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Mr. Surfacer 1000 or 1200 are the best ever. Before I used to use Tamiya primer from a can but after switching over I'm never going back

Am I the only one that thinks this is a tad bit too much and it ruins the lines of the VF-0? I'm still trying to get used to the look of the VF-0 but this sucker suffers from some of that super extreme omg wtf pwn gundam syndrome and it just looks ugly with all that crap tacked on. Some simple conformal fuel tanks on the top ala F-16 block 60-style instead of the ghost would have looked better imho. The leg fastpacks were done just right though.

And about those micromissile pods... they look ugly As far as I can tell Kawamori based them off the Lau 3 or Lau 10 rockets the US used to use. Those rocket pods had fairings that would pop off and expose the rockets inside. These pods, however, seem to have taken another rocket-pod design found in many european airforces, BUt also added the fairing on the back.... ;p Imho it wouldal looked better if the micro missiles were just like the Lau 3/10 rocket pods in design. At least then we would have that ugly front pod-part if we wanted to show the missiles, and It would be more true to the Standard macross micromissiles with their removable covers on each side (this is going off the Tanmen 1/48 uum-7 pods)

Thanks guys. I was able to find those places and found the prices not to be so bad At nakamoto because I was speaking Japanese with my g/f while we were there the Owner (also japanese) gave us a 30% discount on Macross models I was happy and was able to restock my dwindling store of fresh Hasegawas. Also managed to grab a VF-0d and a VF-0a for around 30 SGD each. That's cheaper than it would be in Japan so I was happy

BUt... Sunshine plaza...wth... That place has some mad crazy prices Who's gonna pay around 1600 yen for a weapon set when it's only 800 back in Japan.... But some of the shops had good deals, like a vf-1 super/strike boxed set for 35 sgd

Do what I did and just buy a japanese PS2 It wasn't so expensive, only around 150 dollars ;D No more worrying about stupid mod chipcs that might burn out or become obsolete

Before I go home from Vietnam to the US permanently I'm making a stop in Singapore for a few days to meet with some friends.

Anyone know of any model shops that offer decent prices and a wide selection of macross models (hasegawa in particular)

I heard Singapore is one of Asia's Meccas of Fine-scale modeling so my hopes are high that I can find some great places

BTW I'll be staying at some place called Fort Canning Lodge near Orchard Street

Oh, the dub wasn't that bad. It was the first version of DYRL that I got to see so I'm still happy with it...

Clash of the bionoids brings back so many memories. I remember we used to try to pause the VHS right at the part where Hikaru fires away to kill the bag bad guy who's name I forgot how to spell.

When I watch it today, I still think it's cool and Roy Fokker's English voice totally cracks me up. "Deploy and form the suit!" "Just watch Jet Jockey in Action!" "You call yourself a man?" :D

Poor Snake... we knew him well. MGS1 and 3 rocked. Part 2 was..er.. blagh ;0

I feel sorry for Snake... he's still trying to pull that McGuyver look at 60 when instead he should try to go for the "older but still badass" look of Sam Fischer from Splinter Cell.....

I will forgive all if they make Scott just like his Mospeada counterpart...as in turn him into the same absolute ballziest hard-headed bad-ass character in any of the 3 original series that turned into Robotech.(well.. Roy comes a close second imho). "I will never forgive the inbit!" gar!

I don't know why but I'm not psyched about this release at all. For me the whole allure of Macross was how real it could be. The 1970's style 4th generation design of the body, the old-school riveting all over and even having different blocks of aircraft like the real ones of today made me love it so much.

Actually, I've pretty much had trouble liking any macross design past the vf-1 series.... but I think a lot of other people have the same opinion as me.. why else would there be a billion VF-1 variations on the market in comparison to the other designs ;0

Bandai already pooped out a gundam seed game. It sucks because it only goes up to like the Alaska incident. It's also a side scroller and painfully easy. Controls are clunky too THankfully I only paid 2380 yen for it at the used shop so I don't feel horribly bad about it.

As for Gundam DX 2, woot! It's already on sale here but I'll wait a few weeks for the price to go down or for some used versions ot trickle into the used shop. 5980 yen is a rad steep.

Okinawan Shorei ryu here, but only Brown Belt First Degree.

At my uni we have kyuudo which is Archery with old-school yumis. Hard as heck if you're used to easy to use western hunting bows that actually have...er.. a grip

Funny thing is... the university I'm at has a Tae kwon do club but not a Karate club... kinda weird for a Japanese University you'd think...

