometimes. It just sits on the surface. Future makes for one hellova top coat (if you want glossy) but as primer, either your thinner based paints will melt through it, making it pointless for priming or with acrylics, just another delicate surface treatment.

Think about it like this, if you spilled acrylic paint on a floor covered in it, you could just wipe the paint up.

If you spray painted the floor, you aren't wiping it up.

Also, as was said above, it does sound like it's either too hot to paint where you are, or your too far from the model when spraying, the thinner is evaporating before getting to the model and all your left with is the pigment. A little closer with nice even sprays and you should be good to go.