CoryHolmes

Okay, I'm very, very late to this party.  I just got D+ tonight (well, last night) and I started with Andor.  Rogue One is the only good thing Disney has done with the IP so this is the place to start.

I'm just 3 and a bit episodes in and did the casting director look at Chernobyl and say, "Get me everyone who worked on that?"  'Cuz I recognize 3 actors so far in pi episodes.  Also love the little drop of an "increase in construction materials to Scarif."  Love the worldbuilding, even if the first 3 episodes were so.  Frickin'.  Slooooooooooooow.

I don't need to sleep, right???

12 hours ago, captain america said:

I'm not sure I understand your question. What you see in pic 62 are two of (probably eight) similar molds, each of which makes anywhere from three to over a dozen pieces. I generally try to group pieces to be molded by size, but also by complexity. Some pieces need their own, individual mold box, just because they're complex, and the rubber has to be sliced from so many sides that placing other pieces in the mold box causes problems.

I was talking about the giant mold box with "CHEST" and "BELT" stenciled in places.  I wasn't sure if you then sliced each little mould apart from that conglomeration, or if you just casted all the parts at once.

I dunno why I thought you'd physically separate the moulds from each other.

Oooh, a question about Pic 62.

With the mega-mould of pink gooey goodness, did you then separate each teeny mould from the bulk of just left it as-is and cast the whole lot in one big batch?

Does anyone have any updates on X-Transbots James//Bond?  Last I heard it was supposed to release a few months ago.

Things are lookin' mighty nice there, Cap'n!

Gotta admit, I'd be really tempted with a 1/6th Cyclone in Battloid mode kit...

20 hours ago, MKT said:

 

So, Dana figure to be out in April 2023.

I'd completely forgotten that I've already preordered and paid for her

It'll be interesting to see how this Dana Sterling matches against the KidsLogic 1/6th scale version, which I dearly love.

Broke down and ordered the Dana Sterling statue.

First of all, she HUEG!  I know it said 1/6 scale in the title, but as a non-figure collector that didn't really mean much to me.  But I bought her for the impressive colour scheme and not her impressive size, and they knocked that outta the park!

Photo's don't do the metallic hue justice.  It's just the right shade.  Her un-armoured face is okayish, but solidly in the uncanny valley that is most anime figures.  But only a dum-dum goes into battle without their helmet on anyway

How extreme are the design changes that you've had to make to accommodate the articulation?

On 11/27/2022 at 10:01 PM, RavenHawk said:

Maybe it's a MotoSlave type of thing going on, trying to honor another Aramaki work (without, you know, as graceful of an approach)?

Rereading this, you've hit the nail on the head as far as my distaste for these designs go.  They are everything BUT graceful!

There's something about Pic 34 that hurts my brain.

How do you get that giant slab to roll up and fit into the cardboard tube beside it???

15 hours ago, Big s said:

If the rumors are true and I hope they’re not, there’s a bunch of time travel involved. Probably my least favorite story element along with multiverses

haaaaack-paTUI!!

That is all I have to say about that.

On 5/27/2022 at 8:06 AM, Thom said:

Hey, give it up to 1950's friges!😁

And drinking from the Holy Grail!  That has to count for something!

I really did appreciate Crystal Skull for daring to embrace Ford's aging and updating the setting/baddies.  I wonder how this film, said to take place 36 years later, will address that.

11 hours ago, captain america said:

Fixed it for you. 😆

Some designs are better than others. The SC Bioroids were hands-down the worst offenders, whereas something like this is the result of some more careful consideration and went through an extra level of refinement by Aramaki for the modernization, which helps a lot. The ankle joint seems to be the worst of it; the rest is just tweaking aesthetics and the slow process of making any body-glove armor fit properly. Thankfully, it's a big scale.

Hey, at no point did I say that you didn't have very, very good reasons for your colourful commentary

Yeah, the Ride Armour does seem to be better thought-out than the SC mecha.

It seems to me that you normally complain endlessly about how these poorly-designed mechas don't translate well into 3D shapes.  Is this project different or easier?

34 minutes ago, tekering said:

Wrong thread. 😉

Doesn't invalidate what I said.  It's hovertanks or bust!

18 hours ago, Mog said:

Just one more holy grail left for me.

Hovertanks, right?  RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!

On 11/12/2022 at 6:51 AM, Convectuoso said:

Video of MEP TOYS invid Scout

 

https://fb.watch/gLqsGjIMFn/

I want.

Damn, gone way too soon 😭  I got out of the MMA game a long time ago, during Rumble's reign of terror.

9 hours ago, mantisfists said:

Thank you for sacrificing your body for our bloodlust.

  I stepped away because I decided that I couldn't be a part of an industry that revolves around convincing young men (and women now) that permanent brain damage is just fine while the stockholders are the only ones who get rich in the end.  Maybe if the UFC had a long-term retirement contract or health services, instead of washing their hands of what they encouraged to happen and then bringing in the next round of suckers to fill the gap...  WWE was scummy with how they treated their talent in the 80s and 90s, and the UFC is no different.

I'm always amazed at your ability to break a subject down into simpler shapes, and then combine those shapes into a 3D object.  Plus the patience to actually see it through, since I'd never get past cutting out the images and gluing them onto the blocks...

Though at this stage, Pic 20 has a surprising similarity to an Alpha Fighter's leg assembly.  Makes it easy to believe it came from the same human service.

18 hours ago, tekering said:

Photo 01 depicts a 1:12 scale body, next to the Sentinel figure. ☺️

Oh.

Um.

I blame sleep deprivation.

Maybe I'm just slow tonight, but how do you have a finished piece beside the body in photo 01?

2 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m kinda surprised they didn’t make the front of the eye and area around a separate piece to avoid the line. 

Probably a cost-cutting measure.  Less tooling, less designing, less of everything expensive.

On 10/28/2022 at 10:11 AM, captain america said:

*Shrug* The more I see of Genesis Breakers, the more my disappointment grows. I like how Aramaki modernized the classic Mospeada design, and the way Sentinel made the transformation work--despite questionable materials choices in the figure, they still get a massive thumbs-up from me.  Everything beyond that just looks like trash. They took a good, functional design and just added junk to make everything look busy as a means to compensate for the fact that they have no creativity. Often times, less is more. 😑

Yeah, what he said!

At this point, this new trash is just awful.

On 10/21/2022 at 11:32 AM, captain america said:

The other interesting aspect of the MOSPEADA boot design is that in either version, the driver's foot doesn't extend all the way down into the foot of the boot: the latter is itself almost a prosthetic that elevates the wearer and affords him/her important protection from mines or other types of IEDs. Like a better version of these.

 

I've always head-canoned that as the boots being part of the power suit when in Battloid mode.  So the human's squishy feet aren't bearing all the weight of the mecha on his back.

But these?  These aren't anywhere near that kind of style.  This is as bothersome to me as exaggerated bust lines on Arcee toys.

On 10/16/2022 at 10:10 AM, roboemo said:

Seems that it wasn't the female with heels.
Seems that all Armor had heels in new design as well.

Blocky heels I don't mind.  It's the pointy high-heeled look that even Sentinel gave their female rider.  Yes, she's a girl, no need to give her high heels in combat armour.