Yeah I was wondering why they never brought lost war chronicles over. When I arrived here in August I was trying to figure out what the hell it was until I ended up buying it

Lost war Chronicles is like 10x better than that JtJ crap they brought out in AMerica

I don't know why but to me it doens't look like Sara..just a busty babe wearing her clothes

I miss the glint too

The shinies are probably why DYRL still looks better to me than today's macross offerings

Today's animation is flat at practical

The old Machine robo is like a million times cooler than the refurbed machine robo that's showing these days

BTW poor Zeta gundam I liked the gundam MkII more anyways

It's kinda hard to tell if it's a "ku" or a "wa" in Katakana. The way it is written in the ad makes it hard to tell .

ƒ -wa

ƒN -ku

The characters look more like a "wa" to me, but judging by the way "ri" was written it may be "ku" ;p

*shrug*

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The Blue on Top reads "mi su ta- su pa- ko ru" and will sound like "Me staw Spawkoru"

As for what HOmer is saying... well... I can read it In Japanese but I got no clue what it means...

"Ha wa- wari-n" which ends up as "hawah wareen!" ... Again I got no clue what it means.

Graham got most of the points down. I'd like them to fix some really small things like having the shoulder lights on the pilots stay Yellow instead of any custom color picked for the VF's. like when I pick grey I get grey shouldpads onthe pilot and I don't like that because I'm anal

More VFs would be nice, a skull squadron style VF-1j would rock ()

I'd like them to work on the camera so that I can view my VF from the front and top ()

Lastly..... Customizable controls.

The only good Marines figures were the GI JOE 12" conversion kits and the resin 1/35 scale Colonial Marines made by..er...forgot who they were ;p

Max Hikaru and Roy's 1S's are by brute force S ranking ;p

didn't get Fokker's till I hit 20

Using Fokker in Pine salad has nothing special My friends and I were pretty upset about it

If you have trouble getting Max's 1j you gotta go back to the space stages and use the VF-1a sans Fast Packs. they didn't have fast packs that early in the Macross series so the devs prolly thought it'd be cheating It's not that bad but I'm sure you'll be hitting your head on the table in the Daedalus Attack mission with that slow 1a

After playing a while It's my opinion that there IS a difference between the 1A, 1J and 1S in terms of speed and transformation time. That's only because I feel slow when I'm using a vanilla 1A as oppossed to a vanilla 1S.

The Paint schemes kinda had me pissed. I was hoping for different Valks not color schemes You can get pretty close to Max and Hikaru's 1S by using Indigo and Carmine. However, on my 1s I use grey because I think it looks better, especially with that Orange symbol on the heat shield in Battroid mode.

Fast packs just carry more missiles and are slightly faster. This was tested by doing the first part of Daedalus attack several times with a vanilla 1s and a fastpack 1s. It was like 1 second faster..wooo

Strike Gun is great save the ammo restriction. Only worth using in Battroid mode too

Yeah it's over here in Japan but me and my buddies aren't so sure if we wanna shell out around 6000 yen for it since we're all not big TF fans.

From the looks it's in 3D and you play as Optimus. The screenshots showed that you have a life bar and radar so maybe it's a mission based game or a beatemup. Whoknows None of us wanna pay 60 bucks to find out lol.

total score shouldn't count it tallies up scores even from repeat performances. Anyhow, here are my scores heh.

P01 - S - 47190

P02 - S - 42350

P03 - S - 46560

P04 - S - 36380

P05 - S - 52960

P06 - S - 38940***

P07 - S - 44160

P08 - S - 42340

P09 - S - 41770

P10 - S - 40280

P11 - S - 44700

P12 - S - 62350

A01 - S - 47420

A02 - S - 48320

A03 - S - 44500

A04 - S - 43080

A05 - S - 40400

A06 - S - 50540

A07 - S - 40780***

A08 - S - 46720***

***Indicates EXTREME difficulty in obtaining S ()

S on P-06 was the biggest pain in the arse..EVER.

not only must you worry about the time but also your damage.

Best trick is to be easy on standard missiles. In that mission standards just lower your hit percentage as they always miss. You've got to use only mediums, and even then only let off the salvo when the Scout ship's back is towards you or risk having your missile blow up from gun fire. Try to keep enogh distance to avoid the scout ship locking onto you and lasering you to death, but close enough to use the gunpod. Use the left and right dodges like hell too

I've played that mission like a bllion times and got an S out of sheer luck () But I followed the above strategy to win the mission.

If a man doesn't take a break from Japanese girls he won't live long enough to make it back to the states.

Models are only mentally taxing while girls are both.