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    The very same, and yes on all accounts.
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    Yeah, i was being facetious. What's the price range of Metal Builds? GFFMCs? I know the Hi-Res Barbatos was ~15000JPY (~150 USD/Euro), and the Wing Zero is right around the same. At that price point, I wonder if it wouldn't be more economical to just get the GFFMC (or the PG, which offers a significantly larger model). As for canonicity, apparently the Hi-res is based on the latest "tweak" to the Wing Zero from the Gundam Wing manga retelling, Glory of the Defeated. The beefy proportions are a Hi-Res flourish, but it's more or less a canon design, just one that not many fans outside of Japan have seen. I asked about it as well, since the first images of the Hi-Res looked so alien to me. The answer I got, from two people: WZC 2.0 is interesting was to differentiate the design. When WZC first appeared on the Cover of Frozen Teardrop it's design was largely unchanged, just revised in portions. When WZC Zero first appeared in the GOL Manga it's design was changed to match the RG kits (specifically the panel lines and wings) The wing's depending on how there drawn bounce back and foruth due to the nature of the floaty feather design and artistic liberties. When Zero swapped over to Heero in Vol.10 of GOL it got some more changes. 1. More ear fins, The blue part of the ears slide open and white fins protrude. 2. The search eye, slightly opens up refealing side details. 3. Green side chest lens similar to proto zero. Were still 2-3 months out from Vol 12 of GOL it seems so who know whats in store. @Kajnrig. In short, the design for the Hi-RM WZC is using the current design elements from the GOL manga and then taking steroids. Similar to the Hi-RM Barbatos, the Metal Build Destiny Gundam, or even the "Extra Fit" resin kit designs. They are reworking them to there own design flavor. I don't expect the Hi-RM to ever appear in GOL because of how far away it is from Katoki's artwork style. Neverless it is still very cool to see something different than the tiny chages that WZC normally gets from modelers.
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    Ooh! Ooh! Kshatriya! Kshatriya! ... ...no? I'm wrong? Well then, what could it POSSIBLY be, I wonder?
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    Thanks for the info. I remember the Metal Build Laevatein released a while back. I wasn't a fan of the as you say styling design changes they made to it, but I'm glad to see the Arbalest getting a MB release as well. When did GFF start going up in scale? I remember them being around 1/144 scale, and always thought of them as top-tier MSIA Gundam toys. I guess I just always assumed they had stuck to that scale.
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    I keep thinking back to Life (which was also described as a successor - spiritually - to Alien) and why I enjoyed it more than Covenant. Spoiler just for the sake of discussing plot details.
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    So I'm just waiting impatiently for Vanquish to unlock on PC in nine hours...
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    What are the current premium figure lines, and what's the difference between them? I remember there being just GFF way back in the day for Gundam, Yamato for Macross, etc. Now there's Metal Build, DX Chogokin, GFFMC even though GFF still exists(?), GFF Next... Anyone care to explain why Bandai has so many different lines and what the differences are between all of them? And now mixing lines with this newest GFFMC WZC feat. MB? What's next, GFF Next MC RX-0 starring Real Grade MB/Hi-Res feat. Perfect MG "Accelerate Evolution"?
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    I haven't seen this movie yet, but this video sure makes me want to now. I was tempted to just spam this video across all the DC movie threads and the GitS thread, but hurray self-control. (Also necropost.)
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    Saw this on another forum: http://gundameclipse.net/topic/8103770/1/ Dig the mods, and the color scheme made me think of Alto's -29 from the Frontier movie. Really like what they did. Only shame is that it no longer looks like a transforming design (and indeed it wouldn't be able to do so, even if the guy hadn't glued it into place).
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    I literally was not aware of this. Thank you for the PSA, this now clears up SO MUCH for me.
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    1.) Yeah, but not nearly to the same degree as the VF-31. Leading edge-wise, it's nearly a 1.5:1 RSW-to-FSW ratio (eyeballing it). Others (also eyeballing) are anywhere between 0:1 and 0.5:1. If that even makes any sense. What am I even on about... 2.) The first time I saw the switchblade mechanism I nearly crashed the plane out of spite. "No! NO! You do NOT get to do that! BAD fictional airplane! BAD!" 2a.) I like to headcanon that the -19's alternate wing configuration is a low-profile storage mode for aircraft carriers and that's it. It's just super super dumb any other way. About the only way they could believably work in battle is if parts of them fold in/on top of/accordion themselves, and that's just... asldk;fja;slkdjf;aslkjfa;slkdjf
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    Dang, beat me to the punch. Well, I guess I can take second place with a response video:
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    I thought about doing that, too, but got lazy. You're also spot on about being "used to a certain silhouette." Real-life FSW aircraft run the gamut in design, but we've never seen a compound delta wing design that terminates in a FSW tip. (At least I haven't.) We don't have any "proof," so to speak, that such a design would fly. The -31A looks more flight-worthy than the -31J/S/etc. simply because its delta wing terminates in more delta wing, and we see that type of design fly all the time. And in Macross the only FSW designs up until the -31 have had fairly large wings. It bears mentioning though that from different angles, especially ones that emphasize the slight downward tilt of the wings, I think the design looks just fine. Great, in fact. It's such an odd thing, I can't quite put my finger on it. The position/existence of the canards? The link seti888 just shared removes them, and I think it looks great. I used to think the X-02 Wyvern from Ace Combat looks similarly funky, but it's grown on me, too, especially with its unique almost-zero vertical surfaces supersonic mode. I dunno. I'm so confused.
