thegunny

I think it's reason enough to get out the tanto & rice paper

Thanks

The latest Dengeki Hobby has a article on an RG 1/144 RX-78-2 (pg 66 & 67). My Japanese is not good enough to understand the article, so does anyone know what a RG (Real Grade I suppose) is?

So let the merciless exploitation of the Macross modeller begin in 1/48 scale

Games Workshop have changed their figures so many times over the years it's hard to keep up with them There is a web site (What mini is that???) that does list quite a lot of the old GW stuff. Can't recall what it is but it usually pops up if you do a search on Space Marines. Most of those figures will fetch good money as there is a pretty high demand for the old metal stuff as weird as it looks compared to today's figures. Don't sell them as a lot they will definitely get more if sold in smaller groups.

Gee I got 1 wrong and missed identifying 1 Did it make you feel good

The Phoenix Hawks in "jet mode" are called LAM's (Land Air Mech). Can't tell from the pic if they are Phoenix Hawk LAMs but if they look like a VF-1S Strike then it's a PH, if it looks like a std VF-1 it's a Wasp LAM and if it looks like a VF-1 Super than it's a Stinger LAM. The mech at the bottom left with the leg off is a Stalker (not unseen). On the right of the Stalker is a Crusader (it appears to be missing it's jets) and to the left is an Awesome that is missing an arm. The Zeus is not unseen and I've named all the other mechs from your other pic. The vehicles do not look like any Battletech vehicles I've even seen (too small) but they do look like Warhammer 40K Epic tanks. Thanks for the offer of the mechs but as I live in Australia I'll pass as it will cost you too much to send them.

The red figures are from Crusher Joe. In Battletech they are a Scorpion and a Goliath. The figures directly below are also from Crusher (I think) In BT they are Thunderbolts. The figures below them are from Dougram. In BT they are Shadowhawks. Not sure what series (Crusher Joe?) the blue figures are from but in BT they are Battlemasters. The green figure next to the Battlemasters is from Dougram. In BT it is a Griffin. The blue chicken leg figures are also from Crusher Joe. In BT they are a Locust. Not sure about the white one at the top but it has a Dorvac look about it. The figure next to the Glaug is a BT clan Couger.

1 is a Bombadier 2 is a Dragon (not unseen) 3 is a Javelin (not unseen) 4 is an Orion (not unseen) 5 is a Vulcan 6 is a Wolverine 7 is a Banshee but the left arm is not original (not unseen) 8 is an Awesome (not unseen) 9 is a Victor (not unseen) 10 is an Assassin (not unseen) 11 is a Quickdraw (not unseen) 12 is a Clint (not unseen)

Don't know about you but I thought it was bloody awful The new OP is woeful (ED is OK) and the laughs were few and far between. Let's hope it picks up over the next few episodes. I saw somewhere that it could be 24 or so episodes so hopefully the only way is up

I'm standing up, at attention even I'll have 2 please. Any chance of a Misa figure along with the death scene extra pilot?

It would also save on ammo as the opposing pilot would probably bust a side laughing so much and crash when the valk turned into a chicken in front of him.

It's only SAL small parcel that doesn't have a tracking number and if people insist on buying from HLJ who will not use normal SAL (which does have a tracking number) and don't pay for EMS then they've no grounds to jump up and down because they don't have a tracking number when things go south.

No number, no track it's as simple as that unfortunately. There is still some form of minimal coverage included in the SAL postage fee but HLJ will have get the ball rolling with Japan Post and if JP are like any other postal service they will have a minimum waiting time etc, etc. Not really sure why you are jumping up and down in these forums The info about what to do and how to go about it is easily obtained and no one but yourself can help you. It's all part of the joys of the big wide corporate "all care but no responsibility" world we live in

Just go here and put in the number Japan Post Tracking

HW Japan offers normal SAL for larger items and it does have track and trace but you just have to be careful as sometimes EMS is cheaper that SAL as the size of item increases. If you use FedEx you might get lucky and have Tom Hanks deliver it but I'd be a bit concerned about the water damage and sand

Just wash them in water No special tricks and if you use filtered rain water or water for irons it won't leave any spots. They make take a few days to dry but works every time for me. I even wash most of my models that way too. The only ones I don't wash with water are the the ones on display bases as some of the surface coatings don't like getting wet and end up turning into real mud and muck

And soon to a Cat's Eye to the list. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Say no more.

Curious or web lazy It would have taken you longer to write the list than do a decent search A lot of those kits have been discussed fairly often on this site and even my pathetic search-fu can find references to most of them And as said put a call out in the wanted section. I'm pretty sure someone has put a list up pretty similar to yours in not so distant past.

That's where I got the 1/48 kit from. Unfortunately the Stratos 4 kit looks like it may only be in 1/72 but at least it will give me an idea of what needs to be done.

I've just started the final coat on one of John's Defenders. Once that's finished it's on to finish an Armorcast Atlas that is beating the snot out of a Clan elemental with an arm he just ripped off of a Mad Dog (Vulture).

Thanks for that. Waiting won't be a problem I'll just do a few of the more than 200 kits I've got occupying most of the house

Thanks. I see what you mean about the missiles. Looking at the model it doesn't look quite as bad as it does under the unforgiving gaze of the camera. Now that I have to wear glasses for close up work it was hard enough painting the missiles without getting any white (almost ) on the base piece so now that its all glued together I don't thing I trust myself to do anything else in case I stuff it up. I have another one that I'd like to do with all the missiles firing (that would fix the problem) but I don't know whether I'll ever find the time to cut each missile from the base piece and do all the other things needed to make it look right.

Thanks but I reckon you could, just don't experiment with new paint on a $130 kit like I did

I've got one of the huge Airfix TSR-2 kits and want to do it as the TSR.2MS but am having difficulty finding any decent pictures of it (crappy search-fu ). I'm not really interested in cockpit pics as I'm going to wuss out and do it with a closed cockpit but any external pics, especially ones that show any markings and colouring would be appreciated. (Edited to get the plane's name right, Doh!)