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  1. Adafruit sell them at 5.95USD per strip and shes still making money some how!

    A single LED if what will be buried inside each engine.

    The LEDs are blindingly bright and run 4K colour. Same RGB colour coding as you'd use in Photoshop. Red 0-255, Green 0-255, Blue 0-255. SO pretty much ANY colour can be recreated.

    Will post a quick video tonight of the Deck light sequence in green then flashing red.

    The programming takes time to get your head round but when the penny drops and you get it working, damn its satisfying!

  2. Nothing like coming into the office on a Monday morning and finding a stack of packages waiting for you. Thunderseeker, 1D and a few Weapon/pilot packs just arrived. Friday I got an Adafruit Fadecandy Adruino board and some Neopixel strips to play with for the Carrier Deck direction lighting. Hopefully in the next day of two my servos and brass bits arrive for the Jet Blast Deflector raising mechanism.

    Big thanks to nicegear.co.nz for the overnight service on the electronics.

  3. Only after the Fighter models for now as they are all under perspex displays on the wall down the hallway liked pinned butterflies.

    Yeah I have the Hi Man misslies versions, the Super and Superstrike versions and some low viz versions of the ones I listed.

    Thanks for the VF-0A/S with Ghost suggestion. Just found 38 of them and bought one. Yeah they are expensive! $100USD.

    Are the Bandai YF-25 and VF-27 worth it? I thought they were toys not scale kits?

    Was there ever a VF-17 or 171?

  4. My hallway progect uses 1/72 Fighter mode kits

    I have the following so far

    VF-0A

    VF-0B

    VF-0C

    VF-0D

    VF-0S

    VF-1A

    VF-1D

    VF-1J

    VF-1S

    VE-1 Elintseeker

    VE-1 Ostrich

    VF-11B

    VE-11 Thunderseeker

    VF-11 Nothung II

    VF-19A

    YF-19

    YF-21

    RVF-25

    VF-25F

    VF-25G

    VF-25S

    SV-51 Nora

    Is there anything else out there to fill the voids in a "Development Timeline" display? Garage kit or Commercial ones.

  5. I have +200 issues of the White Dwarf magazine stored somewhere and I don't know what to do with them (the answer is clear: throw them away). So I know what your dealing with. A few years back I've drown all of my gaming magazines away so I got rid of some of my "archive". :D

    you donate them to a bunch of kids at the GW stores who are learning to paint their own stuff.

    I have it in my Will that if I am KIA on mission all my weapons and gear gets sold off away from my family as I doubt they'd want the reminders, my bikes go to my kids, the other hobby stuff goes to worthy people the family find that are doing it hard themselves. Preferably kids.

    I regularly give away all my 40K Heresy novels to anyone that wants to read them.

    I guess it depends on why you buy things in the first place. For me its because I want them. So once I have enjoyed them I pass them on as I never bought them as an investment.

    Its partly a Karma thing I think as all us Bomb Techs are a little superstitious and like to "Pay it forward" to keep the good luck credit in the green.

  6. ahh! just curious as it does sound very interesting but how exactly did you stumble across Macross whilst on deployment? ^_^

    You'll have to show us the display you are building! :)

    Back in 1999/2000 we didn't have access to the Net and Cell tech like they do now so at that time all we had was what we could stuff into out Base kits. I raided a Model shop in Darwin while at Robinson Barracks on Pre-deployment training and grabbed a few mags to read, some paints and tools to make unit logo templates to tag over other countries vehicles with and some Videos. Got the Robotech stuff. It was horrible but I liked the Veritech designs so I dug deeper when I got home. Also took a Freestyle BMX over ( pulled it down so it could be strapped to the back of the Field pack) for the guys to mess with off duty and the RNZEME guys brought over a HUGE TV for us all to watch stuff on. We played the Playstation Demo disc Ace Combat mission a million times! You'll do anything to forget you're in the jungle for 9 months!

  7. Well I got a lightning fast response from the Amazon Store I bought it through in Japan today. 15mins and I had an answer. They refunded my money in full including the freight costs on the spot with just my word on what had happened! They dont want the Tamiya kit back either so thats going up on the kiwi Trademe.co.nz site. And the money will be back in tonight so I can reorder the correct items!

    Pretty stellar service I'd say.

  8. Most of the weekend was spent out riding, watching the Winter Games and spray painting the hallway. No modelling progress unfortunately.

    On a plus not, my birthday presents all showed up from the kids...

    Alclad 9220 Airbrush set - from my daughter.

    10 Alclad paints from my son.

    1 VF Modelling Manual Master File and an Italeri Aircraft Carrier Deck and Blast Deflector to mold off from my youngest son.

    All in all, a good weekend.

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