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  1. tekering
    Something like this...? 😎
  2. tekering
    Looks like he didn't follow the instruction manual very closely... His missiles aren't facing the wrong direction. 😝
  3. tekering
    The very best you're ever gonna get, most likely. Has everyone paid for shipping now?
  4. tekering
    I remember that jetpack. Nice homage 😝
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    I feel like their "shocking sales" meant the beginning of the end for KC. Kickstarter feels more like the final Hail Mary. 😬
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    They're probably sick and tired to delivering stuff to my house week after week after week... I suppose. 😅 ...and replaced it with their own, yes.
  7. tekering
    Finally received mine from Show.Z Store. 🤨 Contents of the shipping box were as expected. 😒
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    Who could've expected such prejudice, such hatred, such discrimination against machine intelligence... in a Transformers thread...?! 😬
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    You've absolutely outdone yourself, @jvmacross, with the most comprehensive review gallery I've ever seen. Kudos! Incidentally... I love these flight crew figures. Can I ask where you got them?
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    I'm a little disappointed by the prominent sprue marks on the front-facing side of the FAST packs... 🤨 ...but it's nothing a little sanding can't fix. 😉 Of course, the DX Chogokin YF-21 is an expensive collector's item to be using sandpaper on. 😬 I have no unique insights to share; aesthetics have always mattered more than engineering to me, and I display and photograph a lot more than I transform, so... Bandai's is the more accurately-proportioned and better-articulated battroid, so that's the mode you display it in. Arcadia's is the more accurately-proportioned (and not overly-tampographed) fighter, so that's the mode you display it in. 😊 Oh, the ratchets in the ankles are superb, and it's capable of some excellent action poses. 😎 I'm afraid my lightbox is inaccessible for the moment, so pics from the anime room will have to suffice. 😌
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    Mine's intact, thankfully. 😌 You can always do it yourself... My Yamato is a little more restrained than the tampo on Bandai's. 😅
  12. tekering
    I love everything about this concept. 😍
  13. tekering
    No, check the date on the image. It was 14 years ago. 😅
  14. tekering
    Wow, great to see there's still interest in the ol' SDF-1. 😲 My inkjet printer is slowly dying, and I don't think I'll be able to print custom decals any more... 💀 However, I bought an SLA resin printer last month, and the detail it's capable of is stunning. 🤩 So as you can see, I've got a ton of new modeling projects to distract me. 😅
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    That seems unlikely, seeing as we don't even have pics of a painted prototype for the pilot figure... I have no interest whatsoever in this Regult toy, but I really want that Zentraedi soldier! 🤤
  16. tekering
    Usually, but not always. Hey! You forgot the best one! The Party Wagon from Nickelodeon's 2012 series is the only one based on a Volkswagen van. 😎
  17. tekering
    I'm both honoured and flattered to see some of my suggestions have again been incorporated into your design. 🥰 Mind the gap, Cap! 😅 Any plans to address that? 🤔 I realize you're somewhat hamstrung by your design philosophy, but I'd hoped you could figure out a more practical way to attach the arms... Just as I feared, that shoulder connection looks precarious at best. 😬 Finally, any way to add "skin" to those bony hands? 💀
  18. tekering
    Surprisingly, it shows there's still interest in Disney Star Wars (despite how audiences responded to Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and The Book of Boba Fett)... 😶 ...as opposed to Disney Marvel, whose Secret Invasion and Echo series were all-but ignored by general audiences. 😒 Perhaps Deadpool and Wolverine will manage to buck the trend... 🤔 It will surely earn more than The Mandalorian and Grogu will. 🤨
  19. tekering
    Actually, this is a script from Mospeada.
  20. tekering
    Thanks, Cap! Looking forward to next Friday. 😋 Okay, I can do that. 😊 Okay, I can do that. ☺️
  21. tekering
    Now you have a great review of a toy no one else has reviewed on YouTube, rather than a review for the relevant toy everybody else has already reviewed. I'd say your reviews of vintage toys have more intrinsic value, owing to what little information exists elsewhere.
