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    Ti with a Black wash and Silver dry brush would contrast pretty good.
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    Make it realistic and that would be the Flat white. They do it to assess damage and potential FOD hazards. Painting the Impeller blades in Titanium will give it a slight gold tinge that will contrast it well and still look the part. BTW Jas, I wouldnt expect the intake WOULD know the fans inside... its just an intake after all... Long day huh?
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    I love how the image show it with a squadron of Lemon F-35s aboard. THAT wont be happening...
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    Theres a great article about him on the net. He raced the next weekend at the Last Daytona 200 on a Triumph Daytona 675R, had to be lifted on to the bike, qualified on the Saturday and still came in mid pack. That was last year. They have to modify his leathers to suit. The sternum wires are from previous heart surgery. And he still does Road cycling and cleaned up the Georgia series. Seems when someone in my family gets knocked down, they are stupid enough to try to get straight back up. Besides, his collarbone only snapped into 4 pieces, mine was 5 so I win that round.
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    If this has been up before, I apologize, if not, well worth the watch and always makes my toes curl as I've been on the back deck as some helos tried to land in pitching deck conditions. At one point a trainee pilot ended up flaring his SeaKing too soon and missed the rear, finding himself at our level just above the ships wake looking us in the eye horrified. The Navy pers all freaked. As helpful Army pers we just pointed up... This one features VFA-14 Tophatters and VFA-41 Black Aces
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    they are running off 3 LR44 cells for 4.5v total so a USB power supply at 5V can run these. The resistors to run LEDs off 5v are for Red, Yellow, or Yellow-Green LEDs (1.8V) use 150Ω which is Brown Green Brown For Blue, Green, White, or UV (3.3V) use 68Ω which is Blue Sliver Black
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    Some of one of my brothers hardware
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    lol my family has a fascinating Genetic defect whereby we feel only sharp protrusion pain (ie needles etc) but little else. I can burn myself, break bones, tear ligaments etc with little reaction. I've had 15 concussions, 7 punctured lungs, 9 dislocated knees, pins in both thumbs, plates in wrists and fingers, broken sternum, arm, ankles, collarbone in 5 places, nose, LOTS of Stitches and Staples, dislocated hip, jaw, fingers, especially thumbs and a ton of burns and so on... Minor breaks like fingers I dont bother to get fixed now, I just reset them and tape them up myself and carry on. Most casting and taping and padding to really just to make people feel less discomfort... well... we can skip that step. Kids are the same - my daughter is more level headed but still has broken an arm and her jaw racing, the boys... reckless. I pulled 2 pieces of door skin and one sliver of shell casing from my ribs and lung (didnt realise it had punctured it) after a roadside IED attack. They are my favorites now and make for great conversation starters... and enders. My brother binned an MTB and buried the chainring in his leg starting at the ankle and shaving it to the bone to up under his knee. He lay on the ground complaining about a graze on his forearm, never even blinked at the leg impaling. Spectators were throwing up. 48 staples later its an epic scar! Just imagine the fun I have with powertools and soldering irons when I'm modelling... Nothing hard or heroic (perhaps moronic though), we just dont feel it, i'm sure if we did, we'd run screaming to mum. On a more relevent note, as of last night I have completed the VF-0 series with the purchase of a VF-0B! So now have the VF-0A with QB2200 GHOST, 0B, 0C, 0D, 0S. Thinking I may seperate the Ghost and have that on its own display as I'll have Jasonc's ghost as well.
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    But.... nothing beats this appalling nightmare
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    This was pretty bad...
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    Mount a vacuum cleaner nozzle on the bench next to the lathe with a Quick Clamp. Halves the mess.
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    Thinking I might buy it for the kids
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    Your beastie would look good in a similar wall display... Cambrian Plastics have begun making the first of the Acrylic Covers for the displays today. They made my display cases for my Medals, Unit Plaques, Titanium and Stainless pins, plates and screws (broken many bones over the years) and IED/EOD souvenirs that I've collected from devices I've worked on or pulled from myself. Really good work, really good pricing and REALLY fast!
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    as I understood it, the Tactics game itself isnt that bad its just the production issues with the figures right?
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    1/72 scale Regult?
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    Thats a mistake. Katee Sackoff played a great gender irrelevant Starbuck and the series was pretty good aside from the rushed ending due to the screenwriters strikes. The female characters in Razor, the Battlestar Pegasus Story are brillaintly done without an ounce of sexism.
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    Tonights meagre efforts... the install of the first of the Hallway display plates for the Valks. Each plate is held in place to the back frame by Extra heavy duty Cabinet Door Latch magnets for easy removal and swapping and will get a 3mm Acrylic cover and 4 hidden LEDs as mini spotlights glowing from under each Valk. They will be hooked into the same PIR sensor that turns on the end display rack as someone steps out into the hall. Each will light up at a 0.5sec delay down the hall as a night light.
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    Thats pretty much how I fell back into all this as well. Check out "Photoreal Macross" and "Yukikaze" on google
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    All in pieces at the moment. I have 21 Valks I'm in various stages, from :only opened the box" to "ready for weathering and mounting" that I'm building into a hallway display like the Macross Museum. I can email you links as each is finished if you like.
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    ohhhh
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    Sorry Jeff...
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    damn that messes with your head looking at it. The longer you look at each photo, the more your mind convinces you its a 2D CEL and not a 3D physical object!
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    Theres somewhere you really would have to be unlucky to be billeted. Having a room in one of the main Cannon arms would get a little tingly.
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    Bandai, only one I can find in 1/72
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    Macross figures

    NZEOD replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Some good resources in that Link!
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