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Don't Lego architecture sets generally sell quite well?

I'm going log into some MP servers on the 18th just to listen to the song of the TF30's people: "Compressor-stall Compressor-stall, oh and Compressor-stall"

THAT sounds like precisely the kind of idiot idea they would have. I wonder if it was one side coming up with these megaweapons, and the other side having to clean up the inevitable mess...

'Sister-ships' are a thing, so why not sibling-autonomous-machine-beings?

ok yea, $1K Canadian about right for the PF version, and it's just not worth it... that's why I bought one of the kit versions and am going to make a PF myself.

I like it! We need more purple valks!!

$1K in Canadian you mean? And no, not unless it's in @Nyankodevice's league... and scale.

Said BioTech-WMD apparently included some sort of "redeeming quality" failsafe programming: Sarah's love for Shin stopped the thing in it's tracks [redirected the weapons away from him]... then she made it absorb the nukes with it's shield instead of just deflect them in a self-sacrificial attempt at saving the home and people she loved... If it's fold system worked after that, there's a fair bet the bird-human still could have obliterated us [or at least the Carrier-group that fired on it] if it really wanted to by overloading said system. It was able to regenerate after being decapitated and fossilizing for thousands of years... it likely could have just done it again, and kept right-on genociding us. Shin and Sarah proved we're not possessed by Battle, at least not like the Zentran [after all: "it is in battle one finds life"], though conflict is an inescapable part of life itself. Hell, even plant species have self-defense mechanisms. For all we know, that damned probe may have even figured out that we Humans generally fight out of fear-reactions, not because we actually enjoy battle. I don't think they fully expected us to "stop fighting" [even though those were the exact words the probe used], but they did hope we wouldn't like it. Had Sarah not stopped from obliterating Shin [ala Nora and D.D.] that certainly would've been all the proof needed to wipe us out because of our irredeemable nature... aside question: Did any of the other Protoculture-descendants we met in Delta have a Bird-human [or similar "nip that mistake in the bud" WMDs] on their planets? Or did the Protoculture only leave one on Earth? If only Earth, why? That's partly what I mean: In their own desperate and escalating attempts to settle their societal conflict by force, they quite successfully undertook a series of weapons programs that eventually threatened the entire universe, with seemingly little thought about what that really meant. I'm assuming the following conversation probably took place: Protoculture#1 "Hey, I created an unstoppable sentient-machine-of-death to use on our enemies!" Pc#2 "What happens when it's done with our enemies, or some jerk gains control of it, or it just turns on us of it's own volition?" Pc#1 "... Well, we'll have t--" Pc#2 "You already released the Kraken Protodeviln, didn't you?" Pc#1 "" They made us in their image, and as you said, it worked out horribly right... we're not great at this whole 'peace' thing, but at least we aren't destroying a galaxy [or even the universe] because of our cultural differences. I'm forced to wonder if the Protoculture Schism may have been a complete over-reaction to the first major case of fundamental cultural discord within their society, and they simply didn't know how to handle it without progenerating entire species of slave-soldiers to do their bidding? [which was literally the least dangerous thing they did] True. On that point: are Dimension-Eater weapons what Breetai was actually worried about at the beginning of Macross? Or do we have a weapon in our hands that's beyond the arsenals of the Protoculture? Are we actually capable of destroying the monstrosities they had to bury because even they couldn't destroy them? Well... Macross Galaxy [or at least Grace O'Connor and the voices in her head] did try to mind-enslave all sentient life in the galaxy. We've already discussed Galaxy's treatment of those low on the societal/corporate ladder. Galaxy and Frontier were harvesting Vajra corpses for FoldQuartz... "EIC in space" sounds about right.

This made my morning!

That's some Great work! The 'dark' colouring is great, it looks very intimidating in it's full-armour get-up. I really like how the orange of the shields pops so intensely!

So the "East India Companies" are a better, if imperfect, corporate comparison [and not just for GG or SMS]... Fascinating, and believable as we've made horrifying mistakes like that before. Indeed. On that point, I was just thinking that the G-forces under discussion here will lead to a new term: G-LOC is "G-induced loss of consciousness", but considering the ability to snap into a 25G+ maneuver, the new term will be G-LOL for "G-induced loss of life" I would expect the Protoculture to be very wary of a young version of themselves: they know the mistakes they made, and have at least one report [if not a specimen couple in Sarah/Shin] proving that we're very similar to them. I had to laugh at "Horrified at our ignorance"... Imagine their surprise in discovering that beings created in their own image are imperfect... must be a real slap-in-the-face to their ego. Actually, I'd be very concerned if the Protoculture were surprised that yet another of their attempts at playing God failed to pan-out as they intended, they should be used to that by now

Would that be Hi-Metal R R ?

TBH I had completely forgotten about the "OMG Galaxy is under attack!" ship until you mentioned it, but I can totally see them being related

My fondest memory of an airshow is watching an F-14 do a max-G turn and the Lt.(JG) on the mic saying: "Now watch as the Tomcat performs a max-power sustained turn at 7 G's or 6.5 if the Skipper or Crew-chief are asking!!" Over-G'ing your airframe typically results in bends/curves in parts that shouldn't have them, which is a huge problem for a terrestrial fighter, let alone a transforming one! So Galaxy has become Space-France? Interesting... speaking of that, what's the link (if anything beyond the use of the word "Galaxy") between General Galaxy and Macross Galaxy? Are GG the ones who own the fleet? If so... are they making a play at becoming Macross' Weyland-Yutani?

kinda looks simliar, but I see a lot of differences... could be the same model, but a different mark, like the one from frontier is an A and that's a G or something...

Was the black primer enamel? Putting enamel over lacquer [a mistake I made in my youth] results in almost exactly what you've described... especially if the lacquer wasn't cured... That sucks... hope you can fix it!

THIS!!

Yay!

Agreed! Scrolling through your catalogue is like walking through an art gallery made for me!

In a word: complicated

I'm afraid of the price for that knowledge...

I was resigned to that fact when I saw "Wave" but I don't care as much when it's the only game in town, and a resin kit would be more AND more difficult to build.

sory. I realised that as I posted it and edited my post

Theres a few one on shapeways to go with Hase's two-pack with both a red and a blue molded VF-1J https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10027747 https://www.shapeways.com/product/Q5CXFTCNZ/1-72-milia-jenius-micronized-wedding-dress can't seem to find a max, will keep searching