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No kidding. I glued on the thrust vectors with copious amounts of the Testors Sky-Blue tube glue. The blue stuff gives you a quick-setting strong bond that doesn't marr plastic nearly as badly as the older orange stuff did. Too bad I didn't use my 20 year old bottle of Testors brush-glue on my landing gear. That stuff gives such a weak bond that things tend to just pop out on their own from time to time

Luckily it landed on the carpet. I really sent it FLYING. If my GF wasn't there I think I would have cried, I've been working on it since May! Any suggestions about HOW to glue them back on? Scruff up the surfaces? Make them smooth? It's much of a contact point.

So the other day I was zooming around my Hasegawa YF-21 when I accidentally dropped it! I broke off the two rear langing gear. Luckily, I had not yet attached the wheel doors or the extra struts, so only the actual piece holding the while broke off from the bottom of the air plane. Can anyone suggest some methods for re-attaching them? The peg that holds the langing strut in place has broke off in the hole for it, in the base of the wheel well. I've sorta fixed one already by carefully drilling & twiddling w/exacto out the broken peg, and then putting a piece of a paper-clip through the landing strut, but this was VERY time consuming, and I did manage to snap the struct in half once (clean break, easily repaired) Anyway, at this point I am almost tempted to just build the doors shut, but I have this big pretty Model-Base-Guy logo to place it on...

It's funny you mention that -- I've been meaning to ask; why do so many modelers go after "enemy" paint schemes? Especially some of the most despised enemies in history? I wonder if people feel embarassed when showing off their German (nazi!) markings. Personally, I think it's more of an appreciation of the talent that went into those designs. No one argue that the Luftwaffe didn't have impressive airplanes. Yet most people abhor ANYTHING related to Nazi German or WWII Japan. Modelers don't seem to have any qualms about it. Any insights?

I love that! I was thinking of doing something like that myself, but you beat me too it!

Well you know, running out of fuel made the whole air-battle dynamic MUCH more interesting. I've never flown myself, but I've spent a lot of time playing sims, and trust me, fuel is a huge concern. You get this extra feeling of tension in a dog fight; will I get him before I run out of fuel? It also helps make the fights match the length of the anime (in that they are both very short). If they had infinite fuel, they could play air dancing games forever, so instead of a very short and decisive (or inconcluseive) air battle, you get TV style fights that drag on forever, but all we see are high lights.

What's this plastic seal stuff called? We don't really have Walmart's and Super Markets where I live, just litlte stores, so I have to call around for an exact product before I go shopping

Come on, any attempt to defend the Yukikaze anime is ridiculous. Other than pretty airplane designs, it's a steaming pile of crap. It's OK to watch an anime just for the toys. There's no need to defend it, we're not going to think less of you.

BTW the brush at Ebay is a great deal. Brush, compressor, regulator, moisture trap! It looks like a clone of an older Badger single-action brush. Not the best feel, but good enough to start with. You can always buy a fancier brush and re-use the compressor/etc.

Seriously, it's worth spending the bucks on a good airbrush kit. A good brush lasts FOREVER (10+ years), and costs maybe 1.5 -> 2x as much as a cheap one. The compressor adds hefty amount to the price, but again, its worth it. Air cans are ridiculously expensive, and make airbrushing a GIANT pain. You have to play stupid tricks to keep them warm, and when they run out of air your brush will start to sputter paint. I guess my point is that it's just not worth it to go cheap on an airbrush. You're going to end up being frustrated and hating it, or shelling out the bucks for the real kit.

JBO, you need to chill. IT'S A GAME. IT WAS FUN TO PLAY. IF YOU WANT MORE PLOT, PICK UP A NOVEL.

I was looking at it last night and thought something like that could work. Going over the edge with a black sharpie will really make it look clean, me thinks, as long as the tip is cut thin enough to fill the whole gap but not to spill out.

Yes, I know how much Resin costs. That's why I expected a base made of some sort of cheap material, like wood or a cheaper plastic, perhaps a mass produced base from some other company, with a simple Macross layer attached. Or maybe a Macross logo printed & stickered on. A giant piece of cast resin seems a little odd... I could see it for those intricate Star Trek bases, but not for a simple kite-logo base. Honestly, ModelBaseGuy needs to put MANY more pictures on his site, of all his products, from multiple angles, painted and un-painted.

So I received my first Model Base Guy Macross base today. It's a Kite logo base. It seems like a very nice, big heavy base. I'm a little dissapoint that it did not come pre-painted. I imagined that it would come painted, finished, polished, etc. So I'm wondering, does any have stencils to make it easier to paint? White is hard to work with, and trying to put red down along a white edge is just asking for disaster. Since it's a curved image, it's going to be hard to do a nice clean mask with tape. Model Base Guy, do you have any stencile outlines you could post for us to use?

