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Just got shipping notification for US delivery.

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Just going to put this here, for the record if you can't get original replacements, this method really works incredibly well.

3 hours ago, sqidd said:

 

Overall I didn't do to bad. Not killer pricing though. $299.24/ unit shipped. Worth it for both. Not "Wow, what a great deal!" though.

It's those Yamato 1/48 boxes, they're massive.  I'm pretty sure they automatically bump the package into the next price category. 

The Citadel arc as well

this is a pretty good list that includes most of the Mandalorian episodes to catch you up on that history as well.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/disney-picks-20-important-star-wars-clone-wars-episodes-watch-season-7/

I know that some people are upset that the Star Wars fans on here aren't waiting patiently to find out if it will be good or not.  I think they could pull off a good product if they have proper direction, vision, and most of all sound writing and good stories.  Unfortunately, I think what we're seeing with the white board is writing/design by committee.  What we're most likely to end up with is inoffensive, unimaginative, with plenty of virtue signaling.  Disney's wildest dream is to turn Star Wars into the Marvel franchise pumping out fun entertaining and ultimately forgettable movies on a quarterly basis.  That Star Wars will not even closely resemble the original trilogy in tone, direction, and quality.  But it will make money hand over fist.

7 hours ago, Knight26 said:

Sounds like a case of get-home-it is.  The pilot was being pressured (internally or externally) to get the aircraft home.  This is the cause of a lot of crashes.  Racing the weather, passengers being demanding, even just general pilot fatigue.  I studied a number of crashes where that was basically the cited cause.  Heck even with JFK-Jr, though in that case there were numerous factors (distraction from passengers, flying IFR when he was only VFR rated, limited time in the aircraft, flying into a notoriously hard to get into airport, and vestibular spoofing due to lack of Visual input).  I will wait for the NTSB report.

Definitely agree, could be more going on, including material failure, but until the investigation is complete, that’s my guess.

9 hours ago, Hikuro said:

So then would you call that incompetence of the pilot? Reports seem to read that they just circled the area just letting the fog get denser and denser changing from low altitude to higher getting further up into the clouds thinking they were following the freeway until they smacked into a hill. But also, shouldn't of there been some kind of radar or device to help or something? He frequently used his private helicopter for travels It just seems odd that this would happen in such a way. Also sad that it seems they were going to a basketball game and another parent and fellow team member of his daughter were there as well.

I wouldn’t say incompetence, but very poor decision making, that was an expensive, nice and very capable helicopter, and they seemed to be trying to make an off airport landing in poor conditions.  Maybe the pilot felt pressure, maybe he was over confident, but those were not conditions I would personally fly in without an instrument flight plan unless somebody’s life was on the line. 

6 hours ago, pafy6285 said:

With a plane, it can still function with a single engine or if all failed still have a chance to glide to safety. With a helicopter, you're basically on a cage that's free falling and I also think much harder to control (when sh*t happens).

Helicopters can autorotate, ie glide, I fly both helicopters and airplanes, and I feel far more comfortable in a single engine helicopter that I can autorotate into someone’s backyard, than a single engine airplane that requires an open field to land in an emergency.  Just my two cents.  
 

At any rate (without any special knowledge of the incident outside the news) this seems to be a case of IIMC and CFIT.  The pilot most likely flew into the clouds, lost visual reference, and then flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ground.  Tragic and stupid.

56 minutes ago, Bolt said:

No. More details please..

At the end of Ben's internal conversation with his memory of Han, Ben say's "Dad..."  Han replies "I know.."

That's actually one of my favorite moments in the movie, despite a ton of reservations I have about the movie as a whole, I think they really hit the right note in that scene.  Anyway I guess I was caught up in the emotion and missed it the first 2 times.  Made me LOL this time, I think I annoyed some of the other movie goers with the timing. 

So I've got to ask, I just saw it for the third time (different friends wanted to see it and they were paying), and I finally caught Han's "I know" line.  Did anybody else miss that the first time?

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Wasn't this almost literally the start of an episode of Red Dwarf?

EDIT: Yup... S5E3 "Terrorform".

Best show ever!