  22. tekering
    I don't think I've ever been so excited seeing a project of yours coming together, Cap'n. You continue to demonstrate how much better you are than anyone else at this sort of thing, even those with advanced CAD skills. Each update is more impressive than the last. 🤩 Fossil fuels are in particularly short supply on Glorie, after all. 😒 Will the figure be able to hold the rifle with both hands? Incredible, seeing this coming together so quickly. 😲 Hopefully, you'll take the time to address these issues... That channel is much too wide, I think. 🤔 It's usually just a pencil-thin line. I'm not sure you've captured the shape of the support autocannon... 🤨 It should taper in more at the ends, it should be more recessed into the housing, and the tip segments are missing. 😶 One issue I didn't mention earlier was the oblong jellybean on either side of the front fairing cover. Yours seems a bit too fat and wide. As for the rifle unit in stowage configuration, I see a couple areas that could be improved. The end is clearly truncated, and the round portion above it should be conical, rather than dome-shaped. The rifle looks overly large and bulky compared to the line art, mostly because it isn't as recessed into the front fairing. Could the shape be altered so it conforms more closely to the cover, allowing it to sit a little flatter...? Perhaps a larger indentation in the cover would allow the rifle to sit lower. I must admit, however, that you've already done a far better job than MEP, MAAS, or even Dyson Max managed with the stowed rifle. So close, so maddeningly close to perfection now... 😭
  23. tekering
    Excellent advice! I've taken commissions and chased "third-party perfection" myself, so I know where you're coming from. Of course, there's no need to patronize Captain America, since he's been actualizing what feels/looks right to him for two decades now. ☺️ It's lazy and disingenuous (but all too common) to criticize mecha design based on animation inconsistencies. Ammonite may not have provided Tatsunoko with enough reference art for the animators to understand exactly how to depict their designs back in the day, but there's more than enough visual material available for us now to determine exactly how the Spartas is supposed to look. It's not my subjective idea of perfection (nor is it anyone else's); it's the way the design was intended to be depicted, regardless of who was drawing it. This is a Super Dimension series, not some Transformers cartoon. Show Ammonite some respect. Now, if you're arguing coloration or relative scaling, then it's easy to fault inconsistent animation there. 😤
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    That's most gracious of you, Cap'n. It's an honour and a privilege to be contributing to this project, however minor my contributions may be. By the way, the new head is fabulous work, 9/10. I knew you could do it! Robot mode is looking precisely as it should. Now, let's talk about transport mode, shall we? The front fairing has a sharp downward curve, much more prominently visible in the animation than in the few control drawings the line-art provides: The shape of the nose is one area where previous fan designs (and even Matchbox) have bested you. Again, I'm nitpicking an incomplete prototype, but the shape of your nose is all wrong here. It's blunt and foreshortened, and for some reason the dorsal surface rises sharply to form a flat plane. 🤨 How did that happen? Next, I'm happy to see the shoulder joint has the familiar inset circle and triangular wedge visible, but why have you got rectangular blocks protruding from both sides? I surely hope that's not how you're intending to attach the arms. Not only does it look wrong, it's not going to hold the weight of the arms, much less support any articulation. 😒 I know you like to innovate, but I'm sure you can come up with a more elegant solution (even if it requires cheating). 😉 Finally, you're reinventing the wheel again... I realize those crab-like claws sticking out of the front are intended to provide more ankle articulation in the legs, but they don't look right in robot mode and seriously malign the look of the Sniping Clapper. Please, at least consider providing optional parts for a flatter, more anime-accurate appearance. As always, I don't mean to be overly critical, but since I'm the only one providing any constructive feedback I feel compelled to point out every issue I see. I know you can do better, and I'm trying to help you achieve your potential here.
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    That's neither necessary nor viable, but I do expect a certain degree of parts-swapping. I thought we'd be getting a model that shares most of the core components between modes, but would have specific parts for specific display options, like so many other Moscato kits have included. I certainly wouldn't expect either of the heads or hands to be used in transport or cannon mode, for example; instead, there will be separate parts that look like retracted hands for those modes (parts that will not be required if you're building the robot). Is it unreasonable of me to expect a properly-scaled, dedicated backpack piece for robot mode, along with the dedicated hands and head parts? I just don't see why we need to be compromising accuracy for transformation, when the model won't actually be transformable. 🤨
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