Grand Admiral

Nice! Looking forward to it.

Wow... The man must have alot of time on his hands.

It's pretty cool what you can do if you don't veg out in front of the TV every night.

From bronze and steel to tan and green.

Yeah looks like an coloring error. No matter what happens someone is going to scream "it's not anime accurate" cause in one scene they noticed a strip or something that wasn't in any others. Lets face it cartoons from the 80s where not exactly colored or drawn well all the time so I think people need to be a little more forgiving sometimes.

No sir, not around here. Line art accuracy is Serious Business.

yeah, the 4th pic shows the cockpit is a teensy weensy bit longer... maybe enough to satisfy some except ones who are totally @n@l about it...

Yep, I'm glad I was wrong about them simply stuffing 2 seats into the regular cockpit. It's nice to see a company not use the cheap-ass solution.

thanks, the hardest part though would probebly be just finding the peices, i've got litterally thousands and never seem to have enough parts to build exactly what I want (and not have it turn out all rainbow color).

maybe if I start selling off some of my old parts in bulk and buy a few star wars kits...

http://www.bricklink.com/

Actually there aren't a ton of star wars pieces used in these Vipers. They really use a lot of basic brick with just a few special pieces here and there.

The only Star Wars specific piece in them is the canopy, which came from an X Wing set.

Dude, I would kill for instructions, or some sort of "how to" on that "Steam Viper."

I didn't build that one, so you'll have to go to Flickr and bug that builder for more photos.

I want these two here so bad it's not even funny.

anyone have instructions for a lego viper?

You can't have them, they're mine.

The one on the left I designed as a "heavy viper" so it has lots of silly missiles and extra guns on it.

This is the closest thing to instructions that I can give you. I built mine off my friend andrew's exploded view. You'll need a little bit of lego experience to build one.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=304038

Edit: Whoops, looks like J.T. beat me to it.

P.S. Here's a picture of my 5 vipers lined up. http://flickr.com/photos/grandadmiral/2695...57606335930037/ You can browse through my flickr account to see individual photos.

P.P.S. Here's a link to the Chieflug flickr group where you can see a whole pile of various photos of Vipers as well as the layout from Brickcon. http://flickr.com/groups/828545@N23/pool/

Because the marketing department at Hasbro thought it sounded cool.

Personally I think the "everyone is a cylon" theme was where the show came off the tracks. Last night's episode was so depressing and sh*tty that I'm not sure if I'm going to bother watching any further. I liked the show when it was HUMANS fighting for survival. Now, half the characters are cylons and everyone sits around crying and being depressed all the time.

I'm at the point now where I don't care about any of the characters or the story anymore. And this is coming from a guy who stood up and cheered when they did the "Adama Maneuver" at New Caprica.

What happened to the stories of human survival and interaction with the fleet? Gone. Now it's all I'm a Cylon, You're a Cylon, Who's a Cylon, and the Cylons are fighting amongst themselves about who's a better Cylon. FRAK THAT.

I used to be a fan of the show. I used to look forward every week with anticipation. Now I'm just cynical and bitter about where they've taken it, and I feel like they've completely ruined what was once an awesome show.

Dobber, you are The Man.

Hound and Cyclonus are MUST HAVES IMO if you are a G1 TF fan - the molds and transformations are great for Deluxed sized TFs. Transformations are very original. Both are great homages to their G1 counterparts.

Hound I think is great in both modes. Although, Cyclonus, while having an excellent bot mode, seems kind of stubby and clunky in jet mode. However, the G1 toy had a fairly sleek jet mode and a clunky bot mode, I guess.

boobies (nice, not gross, nothing larger than a 38)

The number refers to the measurement around the ribcage. It's the cup size that's important.

I'd prefer a 34D to a 38A

I'll probably only pick up the RVF25, because I like the modern Elint style.

FYI: Amazing custom Defensor on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=140290439029

Wow, that's beautiful. I had the original Defensor back in the day.

I don't recognize the motorcycle. What series was that originally from?

I've transformed my VF-1J a couple of times. No trouble. I checked the shoulders but they seem to be fine with no evidence of problems.

The guy says not to pull the head too hard thinking that it'll lock in. Because it'll pop off if you keep pulling.

My wife says this to me all the time.

The pointing and laughing line forms to the right --->

Disclaimer: This is a joke. Please do not take it seriously or personally.

Sympathy? No. If a Mod disagrees with me, a PM saying "knock it off" is perfectly acceptable.

Publicly calling me out for it was bad form and smacks of taking sides.

I'm truly more happy at the prospect of the 1/60 VF-1 than I am upset about something I consider to be a minor detail. Thus, it's hard for me to get into the "OMG!?!? The fusealage is rrrgggmmmfffaa$#$#%@!!!" mindset.

This.

Maybe Grand Admiral would like to explain to the rest of you why he is Reporting a Post claiming a Personal Attack against him in this thread when from all appearances he is equally involved in this sort of debating.

Yes when people Report a Post we read the Post in Question and review posts leading up and following it.

Is it also standard procedure to publically shame people if you disagree with them for reporting something?

I reported the post yesterday morning before I'd had my morning coffee and it was my own rash, grumpy overrreaction. Since I couldn't un-report it once I had considered things a bit, here we are. I'm not going to say which post or why, because it just doesn't matter now.

I apologize to everyone for anything that may have been taken as a perceived slight or personal attack or insult. I really didn't mean to directly attack anyone, even if my debate with QuinJester became impassioned, or I made vague references to "nerds", which seems to be a statement of fact to me, since we're arguing on the internet about the minutiae of toys based on an anime from 25 years ago.

I've been publically shamed now, can we move on? Or do you need to point and laugh too?

Isn't the bottom rear edge of the canopy shaped differently than the 1-seaters?

It could be. I could be completely wrong about all of it.

Look out, my posts are HOSTILE!

GRRRRRRR!

I consider myself a nerd. I'm arguing on the internet about toys. I made a generalized statement about all of us being nerds. That's name-calling? Really?

I actually enjoyed the debate with QuinJester yesterday. We came to a common ground. The "talking out your ass" remark is something that my friends and I say to each other when it seems like the other is BS'ing.

Now we're just arguing about arguing about arguing and we've reached the NUH UH YOU DID IT FIRST stage.

I'll go ahead and delete my retort above, since it serves no purpose.

2) Yamato's new VF-1D is using a new fuselage mold.

Source?

What?! Are you some kind of Southern Gentleman or something!? Apologizing to another person on the internets is a no no! Hasn't anyone learnt you how to flame?

I.... uh.... YOU'RE UGLY!