SpacePirateNeko

Don't mean to sound harsh but looks to me like your going through some tough times, but despite this your priorities seem to be misplaced. It doesn't make any sense to relocate across the Pacific out of the blue with the hopes of something happening (unless of course you do have prospects lined up). Also... Japan and LA, if you want to narrow your future down to 2 places, that seems to be a pretty extreme and unusual choice don't you think?

Please try and spend your time securing employment, and spend your limited resources perhaps learning a new skill or something instead of sinking it into a ticket to uncertain prospects abroad. I say this out of compassion and not spite, as I've been in a similar situation.

Regarding the boxes, I would chuck them, hoarding only makes sense when it's something of value, since the Hasegawa kits are pretty widely available, it does not meet this criteria.

Don't worry you're not coming off harsh at all. Sometimes though you have to take a weird leap like that to find your way, anyway i hopefully may have found a place tomorrow. As for the boxes, i crushed those up a few days ago. I just stacked plastic bags into boxes, when i can get things together, a small job and finish school ill worry about em. Moving back over the Pacific, thats a bit aways in the future.

On an aside and i know i'm going off topic a bit here, but i just dropped everything in storage and paid it off for a year. I see a few people from across the Pacific here, im finding no places available in LA for what little i have left in my bank account and I'm currently without employment....im starting to get that itch. The itch that gets you on a plane and randomly going to Japan and trying to make something happen because frankly it's now or never (love being in Japan, hate LA). Wouldn't it be ironic though if i did that......eventually importing back all the models i originally brought back from trips to Japan. Ah well, we'll see if i go nuts in the few remaining days and just take a leap of faith.

I only have a day and a half to find a place so after 3 or 4 nicely trimmed box covers i just gave up and cut out the names so i could find what was what faster. Stepping on those beautiful boxes was heartbreaking, i used to love to see the stack of boxes in the closet. Oh well, not really in a situation to worry about such things.

thanks, in the process now of bagging the smaller stuff, hasegawas etc, gonna keep the larger stuff boxed five star stories etc and the rare stuff. Hopefully i can narrow down 200 kits to 3 boxes

So basically, i'm still unemployed and have two days to find a place to live ( no luck so far). Boo Hooing aside, i have decided to throw all my valuables into storage for 6 months....this includes all of my models.

Then it hit me, why should i have 9 large boxes taking up the small storage space when i can get rid of all the boxes, put the kits in separate plastic shopping bags with their instructions and prob fit them all in 1 or 2 boxes.

So i'm wondering, how many of you actually keep the boxes of kits you model before and after you build the models? Ouch this is gonna hurt....but really i mean..i dont need these boxes....(keeps telling himself that over and over)

Although i'm not into figure/toy collecting , i do hope this sells well enough that Hasegawa gets some ideas....

Before wiping

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Really awesome work though, i love the Tire wells

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actually finished about two weeks ago

I set up a steam group for MW members who want to play pc games together or just chat. If you use steam just go here and click to join if you want.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MacrossWorld

Wow i just started doing the same exact thing a few days ago, I had only intended to make the cockpit though. After seeing this...i dont think i have the will to finish it. Ah well i can always do a diff Valk....anyone have any requests? Pref something classic and something i can find tons of internal line work on.

DO WANT!

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I would really like to see a Hasegawa "advanced valkyrie" series with Vf-14s, Vf-3000 and the like....oh and , i don't care that it isnt official...i want this so bad...

You know it's really stupid, i have 300 models sitting in my closet and i tell myself things like "one day i wont be unemployed, i'll have the job i want, i'll be living where i want and i'll have my own house and then i'll be able to to finally build all these". What a dumb way to think. You just have to keep doing everything you want, the rest will fall into place. So i decided to just start working on one of my hasegawas finally while i do everything else.

So here is the first of many models to come, my first completed Hasegawa. It's not perfect but its the first model i completed that i used an airbrush on. it won't be the last.

Noyhauser i think we are working on teh same exact model.

and on the Macross side of things, almost doe with this one

Just finished the primary build/putty/sanding. Onto the prime/paint/and other fiddly bits.

