Kelsain

10 minutes ago, anubis20 said:

Currently working on Fan Racer Mk III (my own) and this is a KO kit I got from Taobao and its been a PITA. Stuff doesnt fit too well, getting the canopy to close was a task, lots of puttying and sanding and re-sanding... I hate sanding ... but i think it will look good one its finished. 

 

It gets everywhere!

AKA: none of the Star Wars models, stuff you can buy at Toys R Us for a lot less.

OK, guess we'll have to get LBM at Target, then....

Me, I just got this lil guy off eBay. Arm was broken on arrival, so the seller gave me a 50% refund! 

He fits in perfectly with the 1/144 crew, but makes the matchbox Spartan & Defender look pretty crappy.

I think it's genetic. 

My dad always had a bunch of kits in the attic. Mostly Scifi stuff like Buck Rogers, 2001, classic MPC Star Wars kits. Some aircraft & naval vessels too. He rarely built any of them, and let me tackle a few. He also had grand plans to do a train layout and stockpiled supplies for that. Never got to it. I'm sure the other woman has purged those collections and aspirations by now.

My Grandpa built mostly 1/25 cars. He actually did built them, mostly with the stock plastic color + painted details & bare metal foil. Had a nice display case in the dining room showing off about 2 dozen cars & fire trucks. After he died, Grandma needed a new roof, and the roofers discovered that the attic was PACKED with car models that he'd collected for the past 50 years. She was furious.

Me? I've got a cabinet full of mobile suits to work on at my desk during lunch, and a case each of 1/72, 1/100, & starship scale kits in the basement at home. But 2 kids, lots of projects, and nowhere to paint...  And I'm eyeing the HLJ sale still...

She's looking great, dude!

Oh, there's some good stuff in there. But I'm a little broke...

4 hours ago, Lorindor said:

No, I haven't yet. The thing with kids' entertainment is that it sometimes can be unbearable for adults, so I've been on the sceptical side. I tried the app game once, but wasn't really impressed, but that was mostly due to the gameplay. But if you think the show is good, I might look it up. Thanks! 

The action follows the Voltron/Power Rangers dynamic; i.e.: bad guys fight good guys, situation looks grim, good guys activate magic/super/robot power, kick bad guys' butts with the same action-y music in every episode. This always happens in these shows, why not just go straight to the super/magic/robot power? The plots are pretty simple, and there's really not much character growth. Pretty much a kid show, but with enough stuff for the 40-ish Dads to appreciate as well. If you're a 90's kid, rather an an 80's kid like me, ymmv. Your childhood time was my non-lego period, so there may be other references that I'm missing as well. 

It took me a while to realize why Robin, a junior knight, had a chicken as his emblem. Then, I remembered:

While fun, it doesn't have the surprising depth and good characterization that Ninjago has. I'd been completely uninterested in that property for years, until my kids started watching it last year. (They REALLY love the lego shows, sometimes I think they forget that there are non-lego forms of entertainment) While the first season or so are kind of rocky & cheap looking, it really improves & I ended up hooked as well. Hoping season 6 comes to Netflix soon.

Yeah, the booms were one of my big disappointments with this kit. While they do match the line art pretty well, it almost feels like they built in some forced perspective into the design & model. As it was, I then looked at my overly ambitious plans for other models, and the Mecha Colle Elysion, and decided to downsize to the 1/8000 kits. 

5 hours ago, Lorindor said:

So I have been eying the Lego Nexo Knights sets for the longest time. Space and Castle Lego combined? That's just how I always ended up playing with my Lego as a kid, but here's it's a much more a literal combination. My mind just screamed "awesome!" when I first saw the space knight on a hover bike horse. And the theme is also shock full of references to all the Lego themes I grew up with. Nostalgia galore! I've been thinking to myself that I would have LOVED these sets when I was eleven. Then I realized I would still love them at age 27 and unashamedly bought a bunch of them!  So far, it's been so much fun.

Have you watched the show? My kids love it, and it keeps me entertained as well. They've done several throwbacks to the legendary "Golden Castle", aka the yellow brick castle from 1981-2. Complete with the old school crown on a purple background emblem.

Also, TONS of Monty Python references.

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It's weird that they just released this Saturn V. I literally just got back from Legoland & Kennedy Space Center...

Hells yeah! 

18 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Guess what I finally got around to building?

 

Hurry, before something else distracts you!

So, how about Sharon Apple, guys?

1/144!

Alas, I'd be interested in a few of those pieces, by I'm on the wrong side of the country.

Hard to tell scale, but they look a little bigger than the miniatures.

55 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

I had a good time with it, same as the first. Got really dumb-cheese at the end, but forgivably so. You can dust it off your shoulders because the rest of the movie - like the music, the editing, the humor, so on - is well-done. Contrast that against a certain other movie, which also gets dumb-cheese at the end but doesn't do any of the rest nearly as well...

Loved the entire drawn-out sequence of finding tape at the end. It's like the Simpsons rake scene played out over two and a half minutes.

"Did you ask Nebula?!"

"... Yes!"

Crap, these are pretty awesome...

http://www.gundamkitscollection.com/2017/05/hgbf-1144-gmgm-exhibited-at-56th.html

Deculture!

GOTG2 Tickets, check. 

Babysitter, check.

Dinner plans at Dominican Restaurant, check.

Can't wait for tonight!

16 hours ago, jvmacross said:

I refuse to drink this in anything less than a white plastic Tupperware tumbler.

3 hours ago, Big s said:

I may be mistaken, but I think there was already a tease for one of the other versions of the efreet.

anyway  now there's a teaser for the rg unicorn. I'm personally a bit worried.

Not surprising, considering that they're replacing the 1/1 RX-78 with the Unicorn soon.

Bump and update!

Also known as Blasty McShootface.

Lol at the Walkure Phalanx!

Funny to see this come up again. My wife finally got the printer set up this month; as yet I haven't had a chance to play with it. I've got a few other smaller models I want to try before I even attempt printing something like this...

So far, she's been taking it through it's paces; printing extinct shark teeth, Tully Monsters, neurons and clitori for teaching purposes.