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So I'm going to be working on some mechs for a group project. Those in the wargaming community might have heard of a project called 'Tale of Four Gamers'. Those that don't it was a series of articles that followed four miniature gamers as they built and painted their armies as well as the games they played as thier force grew.

My local group is doing such a project, though there are six of us and for this I was requested to do Imperial Knights.

So here's the primed starter of one of the mini-knights and the pieced together of one of two full knights I'll be doing for this.

Also a near completed Riptide, this is the last of the Tau mechs I'll be doing in my custom Cadre's scheme and any future suits are going to be using Macross/Gundam schemes.

On 4/28/2018 at 10:16 AM, captain america said:

Not to mention the fact that having an UNDO function cheapens life and lessens the impact that the death of a character is supposed to have on the audience. 

I was the same way going into this, especially since in the comics:

11 minutes ago, Scyla said:

If I remember correctly the episode with Spartan 1337 was pretty silly in tone so I think it fits pretty well for that specific episode.

the Odd One Out segment was a straight over the top shoenen homage. So yeah it was meant to be silly and action filled. Also it's placement in the Legend anthology was a nice break form the usual serious and near gut-wrenching sorrow some of those sequences tended to be. 

It's like The Dual being an homage to old samuri films.

So was dragged to Infinity War yesterday. Overall...

Meh.

There were a few interestiong points

But overall it was a bore, I think I hit terminal action flick saturation as I'm not looking foward to seeing any flicks this year other then Deadpool 2 and Aquaman and that is for the comedy alone. Hell I was more engaged watching Super Troopers 2 earlier this month.

My biggest complaint on this and what brought me the most groans though:

I will state that if the marvel movies are your primary means of stories and action then Infinity War will be great.

As someone who has seen better, and knows that the studio can do better, it was lack luster. 

This will be the most expensive movie I've bought to date, but it will be worth double if the sales are good and later we see them doing official subs of past movies. Would love to get the Frontier movies.

I so wanted one of these (well two actually) but I ran out of money. 

Looks like his helping in the design of the weapons pack for the 1/20, at least in the muddled google translate of the tweet.

That Narrative Gundam looks sweet... I believe I'm tapped for the year though. 

36 minutes ago, Dangard Ace said:

Started Darling in the Franxx.  Episode one art reminds me of Diebuster and Kill la Kill and the male/female positive/negative thing kinda reminds me of Aquarion.    I’ll give it a shot.  

That's pretty accurate for the series as a whole. Enjoy the ride.

39 minutes ago, ivorysniper said:

Any news about the Blu-Ray release ?

From the twitter feed it seems like it started a second run in theaters. So not too soon.

43 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

Not to derail the thread too much, but I finally decided to watch Gundam Thunderbolt December Sky in full and I actually really liked it. I forget what the general consensus on Thunderbolt was but I personally didn't like it when the episodes were airing. I think what made the movie work for me was the dub; I tried to watch the individual episodes with subs but watched the full movie with the English dub and the characters were so much more bearable to me in English.

Tried looking for this, but failed in my quick search. Is this streaming or only in blu-ray?

17 hours ago, NZEOD said:

The taunar supremacy armour is sick!!

It's on my to get list, that one I'm going to paint in the greens of the Monster, also need to make 20 shield drones for it, but that is another project.

19 hours ago, CrossAir said:

What about Prototype PLAN303E Deep Striker color scheme? Light and dark grey, red around shoulder and head section and little yellow details. Okay, this one has a heavy loadout, but imho the color scheme would also suit the T'au Coldstar

Looks neat and since the fusion blades are the Farsight relic the red is thematic... I'll save the image, be nice if there was a picture of just the mech outside of the booster armour. 

So I'm planning a new modeling project and like a few suggestions.

I want to build a T'au Coldstar suit with the following options:

High-output burst cannon (vulcan)
Missile pod
twin fusion blades (beam sabers that can be used at range)

The suit is highly maneuverable and after my last one I'd like to keep my suit colours after mecha from gundam/macross.

