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  2. Old_Nash_II
    Oppressive and hopeless. Militaristic narration in the background makes everything more intense
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  4. nightmareB4macross
    Reshaping 3P MP hands. The material is really strong and works well with this scale.
  5. MechTech
    @SteveTheFish Your armored 1J looks good in that scheme! I think it's more accurate. In reality, stuff like drop-tanks and gunpods are for the fleet, not an individual. I think armored add-ons would be the same - especially with how expensive something like that would be. The Enterprise is looking good! @nightmareB4macross "This is my evil twin brother. He's also more ugly than me!"🤣 Did I miss something, are those printed hands and fingers? - MT
  6. derex3592
    Man, ALL those are looking REALLY great! I LOVE the Zent capital ships! I can only hope that one day Hasagawa gives us updated larger ones!! Hey- I guy can dream right?!
  7. TangledThorns
    New trailer. It'll be a date night film for us!
  8. Scyla
    Could you imagine how much better Pipes would have looked like if his chest detail was done this way?
  9. JB0
    I don't usually care much for "that one thing from that one episode" goes, but I love that they included his trumpet. And even chromed it! God yes. I love that on every toy it exists on, going back to when I was a wee laddie taking Slag into the bathtub with me(there's reasons my childhood Slag looks rough today).
  10. megatron-uk
    The last set I have been working on was the pair of Quiltra-Queleual models. I admit to being in two minds of these. I think the design of the assault craft is a good one; it definitely gives it a different feel to the other Zentradi ships, as befitting the mass troop carrier, landing-craft type role which makes it more distinct than the other designs. But, the way Arii produced it makes it arguably the weakest implementation of the four models. Firstly, the upper/lower hull design on this one is a major pain to get aligned correctly (I'd argue that the two hull sections are not quite produced the same size), and then there's the giant seam line which runs the entire circumference of the ship. Unlike all the other designs there is no way to hide this. It just needs lots of sanding and filling. Then there's the fact that the Arii molds for this ship have almost no detail on the sides - there are a couple of panel lines, but you could reasonably argue that the majority of the side of the ship is entirely flat and devoid of detail. It's not even that I've sanded it all away whilst trying to remove the giant seam line, because this is what it looks like straight from the sprue: Using Mr Surfacer 1500 to fill seam line: Both kits nearly ready for primer. I tried to scribe some extra definition to the (poor) detail which was already there, as straight from the sprue it's very, very faint and would likely be mostly hidden after primer and paint: Fortunately the big seam is now mostly hidden: Adding main areas of flat colour: Waterslide decals and Tamiya ink panel lines applied - the upper and lower sections are nicely detailed - it's just that the sides are mostly flat! Both kits panel lined and decaled. I haven't finished this pair yet - I still need to get a coat of satin varnish on and get some weathering and washes applied. I don't expect them to look as good as the other designs as there's not a lot to work with on the sides of the model
  11. SteveTheFish
    The eye decals are leftover for the Hasegawa Eggplane Girl resin kit I'm also working on. You can see the face in the lower left-hand corner of the photo. Fortunately, not only do they give you a choice of eyes, but they also provide several in case you screw it up. I have the 1400 Enterprise E myself, in a First Contact box. I just recently bought aztec decals for it from HDA Modelworx.
  12. sh9000
    Scarecrow 2.0.
  13. megatron-uk
    Haha! Yes, those rivets would be something like several metres/yards wide going by the stated scale of the ships!
  14. shazam
    Added The Real Ghostbusters - Peter Venkman (with Slimer) Pop! Vinyl Figure and the Loot Crate Ghostbusters - Peter Venkman Slimed Figure
  15. Scyla
    For me FansToys is really going too far with their super toon look. I think their Constructicons would look so much better with the old design approach with more surface detail and better proportions. I really miss the days of FansToys translucent plastic over silver greebles that looked so good. While I have Ghery (and Wright on the way) I think MMC will deliver the best Devastator package. While FT has the best combined mode and XTB the best robot/alt modes I think MMC will be the best overall. MMC also uses the all-in-one approach and usually takes great care of their engineering. That means their Devastator will probably be fun to handle too. I really hope Takara’s Style Gen MPG line will be a success and steer the MP line away from slavish toon worshipping so that the 3rd party companies will follow suit. I also think it is odd that FT follows a more integrated approach for their Devastator (but it is not an all-in-one). Again this is detrimental to the Constructicons as a whole. Wright would look a lot better if the backpack could collapse into the space where the block with the arm resides. Ghery and Wright could also much better proportions if all the structural parts of the combiner were reallocated to a Devastator frame. I’m also worried that the 3rd party companies won’t see all the Devastators to completion. From a toy manufacturing perspective the US market potentially being inaccessible due to tariffs must hurt those companies in some way.
