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Heh-hah! Honestly, I did ask her for one and did tell her I'd be breaking it. (I didn't just keep one of the dozens I regularly pull out of the couch, or the half-dozen I've found clattering around the vacuum cleaner!)

Wwoooooowww! Very inspiring! I think I'm going to use your missile methods in the future, if you don't mind! (I have a 1/72 Imai Spartan in my collection, waiting to be built.) So, the white/red missiles are an aluminum tube (painted white), with a plastruct rod (painted red) inserted into the tube? Stupid question: are your decals water-slide decals?

I'm glad some of you folks found the mod useful! I'm slowly getting close to finishing the kit. Just primed the completed sub-assemblies on Saturday. Have a tiny bit more filling to do on a part I damaged and on his left wrist, then painting & final assembly!

Beautiful!!! How was the quality of the recast? Any problem? Can you show us a bit about your home-made missiles?

Humn. And here, I'd always thought Macross was real... Now I know it really is only a TV show. I'm glad I got that all cleared up now.

I loved that Armada PS2 game. Hell, it was a blast just wandering around the pretty landscapes (like Alaska) - especially if you have the 1-shot kill code and the flack-cannon Minicon. Looking forward to giving it a listen...

I'm a lucky owner of John Moscato's incredible 1/72 Kamjin/Khyron kit, which you lucky few know comes with two excellent cranial options: helmeted and unhelmeted. Both look great, and it is rather difficult to choose which to adorn the buildup with. So I applied a feature I know well from my other hobby - the Micronauts - and used a magnetic attachment system that worked well enough for Baron Karza and the rest of the "Magno Power" Micronauts. Now, I can use either head I want for display, and they fit firmly and snugly: The Micronaut Magno-Power toys are similar to - but much better than - today's Magnetix and whatnot. A massive magnet in the figures' torsos provided a powerful magnetic flux, holding the figures' heads and limbs interchangeably to the torso by attracting a screw or ball-bearing at the end of the limb or head firmly into a socket on the torso. You could easily scramble a drive or erase an audio-cassette with one of these 8-inch super robot guys! I adapted the same method for Kamjin. Kamjin is smaller, so with the help of a modern popular magnetic toy building piece (kindly donated by my daughter), I fitted Kamjin's neck-hole with a very powerful magnet, and a couple of small round-headed bolts provided attracting points at the bottom of his head. To share a quick how-to: Make sure the magnet you use is strong, and will firmly lock to a steel surface, requiring a little bit of force to pull free. (You don't want one of those cheap ones that'll fall apart if you bang the table its standing on.) Get a couple of small, round-headed nuts or bolts - be sure to check that they'll click firmly to the magnet - then cut the threaded post down to a quarter-inch or so, and carefully Dremel out a hole in the bottom of the head where you can glue in the bolt. Attach the shortened bolt. (Use super-glue or epoxy, since you don't want it to pull free. You also don't want to actually use the threads to hold it into place. That would likely crack the resin.) Now the difficult part: Dremel out a socket in the torso's neck hole that will fit the magnet, but be recessed enough to allow the head with its bolt to fit flush and proper to the torso. If you have a good and strong magnet, you don't have to worry about the bolt actually coming in physical contact with the magnet. The flux will be enough to hold the head in place. I Dremeled out a hole in the torso deep enough to fit the magnet and almost allow contact with the bolt. Then I widened the hole a tiny bit more, and pressed the magnet into place using Tamiya 2-part epoxy putty. Now I can use either head on the buildup, or even display one head separately - perhaps on a magnetic pike... But the connection easily withstands casual shaking and bumping, or turning upside down. If I were more adventuresome, I could probably do the same thing with the arms to add some posability. Similar methods could probably be used with other resin kits. (I believe the method is also being used for cast-off clothing elements on girlie kits.)

I grab it right off of the CollectionDX site, and haven't had any problems. (Finally digging into earlier 'casts, like Arcadia and Votoms. The show really fills out my 50-minute commute home nicely...!)

I agree. I think the post-human elements of Grace never succeeded in freeing her from her more base human passions. Her fiery "Dr Hell" soliloquy there near the end of the show sort of brought that point sharply to my mind. Don't get me wrong. I love her character: she's cool and well written and smokin' hot to look at, but in the end she's just as much a victim of her basic human passions and failings as any other 'mad genius' in sci-fi.

I love those old kits. A couple of my favorites from my 80s building days were the 1/72 Super 1S, and the 1/72 1A GERWALK.

Thanks, Gubaba, for another translated info-treat! I thought it was very interesting!

A lovely Sheryl from a Korean artist's website: http://skyani.egloos.com/page/2#

If I were a rich man.... Sigh.... I can't wait to see it, though!

Please do! I love it!

http://avs4you.com/ Just pay the money to buy it, and then you'll have ALL of their utilities. Its very handy. Actually, I use it more to convert fansubs into F4V format to watch on my iPod. Those will get you the most bang for your buck - which'll be about $65, if I recall correctly. But I typically use CleanerXL to make my DVD files, Photoshop to build my own menu elements, Adobe Audition for my menu music cuts, then build the DVD in Adobe Encore 2.0. Those'll run you some real $$, though. (They're more worthwhile for me, though, since I use them a lot for studio work.)

I'm amazed at the fanjaculations spewing about as a result of Chronicle's error in its coverage of such a small point from MacII's continuity, something that could be little more than a typo. Much as I really enjoyed MacII and am happy to see it get its due in Chronicle, I would never have thought it important enough to get as worked up about it as Mr. Seto Kaiba seems to be. It hardly warranted "Well... I'm contemplating violence..." as a preface, let alone where it seems to have gone since.

These are difficult time for luxury products, and Toynami has a history of product delays. Don't fret too much.

I think its wonderfully positive that MacII is being included at all, given the push to seemingly disown it there for some time, and the lack of respect it seemed to be attracting from the Macross franchise's core creators.

Wow - thanks for that, Gubaba! I knew about Yot-chan from MacF's backstory materials, but never caught the Bridge Bunnies' fates. Did Shammy marry her Miclone spy? (I forget his name.) What a sad fate for Vanessa.

I'm inclined to think they cooked up the product and did the tooling, but for some reason the product didn't get much retailer interest or was intended to be an accessory or anniversary item that was canceled. So they're selling a few to to make some money and good press back on the effort. Many toy & hobby companies do this. They become mail-aways or regional releases.

Are you serious? I was always curious what the SDFM canon fates were for them, since Robotech implies that they all died in "Khyron's" assault on the "SDF-2"...

Interesting to see that interlinking of Orguss and Macross, both in terms of the Monster confection and the MDE bomb in Orguss and MacF.

As I recall, "Chocolate Parfait Monster" was the code-name for the MDE bomb in the first episode of ORGUSS !

The little SD Paro Valks are pretty tiny, too - about 2 inches tall:

Excellent! Thank you very much! I'm working on John Moscato's Kamjin kit right now. Either Kamjin's ship will be next, or Monarch Models' Nosferatu monster kit! (Hey, that's 2 Canadian kits out of 3!)