Falcon

That article is like 6 years old.

Are there any articles that are newer? If you can find some that'd be good. If not, why are you complaining if that's all we have?

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-300309-1.html

Found this on the net... looks credible. Does give a few insights about the Pak-50 that I didn't know before.

Just curious, but what do people here think of the Pak-50 compared to the F-22?

Personally, I do like the look of the Pak-50 better (apart from the engines) but it does compromise the stealth characteristics a bit. Which of the two is the better fighter?

LVT Avenger II Attack Aircraft

British Aircraft Corporation TSR 2 (General Silhouette)

Think the Su-25 Frogfoot is a better comparison.

Isn't that a standard Mandarake statement for all their products?

Bump

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-1232852.html

Sold out

Thought you can't buy from Amazon JP if you're outside of Japan? Are you planning to get a proxy to ship it over?

Can't get CDJapan for some reason. Sold out but says I can add to cart. Anyone else getting that too??

Found Nobbyxr8 a great person to sell to. Easy to deal with and paid promptly. Highly recommended.

Hi guys. New here. I just wanna say I made this solely to talk about Yukikaze.

It appears in recent weeks on TV Tropes somebody has done a major clean-up of the Yukikaze page out there.

I've only read the first novel, but I just noticed somebody posted the ending to the second novel and holy crap it totally blows the anime's ending out of the water, but it's a major, major, MAJOR cliffhanger!

Let me just quote it for you:

Good Luck, Yukikaze ends with Ansel Rombert going MIA after starting his mutiny, Banshee-III exploding (heavily implied to be JAM sabotage), and the JAM launching an unbelievably large-scale electronic warfare attack that causes nearly all FAF AIs to perceive Faery Air Base as having been taken over by the JAM as well as start registering hundreds of false positives of JAM fighters which are actually FAF craft. The result is a Civil War that erupts in the FAF as nearly every plane from every FAF forward operating base starts gunning for HQ as well as making all SAF planes targets. Even worse, Booker brings up the possibility that the FAF pilots may be targeting the SAF not because of JAM deception, but because they're using this as an opportunity to settle scores with the dirty cowards they think the SAF are. Rei moves to sortie into this madhouse because he believes the JAM are waiting for him & Yukikaze to show themselves. Meanwhile, the SAF Strategic Computer is strongly predicting that an actual JAM fleet will show up after the carnage is over and wipe out the remaining survivors. After all, everything is going all according to plan for them.

Can we please start some kind of campaign to make everyone you know buy these books so that Haika Soru will translate the third novel?

Where did you get the translations from? Sounds interesting...

VF-1A Cavalier sold

I thought Macross 7 was a minor hit in Japan. Thought Macross Frontier was a pretty big hit in Japan. Am I wrong?

What's with the Yamcadia? I'm sticking to Arcmato!

Macross is getting pricey but that's to be expected. People say Hot Toys isn't a niche market but I feel that the prices are a bit on the high side for it not to be. Perhaps I'm wrong, but niche needs to be put into context. A big fanbase in the 100's of millions with under a million or so fans going for a collectible is still pretty niche in my mind. But is it as niche as as one where you have millions of fans with 100's of thousands that are after a collectible? Perhaps in percentage but not in numbers- kind of like saying what football team is the biggest.

Love that YF29! Sadly my 1/48 customs are dwindling down. Been selling a few to cover my cigar budget. Ha. Damn our addictions.

If you ever decide to sell I'm sure you'll find many here on the boards that are willing to take them off your hands- they look amazing!

Looks amazing... so tempted to try a custom of my own- except I'm always worried I'll stuff it up. Can't afford to make mistakes when you only have one.

VF-1S has been sold

The Kazaki is the DYRL version

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Hi all,

Decided to let go parts of my collection- willing to do a part trade for a Shigeo Koike 2015 Wall calendar or MB Destiny.

Prices are in USD and does not include shipping. Payment in Paypal must be a gift or 5% on top of price listed.

Willing to listen to offers but won't put up with low-ballers.

Please note that I'm from Australia. I am on the SSL.

Macross

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Witty Wings Su-27's

1/72 Witty Wings Sky Guardians Su-27 Flanker. Russian Air Force 4th CTC Aerobatic Team $60

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Box is heavily damaged and slight damage near cockpit that needs to be glued (have broken piece still)

Model Kits

1/72 Hasegawa SV-51 Ivanov $30

1/72 Hasegawa YF-19 $30

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I find David's perceptive abilities insightful. He's certainly more aware about colours than I am. It's not just colours- little subtle pieces in designs are also spotted which could be helpful in the future when deciding whether to purchase something or not or being aware of what areas might be more fragile or accurate.

