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  1. On 9/19/2021 at 11:23 AM, derex3592 said:

    @pengbuzz very cool Master Chief!

    @MechTech loving the diorama so far!

    Over here, I have to report that Mr. VivoHome China special air compressor is going back, I always had a good feeling about the little blue and black Tuffiom China special air compressor but I let my want of a free craptastic airbrush and a higher number of Amazon reviews sway my initial gut feeling. And sooo, here we are, the Tuffiom is a better unit. ($3 cheaper actually) The VivoHome made an odd high pitched screaming noise when it was running... Very irritating! No thanks. I will say this to anyone looking for a new compressor.. COMPLETELY IGNORE THE NOISE DB RATING ON ALL OF THEM!!! They measure the noise of the airbrush spraying and the compressor NOT running... LOL Sneaky, Sneaky.... They both claim 47DB as do many others. It's not true. They all run about 78DB at about one foot away. Measured both with a DB meter app along with my old Paasche. Just FYI!

    Also trying out Airbrush Flow Improver from Vallejo. I put about 5 drops in for 10 drops of paint and acrylic thinner. I think it does spray a little better honestly. 

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    Thanks! Looks like you're getting some progress on that Cat's Eye!

    Speaking of which: gearing up to do my own 1/72 scratchbuild of the ES-11 pretty soon. Just need to figure out how to make canopies for it and I'll be good to go.

  2. 5 hours ago, TMBounty_Hunter said:

    Making a vacuum former isn't really that complicated. A lot of Japanese hobby guide books usually have a chapter where they build one out of dollar store parts. A plastic box to plug the vacuum cleaner into, a grater over it as the work surface, some basic frame to hold the plastic stock and heat that over your oven.

    Heck, depending on the shape of the part sometimes they don't even vacuum it. They just heat it and pull it over the "buck"

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    From Scratch Build Manual 2, building the box out of dollar store MDF scraps:

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    The important part here is once you actually get around to making your vacuum former, get the "buck" done and start pulling parts off of it, THEN Hasegawa will announce the actual kit to spite you. Someone has to bite the bullet so the rest of us can get the kit 😛

    Well, when I made the canopy for my fighter, the "heat and smash" technique is what I used.

    Hint: on those tiny 1:100 valks, use soda bottle plastic instead or styrene. I did a 1/100 Super Valk and the canopy was hideously thick! The soda bottle plastic was scale thin and good to go!

  3. 25 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

    Or, as a fellow "genius" pilot, she's simply subject to the same stupid meme about "growing old is a state of mind for normal men" that is the official reason Max and Milia look far younger than they actually are.

    Let's say it again for the folks in the back... the "Zentradi have much longer lifespans" thing is a Robotech-ism with no basis in Macross.

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    It's not even really from Robotech proper, it's from the sh*t-awful 90's comics.

     

    Who knows how old she is?  

    We do... because we have her official bio from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series that says she was 15 in 2009.  She was 52 in "Fleet of the Strongest Women", and would've been 73 during the events of the Macross Delta TV series.  If this movie is set a year after that, as previously talked about, she's 74.  Max, who was 16 in the original series, would be 75.

     

    Who can say?

    All I'll say is I really hope that's just an ill-advised holographic costume choice made after Mikumo found an unattended KISS album and not Bizarro Walkure.

     

    Mao is actually a few years younger than Max and Milia, but she was a civilian who lived a pretty hard life on Earth after the First Space War and then in space doing field research in xenobiology without being subject to Creator's Pet treatment.

    Max and Milia are drawn much younger than they actually are because of an in-joke about growing old being a state of mind for normal people while they're geniuses.  Everyone else who was alive for the First Space War - e.g. General Gomez and Colonel Millard in Plus, Richard Bilra and Dr. Mao Nome in Frontier, etc. - looks more or less their actual age.

     

    There's a limit to what diet and exercise can do to arrest or mitigate the physical decline caused by aging... which is one of the reasons militaries have regulations for things like maximum enlistment age and mandatory retirement age.

