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I'd honestly rather wait a bit more for the BD. Streaming bitrate is still grossly inadequate.

So definitely 2022 at the earliest for a home media release for us filthy gaijins. Ah well

So I've been ignoring this for a while, but now that I check on it again, the movie still has no concrete release date? Only the nebulous "Autumn"?

October announcements: 1/48 VF-1 Super/Strike Black Aces http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65874/ Repops are 1/72 YF-19: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/9-2/ 1/72 VF-1A Super Battroid: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/13-2/

September news, no new Macross announced, only a single re-release with the #26 Super/Strike Gerwalk

The only financially viable path to go is VTubers :P

Based on this screenshot from the article it looks like they got access to the raw film scan, before it was denoised and color corrected for the Japanese BD release. It's way grainer and way brighter. Though if any of that grain survives is yet to be seen, since despite what Funi says about preserving it their history of filtering it flat is a big source of hate for DBZ fans. What should be the same frame from the Japanese BD Box (there's 3 frames total with those cels, this one matched the best as far as random film artifacts went but I could be off):

Tamiya started introducing lacquer bottles in late 2017, initially coming out with 15 color batches ever few months then slowing down to adding 5 colors at a time

My issue with scalemates is the lack of quality control for entries. There's way, waaaay too many resin kits on there attributed to filthy scumbag recaster websites instead of to their actual manufactures/sculptors. Lack of proper credit to artist is already one of the highest crimes. Redirecting people to thieves websites is a whole order of magnitude worse.

Reanimating it would be a waste of time for both the creators and the audience. It already exists. Put that production towards something actually new. Sure the quality of the series goes up and down and while the down parts may not be to your liking, the up parts are quite literally groundbreaking and historically significant to the progress of the animation industry. And really, given how Frontier and Delta went I'd expect any remake to be more outsourced than the original series was.

Analog video, especially consumer grade analog video was always trash. Awful colors, awful contrast, often frame bleeding and other artifacts. There's really no reason to ever go back to something that could never properly preserve the image quality. The HD remaster for SDF is absolutely fantastic, it's the best the show has ever looked because it's the most care that was ever put into a home media release for it. If you think it reveals too much don't worry, the old analog masters were often not cropped properly instead relying on your CRT TV's own overscan to do that. So you get stuff like Roy's not fully painted head while loosing image detail everywhere else in the frame.

Time for test shots at Shizuoka Hobby Show

At least credit the builder for their work

So BW own the shows, characters, designs, etc, but do they own the songs? Do they partner with Flying Dog to distribute the songs or does Flying Dog own the songs? Is this deal gonna unblock Fukuyama Fire on spotify outside Japan and lead to more Macross being added there?

Honestly that just seems like an exercise in self flagellation

Man, I really wish those resin figures were 1/20 and not 1/24. At least then we'd have an easier time completing the casts together with minimum factory From the same tweet, the re-releases in June we have Isamu's cameo in Frontier and in July VT-1 and VE-1

Photoshop CS4 cuz that's what I had for the longest time and Adobe and kinda shits these days with their practices Hmm I don't know how that came across but I meant the opposite. I've found manual work to be pretty much the only way to fix distortions. Automations seem to just amplify them resulting in more work than starting manually from scratch. Maybe this has to do with resolution. It's very easy to use the printing pattern of the image to align things manually at 600dpi but maybe to machines that's just noise.

You know, stitching scans together manually really isn't that hard or time consuming. I've spent my teen years doing that with a lot of my kit boxes as well as magazines. Newtype being too wide for a standard scanner was infuriating. But after a bit of practice whether it's x4 scans for large box, or x8 scans for a REALLY large box like a PG, it's really not too bad. Now I just have an A3 scanned and life is twice as good. Maybe I'm just prejudiced against automation because every time I've tried it the results needed more fixing than just starting manually from scratch. That plus when working manually I know that the mistakes would be my own and it motives me to avoid them since once you put it on the internet it's there forever and every time someone reposts the image that mistake will scream back at you. Plus you never know how those built up photoshop skills might be useful for other things. Here's 3 samples of large boxes that all needed x4 scans on my old HP scanner that maxed out at 600dpi. About 10-25min of manual work each, filtered and 25% resolution for easy upload. This PG Eva box was x8 scans and maybe an hour of work but most of that was dust and scratch removal because this box was far from new when I got it. Again 600dpi, filtered and 33% res to keep size down. The most important part is getting good raw scans without distortion and with plenty of overlap because regardless if you're going it manually or using a software black box GIGO law is absolute. When scanning Hasegawa boxes too long for a standard scanner I highly recommend a stack of the old format Hobby Japan magazines, they are the absolutely perfect size to put inside the box to flatten it against the scanner glass and minimize distortion from one edge being elevated off the edge of the bed.

HLJ currently has their spring sale going and the Valk, Super Valk and Weapon Set are all 30% off! https://www.hlj.com/1-20-scale-plamax-mf-45-minimum-factory-vf-1-fighter-valkyrie-max01206 https://www.hlj.com/1-20-scale-plamax-mf-37-minimum-factory-vf-1-super-strike-fighter-valkyrie-max01094 https://www.hlj.com/1-20-scale-plamax-mf-38-minimum-factory-vf-1-valkyrie-armament-set-max01097

All we want is for Hasegawa to give us the D :P

Awww heck, I guess this is a reminder for me to get back to working on my attempted YF-24 that's been gathering dust for months

May announcements, we have a 1/48 VF-1 in Low Vis colors http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65871/ Lots of re-releases: VF-1S Strike Battroid http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/14-2/ SDF Attacker Movie Ver http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/mc06/ Display Stands http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/12-2/ VF-1 J/A Gerwalk http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/25/ 1/48 VF-1 S/A Super/Strike Valk http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/mc03/ VF-1 A/J/S http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/19-2/