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    We've all seen Transformers and The Room. We know what it means for a movie to truly suck.
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    Saw it on a whim earlier today. I don't really care about the Alien franchise; the only one I've seen was Alien, and that about a year ago or so. I thought it was fine, and I can see why it became a hit, but I wasn't struck by it as maybe I would have been ten, twenty years ago. So going into this, I wasn't looking for a good horror/sci-fi/action movie so much as just a good movie. I was completely okay with it, could chalk this and that up to suspension of disbelief, until
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    I don't know how accurate this is - I sourced the top-down views from various pics. The VF-31 comes from the Bandai model kit instruction manual, the -19 and -29 from anymoon.com (Thanks much! ). I tried to scale them based on the cockpits, but this is still a very very rough comparison. Still, as far as general silhouettes are concerned, I think this does a decent enough job depicting the problems I have with the -31. The wings are way longer on the -29 and -19 than the -31; and the -29's wing roots are located closer to the midline than the -31's. The tailfins on both are positioned closer to the legs. The modded -31 is much less wide than the -19 and -29, but better maintains their appealing size ratio of wing to midsection.
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    I dunno about them, but I saw my brother watching it on Netflix. (I think.)
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    Personally, I don't like that the 31's main body is so wide and the FSW so small. Compare it to the YF-19 and even the YF-29, where the wings sit closer to the centerline and represent much more of the plane's total width. The tail fins likewise sitting so far out from the center of the plane bothers me. I'm not sure where the wing "roots" would be considered on this design since it's sort of a blended wing design, but for my money, moving the entire section where the tailfins sit and the FSW begins in just a bit would do a lot to mitigate my problems with the design. Like so: I would still shave off bits from the area just forward of the wings to further "slim" it down, but otherwise I have less of a problem with this than the original.
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    The latest episode is probably the most "grounded" of them so far. It's definitely the easiest for a general audience to take in. Enjoyed it as much as some other episodes, more than others, and all in all had a good time with it. The actor who plays Anubis (or maybe some other god of death, or maybe Death itself, I remember being a bit hazy on that in the books as well) is excellent. I'd love for Sandman's Death to make a cameo sometime. She's just my absolute favorite depiction of Death ever.
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    1.) Oh, okay. From what was said right beforehand, I thought you might have meant that M+ treated some of the lore differently from the rest of the show, or maybe it pulled off generational storytelling differently than its predecessors/descendants, or something. I was just confused and needed clarification is all. 2.) Watching the movie version again, the scene of Marje buying the chip happens during the concert (specifically when Myung by way of Sharon kisses Isamu), and the implication I got was that this exchange happened either sometime beforehand or almost immediately after the concert. The fire breaking out happens later that night, so... if the chip was installed beforehand, then Sharon acted on the feelings she experienced in Myung during the concert. If the chip was installed afterward, then the timing gets a bit more handwavey, but in general I think Sharon does much the same thing: takes the things she learned from Myung and puts them into practice. 3.) Ah, okay, I see where you're going with this now. It's a neat theory, and it certainly can't be worse than the half-baked characterization we got (of everybody) in Delta. Personally, I wanted Mikumo to be a sort of "powerhouse" singer who knew how to belt out lyrics but couldn't project emotion into them (contrasting to, say, Kaname, who I think they were trending toward being a softer singer with wider emotional range). As for Lady M... I'm sort of meh on that whole mystery. It'd be cool if she were Minmei, or Myung, or anyone else people have posited, or even a new character altogether. /shrug
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    1.) Differences to what? The OVA? 2.) I always thought the case was that she was constrained to and could only maintain herself as she is inside her original black box shell because of the neurochip. Even if she were to copy herself wholesale onto a different server, she required that neurochip specifically to be able to be what she is. 3.) Does Mikumo mirror Sharon? I don't remember much of Delta, but I thought Sharon was a form of "simple" light-sound hypnotism whereas Mikumo/Basara/Ranka/etc. affected fold space or some such thing.
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    I'm waiting for the cold open that's just the ending scene of Life.
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    Saw Millennium Actress again for the umpteenth time. Still such a good movie. Never fails to bring me to my knees.
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    Well, the 31A certainly looks more like the 31's immediate predecessor, the YF-30 Chronos. The forward-swept wings were likely chosen simply to give the VF-31 a "W" silhouette to match up with Walkure. The 31A is the "regular" look, so I think it'd be fair to say that even in universe, your feeling that the forward-swept wings are an afterthought are more or less on the ball.
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    That's hot.
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