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armentage

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  1. Whenever I do more than 1 at a time, I end up NEVER finishing anything So now I try to stick to one at a time, but that one just ends up taking months to finish (I'm about to start Decal'ing my YF-21 that I started back in June...)
  2. 336807[/snapback] Jesus christ that's awful. He totally missed the aesthetic point!
  3. I don't mean to knock your amazing Valk (I really love the decals!) but why does the whole thing seem to be curved? It almost feels like there's a 170 degree arc running between the feet and legs & the nose... Is it just an artifact of wide angle photography?
  4. I LOVE girls in helmets and pink leotards.
  5. Sorry Keith, but you're dead wrong. Mospeada WAS about revenge. Stig was a VERY flat character, who felt and said nothing other than "lets kill some farting Inbit" for most of the series. The only reason he ever moved past any of that was because of Aisha (again, what a stupid name. Mylene was at least human sounding) having been A CLONE of his dead girlfriend. You can accuse me of being a cold person, but I would not go all Igami Itto (Loan Wolf) over the loss of my girlfriend. I have strong feelings for her, but they would not drive me to single mindedly focus on butchering and toppling those that did her wrong. Stig NEVER had a strong sense of justice; he only wanted to kill Inbit. It was always Houquet, Ray, or Yellow (and later Mint) that would persuade him to stop for a second and help others. If I was the sole survivor of an invasion force, I'd find the first broad bottomed woman of child bearing age available and settle down, so I could forget about all the horror I had seen. Personally I feel that this is one of the things that seperates Japanese fiction from Western (or at least American) fiction; our heros are rarely psychopaths. If anything, they are the opposite; the only sane person in an insane world, who doesn't give a poo about what others think and strives to create the greatest good for everyone. Japanese heros, by contrast, think only of themselves and seek only to right whatever wrong was commited against them (or their family/clan/sentai-team, whatever). 3 long paragraphs later, I rest.
  6. Mospeda did have great OP music, but overall it was pretty lacking. I mean, the story WAS a little flat... they would just drive around from town to town, cause some trouble, help some people, and then move on. Super formulaic. It was like Highway to Heaven with mecha motorcycles instead of Michael Landon. Like Bill Bixby without the Gamma-radiation. But about it being too cool... well in some ways you might think it has a scent of Tarentino to it, but I'd chalk that up more to old-west references. A spaghetti western with "Stig" (what an assanine name) instead of Eastwood. Instead of John Wayne, we get "Jim". Don't get me wrong; for 1983 it was a fantastic show. There have NEVER been all that many stories done where humans have already lost[/] and then try to take it back. It's a lot like your typical rebels trying to take back their country, trying to coax people with a defeated spirit into fighting again, but... with mecha motorcycles. Oh, and did I mention the animation was absolutely awful? Macross was drawn sooooo much better. I'll say this - the Jack McKinnely novels did a much better job telling the story they were trying to tell than the anime did. Being out there, on the road, on the run, it's all too personal. People's feelings and emotions, their reasons and motivations couldn't be explained very well in the anime medium, especially with their low budget and crappy animation.
  7. Maybe if Katoki was allowed nowhere near it. His interpretation of the Turn-A is awful. 336736[/snapback] Where can we see this awful inteprettation? Katoki's my favorite overall Gundam designer but the Turn-A is one of my absolute favorite Gundams... surprised to hear that they don't go well together!
  8. What's an "LE" product?
  9. That toy seriously looks like a piece of garbage. The proportions, colors, etc. they are all horrible. It looks like two toys with no connection to each other smashed together with some rubber cement. It's ugly to boot all by itself.
  10. Haha, I used to do that myself. We had a big deck and I'd setup all my modeling gear in a box so I could move it in and outside (in case of rain etc) at night. It was very pleasant, and there's no trouble with poisonous fumes.
  11. I was looking at some of the other models on your site, and I must say that they are fantastic! I especially like the real-world military color schemes on your Gundams. The green/tans are gorgeous. One question -- what effect are you trying to show on your L.E.D. Mirage page, near the bottom? You paint a piece with several colors before giving it an overcoat of very opaque white. I understand that the glow from the undercoats makes a new effect, but what are you trying to simulate there?
