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    Paint thinner for enamel-based paints is deadly to styrene; it will cause it to crack, break and crumble in a matter of minutes if it is applied straight. Lacquer thinner will craze and melt the plastic straight out of the bottle; I remember with Floquil paints, you needed a "barrier coat" if you were going to try to use it as a "brush paint". All of this is one reason I used Krylon; (now I use Rustoleum Painters Touch since Krylon fell out of favor with Walmart in my region) and Apple Barrel/ Folkart/ Ceramcoat acrylic paints.
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    That's what I'm driving at here: there's no one to hold them back like there were people to stand up to Gene. It reminds me of a forge where the original raw material is forged, then refined, shaped, polished and detailed. It would take others alongside Gene to shape and refine Trek from a crude blank, removing all the "dross" that simply was unworkable and polish and detail it to a viable item. With Picard, all we're getting is crude material that is ineptly shaped, with no one to refine it by telling Stewart and Kurtzman that their ideas won't work the way they were presented. My comment about "Stewart getting writing lessons from Gene" was a lazy way of poking at this.
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    What, did Patty-boy take writing classes from Gene or something?
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    Update: my progress so far- Just got through extending the lower legs, as well as modifying it for the "A" stance. Stay tuned...
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    Er... that was Derex: I know better than to insult a lady's handiwork, especially when her work makes mine look like a thrift-store find!!!
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    So are the companies that make them.
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    That spitfire's looking good MT! And thanks for the happy b-day! BTW: check the black paint you used to see if it has xylene in it; I had Rustoleum (the old stuff before the painter's touch line) do that to a carrier model I was working on! O.o
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    Liable to slice of some rather personal and much needed body parts, I would imagine...
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    Space... that's what I took up in school! 😆
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    Admiral Piett: as far as I know, the only Star Destroyer Admiral that Darth Vader didn't Force-choke.
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    Ah, gotcha; that makes a difference (and a lot of sense!). Why make more work for yourself that isn't necessary, right? Overall, your build looks really good; I'm loving the deck paneling you did!
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    Nice!! Hot knives are a real blessing when it comes to removing plastic without a ton of plastic dust/ shavings and a royal mess! Just be careful with your fingers around them; not fun if one comes in contact with the blade! As for the "holes being even": as long as they aren't directly visible, I don't think that's going to matter, Derex. Looks like it should work well enough for letting the light through the deck for your purposes on this model. On that note, I had a question about your lighting on this: are you going to leave the port holes/ windows "open", or will you be using some time of paper/ other material to diffuse the light?
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    I'd hate to see how they go to the bathroom! lol
  15. pengbuzz
    Pike sees that baffle plate about to blow and goes "meh" and walks off. lol
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    Thanks! On that note: was doing some work on Daedalus about an hour ago, when I put too much pressure on the xacto knife and sliced the front door off the carrier by accident. (I also managed to put a slice into my left thumb as well. O.o ) Well, that said: can anyone guess how I'm going to rectify this situation? Here's a hint:
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    I think part of the entire point to this version of Bruce Wayne was that there was nothing to him. At this stage of his development, Bruce Wayne was just an empty shell, with Batman being the real persona. I think from here, the building of the man we know as Bruce begins.
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    Or it's entirely possible that since time has been messed with badly, that this version of Pike only saw a possible future.
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    If they can keep what they had in Discovery and build on it (the Enterprise, NOT the Discovery! lol), they might have something there. And sure: they can show someone their mortality without addressing it later on. it's called bad writing!! Seriously though: if Pike is still on Talos IV by the time Discovery gets to the future, maybe they can cure him of his injuries?
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    Same here; maybe it's variable, just like the fighters! UPDATE: Did some more work on Daedalus and Prometheus: This time, I'm deliberately using the edge lines created by the tape to an effect here: they will serve as the hull panel lines for the ship. I also have a wider roll of tape that I'm using for things like the flight deck on the Prometheus: Also, got the "roll bar" done for Daedalus; just need to add bridges to both ships and do the deck detailing on both. At this scale, I may just use paint and a fine pen\ HB grade pencil, rather than carve anything in. Daedalus will have weathering on the flight deck like a regular navy carrier, and will be closer to black-grey than to blue. I want both carriers to be a bit more realistic, and I will be doing each as dioramas: Promethus with a light set-up, and Daedalus with an opening ramp door. I still need to get other stuff done as well on the rest of the ship: the thighs and lower legs need some lengthening, the engines need detailing, and a bout a bajillion other things. Stay tuned folks...
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    I'll give this a chance; that said, if they turn Captain Pike into another "Picard", then Trek as a whole for me can just fall into the Genesis Planet's atmosphere and do a "Refit burn" for all I care.
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    Nice job on placing those sensors!
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    Maybe they need to hire the people who actually cut the trailers to make the movies; then it would be all great pats!
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    Maybe it shrank in the wash?
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    That's something I've been thinking about: if that is the case, then the movie SDF-1 would be twice as big as the TV version (if the bridge is supposed to be the same scale as the TV version). Yet, according to Macross Mecha Manual, the sizes are as follows: TV Version: Length: 1210 meters (3969.816 feet) Width: 496 meters (1627.3 feet) Height: 312 meters (1023.62 feet) Movie Version: Length: 1200 meters (3937.008 feet) Width: 600 meters (1968.5 feet) I have read somewhere that the command tower for the SDF-1 is about 6 storeys in height (84 feet); if there's any truth to that, then the movie version would be about 3 storeys in height (42 feet) in comparison. Given the space inside the bridge as seen in DYRL, what are you guys thoughts?
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