8 hours ago, mechaninac said:

Super easy, barely an inconvenience...

Warning!!!  Spoilers!

 

"So stuff is just kind of happening huh?"

11 hours ago, peter said:

Just watched it, I liked it.

Not hard to find something bad in anything.

Just went in expecting 50/50 chance I would hate it (heard about time he mixed reviews) .....turned out I liked it, didn't waste my money or time.

I'm not going to say I really liked it, but like you I went in with low expectations, and I honestly "enjoyed" it.  I'll have to see it at least once more, I'm pretty sure it crumbles under any scrutiny just like the others of the sequel trilogy, but I didn't leave the theater thinking I didn't want to see it again like I did with The Last Jedi.  My general impression after a rewatch this week culminating in The Rise of Skywalker, was that the sequels suffered from three things.  One, no concrete vision of where it was going.  I'm convinced that any JJ Abrams writing room consists of a bunch of people saying "You know what would look cool and/or mysterious!"  Then they write all those scenes together as a committee.  .  Two, one-upmanship, everything needs to be bigger and badder and more exciting than everything before.  "this doesn't make sense, but who cares, it looks cool!".  Three, as a result of the first two, there's no real story, just a few tangentially connected events in sequence.  Say what you want about the Prequels, and there is soooo much to criticize, but they existed to tell a story.   The sequels exist because Disney made a corporate crafted blockbuster that just happens to be set in a universe that so many people love.  nuf said. 

23 minutes ago, dragonstar1982 said:

Every time I try to upload a picture it says -200, does anyone know why?

Probably to large, try resizing the photo to a smaller resolution for web upload.

1 hour ago, Mechapilot77 said:

as soon as i saw the photos in my social media feed i knew that resistance was futile.  amazon.jp PO placed!  (btw do most here order in yen or usd?) 

If you have a card that does not charge foreign transaction fees (like amex and high end cards like the chase sapphire), always go for the foreign currency, your card company will give you a much better rate than the store.  At today's rate, I'm looking at Amazon about $230 shipped.  Of course with pay latter, you're always at the mercy of the exchange rate six months down the line. 

DSLR's are great, but if you really want to work those images, take only RAW, and get lightroom.  it takes time, but makes a world of difference. 

2 hours ago, Ridden001 said:

2 Questions for the team here: 

Does the new Yamato stand have the capability of holding the DX VF-1?

Does Yeti Stand make a an adapter for the DX-VF-1?  The site in yeti says the DX adaptors are for frontier and doesn’t mention the 1:48 DX VF-1.

On 10/13/2019 at 1:21 AM, David Hingtgen said:

I personally really like the color Yamato uses on the 1/48 Max and Milia. 

Completely forgot about this post, but that's what I ended up doing, mixing paint till I achieved a close enough color match to the Yamato.  honestly lots of random colors, mainly grey green black and blue.  Then airbrushed them, came out pretty well.

bump

16 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That wasn't the Yorktown, that was the Saratoga... a Miranda-class ship that was one of several redresses of the ILM Reliant large studio model built for Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan.

Its crew didn't die, and its main power was restored when the whale probe left at the end of the film.

You're thinking of two different scenes.  The Saratoga was seen on screen in the movies opening.  The Yorktown was never seen, only the Captain is seen relaying a message on the view screen at Starfleet command. 

Yeah, I have the unassembled instructions courtesy of anymoon, but like you say it's pretty well glued together.  maybe a brief soak in googone?

I'm trying to dissemble a VF-1J head for painting, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with that.  Can it be done without destroying the head, or should I resign myself to painting it assembled and living with it more or less fixed pose?  I have the unassembled instructions, and it looks like it's pretty well glued together with no real clear seams to attack. 

1 minute ago, Lolicon said:

I use the Chase Sapphire card. Best card I've ever had.

That is a great card.  Off topic I know, but on the other hand, if there are any active duty US service members on this board, you are an idiot if you don't get the American Express Platinum.  AMEX never charges overseas transaction fees, additionally AMEX waives ALL fees for service members on all of it's cards, including that $550 annual fee.  Just my 2 cents. 

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/top-cards-with-no-foreign-transaction-fees/

Good place to start.