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  1. tekering
    Thanks for keeping the lines of communication open, Cap'! My financial investment in this project is negligible compared to my emotional investment in the Spartas, so I really appreciate having your ear (and given the number of likes my previous comment received, I'm clearly not the only one). ☺️ Perhaps I misinterpreted your intentions for this figure. Will this be transformable after all? I was expecting a model with specific parts to accurately represent each mode, not one that makes aesthetic compromises for the sake of transformation. 🤨 Now I'm certain I misinterpreted your intentions for this figure. 😒 If I may assume the form of King Hamlet's ghost: "This visitation / Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose" (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4). You're obviously enjoying the engineering challenge this mecha represents, but I fear you may be heading in the wrong direction. We're not asking you to redesign the Spartas, much less the vintage toy. If the backpack depicted in "Battle Sniper" mode is too large to fit in "Sniping Clapper" mode, then give us a smaller piece to take its place if we want to build that mode. I do realize there's a limited amount of resin allotted to the production of each kit (and silicon molds aren't cheap, either), so you want to keep the parts count down... but parts-swapping is unavoidable when adapting hand-drawn mecha. Even the most sophisticated Valkyrie toy requires swapping out the hands to look decent; and since looking decent is the primary purpose of any garage kit, the compromises you're making may be inappropriate. This is precisely how the animators interpreted the line art, for the entire production run of the series. Erroneous American toys are an irrelevant distraction at best, a ruinous disaster at worst. 😬
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    Almost everything, but at the risk of once again criticizing a work-in-progress, I have to ask... Why is your backpack so small, thin and insubstantial? Furthermore, it looks like you've tried to reproduce the head of the Matchbox Hover Tank toy, rather than the Southern Cross Spartas design... Perhaps some official promotional artwork can inspire you further...? Please take my comments in the spirit of constructive feedback, and remember I'm your biggest fan... ...so I know you're capable of reproducing the look of the heads from the anime, once you've scrapped your first attempt and started over from scratch.
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    Man, I love these updates. Ingenious work on the elbows, Cap'; reminiscent of the approach you took with the Biopsycher. Yes, there are large verniers mounted in there, visible in several episodes. Presumably, they allow the Spartas to hop around in "Walker Cannon" mode, and launch into the air when transforming to "Battle Sniper." Looking really good! My only concern is the sharp corners on the chest block, an all-too-common mistake seen in VHT toy designs. I'm sure you'll be rounding down those edges just as you have the abdomen panels. ☺️ Thanks for taking the time to keep us drooling! 🤤
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    That's a shock, given what an amazing job he did with his TASC Marie figure...
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    Will the pilot figure be a 1st/2nd Lieutenant, Sergeant/NCO or Corporal/Private? ☺️
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    Even the gore of the chestburster scene was considerably reduced after early test screenings; the assembly cut was much bloodier. Watch it, if you dare! 😅
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    Can't be done... ...at least, not by Hasbro. 🤨 Twelve years later, and still reigns supreme.
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    Good news! I found a much better Logan model... at half the price! 😊 This one's not quite perfect, either -- it's fighter-mode only, and entirely lacks a cockpit -- but I can use MaxLab's "Wolverine" cockpit and articulated limbs to Frankenstein a much more accurate kit.
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    You know, seeing the transformation demonstrated on YouTube, I was excited by the potential of producing my own Logan and purchased the files for myself... ...but now, after seeing photos on Facebook and comparing them to the lineart, I'm experiencing considerable buyer's remorse. 🤕 I first assumed the model looked poor because it was made on a low-rez FDM printer, as opposed to a proper SLA resin printer designed for miniatures. It's a terrible decision that reflects badly on the designer, but that doesn't mean the design itself is poor... except now, being able to examine the files in 3D software, I can see all the geometrical discrepancies and misshapen proportions. It's fat where it should be lean, and lean where it should be fat, and a lot of the angles are wrong. Frustratingly, most of the inaccuracies have nothing to do with engineering, either, as they'd have no bearing on transformation. 🤨 It actually looks like a Logan toy designed 40 years ago, if Takutoku or Matchbox had tried to produce one. Perhaps the designer wanted to capture that "retro toy" look...? 🤔 Regardless, i guess I'll just have to teach myself how to do 3D modelling. 🙄
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    And of course, there's always this gem: More of an homage, rather than a legitimate transformation scheme. That takes me back to the early days of the third-party Transformers scene. "Legally distinct! Don't sue us!" 😅
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    Lipstick on a pig? 😉 That's a pricey chunk of ham on display... and some 3D-printed upgrades, by the looks of it. 🤔
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    It's a popular idea, mostly inspired by Transformers. '80s-style cartoon Transformers: '90s-style CGI Transformers: Contemporary manga-style Transformers: Even Bayverse-style abominations! I've only seen one design that actually looks like something Aramaki would've come up with for Bubblegum Crisis. It's by sukabu (a Japanese artist, of course). ☺️
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    Given how you've embraced Aramaki Shinji's Garland and Motoslave designs, it's nonetheless strange that you'd ignore his most well-known transformable motorcycles. There's been far more Mospeada merchandise produced than Megazone 23 and Bubblegum Crisis put together. 😅 Honestly, Kaneda's bike is the outlier, being neither Aramaki's design nor transformable... 🤔
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    With all due respect, sir, I believe you've miscounted... There are FOUR, not three. 😉
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    True... I suppose I can't argue with that. Embrace the absurdity!
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    Excellent! I'll definitely be doing that. I definitely won't be doing that. 😅
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    I certainly wasn't expecting a childish comedy. 😒 Hard pass.
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    And because it's an Ammonite design, there's a lot of guesswork involved in parsing out the details. Incidentally, will the alternate head be for a Sergeant/NCO or Corporal/Private?
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    Just for clarification, Macross II had nothing to do with either Shoji Kawamori or Studio Nue. Mecha designs were by Koichi Ohata.
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    I thought the lack of a Koji face for the pilot was inexcusable. 😒
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    In anticipation of printing my own, I've prepared a painting guide color-matched to the Blu–rays: Incidentally, Marie's Logan is the only one to survive their debut appearance... These "cannon fodder" Logans are only briefly onscreen before they're destroyed, and after that Marie's is all we see for the rest of the series. 😅
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    Obviously, Kitz Concept failed to provide them with accurate photos, but how long did it take them to inform BBTS of the "important design change?" 🤨
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    Great find, @Shawn! Thanks for sharing.
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    Yeah, but you had no way to prove it, since quality Southern Cross mecha was never available to the market. Before the Bio-Lloyds, all we had was a poorly-sculpted vintage kit, a couple half-assed Matchbox toys, and a few Spartas 3D-printed prototypes that weren't good enough to make it to production. Ironically enough, the great Dyson Max had already proven an anime-accurate Spartas figure could be produced (as long as it didn't transform). I would've bought a 3D printer just to make one of my own, if only he'd provided .stl files... but at least @captain america can use his model for reference. 🙂
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