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1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

He’s one of the reasons I have a hard time trying to convince myself to rewatch the prequels. Rose might have annoyed people, but this guy was the true Phantom Menace. 

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

Nope. This is a fail. It’s also too expensive to buy just to burn it in the backyard 

33 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

I think microset is just vinegar, anyway. Microsol....not so easy to figure out.

I’ve never checked. I don’t use it because the decal film usually has a glue, possibly starch and it sticks to the model. I’ve never had a waterslide fall off , but have heard of it happening. That could possibly be due to leaving the decal in water for too long, but I’m not really sure on that. 

1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

Do you use decal solvent, such as Micro-sol?

I use it , but if it’s a flat surface and there’s no offending bubbles or anything I sometimes skip it. If there are panels under the decals or rounded surfaces, then it’s pretty much required to get them to conform to the surface shape. I’ve never had to use the microset or any other decal setting solutions yet, but I have some handy just in case the need ever arises.

I don’t know about the 1/20 kit happening or not, but I have a feeling things will just be a bit simplified between offerings of the companies. Something more like 1/35 Votoms handled by wave and the larger ones by Max factory or 1/72 MaxFactory battroids for the wave 1/72 fighter kits. 
I know the people that bought into the 1/20 Macross kits would love to see a battroid, but I’m curious about how well those sold. I have a feeling that if it happens, it will be in small numbers. But I guess we’ll see how things go over time. 

1 hour ago, Urashiman said:

yeah ... the illegible is hard to read, but the katakana here is "sensaadoomu", so sensor dome?

It senses impending doom, so sensadoomu works

1 hour ago, Urashiman said:

yep ... but the turpentine got through it too easily and killed everything. There are also other crazy methods when it comes to decals.
1. Gloss coat
2. Apply decals
3. Gloss coat
4. Sand decals, and carefully sand off the clear decal carrier foil
5. Gloss coat again

result: no small edges around the decals.

downpoint: it takes ages, so I am not doing it. haha

I usually do gloss then decal, then gloss and a quick light sand and if it still shows then just brush a little gloss around the offfending edge and usually the leveling will make the edges disappear. It really doesn’t take that much time, maybe an hour. I then put the kit off to the side and try to forget about it for a couple days. Then I do the weathering.

3 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Good knowing that Godzilla is doing great in the box office these past few months. Maybe the STAR WARS and STAR TREK folk will learn from this?? Nah!!! 🤣

 

 

They did. That’s how the Obi show started. Lots of idiotic characters no one cares about, stupid plot and hope everyone forgives the bad writing by having big fights here and there. Same basic formula 

2 minutes ago, Warmachine said:

For right now I am looking for builder who can make macross , like design on various design softwares

Are you looking for custom parts or something built from the ground up?

11 minutes ago, Warmachine said:

Anyone can suggest me builder who can design and modelling  of macross and gundam, if you guys know anyone please suggest me , no need to share portfolio , i just want to have Google meet to see previous work

Thanks 

Maybe check out some of the folk on Etsy or Shapeways. Project V hobbies sells mostly custom gundam parts to places like USA Gundamstore and other anime related websites for hobbies.

What kind of project are you looking for?

2 hours ago, VF-1A Grunt said:

I’ve always wanted to build a diorama with a couple brown VF-1As defending a city street with a group of Regults rounding the corner at the other end of the block. I envision having one Battroid crouching in a huge bomb crater in the street with another taking cover at the corner of a building. I never thought the Hasegawa Battroid would have the flexibility to do those poses, but the Plamax model definitely looks like it could. Can’t wait to see them release the -1A.

I’m still waiting to see how much movement the knees and feet get, but I’m hopeful after seeing the shoulder and torso movement.

1 hour ago, Urashiman said:

I‘d do that too, but I am super horrible at washing. Last time I did that killed my decals.

Did you put a top coat on the decals after they were applied?

2 hours ago, Bolt said:

Yes, this is a very dynamic looking kit . And I'm looking forward to it dropping. 
Can't wait to see the dioramas with this one.

I bet there will be a few dioramas. Some where it’s fallen back into a building and some where it’s fallen forward into a Chinese restaurant/ apartment building 

I just checked out of curiosity and there’s one fairly close to me in Ontario CA

4 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Malls are still a thing? I thought most of those kind of shriveled up and died years ago during the lockdowns.

Nah, they opened up after, just with angrier kids

6 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

What mall still has a Disney Store?

I thought they all did 

29 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

It would be cool if Disney Movie Insiders has this poster available with their points.

Maybe at the Disney store at the mall. It’s a bit of hopeful thinking, but who knows where Macross merch may turn up in the near future 

18 minutes ago, GMK said:

I can’t be the only one that can’t wait to see the -1D painted up in the brown/orange scheme?

After seeing the recent pictures of the 1J I’m even more excited for the 1D. If I could find some in scale buildings to have it smashed into, it would make a great diorama especially with that an crunch

1 hour ago, Mog said:

Another old custom.

Trying to mimic the ROTJ pose on the Sail Barge:

And yeah, I know he wasn’t wearing the glove yet. 

He looks like he’s got some major ptsd. 

2 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Yeah. It has been declared accessible for the scion. He likes it.

Now on to the VF-19 front.

Paintjob done, gloss coat applied. Now it needs to cure for 24 hours. Then I can oil color wash it. Then decals after the wash.

I usually do the wash after decals and topcoat so the decals get the same weathering and panel lining as the rest of the kit

2 hours ago, MisaForever said:

LOL!! So THAT'S what he said. I never understood it. 😆

He say it like “mEEEanmAY!!!”, but it was totally Roy

The Zentraedi at the beginning are pretty hilarious as well 

30 minutes ago, MisaForever said:

Clash of the Bionoids: The best and only dub of DYRL. 

"You can still fight when you're drunk! *hic*" - Roy Focker

That’s the best part of the dub. That and when Hikaru is so saddened by Roy dying that he calls Roy by his girlfriend’s name

55 minutes ago, MKT said:

Thanks for translating the captions @tekering. Was trying to use google translate earlier but some words were too low res for the translator to read.

 

I guess that panel line underside of cockpit is all we get as visual clue for landing gear bay door.. Too bad no lines on the legs to indicate the rear gears' doors, but then again we don't see this either in the line art for most other VFs.

I was looking for other images that might show any landing gear panels and other than one or two black and white line images, I could only find that little panel for the front. The color pictures of the underside didn’t even show the front panel 

12 hours ago, sh9000 said:

I'll probably only get Robin.  Already have that Batman from the Amazon 6 Pack.

Those are probably my least favorite Batman and Robin suits. It may be a tie with the follow up films suits. Basically all the Schumacher suits were way too flamboyant 

Trooper Eddie is always cool, but I’m more partial to Killers Eddie even though I tend to like Bruce Dickinson stuff a bit more