If you don't like his posts fair enough- but I think many here do appreciate some of the things he says.

There is nothing flawed about judging people as individuals and as not part of a group.

And I read your posts just fine. I get it, some of you come from regions that view people of wealth as being inherently uncaring individuals. Your prejudices don't make you right.

The movie plays up classism and beats the audience over the head with a viewpoint that is based upon prejudice and not fact.

I like the irony- you claim that you only judge people as individuals yet you claim that people that put out a view about haves and have-nots are immediately are people with prejudices against the rich. You know little if anything about many of us on the board to make that accusation. Somewhat hypocritical. You talk about lack of facts but when others bring up a few you present none but dismiss theirs.

Ultimately people can like or dislike the movie; but showing with valid points that the movie took an idea and took it another step further isn't too unrealistic is worthy of further discussion with others on the board. If you don't feel like you can contribute further than dismiss others with glib responses because someone doesn't follow your train of thought then perhaps Kaneda's advice is best.

In a world where the US and large parts of Western Europe are the minority of the world population, who is to say that a world where the rich are more likely to ignore the poor isn't possible? Unlikely perhaps but still possible nonetheless.

Do hope Weta Workshop comes up with more movies. Love their visual styles.

It's called a typo, it happens when I post from my phone. And no, it doesn't magically make it so, but I am still right, as you go on to prove below...

I wasn't insinuating that ONLY the U.S. gave, but thanks for further proving my point.

Right, just like it isn't a strecth to say you have a fondness for sexualized pre-pubescent girls because you watch anime. Or that because there are a disproportional number of African Americans incarcerated in the U.S. that all African Americans are criminals. Shall I continue?

And here we agree.

You can't read my posts well. Perhaps it's the myopic view that yours is right and others must therefore be wrong.

Clearly some posters are more like trolls when it comes to these things.

If you want to be pig headed about it all then by all means. You've been shown to have flawed ideas- but you're entitled to have them.

The video has nothing to do with the topic at hand or anything you in the test of your post.

The number one supplier of humanitarian aid in the world is the "wealthy" United States. Many of the world's largest charitable organizations and driven by, supported, and/l contributed to by the wealthy. Certainly, this does not apply to all nations or cultures, but that's my point--you can't paint all people with one broad brush.

Don't quite understand what the last part of the first sentence is on about but the video was relevant to what I was talking about how Elysium's taken an idea and expanded on it. It was certainly relevant to what I stated about the movie- you merely saying it isn't doesn't just magically make it so.

The US as a whole gave generously- over $316 billion a year. Fantastic and all but when you consider the top 1% of the wealthy own about 40% of the wealth of the US, it doesn't look that great as a percentage. That's not even factoring many people contributing to those donations may not be considered financially rich.

LINK:

http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/news/article/giving-usa-2013

Interesting to note that the US is not the number one country for donations and charities per person- Australia is.

LINK:

https://www.cafonline.org/media-office/press-releases/2012/1912-world-giving-index-2012.aspx

Like I said before, heavy handed as the view of movie showing the haves and the have-nots, it certainly isn't too far of a stretch to take the idea of the rich in ignoring the poor.I already said the US was one of the better countries out there and there are worse ones that actively segregate the rich from the poor.

Movies good and bad take an idea and go with it in a broad spectrum. Can't see how Elysium's view of a world where the rich for the most part ignore the plight of others below them would be such a huge reason why it's a bad movie. Movies like Terminator 3 took an idea and ran with it so poorly but some here liked it enough. You've made your opinion clear and the reasons why you didn't like it- I just disagree with the notion that this one expanded idea was what made it so bad. But to each their own.

That said, I do think District 9 was a better movie.

Certainly enjoyed Elysium- the visuals were fantastic and the plot certainly better than some of the others around the same time.

"Classism" or not, many who are wealthy do live in a bubbled communities that avoid the poor- very evident in the film and certainly evident in countries around the world. Can't see how an extension on that idea could be considered so horrendously flawed to people here but yet some claim that Terminator 3 was fine when it goes against the very ideas of what the previous 2 movies stood for. But to each their own...

Not being from America, I can't say that I know all the ins and outs of whether or not the wealthy do enough for those around them, but from this Youtube clip, the idea of the rich doing little/nothing for those below them would seem possible. Seeing as there is a huge divide between rich and poor in America- we haven't even started on other countries that have rich and are even more unwilling to share. The idea of the movie where the rich do little to nothing for the vast poor is certainly not THAT unrealistic compared to other movies. Yes, the movie is a bit heavy handed with its views, but when you consider how one of the most antiquated/oldest democracies in the world operates, it's not hard to believe other countries with different views to fairness and freedoms can be more extreme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM