Ghadrack

Dear Sweet Bacon-Jesus.... There are a lot of parts... This is a seriously impressive kit, I now understand what you were talking about when you were showing the molds. How you cast thousands of them is beyond me, nice work!!!

Beautiful piece and great photography. Thanks for sharing!

Secondary market, like putting a post in the wanted section, or pray that MSLZ22 comes back to the forums and offers another run. He does like the Macross and graces us with hsi presence and skills every once in a while. ~Edit~ speaking of the monster, anyone got a link to some good lineart of the monster, I'm pulling together references to finally finish mine, it's been primed for about 2 years, I guess it's dry now and could use some actual paint. I've got copies of the pics from a couple old threads, the MW frontpage and have a couple of the "rowboattech" art books at the house, just seeing what else is floating around.

I saw it, and I'll agree with most of the comments here. It was good but not perfect, looked neat, was a neat idea but maybe could have used a little more time in the oven. I saw it Sunday morning and there were two groups in front of me at the theatre, a father with his 6ish year old daughter and a woman with two boys that were probably in the 4 to 7 range. During an early scene in the movie there is a dead human child and at that point one of the kidss started crying and both parents immediately ushered their kids out of the theatre and weren't seen again. I guess people just see animation in a trailer and assume "kids movie". D'oh!

Almost missed these, thanks for posting (Bump)

Like the cotton in the Q-tip the brush can aid in capillary action drawing the water out from underneath the waterslide which sets it down on the model and not on a cushion of water which is why it still slides around before you draw the water out from under it. The brush also puts a little pressure on top of the decal expelling the water you are drawing away with the brush stroke. a damp/wet Q-tip flat on top of the decal won't do anything but push it around, a dry Q-tip at the edge of the decal will draw the water out and set the decal in place.

Zee postman cometh today with a glorious box from Canada Hooray! Thanks again John!

The fellow that commishioned the master is a member of these boards, I'm sure when it's ready he'll let people know. It's only been a couple months since the master was completed I suspect he's still working out the details on a kit offering. I bet it's pretty difficult to figure out the right price point to recoup your costs, cover manufacturing costs, etc.

From the end of John Rambo or whatever the official title ended up being I had a feeling that they intended to make another one coming full circle. Something like.... Rambo walks into his Dad's farm to find out that his father died a few days earlier having been denied surgery by a super buff, ex paramilitary, evil hospital insurance adjuster, meanwhile the monsters at the bank are trying to foreclose on the property and are trying to reposess dead daddy's bruial plot as an asset in foreclosure. Rambo finds his father was a former heavy weapons engineer with an underground cache of high tech military weaponry and LSD. The DEA comes to raid the farm, they blow up with LSD bunker, Rambo gets a heavy dose, he goes into a flashback and it's on!

Paypal en route. -Zach

It was as the commanding officer on the radio at the end of the movie making the deal with Landa unless my ears betrayed me.

Loved it, and I didn't mind that they didn't spell out a hard and fast, complete conclusion for their story, much like the ending for ours isn't set in stone either.

I may be in the minority but I prefer the un-helmeted head, makes him seem more wreckless to me!

The details on this inside and out look amazing. It's great to see the stages of your work, I think it gives me a great deal more appreciation for each kit.

I'm in! I also heard that Eli Roth was making Thanksgiving, so that could be another pair of fun films. I hope that they keep getting directors to have some fun making fake trailers and make a series out of it. This could be a great farm system for getting original horror films started instead of the perpetual remakes.

I've seen the quality of the 1/2500 models that justicar has done. I know he has the capcity to do a great kit, and I agreewith Cobywan that the TV version hasn't had the love in a long time and I want one. As a garage kit buyer, i also knwo the hesitation that people have in agreeing to pay for something without seeing what the end product actually looks like, so i don't know how you get a real honest guage of desire without a prototype or kit in hand. Since the initial one is going to be uber expensive, i don't know what you do. I'd be willing to bet that even if you didnt' get flooded with order right off, this would be a kit that you will be able to sell several every few months, probably forever. Ask Christpher Doll who made the Moya kit from Farscape, he doesn't sell a ton of them every month but they sell continuously and he has had to keep remolding that kit for the last 6 years.

Barring Catastrophy I'm in. I remember that thread too and he did a heck of a job, if that's the starting point, It'll be interesting to see where it ends up

Awesome ....... I'm speechless.... and Drooling.

They are cool, I've got them all ready for paint, I've got so much stuff primed right now that It may be a while before I get to work on them further but when i do I'll shoot some pics over to you to post if you like what I come up with. Good luck with the interest thread. Any chance you are gonna make those Micro Destroids available for purchase?

I picked up a bunch of the Trek 2500 kits you had at wonderfest and think they are great. I'd love to say I'm onboard and commit to add another name to your list, but right now all I can say is that I'm interested, but the timeframe would be a big decision maker for me, I'm tied up in several other expensive (for me) kits for the next few months so, before August, I know I couldn't swing the dough. September or later I should have enough fun money again to splurge on another sweet kit I'd also vote to stick with the TV version as there is a company talking about doing a large scale DYRL version.

Holy cow. Awesome start, I missed the other thread until this morning, that came out incredibly, I will enjoy watching your progress pics, thanks for sharing!

That's pretty awesome, maybe they will be able to work out a deal with Yamato, Hasegawa and Bandai to import their toy lines under the "Battletech" name and we won't be forced to pay insane import costs to get our stuffs.

I have to imagine that it uses the same mechanism that those stupid brain wave video game controller companies were trying to sell last year. Those picked up muscle stimulus electical current in the body, so if you wink your eye or wiggle your eybrow it picks that up, but just thinking a direction didn't do crap.

I will never understand why HG hasn't bent over backwards to work with the Japanese companies involved with all subsequent Macross projects to bring stuff stateside jointly. They have essentially been vampires living off of the creativity of others for a couple decades now, why not just embrace it and help milk the luctrative US market instead of slugging along geting table-scraps and harming the brand. They have essentially thrown away profits and cost themselves millions and millions of dollars in the process. It's a crime that Zero and now Fronteir have not made it over because they would have re-vitalized the Macross name significantly and generated a lot of extra income for all companies involved.

That's a great idea, thanks for sharing!