Based on the load-out above, what gundam would best match it so I can use it's colour scheme.

14 hours ago, Big s said:

Violet evergarden was one of those same old stories where the writers think the audience is mentally deficient. The animation is great, but seriously holding out important information from the main character for over half the show just seems lazy. It’s also extremely cruel to put some one through that, and all the other characters know what happened but are supposed to be nice by not telling her the truth. I guess they thought there was no story worth our time here when they made this show.

I find this highly ironic considering the subject. It be funny if it wasn't so sad.

56 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

When are they going to make figures using those costumes??? They're so much more interesting than what we got in the series.

I'd love to see these in Uta Macross as well. Sure we'll get them in time, but I'd like sooner rather then later.

Well on the missile subject.

It might have to do with the quantity as well as the explosive payload. Even if the missile is intercepted if it explodes close enough it can still do damage. At least in atmosphere, not sure how that would play out in space.  

So just an update on the my/friends' watchlist for this season:

Group:
Rage of Bahmut: Virgin Soul
Gun Gale Online
Death March of a Parallel World
My Hero Academia 3
Darling in Franxx

Also started a watch of Violet Evergarden with my room mate as a test of how well our feels can hold. She's already starting to crack two eps in, but I have prior rl experience in this kind of thing.

Personal:
LoGH: Die Neu These
Heavy Object (rewatch)
Panty and Stocking (rewatch)

8 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

I just finished the last movie. Open ended which is normal for most things Japanese, I guess. Is the manga open ended too?

As in has it been completed? No, it's still ongoing as of this point. The current anime isn't anywhere near the current events of the manga.

11 minutes ago, GabrielV said:

Well, good news.  But I'm not interested in streaming.  I want blu-rays.  

Blu rays should drop soon after the dubs are complete. So 2199 in a month or two and 2022 a month or so after it's done it's run. Special combined set in time for the holidays?

I kind of like this 'propaganda' explination for fitting the movies and TV series together in the larger canon.

Would it be fair to say that in the case of Delta that the Movie version is more true to the events and the series is just a bad soap series based on said events?

4 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Assuming that Big West and Tatsunoko eventually bury the hatchet with regards to their distribution fiasco that started this mess in the first place, won't all of those original design rights wind up back at Big West, and require any Battletech/MechWarrior property to go through them for design licenses?  And would they even allow it?

 

I think it depends on if it's a blatent ripe off like the old battletech unseens or just an inspiration. Inspirations seem to be cool as I haven't heard or seen of anything to the extent that HG has been pulling in the past.

On 4/5/2018 at 6:32 AM, hachi said:

I think they will start it off at the point shortly before Reinhard's fleet engages Wen-Li's fleet. And they already cut out a lot of exposition. Although I think old version handled it all well (I've watched the old series at least twice)

Ep 2 was pretty much this and the end of the Battle of Astartes.

Also Funimation announced their simul-dub and LoGH is slated to start on 4/23. While the sub is doing good so far I can only hope they picked a good voice cast. I'll look it up later if posted.

21 hours ago, ZorClone said:

But... that movie needed an ending that didn't leave both the audience AND the characters having no on-screen idea of what to do next.  That's the decision that bugs me the most.  Well, that, and their ridiculous bombers that had to DROP bombs.  In space.  Can someone at Disney please explain to me what happened to the perfectly fine concept of PROTON TORPEDOS???  Gahhhh *nerd rage*

IKR?

Holy Hera those bombers ticked me off so much I nearly walked out of the theater. Seriously, what happened to the B-Wing? It was designed for the purpose of taking out capital ships.

Something else I was working on. Still need to clean it up and work a bit more details.

(T'au Coldstar commander, armed with High-output burst cannon, missile pod x2 and shield generator)

Later I'm going to replace his HOBC with a special variant plasma rifle.

Ok, so basically if the licence doesn't get renewed the whole thing break free, as far as we know.