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    Looks like a productive weekend around here. It's from the '83 "Crusher Joe" animated feature movie, designed by the hands of some Kawamori guy during his Studio Nue days. Kit is from Hasegawa, and it's totally awesome.
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    I finally found the time to almost complete the Fighter 1. All that's left is the tedious panel lining on the 8 fins and fixing the right pitot tube.
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    Holy smokes!
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    Boxart released
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    Ah, tricky. The "a" in Walküre is pronounced like in "pass", and the ending "e" like the "ea" in "head". For the umlaut-u (ü), there's no equivalent that I know. But you can have it read to you by google translate, the pronunciation is spot on.
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    Before we forget how really well-written the OT was
  7. electric indigo
    The correct german pronunciation would be something like "Zeekfreet".
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    Ladies & Gentlemen, meet the Sith Trooper
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    You can always count on Evangelion to deliver some whacky concepts!
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    Stay away from the retooled (MCP) Eagle - there's a completely new Round 2 kit coming in true 1/72 scale.
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    A guilty pleasure for all times! To be fair, I found Guy Ritchie's "Codename U.N.C.L.E." quite hilarious.
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    MechTech, we actually had the granddaddy of the Bruiser: Yes, I'm old...
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    It's Emmerich, so don't expect more than giant ships, lotsa planes, heroes & damsels, and America wins in the end.
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    I thought Kristen Steward was strictly arthouse now? Anyway in comparison the last movies looked more self-aware than this, and the trailer already makes it an easy target for complaints about agenda-pushing. So triple no.
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    In the meantime, you can watch the sequel to "Pearl Harbor"...kinda
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    Ooh, I build those with my Dad decades ago. We had the Frog, Boomerang, and Willy's Jeep, but the most awesome was the Toyota 4x4 with RC-controlled shift gear. You could take it along on a walk through the woods.
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    The frame looks somewhat squishy in these colors.
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    All of them...
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    7/31 release date
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    Full size mockup of the FCAS at Le Bourget
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    I'd call it Battle: L.A. x Skyline + a hint of Pacific Rim.
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    This sets the bar high for the PG. Come on, Bandai!
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    Also don't sell your top-of-the-line fighter to an ally who has adversary AAMs (and technicians) on his bases...
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    IMO once Hasegawa made the leap to engraved panel lines somewhere in the 80s, their level of detail was lightyears ahead of the competition. The lines on the Tomcat are super fine, and you can see by little defects and overshoots that they were engraved by hand on the master. My guess is that the chemical/physical side of the production worked a little against their ambitions, when the plastic deforms after the de-molding, and the parts breakdown on the Tomcat didn't help much in that regard. You also get the impression that different sections of the kit were engineered by different teams, and that they didn't speak to each other, or bothered to put the complete kit together after the process. Today everything is CAD, of course, but still you see a wide range of results from the different companies. And still, Bandai showed in one of their promotional vids for the Star Wars line that the CAD-engineered molds are worked over by hand in the final stage of production to ensure the best fit.
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