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  1. lechuck
    - He is known character worldwide with plenty of nostalgia value - He transforms into a realistic vehicle (plenty of rocket launching trucks on our Autobahns over here) and not some space-brick By your very own criteria, you should be exploding of excitement right about now... Me? I like what can be seen sofar. Lets hope for robot mode everything locks in properly and that articulation does not suffer.
  2. lechuck
    Oh boy, I already fear how the next iteration will end. Kawamori to me is just very bad at wrapping up stories. I hope the next series gives us clear ending, leaving no open questions in story or character development.
  3. lechuck
    This! I lost all faith with Cyclops being reduced to some third tier character and then killed off. Out of all the Marvel movie universes, this is the one that needs a reboot, but noooo it keeps limping on to annoy me.
  4. lechuck
    Just sharing my latest build. Nothing special, if you look closely you will probably spot mistakes. I welcome thoughts and feedback. Pretty fun build, but you can tell it's an old kit with its reliance on polycaps and faux ankle hydraulics and some minor alignment issues. Articulation is ok for an old kit like this, legs and arms are not double-jointed and there is limited sideways twist for the legs. Inner frame mainly consist of legs, waist and chest. For the arm/shoulder section they supply these rubber covers to make it look anime accurate, but contrary to popular opinion I am personally not a fan of them. They seem to cause resistance in shoulder movement and I fear they might eventually tear. As for aesthetics, well you can't go wrong with an Izubuchi design, so kibble-free. Although I am not too fond of those wide "sponge" feet Bandai gave the kit.
  5. lechuck
    Noooooooooo!!! MG Banshee Norn is web-exclusive!!
  6. lechuck
    Battroid doesn't look like it will be fun to pose or handle with. Still has the same issue with the hips/intakes hitting those tabs behind the chest plate and sit way too snug to the nose. Add the those wide/low hanging wings on top that and it spells frustration to me.
  7. lechuck
    Never read the Manga either, so my reservations are like azrael's. The character of Casval/Char has never captivated me as much as it seems to others. The Gundam Reconguista setting is interesting, "Reguild Century" plays in the same universe after UC era. What is weird though is that a later era Gundam is using a hard shield instead of an energy based one.
  8. lechuck
    Funny, the thighs are the first thing that caught my eye too when I first saw the pictures. Perhaps indicative of wrap-around armor after all? Not that it matters to me, I just want him MP style in my collection.
  9. lechuck
    Has anyone seen this yet, a different approach to making your latest car model look cool:
  10. lechuck
    Better than last weeks battle. UC suits don't seem to cut a good figure in this show.
  11. lechuck
    Been meaning to ask this, what is the correct way to transform the chest, collor/shoulder and backplate for Battroid mode. Is that grey colour plate in front of the neck piece supposed to pop out and sit flush? From a lot of the pictures that are posted, it seems everybody does it differently.
  12. lechuck
    Gold Bug? But honestly, just paint it yellow, release it and get going with Ultra Magnus already.
  13. lechuck
    Disagree! The feet are sunken in and those birth giving hips/intakes completely screw with proportions. Looks like slightly larger scaled legs stuck onto a smaller upper body.
  14. lechuck
    Crossbone team is go! Bandai mystifies me sometimes, an MSV Sinanju Stein gets a normal release, but the main suits X2 and X3 are treated as web exclusives...
  15. lechuck
    I don't think streaming always equates to being free or stealing. Which brings me to my question: I just finished Attack on Titan via Netflix, is there goign to be as second season? A bit dissapointed that the whole "quest for the celler" was not done.
  16. lechuck
    Does not look like anything I remotely saw in Gundam Seed. Without context I would have associated this with SRW.
  17. lechuck
    I would give it a pass. If my brain is not faulty here, I think even Graham was alluring to a renewal at one stage. Aside from all the other major issues, the one thing that also use to annoy me was that those metal tabs were in the way of the hips/intakes for Battroid mode. If there is a renewal planned, then I hope this is addressed as well. I will say though, that even today it is still in all 3 modes an overall proportionally well balanced Valkyrie toy from Yamato.
  18. lechuck
    The solution would be to use a sliding-hook mechanism - align the funnels accordingly and pull down a little. This would also eliminate the height alignment guessing between funnels.
  19. lechuck
    Anybody know if there is going to be a normal release? I don't really care for the bonus stuff, the movies left me kind of sour and justifying 100+ Euros is difficult, when I could it for other Macross merchandise I could actually fiddle with.
  20. lechuck
    Alright, remember that Benz chicken commercial...
  21. lechuck
    Or he is a bad-guy following his own plan...
  22. lechuck
    These do look nice. Pity the ships are not in scale with each other, so any incentive for me to look into these has been killed. Does the Enterprise-D have a saucer separation, can anybody show if so? General question: Why is it seemingly impossible for any one company to produce a line of star trek starships in scale with each other? Is a license to do so exorbitantly to high or is the state of star trek merchandising so bad, that it would not be a profitable investment? Nothing new, for example the Enterprise-D has been rehashed in the same old 1/1400 or 1/2500 mold from Ertl/AMT with all its inaccuracies over and over.
  23. lechuck
    Lower legs are a bit long, but I can live with this. What really annoys me are the arms and shoulders, poor to almost useless by design.
  24. lechuck
    Thanks dizman, forgot about rrobbert184. Coincidentally he has started review for the titanium Nu Gundam now, so will be following. I did break down beforehand though and got it in the end, just worried about getting rid of the nubs. Which brings me to another question I have, what technique do you guys use buff/polish the area around the nub after getting rid of it?
  25. lechuck
    How is the VF-19 off-scale to the other M7 valks (which one)? In fact Yamato's VF-17 is too slim and not beefy enough in Battroid mode. The VF-19 had the perfect design approach - first the battroid and then work your way to fighter mode. And it shows with everything being in proportion, parts locking properly and being functional in the way I would expect it to be. Why this design approach was ditched in favour of the reverse way again beats me and can be seen with the subsequent VF-17 and VF-4.
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