    In Macross, you could potentially cheat that with cybernetics but cybernetically-enhanced soldiers are illegal under interstellar law.  With several previous works basically setting Max up as a sort of Big Good in the setting, I can't see him doing something so illegal and so obvious.

     

     

    All in all, I'm kind of hoping that's not actually Max.  Maybe Mirage's dad is just really creepily into cosplaying as his father-in-law like some kind of Las Vegas Elvis impersonator?

    Delta Flight has enough problems being taken seriously as it is.  The deck's already massively stacked against them by their members being washouts from the underfunded local New UN Forces of the Brisingr Alliance and an itinerant forklift driver instead of elites poached from the military by a company with roughly All The Money, and them having failed so hard at their job that the totally inexperienced forces of Windermere steamrolled them and effectively won the war before their series was even halfway over.  Having Max just show up to save their bacon is rubbing salt in the wound.  They either screwed up so hard the greatest living ace felt compelled to come out of retirement to clean up their mess, or their reputation is so deep in the toilet that the only remedy they could think of was bringing the greatest living ace out of retirement to backhand out a few lines of halfhearted praise.  Isamu got people's attention in the second Frontier movie despite being from a less-popular OVA and not actually appearing onscreen.  Max is going to roll up and steal the scene if not the whole movie.

    Starting to wonder if they cloned Max and Millia and just "open a new case" when the originals get too old? :p

  4. 4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

    Oh, my sincere apologies for having standards... :p :rofl:

    How lazy is this?  This is Delta's writers literally ripping off something that was in the novelization of the Frontier movies where Max (and Milia!) show up to the final fight on the Vajra planet as part of the combined NUNS/SMS reinforcement fleet and fight in VF-25s.

     

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    This seems to confirm my earlier hypothesis... this is almost certainly a General Galaxy product, and it looks increasingly like it's been modeled on the VBP-1/VA-110 Variable Glaug.

     

     

    Looks like their main defensive measure is....neon?

  5. 2 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

    I really want to like these, I'm trying hard to like them because infiltrators are my favorite space marine unit type. But man do those stupid antenna spikes ruin the look for me. I get that concessions have to be made do to the nature of miniatures but there's no reason to copy those compromises when you're making a significantly larger articulated figure.

    Yeah, they could do something a bit more realistic at that larger scale, like maybe a flexible more "whip-like" antenna set-up.

    One minor beef I have with these is the weathering; it looks a little too mundane and uniform over the entire armor. While I'm not saying they should make them look blood-soaked and dinged to rusted pieces (not to mention each added paint operation would add to the cost), perhaps a dark wash would help.

    Something I had in mind while thinking about this (not exactly Incursor Squadron, but still Space Marine):

     

  6. 11 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

    Great video!

    I was wondering if anyone ever noticed there are two completely different molds of these bootlegs. Not sure if there are any similarities with <T.T> versions, or if either of these are like the original.   

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    Wow...I miss these guys! I wish they'd bring them back, but fat chance of that happening nowadays...

  7. 10 hours ago, CoryHolmes said:

    How about a Crys-knife?  Or a weirding module?  ^_^

    Maybe one of those Hunter-seeker thingies that look like a flying syringe?

    Or how about your very own Dune™ Harkonnen Heart-Plug Kit? Easy to install in 5 min--

    Er...on second thought, skip that one...

  8. 1 hour ago, derex3592 said:

    Some actual hobbying went on this weekend over here. Got Miria/Milia painted (be gentle, I'm not good with figures), for her QRau and also worked on my Itty bitty Zentradi Flag Ship. I also got some cool garage time to strip some more ick off the Cat's Eye 👁. 

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    It looks better than much of the original animation for SDFM! lol

  9. On 9/10/2021 at 4:38 PM, JB0 said:

    Oh dear. Good luck.

    Thanks... but it'll take more than luck this time around.

    22 hours ago, Big s said:

    The matrix for movie goers was a quick fad that was the star wars of the adhd generation. It was quickly forgotten by filmgoers, but filmmakers are still riding the style of filming and probably will for a while 

    Guess the originality that spawned the Matrix series is pretty much dead in Hollyweird....

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