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  1. pengbuzz
    Good call; money is hard enough to come by without some rip-off laying in wait for people to burn. I once ordered a V1.0 1/60 Yamato VF-1 and got burned on ebay. I couldn't challenge it because I ordered it on my friend's computer (I didn't have one at the time) and his PC crashed. All my stuff (including ebay purchase poof) was lost, ebay sided with the seller. This was back in the early '00's, so no chance of ever seeing it. Would have been nice to have a Yammie. Anyhoo: yeah, looks like these clowns aren't trustworthy Thom.
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    Okay, while I'm working on piecing together my latest self-designed valk, my wife found one of those wooden cigar boxes at a place she shops at: As you can see, it was pretty beat up. But It looked like a good candidate for a storage container for my valk part (alt nose and other stuff for my 1/72 models). So.... Of course, couldn't forget to do the original signage on the can with the "yo!" And plenty of room inside, plus more if needed;
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    Otherwise known as "achoo" camo (gesundheit).
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    Finally, some pics of my newest in progress: Yeah...it's a bit of a mess right now: I'm still in the "how the heck is this supposed to work" phase of designing this one out. The cockpit/ front body in white is not staying in that particular config for long; I just need to add more plastic as I build this. At this stage, the parts are merely "forms" that I am using for primary building blocks to establish the basic transform. Once the transform is assembled and tested, then it's on to adding plastic, details and grinding parts to shape. And I plan on this one being a real doozy... Stay tuned folks...
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    At least up until they lost control of the Evil-series bioweapons.
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    Maybe they should just have a tv series starring Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart playing these roles.:D
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    Thanks for the clarification; sometimes I don't perceive things correctly. At this point, the Protoculture strongly remind me of John Hammond from Jurassic Park; too bad Ian Malcom wasn't there to tell them: "If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox.." " Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun." "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." Maybe the part about "not earning it for themselves" might not be accurate, but I feel the rest is.
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    With the pilot being a "fail-safe" intended to ensure the weapon could not become autonomous on it's own and potentially turn on its' creators. Correct?
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    Love the job you did on Prowl! All you need is some decals and a copy of Inner Circle's "bad Boys" and you're good to go!
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    Hmm..I wonder if all Protoculture is extinct, of if perhaps a small pocket is still alive somewhere in the galaxy/ universe/ stored in heavy heavy layers of plot armor?
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    Derex, no offense bro... but either you mean milimeters or that's one pretty hefty saucah!!!
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    1/55's revisited

    pengbuzz replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    While they're at it, they should reissue the Macross as well.
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    Planning out my next project: another transforming fighter design. This time around, it's one of several stealth fighter designs developed in an inter-fleet contest in the campaign me and some friends were role-playing in Macross. I'll try to get some pics in a little bit: my camera is in the other room and I ache (old injuries) too much to go grab it at the moment.
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    For doing a period piece.
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    Maybe you could post it in the workshop thread?
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    Wow... a cold series in more ways than one!
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    Probably because they didn't get that far before the series got its' pink slip.
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    ROFL!!!
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    Planning on watching New Mobile Report Gundam Wing; really liked the series but missed a few episodes (around time when Trowa lost his memory).
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    You and I both, my friend. And if you were to ask Basara, he wouldn't care anyways.
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    1/60 VF-1S Roy w/ super/strike pack 1/60 VF-1J Hikaru 1/60 VF-1A Jenius 1/3000 TV SDF-1 1/6 Roy figure 1/6 Hikaru figure 1/6 Jenius figure 1/6 Misa figure 1/6 Global figure 1/6 Bridge Bunnies (essentially, the capability to set up flight, cockpit and bridge dioramas) And of course, 1/60 glaugs
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    Well, I took one of your shots and threw it into photoshop: Maybe a bit too dark on my part, but I at least got a glowy effect for ya! :D
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    Cool! Ship or Attacker mode?
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    I would have given some clearance here for a difference of opinion, but insisting that someone wanting Trek to be Trek is "stifling" negated that. Then the insinuation that to do so is to only want "the first three seasons of TNG" went beyond the pale. So with that... What we want is for series' that use the Star Trek name to actually resemble what the best of Trek has been shown to be from the various series. No series was perfect, but even at their worst, they still aimed for the dream and the vision even if that aim was off and the means were not so good. Discovery wrecks that by having characters so broken that they are nearly useless. Examples: Michael Burnham is loathsome, and Lorca is simply a one-dimensional character who then becomes a one dimensional villain. Picard is worse. Picard takes the characters we have come to know and love and turn them into deprecated, nearly amoral husks. I could never believe that Jean-Luc Picard from TNG would ever turn into such a grotesquely manipulative and surreptitious individual; we had seen the extent to which he would allow himself to "slide" in First Contact, but even then he pulled himself back when he saw what was happening to him. Yet this "Picard" seems to ahve no qualms about betraying a lifetime of moral values, duty and decency. Meantime, Riker doesn't have any questions about Picard's "mission", but just goes along with his shtick? In All Good Things", Riker's response in bringing out the Refeit Galaxy Class to rescue Picard, only to tear into him about what he's done is more how I would view Riker's response to such a stunt. Yet we're supposed to buy him just saying "you allright" and then showing up with a fleet in time to save Pot-Luc Picard from his own stupidity? But your opinion is apparently that such thoughts "stifle Trek". Well, since I have an opinion too, here's what I think "stifles Trek": Trying to make it into a cheap cosplay of R-BSG that uses Trek sets and uniforms. And with that folks, I'm done here. Thanks for having me. -pb out.
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    Because the series sucks. I've watched more than a few Discovery and Picard episodes, and they aren't Trek. Everything that makes Trek enjoyable has been drained from them and replaced with abominable people in an abominable time and place. Did you honestly expect praise and adulation for a show that is supposed to be set in a world and era of optimism and exploration to deliver the exact opposite? Is that the kind of thing we're supposed to praise in a Trek series? Then there is the complaint of "the covnersations are just connnnsttannnntttt negativity. FFS" Wow. So now it's "love the show or be accused of constant negativity"? And yet we're all "constantly negative" for feeling that way and calling these two series on completely going against the entire point of Star Trek? Here's a little something for free: the problem with both Picard and Discovery is that they constantly portray everything as never ending suck. Disco's issue is that it drowns in it; Picard's is that it does that AND drowns the viewer in it as well. The only bright spot in Discovery was Pike and his crew aboard the Enterprise; in Picard, it was Hugh (whom they decided to kill just to be sucky). But what you don't seem to get it: real life is bad enough without the entertainment we watch ramming suckiness down our throats to boot. If folks wanted that, they would just pay attention to real life 24/7!!!! So the lesson here then is this: if a bunch of people are being negative about something continuously, chances are, there is something WRONG WITH THE THING THEY ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT. You want positive? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has that potential, if the showrunners pull their heads out of their posteriors and actually make the series about being bold explorers, instead of whiny people who cannot accept responsibility for their bad decisions or dark parodies of beloved classic characters who inexplicably betray a lifetime of moral integrity, duty and honor to become a twisted simulacrum that mocks and cruelly destroys the character in sadistic steps before the aghast viewer. And perhaps when we stop embracing continual darkness and grittiness in our shows, real life may start resembling something that is brighter and more optimistic itself. What we feed feeds us. -pb.
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