  16. sh9000
    Not yet available to order. Most likely $54.99 at Hasbro Pulse.
  17. sh9000

    HMR VF-19P

    sh9000 replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Yeah I wouldn't mind having at least 1 of every type of HMR Valkyrie in a Roy scheme. I love the VF-4G Roy. Someday I'll get to customizing a VF-2SS. I'll probably wait a little to order a 3rd VF-19P.
  18. Big s
    How many do you get and how much is it
  19. sh9000
    I'm in for every G1 Missing Link release so far. Skipping Diaclone and alternate versions. For Ultra Magnus I can see them adding articulated hands and retooling the trailer for articulated waist, legs, and feet.
  20. sh9000
    https://www.bestbuy.com/site/neca-robocop-1987-7-scale-action-figure-poster-series/6610549.p?skuId=6610549
  21. mikeszekely
    Yeah. At the time Long Haul was released I was still fully expecting to be all-in on MMC's and that's it, but now that I've Ground Bite in hand I'm really sorry I slept on Big Load. Couple of mine have loose joints now. But there's other stuff that bugs me, like how Boncrusher's chest doesn't stay hooked on, the tolerances on all the panels jammed into Mixmaster's legs, Scrapper's lower legs being as thick as they are tall, Long Haul's difficulty standing up without the panels from the upgrade kit, etc. A little birdie told me that MMC's should have working treads.😉 Same, Vortex is looking very good (especially compared to the CW version). But be warned, they're definitely using a frame for him like Superion and Menasor.
  22. M'Kyuun
    Agree; I'm not into the toon-slavish look, plus, as Mike pointed out, FT took some odd liberties that ended up with a messy looking Scrapper in loader mode. Additionally, although it matches the animation, I don't like the slanted add-on links to form the heels, as I prefer the toy's approach using Scrapper's arms. I think ToyWorld's Constructicons have held up fairly well. That said, had I had a crystal ball back when those toys released, I might have skipped them in lieu of XTB's current offerings. thus far, I've liked their approach, and while they're still leaning towards the toon look, it's not as severe as FT's. Moreover, their Long Haul is one of the best toys ever made of that character- his dumper actually dumps in truck mode and the shoulders are far better executed than TW's, which just flop about without any locking mechanism to prevent it. I'm curious to see what MMC does with their takes on the Constructicons. While FT seems to get the lion's share of love from TF fans, I've more MMC stuff in my collection and I tend to like a lot of what they do regardless of whether I buy it or not. I would've loved to have bought their Combaticons, my favorite combiner team, but I don't really have the room for another MP scaled combiner so I passed. But I sure am jelly of those who got it. I just went in on Magic Square's legends scaled Bruticus; I'd have loved to get their MP scaled figs, too, but again, no room for MP stuff anymore. Like the aforementioned floppy shoulders on Long Haul. I still love how the treads are fully functional on Bonecrusher and Scavenger, one of the major selling points for me when I bought them. I also loved how Long Haul's bed formed the legs just like the G1 toy- if they'd only made the rear wheels separate from the bed so it could dump properly, and locked in those shoulder flaps, it would still be one of the best versions of that character. Too bad they fell short. On the whole, though, it's still a pretty solid set of figs. I haven't had mine combined since I bought them; all six are crammed in the lowest level of my Detolf, and I simply have nowhere to display them as Devastator. I'm probably one of the few TF fans who displays his combiners as their constituent bots instead of combined, with two exceptions: CW Bruticus and Legacy Menasor. Both have remained combined since I got all the figs to do so, and I even went in on an upgrade kit for Bruticus. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to this next wave of Has/Tak's Combaticons, too, as well the new Constructicons, which will be my first full mainline team of those characters.
  23. Bolt
    Excellent
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Finally got shipping confirmation on those light novels today... I can hardly wait to dig in. I know I probably can't hope for much from some of those - like the Macross 7 fleet VF-25s - but I'll take what I can get. Given that it appears in Master File, I wonder if it was something Kodachi came up with and Master File ran with or vice versa? Vol.2 of the movie novelization was published only a few months before the Master File was...
  25. PsYcHoDyNaMiX
    Yup, printed test versions already. Going through iterations, adjustments and the such. Should have another update by the end of the week hopefully.
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  27. Sharron Coleman
    Does anyone have a link to the correct lyric booklet for the Walkure Attack album that was mentioned at the beginning of speakerpodcast episode 57? Thanks
  28. Sharron Coleman
    Sharron Coleman joined the community
  29. RealJayDee
    It's the tv hikaru super vf1s, which was supposed to be full white
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