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    Bandai's Hi-Metal R VF-4G. They absolutely nailed the battroid mode! Exactly as it appears in the anime. What?
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    Not exactly... Most of the relevant line art isn't colored, of course, but the first 24 pages are in color (amounting to 15% of the book). Buy the book, @roboemo! It's full of the sort of reference material you're likely to find useful in your art projects. In episode 23, Shinobu Takeuchi of the 36th Moon Base Squad arrives with the 2nd Liberation Force. Her equipment, however, sports the ubiquitous Mars Base logo.
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    Having grown up with Ewoks and Droids, I couldn't possibly have imagined a world where cartoons like Clone Wars and Rebels would be so much better than Star Wars movies...
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    If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well... If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer. Nope, just real-world logic. The smaller, the better. Honestly, at this scale, there shouldn't be visible panel lines at all... but if they're too small to be visible, what's the point of doing the work?
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    Indeed, I've given some serious thought to getting laser-cut stencils custom-made for masking purposes, since (as recent efforts have proven) doing it by hand is labor-intensive and ultimately ineffective... The feedback and encouragement is always appreciated.
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    So, I've been experimenting with a way to give those flat, featureless portions of the hull a greater sense of scale... Still using the Hasegawa as a guinea pig, I tried the ol' ILM approach, with intersecting lines and raised panels. This is how the Star Destroyer studio models were detailed. Unfortunately, the results looked crude and sloppy, so I abandoned the analog approach and decided to rely on digital tools instead. I created this pattern in Photoshop, and printed it onto clear decal paper. This is far more detailed than what I could do by hand. The results were definitely more encouraging this time.
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    Who's that playing a video game in your VF-1 cockpit? It's the Plamax gerwalk kit; the grossly inaccurate backpack is a dead giveaway... So is the Plamax gerwalk box it's sitting on top of.
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    I have faith in Kathleen Kennedy. She always hires the most competent of directors... ...and then fires them before their Star Wars films are completed. I have faith she will gut Taika Waititi's film, and the result will be as bland as Solo or The Rise of Skywalker.
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    I see Star Wars: Resistance was notably absent from that clip show... ...but what's this from?
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    Now I wish I'd bought another Clone Wars Y-Wing back in the day, so I could paint it up in that blue-striped 501st paint scheme... Much nicer than the original yellow, if you ask me.
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    I just can't get over how quickly you've done all that, Mog. I'm still blending edges and scribing panel lines, and I'm nowhere near ready for painting...
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    Yeah, I was pretty stoked to catch Caleb there.
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    No Millennium Falcon, no Jabba the Hutt, no Imperial Stormtroopers, even...! Obviously they thought D-0 was more important.
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    Thanks for the laugh, @jvmacross! I needed that. To be fair, that flimsy torso snapped with less applied force than it took to rotate the thighs! Still, I'd forgotten what a crappy-looking Hovertank it was. I'm still hoping that someone, someday, makes a decent-looking toy or model kit... but nobody with any talent seems to have tackled the project thus far.
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    Yeah, of course. It directly references Jim Cameron's creature design from Aliens. It's definitely my favorite Kubrick line.
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    It's gonna look something like this... And, under low lighting, more like this... ...provided I can figure out where to mount a battery pack so it remains accessible.
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    If you like that, you're gonna love the Kubricks!
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    It's videos like this, using scenes from the three trilogies together, that really throws the dichotomy into sharp relief. You see clips from A New Hope, and the nostalgia feels hit you... and then shots from The Phantom Menace, and you cringe... and then images from The Force Awakens, and your brain says "wait, that's not right." I mean, as much as the prequel trilogy sucked, it's still Star Wars, and that's ingrained in us now. But Disney's sequel trilogy just... isn't. I know, they're officially canon -- Lucasfilm is Disney's property, and there's no denying it -- but I just can't accept it. There's, like, a mental block there. Is it just me?
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    Sorry to hear about your niece, pengbuzz. But that DYRL conversion was unbelievable! I never would've believed there was a vintage toy under that. Lots of work still to do before I need to worry about painting, I suppose... Like kitbashed thrusters for the engines: I'm trying to maintain that slightly retro toy look. Two down, ten more to do.
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    Geez, you work fast, Mog! Are you gonna repaint the Prometheus deck to match the bright blue of your SDF-1?
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    Yeah, BBTS has it, too. It's about 1:28 scale, near as I can figure. Thanks for that. Looks like those of us outside the US may need to source those exclusives from Hong Kong...
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    The Black Sun is represented by Ziton Moj in The Clone Wars. He also appeared in Season 5. He's Falleen, but he's not Prince Xizor.
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    Arii's 15th anniversary VF-1D gerwalk. No question. Low quality, awkwardly-proportioned, poorly detailed, inadequately articulated, and not even show-accurate... and it doesn't even transform!
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    The more you show him of Macross 7, the less he'll want to build that Fire Valkyrie.
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    I'm not as taken with the show as Bolt. For starters, editing and story structure make it clear that this was not written or produced as a series, but a feature... and that the decision to break it up into half-hour episodes was made late in the production process. Individual episodes don't build to a climax, they just abruptly end. The opening action scene is a thrilling chase sequence, involving numerous combatants firing automatic weapons at each other from open-air vehicles. While the vehicles suffer damage in the resulting hail of bullets, RPGs, and missile strikes -- and people are thrown from their precarious positions by explosive impacts and high-speed crashes -- there's no blood spilled, and miraculously, nobody even seems to have gotten shot. Was SAC always this bloodless? The original film sure as hell wasn't! It seems unlikely Netflix would be imposing any kind of censorship... especially considering the surprising amount of littering our heroes do. Dynamic actions are, I agree; the characters look good when they're leaping around and fighting, and they have a legitimate sense of weight to their movements. Basic motions like walking or standing around, however, often look awkwardly distracting. Oh, the settings are fascinating, and exquisitely rendered.
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