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It's one of the biggest scale issues from the series, certainly... Judging from external views, it's hard to imagine there'd be enough open space in the ship for more than a single street. Inside, however, it's like the TARDIS... There are not only multiple streets, but multiple levels of streets... 🤨 ...and by ostensibly situating the city within a single leg, the movie just exacerbates the problem. 🤕

We never had ZOIDS or StarCom where I grew up, but I remember being quite taken with ROBOTIX: Despite sharing much of the writing and production staff (not the mention the voice cast) of Transformers and GI Joe, the short-lived Robotix cartoon was lackluster and all-but forgotten today. 😅

You're making quick work of that Plamax kit! 👍 As work winds down at the end of the year, I have more time to devote to this huge puzzle I've saddled myself with... Today I sorted out all the miscellaneous loose parts I've salvaged from the wreckage. As with any puzzle, it's thrilling to find where broken parts fit together to form complete structures. Having worked well past sundown, I finally have a corner completed, where two walls meet the roof... ...and the condominium is slowly taking shape. 🙂

MIssing paint app's on Weyoun's alternate head have been reported. The skin tones don't match at all. Also, rumor has it the figures aren't articulated enough to sit down properly... at least, not Jonathan Archer.

Credit where credit's due: Stan Winston's team was responsible for the engineering and fabrication of the puppets, but he'd always maintained that the design was entirely James Cameron's work.

"Another Genesis" is, sadly, neither a new anime series nor a Robotech sequel. 😉 It's damned weird, really, getting new mecha designs (from Sentinel and TakaraTomy!) four decades after the series went off the air... 🤨 Knowing your Mospeada toy collection is even more extensive than mine, I'm sure you're excited to see anything fresh and unique. ☺️

Merry Christmas from the Rogues' Gallery!

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Your Photoshop skills are sublime -- I particularly like the beer missile! -- but that Super Valkyrie model has the boosters sitting much too high. 🤨

Yeah, displayed at the 2011 Shizuoka Hobby Show. Nor the hindsight to know which variants would prove most valuable, amiright? 😉

They did indeed. No structural reinforcement. 🤨 Well-noted, my friend. Two of the tips have been buried 30cm in the dirt for the past fifteen years. 😅 I don't think so... 🤔

You mean this one? It's a shame we've only ever gotten a Korean bootleg in this color scheme. Come to think of it, it might look nice in brown, too. ☺️

Neither, actually. It's an architectural model of a real high rise condominium in Shibaura -- custom-built to demonstrate the design to construction company executives -- and probably cost over a million yen to produce. It somehow ended up in the possession of a used furniture store in the hills north of Tokyo, and was eventually listed on Yahoo! Japan auctions (where I bought it earlier this month). ☺️ However, since the model wasn't intended for sale (much less transportation across the country), it was not built to last... and what I ended up receiving was badly damaged. 😱 There were hundreds of broken panels rattling around loose in the box... ...and with no internal support structure, the whole building just collapsed in on itself as soon as I removed the plastic wrap. 😭 So now it's just a giant puzzle to reconstruct, without blueprints or instructions to follow. 🤕 Of course! In fact, it came lined with eight individually-wired LED strips that run the full length of the building. I intend to create a seemingly random, disorganized lighting scheme using a variety of tinted yellow, orange, and smoke-tinted gels to vary the color and brightness of each apartment, giving the appearance of a real condominium at night.

It certainly would. A heavy matte coating is the only way to ensure stickers stay put (or look halfway-decent). 😉 The condo's starting to take shape... I need to rely on the force of gravity to hold these acrylic panels together until they're securely bonded, so the orientation (be it face-down or upside-down) is temporarily dictated by distribution of weight... ...and I need to make use of whatever's on-hand heavy enough (like the bicycle) to support the walls, at least until the glue starts to set. I'm glad somebody thinks so. My wife thinks I'm certifiable, spending hundreds of dollars on a model that's too big to assemble (much less display) in the house. 😅

Feelin' the holiday blues? That's the ThreeZero on the left, for the sake of comparison.