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  1. pengbuzz
    No. All the other kit had were the arms, what was left of the feet and the missile pod and gun. Effectively, this project is dead; there's nothing to hold it together in soldier mode.
  2. pengbuzz
    From FoxNews: Shelley Duvall, 'The Shining' star, dies at 75 (more): https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shelley-duvall-shining-star-dies-75
  3. pengbuzz
    There's sad, there's "the entire universe hates me" sad, and then there's "I'm Anakin and the entire universe is made of sand" sad. That goes in the third category.
  4. pengbuzz
    UPDATE: You'd think by now I'd learn my lesson about "older kits". Well... apparently, I haven't: The entire transform for the central chest crumbled to pieces on me. It took the hinge for the nose, the central chest and the chest door with it. This happened while I was using plastic welder to fix a final part in position; the result was plastic welder getting all over my freshly-polished canopy. Also for some weird reason, the nose split in half lengthwise just under the canopy; the following pic was after I attempted to save the nose by trying to smooth down the ragged areas and "squaring off" where the cockpit/ canopy had separated (the other side has a gaping maw that doesn't look too promising): I also scraped off as much plastic welder as I could from the canopy, but it's pretty badly hazed here. Started with my polishing films before setting this aside, which is why it looks "rough sanded'. The side glove vanes completely disintegrated to crumbs; all that was left were the polycap joints. In any event, I'm stepping back from this unholy disaster to reconsider if I want to continue with this one or not. It's shaken my confidence that badly.
  5. pengbuzz
    Then they would have bought Paramount, not Lucasfilms.
  6. pengbuzz
    Probably Disney's revenge for The Black Hole not doing as well as Star Wars back when they released it in 1979...
  7. pengbuzz
    I think this fits:
  8. pengbuzz
    UPDATE: I revised the hip/ pelvic slider setup into one metal bar with ball joints at either end. This allows the hips to splay out and for one single unit to slide the legs/ engines forward for transformation: It's far more stable now, and the wait/ pelvis is mostly solid styrene/ plastic welder resin at this point. Which is MORE than I can say for the rest of this PIECE OF-- *clears throat* To the point: the sensor unit on a hinged flap (the one that partially covers the gaping maw in the back of the fighter) snapped off on me today. Needless to say, I was not impressed by this in the least: The joint was flimsy to begin with, but I suspect the styrene mix this run of models was pressed from is like that of the RotJ large X-Wing fighter: soft and possibly including air/ gas in the mix, making it more porous. But as stated previously: every time this thing gives me grief I take my frustration out on it with more modifications: I extended the sensor door/ torso cover so that it covers the entire cavity and not only half of it. I'm seriously thinking of putting it on a ball-jointed swing-arm so that it can go to either shoulder. Not sure how that would work; we'll see if I can make that work. One other issue are the stupidly-small (pretty much asinine-small ) ailerons that stick out of the arms (from previous pics of this model earlier in the build): Since this kit is supposed to be Leader-1 from Gobots, I'm taking some liberties here with the final config on this build. This is my baseline here: While I'm not trying to build an exact replica in 1/72 (already have a MP Leader-1 I did several years ago); I'd like to include enough "hallmarks" to indicate who this is supposed to be. So my idea is to relocate the ailerons elsewhere on this kit: The pencil line (it's on both sides) denotes where the hinge for the aileron(s) will go. In robot mode, the aileron will simply flip backwards on the leg and should neatly tuck just under the raised area (on an angle). This way, I can make it "much larger without it interfering with the arm transformation. As for the old ailerons: I simply put glue on them and folded them back into place. Stay tuned....
  9. pengbuzz
    Apparently, no one aboard the Macross ever heard of "washing your plane"....
  10. pengbuzz
    And projects the NUNS roundel in space.
  11. pengbuzz
    A lot of times, I use a polypropylene pallet and put a puddle of tube glue in there. Then I use a toothpick to apply it where I need it.
  12. pengbuzz
    Just wait til we get to the Ten Kings Sword...
  13. pengbuzz
    Some Borg nanites... a few hours...you never know... Lady M gets desperate and makes contact somehow with the Borg...
  14. pengbuzz
    In class? Now I feel old; I was 26 when that came out!
  15. pengbuzz
    Yeah, but plastic doesn't flutter.
  16. pengbuzz
    On that note: I was curious as to what "Durandal" meant (kept getting it confused with Durango ) so I looked it up: https://allthatsinteresting.com/durandal-sword Basically, it's also known as the Sword of Roland, the French equivalent of Excalibur. So I'm guessing that the name was meant to signify how powerful this fighter was. (Reminds me of the VF-19's callsign).
  17. pengbuzz
    Huh... imagine a machine intelligence infected a NUNS fleet and all its' mecha came to life?
  18. pengbuzz
    See if you can contact them; if you can't on eBay, they have a main site you could try. It could be an error on their part or something fouled up. Try asking them and see.
  19. pengbuzz
    Thanks. Suffering a seizure in public due to a jerk who also wanted the parts; not so much. More about the mods: I may add even more to the wings, as they still look a bit small to me. We'll have to see about that as I go. As it stands last night, the slide joints for the legs that I designed and built snapped, and I had to scrap that and do yet another new setup (this time with ball joints in the hip sockets and a single connected metal bar).
  20. pengbuzz
    Personally, it always made me wonder if the "machine world" V'Ger encountered (per ST:TMP) could have been retconned as the Borg homeworld. Guessing that idea has also been floated as well, right?
  21. pengbuzz
    Hmmm.... the Macross Galaxy fleet turns out to be the origin of The Borg...
  22. pengbuzz
    Makes me wonder if they should have went with a cloth skirt instead?
  23. pengbuzz
    Okay, here you go:
  24. pengbuzz
    Welcome to Macross World, Nemus!!! Good to hear that you're liking Delta; I agree with Big s that DYRL is another you'd like. I'd recommend that and Macross Plus.
  25. pengbuzz
    Okay, I'll have those pics for you tonight Thom!
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