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I'm in for one! Now I don't feel quite so bad about passing up the 1.0 kit

As if I didn't have enough work to do before Wonderfest, I decided to take on another kit, in hope of finishing it in time for the show... The kit is the 1/5000 Jotunheim, a flagship from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, produced by Alba Create. It's a simple kit with a mere 6 parts, and it went together pretty well. Except one of the nacelles that didn't go on quite square, so I've pulled it off, and I'm now working on shimming it up for attempt #2. Also in the pic is one of my new modeling chisels from Mineshima, which I'm totally loving. And the resin piece behind it is from my top-secret scratchbuild that I hope to have done for Wonderfest also

Yes, it's quite worth watching! The only fansubs of it that I know to exist are kinda crappy quality tho

Thanks for the heads-up on Fleet File #2! I just put my order in. It's low stock though, so I hope I can get one. I've got the first set, and it's pretty damn nice. I just wish it had more variety, instead of coming with multiples of every ship, with slight variations. For example, it comes with two Brunhilds, and the only difference between them is the different Empire crests on them (before and after Reinhardt became emperor, I believe) And they're all like that! Hell, it comes with 4 of that squarish-looking ship. Green and black paint schemes, each with the different crest on them. http://www.hlj.com/product/WAVAL-01

Actually, I found very few translation issues in the set. And I fansubbed the series years back, so I like to think I know the dialog pretty well. I think they may have even borrowed from my script a little at one point in episode 2 Aside from the obvious (intentional) mistranslation of the title, the only noticeable translation error I found was in one of the science lessons. The subs have her saying that she's a big fan of spaceships, or something like that, when she's really saying that she has every issue of Uchuusen. Uchuusen = spaceship = SFX magazine in Japan. Still running today, I believe.

Ok, try this. It's just a .zip of the torrent file (MW won't let me attach the torrent file itself) Blazing_Transfer_Student.zip

BlazingTranferStudent 1.avi BlazingTranferStudent 1.srt both of those in a folder named 'blazing transfer student' As for the nag screen... you just check the box, then click 'download'. That's not working for you?

Awesome, thanks. I've got it listed on tokyotosho.com, and submitted to animesuki.com AND I've confirmed that it works! 12 peers connected and downloading so far! Yay me! I should be able to torrent Uchuu no Senshi (Starship Troopers) soon too. I've got rips done of all 6 eps, but I'm not entirely happy with them. The file size is a bit on the high side (nearly 300MB each), and the video is still a bit grainy. I may just have another crack at it before I torrent them. Analog rips are another new field for me, so I'm not all that good at it yet

Torrent is up! http://nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=1138 (you'll have to check the 'I have read and understood the above' box for the download button to appear) Anyone who already has the files, please help seed. You'll just have to rename the files slightly, as I added a '1' to the end of the file names. So they're now BlazingTranferStudent 1.avi / srt

Got it! Great OVA, and excellent video and sub quality! Thanks a lot! I'll see if I can get a torrent of it made in the next day or two. It'll be my first time setting up a torrent. But it should be a good test run, cause I want to do torrents of Starship Troopers and Votoms OVA raws in the near-ish future. And the subtitle script is an SRT file. Open the video with Media Player Classic, and it'll load automatically, if you have VobSub installed.

Hey, you got it! Cool! Thanks for the scans!

Heh, I've got those... on vinyl They each came with posters. Pretty cool stuff.

That's the 1/72 battroid conversion kit for the Hasegawa YF-21. It's a Wonderfest exclusive, so they're pretty pricey, and hard to come by.

Yes, it's a kit. But they're only available at Wonderfest So far, Pla4U has put out a 1/72 Normal Sylph, a 1/72 F/A-27C (from episode 4), a 1/38 Mave, and now the 1/48 Normal Sylph, which made its debut at the most recent WF. They'll show up occasionally on Yahoo Japan Auctions, but they can get pretty pricey...

Sound like a great project! I'm in for one! As for the support vehicles, I've got no plans beyond my tow tractor and gunpod cart (which I have no plans of abandoning ). And Hommeamise has his 6-seater jeep in the works too (can't remember the name it) You're quite welcome to make any of the other vehicles though

That's my auction It's at $150 now. And I've got a 1/160 Monster up too, which is at $200. Needless to say, I'm completely shocked

Those are all aftermarket resin parts and conversion kits, sold at Wonderfest (in very limited quantities) The thing with Hasegawa is, you never know what they're going to release next until they want you to know. And that's generally 3 or 4 months before it's released. And for the time being, there's nothing new in the pipeline that they want us to know about

I think I've got them figured out... First is Wave's L-Joint 1 set (HLJ has the wrong image on the page). Interestingly, it also calls for some of the sprues from this set, specificly, the T-intersections. Wave's Y-Hinge 2 is mentioned, but I think it only uses the sprues from this set. Apparently, they're 3mm thick, and the L-Joints' are 2mm. It also mentions some Kotobukiya sets, but I'm kinda confused about them. It seems to call for sets 1 and 4 of some series. I've got This set from the Evangelion VTOL fighter which I'm building now. It has all the parts used except for the PC-G, H, and J parts. It looks like those parts are probably in Kotobukiya's Starter set 3, and if that's the case, the '4' on the instruction sheet would be a mis-print. It looks like there isn't a 4th set in the series. That should be all of them. Hope this helps. Good luck!

I'll be there. I just need to get off my ass and work on models for the show. I've got 4 in the works now, including one scratchbuild. I want to have at least two of them finished. I want to have the 1/72 Macross tow tractor finished to sell at the Starship Modeler booth too

Finally got my copy today. After 3 days of looking high and low at every local retailer I could think of (and in the process getting EXTREMELY pissed off at some particularly ignorant Best Buy employees), I finally gave up and ordered it online. DeepDiscount was out of stock, so I went with Overstock.com. Ordered early friday morning, shipped by friday evening, and it arrived monday afternoon. Much faster than I was expecting. Cheap, too. $45 shipped. Impressions after episode 1: Very impressed. EXCEPT for the music change. Some of the comments I've read are that it still fits, but it's like nails on a chalkboard for me. Seriously. But the translation is excelent, the sound is good, and the picture is every bit as good as my laserdisc copies, if not a bit better.

Gah... That's probably why every Best Buy I called today (at least 5 of them) all said they weren't in stock. I'll stop by one of them tomorrow and beat some sense into them. Had to do the same with Yukikaze volume 2 a few years ago, when they got the release date wrong on that one too.

The Fry's by me has had 2 copies for a week now, but they wouldn't sell it until today. Of all the times for them to actually pay attention to the street date on an anime title... So I stop by before work on the 20th (around 3pm)... and they're sold out Looks like I'll be hitting up the area Best Buy stores today, even though they're a bit more expensive ($57 vs. Frys' $50)

I checked the only two Mospeada CDs I have (OST1 and Super Collection), and they have none of those songs. Sorry Edit: I found a copy of the LLA soundtrack for sale on Yahoo Japan Auctions for Y4800, if anyone's interested. http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k42280407

If someone wants to loan me a set of the original resin vacform molds, I'd be able to make some replacement canopies.

1994 is just the copyright date of Macross Plus, not necessarily the year the kit was made.