  12. for that hunk of resin... $85 is reasonable, IMHO maybe could you lower the cost with Rotocast? Can a caster comment on this?? 336028[/snapback] Rotocast? Is this a comment to the casters or to buyers?
  13. I'd love to have one, but $85 is a bit too much
  14. Testor's liquid cement is very nice. It's a welder, but a very gentle one - far more gentle than the Testor's orange tube. I used the orange testor's for years. If you're not careful, you can really mar up your model with stray drops of glue. Once it starts to get too thick, you better toss out the tube - you start to get strands of glue that refuse to go away. The loose strands will end up maring your kit something awful! Lately I've been using the newer blue testors tube. It smells better and seems to be more gentle. I haven't seen it actually mar a model, and it seems to okay on paint. The liquid cement is fantastic. It's not as strong as the tube, but it gets the job done VERY well for small pieces. It's easy to dab it in to small crevices.
  15. If you do get the Plexi-Stands, be aware that it is difficult to pose a strike-valk if you're using 3 equal-length rods (each stand comes with 3 long rods to rest your toy on). If you want to pose your Valk flying level, you're probably going to want 1 long rod (to go under the nose) and 2 short rods (support the legs/engines) Look at my ... diagram... /=----------------------------((+==(== <<--- Strike pack! \===================== <<<(((( _____ /==================== ---<<--------/---------------------- ^ \\\===== \=====_________ Nose \\ \=============== ^^^^ legs/thrusters To get a pose like this, you'll need something like a 5" rod for the nose and 3" rods for the back.
  16. I'm really feeling the comments about a lil-dough going a long way. Primers and Paints can be REALLY expensive! Mr Primer comes in the tiniest little cans, which must be half-empty, and can run me as much was $9 each down in NYC Chinatown. I like hearing about all these cheap alternatives... sometimes I get the feeling that recommendations of "The BEST" where the best costs 10x as much as everything else are just penis-lenght competitions...
  17. I hear all sorts of good things about "Plasti-Kote" primer. It's inexpensive and available at many large retail chains in the US. There's Mr Surfacer.... the thin spray puts down such an amazingly smooth and thin coat.
  18. The art work is great, but your site is very hard to navigate. Lose the silly little tiles and give us a real preview of the images, along with some text that lets me know what I am going to be looking at when I follow a link. Imagine a handicapped person trying to navigate your site, or someone with poor vision. They would be extremely frustrated. Fancy/cool page design might be fun for the designer but its usually a pain in the ass for the web browser.
  19. How about tricks for holding heavier pieces? Masking tape on skewers sure does sound like a great idea - it's a varation on what I do now (I'll ball up tape on the end of a paint brush). When working with pieces that have Poly-caps, sometimes I'll mount a limb on old-school Testors plastic brushes. They happen to be the perfect diameter and material (harder version of the same sort of rubber) to mate with a Polycap plug.
  20. Can someone point me to some nice tools for holding my model pieces while airbrushing? I have a pair of surgical forceps that I've been using while modeling for almost 20 years now (I dont even know where I got them) and while they are great, I only have the 1, and they are pretty expensive ($10 each) So what I'd like to hear are some suggestions of tools for holding and mount small model pieces (i.e. gundam armor, landing gears, etc) for spraying/painting. Let the games begin! Thanks!
  21. Are these booster kits still available anywhere?
  22. HEHEH I have Protoculture Adicts #3! It was absolutely awful, but oh, how I worshipped it. I must have read it 300 times. If I can even find it anymore, I'm sure the pages have yellowed and begun to disintigrate
  23. You know, I don't know where I got it form, but some how I ended up with a copy of Animag 12 sometime in 1990. I didn't order it, I think US Renditions sent it to me as some sort of a promotion for having bought the Robotech VHS Box set from them (FHE!) Man, that brings back some memories. I remember looking through those old magazines in rapt AWE of that stuff, thinking "these must be the best stories EVER!" Sure, looking back, most of the titles they were reviewing were junk imitations of the other titles that were well known here (L-Gaim, various Ninja stuff, etc), but it did make an impression. We ought of have some sort of Anime Nebula Awards thanking those old timers for helping to make anime so accessable in the US.
  24. $13 dollar shipping? I paid less to get an entire 1/48th shipped 3000 miles.
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