SteveTheFish

I assume that Irem made the R-Type license open to everyone and for a good price. I now have the gachapon R-Type set by Toys Cabin. They are rather nice, with good metallic colors on the engine bells.

I'm with you. TOS Galactica is dear to my heart, and as a little boy I wanted a brown suede jacket with all the buckles so badly, way more than Han Solo's vest. Corny as it may be, I appreciate it for its campiness. I tried giving nuGalactica a try, but it didn't sit well with me. They turned Starbucks into a sexy chick, they turned Boomer into a sexy Korean chick, the chrome Cylons were turned into Replicants, and all of Ralph McQuarrie's designs were trashed. The Cylon ships look like hood ornaments. "Oh but Steve, I mean Greg, the original TOS Cylons show up in the 4th season in one episode..." I DON'T CARE. I was hoping that the remake show would capture the look and feel of TOS, and they sort of revive the Viper as an "older model" that remains faithful to the original design, but pretty much everything about it was a disappointment. I have to say that the best design from the reboot show is the Pegasus, as Ted mentioned. Fantastic. I started my TOS Galactica model kit several years ago, but as I was trying to figure out the timer chips to create the runway chase lights for the hangars, I couldn't get them to work right and I shelved it years ago. I really need to get back into doing electronics...

As I posted in the "What will Hasegawa do next" thread, I visited the Winter WonFes event this past weekend. Here are videos and photos of the event. YouTube: The video is mirrored on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@stevethefishdotnet:2/Wonder-Festival-Winter-2026:e And a photo gallery on my website here: https://stevethefish.net/life/life152.htm

Those Macross F ships are GKs. This was the table immediately to the left of Hasegawa's table, so coincidentally it was just the next segment in the sequence. When I was compiling this for the video, I thought that maybe it might confuse people, thinking that these were Hasegawa kits. I just decided to roll with it. The other ships I could't recognize what they were from.

You're welcome! Of course, this was just my bias, focusing on older anime and video game items. I saw some GKs where people were crowding around, taking photos. I couldn't recognize the characters, so I just passed by. Then after hours of walking around, I met up with friends and their friends. They showed me the stuff they bought and it was all sorts of cool stuff I'd passed over without noticing. There was an animation mistake in one episode of Macross where an animator really messed up with Kakizaki's VF-1A head, adding additional cannons on the sides of the head. my friend Adrian found a resin head of that mistake, which can be added to a Hasegawa (or maybe a Plamax) Valkyrie kit. Oh yes, and someone had 3D printed a pilot figure for the Hasegawa Glaug kit, but I was too late and it was sold out by the time I found it. Drat! Although for a 3D printed figure, I think the seller was asking for too much. I'd like to see someone design one for Cults3D or Thingyverse to go with the Hasegawa kit. I took pictures of the event too. I'll make a gallery and put it on my website. Hopefully later this week. There is ONE Windows program I miss in Linux, and it is Photoscape. I really wish there was a Linux version of this program. It can run photos through batches. It can auto enhance, auto contrast, resize, and rename photos in batch processes. Very easy to use. I still have yet to find a program like that for Linux.

He does fine work. I had Ted do that Nadia figure I posted earlier. I also had him redo the K'Tinga parts that another friend of mine did for me that ended up warped because he didn't support the parts properly.

I was at Wonder Festival and saw the N-Ger in-person. I still haven't gone through the photos yet, but last night I uploaded a video.

Thanks, guys! Thom, you've gotta watch Record of Lodoss War. The original OVA by Madhouse is legendary, with incredible vocal opening and ending themes. I normally don't care about anime vocal music, unless it's Macross, Lodoss, and BGC. The OVA was done before the novels were completely written, so its ending is considerably different from how it was meant to be. Later there was a Lodoss TV series that mostly glossed over the events of the first story arch, then it covered the Leylia redemption arc. The second half revolves around Neece's capture, who is the daughter of Leylia and the wizard Slayn from the first story arch, now a teenager. The sorcerer Wagnard captures Neece to sacrifice in an attempt to resurrect the Goddess of Destruction, Kardis. In the OVA version, Wagnard captures Deedlit to sacrifice to Kardis and Parn must rescue her. Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut way to just sit down and take in the entirety of Lodoss and have it make sense. The OVA is all about Parn's hero's journey. But only the TV show features the "next generation" characters. Chas, I'm pretty happy with how Deedlit's hair turned out. I've only temporarily attached her head because her cape needs to go on first, and then her head/hair. I also need to attach her side locks that go on in front of her ears. I'm also working on a 3D-printed Rei figure. I first airbrushed her skintone, then masked it off and airbrushed her hair Mr. Color 34, sky blue. I managed to find the official Rei hair color by Gaia Notes. It's too light, I think, so I just sprayed it from a top-down direction to provide a gradation.

