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  1. mechaninac
    It's the difference between shoestring TV production and Movie budget; think TOS Enterprise vs. Motion Picture Refit 1701... the same, but different.
  2. mechaninac
    Too bad the price of finding out firsthand is so high... but I'm game.
  3. mechaninac
    So far, no crabs, just crickets...
  4. mechaninac
    Crack is wack! ... What?... Too soon?
  5. mechaninac
    Still waiting for my crabs to show up.
  6. mechaninac
    When collecting Macross merchandize, or anything else for that matter, in the end, that's the only thing that's truly important.
  7. mechaninac
    Wow! 2 1/2 years since any significant development. This production is moving right along...
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    ^Seeing such fantastic aircraft turned into just so much burnt slag and scattered debris has got to hurt all the way deep into one's very soul, even if it's only a cartoon...
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    Figured this was as good a place as any to put this. It's DX; however, I'm uncertain if it's chogokin, but damn I want one ... if only it wasn't for that price. Mondo AmiAmi
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    That looks fantastic. You arguably left the best for last. I can't wait to get my set.
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    ^ That's just so Bad-A$$... far nicer than the standard color pallet.
  12. mechaninac
    Just put in a ticket through the website to request a change in invoice currency from USD to JPY. They're very accommodating in this regard.
  13. mechaninac
    amateur, amateurs (plural): noun, a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity. adjective, characteristic of or engaged in by an amateur; nonprofessional.
  14. mechaninac
    Here you go...
  15. mechaninac
    Yes. Pantone, or equivalent, for standard colors, but also custom mixes should not present a problem as, much like paint matching, there are applications and equipment to pin down correct mixing ratios to arrive at a desired end result... which begs the question: Is Arcadia dealing with complete incompetents or armatures on the raw material sourcing side of production?
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    Two places I will never order from so long as I live: Nin-nin Games (They completely ignored a cancellation request for an item I once ordered from them, no acknowledgement that I even asked or even a standard refusal email; and when I did get it, their packaging job was so damned lousy that the item's box was crushed... immediate loss of MISB condition, and overpriced to boot), and Play-Asia (most of us know why at this point...).
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    Sorry to read that. Did you use a cutoff disk (~1/32" thick x 3/4" diameter) or a grind wheel (much thicker and of varying diameters)? If the former, did you hold the tool so that the disk would plunge perpendicular to the screw remnant's shaft in order cut a slot into it to receive a flat head small screw driver? If the latter... wrong tool. I do hope that the bit of die-cast that got ground into is a hidden surface that won't become an issue once the whole assembly, after the offending screw is removed, gets put back together. A last ditch solution, if all else fails, is to drill into the broken screw... basically saying "the hell with it" and recreating the hole in the boss through the broken screw. The problem with this course of action is that the screw is likely harder/stronger than the die-cast, which makes drilling it difficult without the use of a very stable vise to hold the piece steady and a drill press to plunge down the center of the boss without going astray and causing irreversible damage. You'd need to steady the piece, keeping it from moving, with the screw boss concentric with the drilling vector; grind flat the surface to be drilled; use a center-punch to mark the spot of initial drill contact; carefully drill into the screw with a pilot drill (1/3 smaller diameter than final bore) in small (1/16" at a time then backing off an blowing away the chips) increments; repeat with a bit 2/3 the final bore diameter with the same in--out--blow--repeat technique; finish with the final drill diameter (based on the appropriate diameter for the screw to be used. Ex: 1.8mm drill for a 2.0mm screw). Good luck.
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    ^We've got the attention spans of drunken gnats, we can't help it...
  20. mechaninac
    Miro79, when you remove the broken part, don't throw it away; as long as it has not completely disintegrated and the crumbled pieces have not been lost, it can be repaired with plastic weld (plastic cement) containing Dichloromethane (Methylene Chloride).
  21. mechaninac
    Agent Carter starts tonight at 8:00PM EST; looking forward to this... almost time
  22. mechaninac
    A protector in either 1/18 (CMS Ride Armors scale) or 1/10 (Beagle/Toynami scale) would be awesome. I'd actually prefer 1/18 since CMS' lineup of Ride Armors is complete, and the price would be more affordable too.
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    One from CDJ and done. Not happy with the pay upfront crap, but what's done is done, and I guess $216.17 shipped ain't bad.
  24. mechaninac
    4:00PM Japan time = 2:00AM EST... this sucks.
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    A few of the early episodes from Book 2 were farmed out to a different animation studio, if I'm not mistaken, and it shows, but it reverts to the better quality animation and the story picks up 1/3-1/2 of the way through. Then, there is the flash back to the first ever Avatar, which is drawn in a different (simpler, and more pastel) style which is a bit jarring at first.
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