Chronocidal
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I do hope they realize they've painted up a VF-1J in the S markings for the prototype there. Also hope the gunpod isn't permanently mounted, really prefer the option to have a completely clean aircraft. Otherwise looks good, and I might grab one or two, but I really don't need more VF-1s in any scale at this point.
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I'll check on that, and see if I can't get the plastic versions available, if I can't get the metal ones going. Worst case, I can always upload the pattern, and you could cut the parts out of plastic sheet. It's not an easy pattern to cut, but my first couple of copies were handmade, and held up better than I expected. The plastic loops are just hard to shape, and seem like they'd be fairly fragile. I could even just mail you one of my spare sets, honestly, but I would like to get them available again. Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled drool-fest.
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You just reminded me about the replacement brackets I made on Sculpteo, but it looks like the metal ones aren't available for some reason. I might have to see about fixing that, or see if they have another material that'll work.
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So I just realized how different the canard shape is from the early version. Is that to fit better into place in battroid mode? Also, you know the next step, right? Retractable landing gear!
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Tell them you want to be served in the order you ordered. Honestly, I'd be plenty happy accepting them one at a time. They already charged plenty for shipping them individually.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Chronocidal replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
I wouldn't say the ideas are mutually exclusive though. Music itself can be considered a language all its own, able to convey emotions and ideas without even necessarily needing lyrics in any particular language. The bulk of available Protoculture information all points to the idea that the primary form of communication for them may have been musical. If words and language are a good carrier for simple data, putting them to music adds an entirely different dimension to the communication. The analogy my brain wants to make is to the way electro-magnetic radiation carries both electrical and magnetic signals on different axes of an electro-magnetic waveform. If you take the concept of fold waves and spiritia as a whole, it's like the whole thing rolls up sound, emotion, and language into one big carrier wave for information of multiple types, affecting recipients on both a conscious and subconscious level. That thought's probably a whole lot more sciencey than necessary, but it basically points to the idea that the Protoculture's standard means of communication were of a different nature, and on an entirely different level than spoken word. You're right though, having R. Lee Ermy belting out a love song doesn't quite jive, but it's also a great example of how varied music is as a communication medium, and illustrates my point even better. There's no explicit evidence that the lyrics found in the Protoculture city and the snippet of music in the Zentraedi databanks were meant to go together. In fact... See, I can't honestly believe that this may have been intentional, but think about the effect that song had on the Zentraedi and Meltrandi. What if they were hearing love song lyrics broadcast along the carrier wave meant to give battlefield commands? You'd be confused too. You can mashup all kinds of songs to give you horrible messes of dissonant moods and lyrics. For instance, the lyrics for "Amazing Grace" fit the music for both "House of the Rising Sun" and the theme song from Gilligans Island. One set of words, but the music adds an entirely different dimension to how they're received. Like I said, I can't imagine it was actually intentional, but the song in DYRL may have been the Protoculture equivalent of a Niel Cicierega mashup. Deculture, indeed. -
Can't blame you there, I love the proportions of the Arcadia in all modes, and it really does look like the anime. The Bandai version looks more like what you'd get if you adapted a Hasegawa fighter mode kit into a transforming toy: a lot slimmer and sleeker in fighter mode, but battroid mode just doesn't have the same presence. If I could mash YF-19 versions together, I think I'd want Arcadia's overall design with Bandai's intakes, hips, shoulder joints, color, ankles, and some of the tampo... along with the original Yamato's wing joints. Edit: Oh, and while we're mashing things up, take the markings from the Hasegawa kit. They're the only ones to date with the right sizing and position for the black colored panel on the spine.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Chronocidal replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
Honestly.. for all intents and purposes, Mikumo may as well be a sex-bot AI transplanted into a physical clone body. Nothing about her existence is right in the slightest, but maybe that's the point. Her backstory would honstly make a good horror genre series, but that entire concept is drowned in the backwash of "we need a fanservicey idol-singer to be the figurehead for our plot group!" From a story perspective, one of the most annoying things to me about that is that they do write her as a particular type of character, but the cues we get to her motivations and personality are at complete odds with anything we know about the character's origins. It doesn't make the slightest sense for a mental three-year-old to act the way she does. The assumption I'm tempted to make is that whoever cloned her managed to make a complete physical and personality duplicate of an ancient member of the Protoculture, while simultaneously managing to tailor her psyche to forget anything about her past. On the creepazoid scale, making a 1-for-1 copy of a completely mature living being and then giving them laser-guided amnesia is probably less heinous than a lot of the other assumed atrocities you could apply to Mikumo's character. But then the really fun question to ask.. where did her override command come from? Clearly that was supposed to be some sort of screwy ancient knowledge that Roid acquired, but that would imply that the override command was something the Protoculture had implanted in the original Star Singer. Not to excuse the humans in this mess, but knowing how the Protoculture loved their genetic engineering, I'm not sure it's much of a stretch to assume that Mikumo might be a modern copy of a mass-produced, ready-made command and control node for a fold-receptor network. The fact that she turned out nominally human might be due to the fact that she didn't get the standard initial training and indoctrination the Protoculture would have given her. The implications there are pretty far reaching, and could point to a lot of particulars of how the Protoculture operated. The fact that Mikumo flat out begins belting out "Ai Oboete Imasu Ka", but only the first line (and, inexplicably, in Japanese ), makes me think that the entire reason the song worked in DYRL was because hearing that first line was some sort of "ATTENTION: ORDERS INCOMING" command line. I could be remembering entirely bass-ackwards though. I know the lyrics were found and translated by Misa (and I'm starting to wonder how accurate or complete that translation was), but was the music itself composed by humans, or did they find a snippet of the tune to put the lyrics to in the SDF-1's databanks? Edit: Scratch that, I forgot, the scene in DYRL where the SDF-1 flies in with the Zentradi fleet at their backs has Minmay singing just the first line of the tune. It still doesn't make sense that Mikumo used the Japanese lyrics for that line, but it might have just been coincidence that the document Misa found matched the tune. -
Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Chronocidal replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
Just finished watching a first run-through, and actually, I'd say the faster pace fixed a lot, just from the fact that a lot of the goofier and more hackneyed elements were left out. Putting the Walkure history at the beginning was also a huge plus, since it allowed them to completely abandon the prison sequence from the original show. Leaving out some of the subtext and exposition helped a ton, as well as removing the nonsense Berger character entirely, which simplified the conflict by basically removing an entire faction. Also, battroid and gerwalk actually got some good usage! I can't say it was necessarily worth $80, but I definitely feel more satisfied with this than spending that same money on the series. There are a lot of shortcuts taken that remove extraneous nonsense from the series, while basically hopscotching between the key plot points to tell the same story, and I think it comes out more cleanly overall. The method of bringing everyone together for the finale was definitely an improvement. The whole thing just felt a lot more streamlined, with a ton of baggage removed. -
STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
Chronocidal replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Small thing I looked over entirely while building. There is a standard socket for the normal stands included in all the other kits, I just snapped on the cover plate without looking at it closely. it's hidden beneath one of the small turquoise panels on the engine block. Obviously can't get an upright pose with it due to the position and height, but still looks a lot better alongside the other kits than the big upright stand this kit came with.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
It's been a busy couple of months, but most of my stuff is still sitting in my HLJ warehouse for delivery. I did pick up a 1/72 HobbyMaster Vigilante though. Do metal aircraft count as toys? Eh, works for me. With no parts to fall off, and only the nose probe to watch out for, this one's pretty swooshable. Gorgeous plane, and they did a wonderful job with it, it's such a slick design. Also, I have no idea how this thing ever fit on a carrier, it makes the F-14 look compact by comparison. Also been having fun putting together the Bandai B-Wing kit, but that'll take a while before it's anywhere close to done.
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"It's not pink, it's light-ish red!"
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I admit.. I'm slightly tempted to build one and paint it up in the same NASA scheme as the X-29. I'm not quite looking forward to figuring out how to prime and paint that material though, the few prints I've gotten from Shapeways have been really heavy on the preparation work.
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I'm in the middle of some home renovation, but I'm looking forward to picking up a kit once I've got my workshop the way I want it.
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The piles of unanswered questions that fans were left with at the end of TFA, and subsequently told in TLJ that they should ignore them, because they don't matter. Basically, enough dangling plot threads to knit a sweater.
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I can't even call my response "non-committal"... they literally just said they'd ask the dispatch center about it, probably because I asked if there was any issue shipping it. We'll see if I get anything more in the next few days, but I'm really not holding my breath at this point.
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The HMR VF-1s are a bit bigger than 1/100 scale, I think they were closer to 1/85th or something? I know Jenius did the math for his reviews. I imagine 1/100 decals would work fine, if you can find them, but depending on the sizes of the individual markings, 1/72 military aircraft decals may work as well.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Chronocidal replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
Ugh.. I forgot what a pain blurays can actually be.. got my copy in the mail, and can't even watch it because my PS3 is packed up for moving, and PCs can't natively play the discs yet. Now I know why so many discs these days include the digital copy. -
I posted another ticket with a similar note, saying I'd heard of orders placed after mine that have already been sent. We'll see if I get any kind of response. If they offer to send me just one, and refund the other as store credit, I'll probably take it at this point, since that would probably pay for a pair of armor packs.
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I would too, but I do wish they'd revisit the 262 like they did the VF-27. Proportions and shape were fine, but the internal mechanism is just a massive mess of over-engineering. I don't know if it's more or less accurate to the screen version, but the model kits are just much more enjoyable to transform all around. I'd still buy at least two Mirage 262 kits though.
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Just means we'll have to pick up extra sets of the armor to customize for the whole squadron.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Or depending on the preferred mode, plane addicts. -
Glad it was easily fixable, looks great!
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Those little 1/100 VF-25 and YF-29 kits are amazing for alternate schemes, I grabbed a dozen or so of them with that exact intent. Also helps mitigate the fact that the decals that came with those kits are of absolutely terrible quality.
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I don't clearly recall exactly how that weapon in Beyond came about, but I do remember that Kirk came into possession of a piece of it by negotiating some kind of peace treaty? Or something like that. I don't remember the specific details of how that mess went, but I feel like it's entirely possible that the specific chain of events leading to the situation in Beyond may have never happened in the Prime timeline, just because of different people being in different places at different times, and dealing with things in other ways. The Franklin and crew may have always been stranded, but what if Prime Spock's meddling in events resulted in something entirely different happening to them? I think the whole mental excursion into what changed and what didn't is ultimately an exercise in futility, because I'm sure all those little questions will never be answered, but I do think splitting the timeline opened up a Pandora's box of possibilities that offer plenty of feasible alternatives for why certain things occurred, but others didn't.