I'm glad to see this finally happening. For a while, Aoshima was going to release this Silent Moebius police spinner. There was one on display at their boot at a hobby show several years back. I asked and this is a completely differently-tooled venture. As for me, here are the two figures I've been working on. The Nadia is a 3D print that Tekering made for me. Deedlit is a sofubi I started on almost 2 years ago and I'm nearly done. I need to heat up her cape so that I can wrap it around her. As it is, it's too stiff.

@Chas The Bronco looks great!

It was fun. That was maybe 8 years ago. If you ever watched HLJ's YouTube channel, that's them. One guy I met that day told me at lunch that he was at a pawn shop somewhere in Japan and found a new-in-box sofubi of the Nostromo ship from Alien by Halcyon just sitting out in front for a cheap price because the shop didn't know what it was. Now there are a lot of new people I don't recognize, but I know those who've been around a long time. I used to watch Gunpla TV when it was Syd and Ryan, but while I got to meet them, those two are no longer there. The next time I attend a hobby show, I'll have to go for at least two days because I end up talking to so many people that I don't get to see everything I want to see.

I've been to HLJ and I spent a day there, got a tour, had lunch with the gang, etc. Even got some lovely parting gifts I wasn't expecting. I saw the private warehouse where they keep stuff on hold for customers. It's pretty amazing that they even do this because other online retailers won't do this. I know people there and they let me just take a look around at everything. It was pretty cool. However, if everyone is having stuff put on hold, then they're going to need to do something about that since space isn't limited.

I finally finished that small, 3D-printed Minmay figure my friend gave me a few years ago. The UN Spacy logo is from a set of Macross decals I bought on eBay years back, some of which I'd used on my 1:100 Imai Armored Valk I finished earlier this year. The pattern on her dress is from leftover decals from a Haku Rinpha resin kit from Hasegawa Eggplane Girls series. She is VERY small, so zooming in with my camera like this is exposing the flaws I cannot see with my naked eyes. Her eyes turned out better than I thought they would. The new Minmay resin kit that Hasegawa will release this month is almost the same as this figure.

I must not be properly communicating somehow. We're talking about translating a cartoon into something physical. Roadrunner can paint a tunnel on the side of a mountain and run through the painted tunnel, only for Wiley Coyote to faceplant into the rocks a moment later. That's how animation works, because it's not tangible. The real world doesn't work like that. Look at those hamfists and look at what your model Hasegawa gunpod looks like. You can't shove a basketball into a can of Pringles, but a cartoon character can. So if Hasegawa was to make their model with those big hamfists, they would not be able to reuse the same pre-existing tooling for the gunpod. They'd have to retool it to include a jibungous hole for it to put its big fat finger through. Like picking your nose with a baseball bat. You can't do that unless you're a cartoon. Notice that even Max Factory did not make the hands as big as the drawing's. I'm just saying that Hasegawa is going for more practical rather than stylized. Even then, compromises are still made. The wings on their Battroid are smaller than those on the Fighter. It's why transforming models/toys of these mecha will never be totally accurate in any one given configuration. The Valkyrie's jet engine nacelles suddenly get beefier and more rounded when in Battroid mode in the animation because they are drawn that way. Hasegawa chose not to go that route and instead made the legs more or less compatible with the corresponding parts of the Fighter mode. Look at how Shoji Kawamori designed Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon. Heck, any of the Transformers. The Autobots' tires get really small (or disappear entirely). Not because it's practical, but because they just kind of look cooler that way when animated.

Yes, the Hasegawa one cannot be posed very dynamically at all.