After that one is finished, onto this!

Not only does this make me jealous at how nice and ready everything is to build, but the paper you have it on makes me wanna back to Japan again..this time one way.

Thanks i was feeling nostalgic for how i was into anime in the 80s and sadly how downhill it has gotten. Ah well

MY HERO! Thanks a million

Does anyone remember a video made specifically for an anime convention , early 80s, that featured a bunny girl riding through space and was a collage mish mash of things mixed together. I cant seem to find a link anywhere and no combination of searches are turning anything up. All i remember was that the animation was excellent.

Yep, I bought it when it first came out. Then, I moved to Japan in 2004, and all my kits stayed boxed up until 2 years ago or so. Nice to let them see the light of day again.

Kind of funny, though. Buy my kits from Japan, have then sent to America, then I end up moving and building them over here.

Thats funny, when i finally find a way to move there ( stayed there a little bit with a friend for a month and ive been back 5 times, love the place), I will literally have to do the same thing though possibly on a much larger scale. All the trips i took to Japan i always brought two empty suitcases, atm i would have to get over 150 unbuilt kits shipped back over.

So the apt i live in has a clubhouse room we could hold this in. It doesnt get reserved its kinda first come first serve, but if we set up stuff early or late at night, the room would basically be ours.The only time anyone ever uses it is to watch sports games or the occasional kids birthday party. Its big but more small scale con size. Slightly bigger the the room at Jerrys place during the first con, good for 25 to 30 people.

The only thing is, atm its being redesigned so wont reopen until mid August, when it does it will have a full entertainement system including 4 widescreened plasmas put together as one big display, full surround sound stereo, internet etc, its looking really nice atm.

Also i live in Marina Del Rey, across the street from the Harbor which is a 2 minute walk, which opens up other possibilities.

I never read the books so this is a different viewpoint but i really enjoyed it. Its very hard to find darker ( non earth) fantasy movies. The look was very dark and lived in and the story was was intriquing. It made me look forward to the next episode. Only areas i wasnt fond of was the scenes of over the sea, they were a bit plasticky, especially the look of the dragon eggs. Other then that....it was pretty brutal from the get go...children ripped into pieces in the early scenes, decapitations, and nudity and sex every other scene.

A midget has a 4some with prostitutes, thats all i needed to make it good.

I loved it , easily my favorite CoD yet. I hated MW2 for its terrible rushed and plot hole filled story and this game has a great story and great characters. Before this game WaW was my favorite CoD, this game improves on it in every way. My favorite change in kill streaks was not just not counting kill streak deaths, but putting the way overpowered dogs from WaW at the very end of the line. I cant speak on spawning problems in multiplayer since i hate TDM in games and never play since i find it boring but i play all the other goal oriented multiplayer games and never have issues.

The maps go from tiny to large and all have great flavor and feel to them reminiscent of cold war nostalgia. Another thing few people seem to mention about the game is that the maps feel more "alive" then previous CoD's with the rocket taking off in Launch, maps with moving trains in the background and a detonated nuke.( Also if you blow off all the heads of the mannequins in Nuketown, Sympathy for the Devil starts playing on the loudspeakers). My favorite part of Multi is the wager matches which offer really tense fun modes of play. On top of all that you have 2 zombie maps, a 2d arcade game, and tons of customization options and theater mode. Bottom line if you like CoD , this is the best one made, if you don't, i cant see this turning you around.

Also keep in mind i play on a PC ( where fps is meant to be played) and may be a bit bias when it comes to the game, but if you're a pc player and its your platform of choice they do allow dedicated servers unlike the disaster that was MW2, and mod tools are coming down the line in a month or two.

Completely disappointing on the way this series is turning out, i was a big fan of the source material and this is missing all the points of it and the buildup for terrible cliches and stereotypes. Im sure itll still be a pretty good show, but after episode 1 it automatically started to derail. This finale was a train wreck where the cars are undamaged but the tracks are ruined.