Uhm, I don't know where this crap about FFVII not being a good game came from. I played it when i was 21 or 22. Great game, lots of fun to play. Great graphics & sound, and the fact that it ran on my PC was a gigantic plus. Still have the disks sitting in my book shell. FF8 = piece of garbage. I stopped halfway through and tossed the disks out the window. FF4 (Aka FF2 on the SNES), I can't wait to get for my GB:Micro. Fond memories of playing that as a kid. People who elevate computer games and say poo about the companies that make them: Losers.

Master and Commander

Sorry, but saying "I won't try a new game or quit my game because of all the time I invested in it" is lame, stupid, and small minded. Actually it's pathetic. Get over your stupid angst and try WOW.

I know Blizzard is doing a rebate promotion for existing players to give out gift copies this month. Is WoW being sold for $19.99 at all retail locations as well? 351795[/snapback] The deal is something like $20 rebate for everyone, and then there is another $10 rebate that you can give up to 3 times if you are already a subscriber. Given that there are more people playing WOW than there are Armenians in the world, I'm sure anyone can find someone willing to give you a rebate. Hell.. there's like 2.5 million people playing. That's 7.5 million possible rebates... 75 million dollars worth of rebate!

WOW is only $19.99 ( to buy the retail game package) this month. Stop whining and just buy it. Spend a week playing it. When you go back to FFXI you'll be like "WTF WAS I THINKING?"

I bet you the one that still plays FFXI is a fan boy loser idiot.

Oh, one more criticism of FFXI: GIL GIL GIL YOUR WHOLE DAMN LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING MONEY... IN YOUR VIRTUAL GAME! I mean, WTF. A game should be fun. I don't want to logon and spend 9 hours farming garbage so I can buy 1 hours worth of arrows. FFXI is pretty much the worst, most unbalanced, least interesting, flat out stupid game ever. OH NO! I played a Dragoon! Guess I should kill myself, because no one will every part with me ( I played a Hume WHM/BLM, I always had parties. ) OH NO! I'm a Galka. Guess I have to pay an extra $1 a month for when I want to play as a Caster, because unless I spend 9 hours farming for each 1 hour I play, I won't be able to afford the ridiculous items I need to boost my MP. OH NO! I have a life! Guess I can't play FFXI.

I played FFXI for over a year, and then quit for WOW. Before that, I played Everquest from 2000 to the day FFXI came out in the US. Let me tell you, of all these games, WOW has been the most fun leveling from 1-60, hands down. EQ was bad, but fun because of the parties. FFXI was the ABSOLUTE worst. Compared to WOW and EQ, FFXI is a joke once you get past lvl 30. I took my White Mage to 70 and quit, because the idea of spend DAYS to get a level and getting NO new spells or abilities just did not tickle my fancy. Neither did spending HOURS LFG to get a party going, and then having to compete for camps. FFXI is just garbage, period. The raiding is garbage. Spending all day waiting for a single giant turtle to spawn and then killing it before 5 other guilds who were also waiting int he same room all day, for ONE piece of loot, is, I'm sorry to say, moronic. Lvls 1-30 were fun. You get a new spell or ability every few lvls, you get your sub-job and new jobs, lots of fun gear, etc. Cute characters and a few quests. Lots of fun. But once you get past 30, and more so as you pass 50, it's just sitting around doing the EXACT same thing over and over and over. Dumb dumb dumb. WOW by contrast is FUN. Quests are fun. You complete a quest, and a goblin does a little dance and posions his friends. You get ITEMS for your efforts. When level, you get an ability point to spend on customizing your characters abilities. Every other level, you get new spells. Some are upgrades to old spells, others are completely new abilities, and this is true until lvl 60 (Contrast this to FFXI where you ONLY have spell-upgrades all the way from lvl 40 to 75, a span of XP that takes literally months to grind through). In closing: FFXI - Bullshit WOW - Top notch. Notion that "If everyone plays, it has to be bad" - Juvenile and stupid.

I'd say the most delicate part is the heat shield. Mine comes off often, and it's pretty obvious that two thin pegs that hold it in place will break off one day

One of the reason I buy kits, even when I don't have time to build them, is that having the kit makes me feel that the fantasy is just a little true... Especially when they are still clean and pristine, on their sprues. A fresh kit in the box feels FANTASTIC because, somehow in my mind, I think that this kit might be the one that I build PERFECTLY... so perfect it might as well be real! I almost think building perfect models is an attempt at recapturing the joy of child hood toys, where a wooden block with wheels on the side seemed like the real thing...

"Just because" isn't an answer. It sounds more like an unhealthy obsession than a fun hobby when it gets to the point that it literally takes days to inventory a collection. And comparing it to other "just because" hobbies doesn't really answer my question either. (Not that I don't appreciate the response, but I'm looking for something deeper)