wm cheng
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YES PLEASE!!! I have the old Galaxy Explorer from my childhood, built it again with my daughter a few years ago, what a great set - all I'm missing over all these years is that darn antenna. I'd love to have a new revised version next to my old one to see what 40yrs of my life has gone through 😛
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YES! ...and the second season is even better
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Amazing @Chronocidal! Really captures the shape so much better.
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Hey @arbit your angle is a little low for perspective. If you were looking at someone eye level, you want their eyes to line up with the people's eyes in the distant background. The imaginary horizon should cross the subject's eye level too, so the 5'-10" line on the doors (3/4 way up) in the background should be at eye level to your figures (showing more ground) if your point of view is at eye level around 5'-10". Right now your eye level is about ankle high like a mouse. Hope that helps.
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@Lolicon yep Mandrake is definitely legit and have gotten a few good things from them in the past. They are also very picky at their condition descriptors, often I can't find the "slightly package damage". Yep Canadians are dinged every time on FedEx, Purolator or DHL badly. EMS is the best option as I get a 75% success rate of no customs but that has ended temporarily and is not an option in the near future for Canadians. It has added about $100cdn to the cost of all our Pandemic Valks recently I found.
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Wow, got a pretty quick email response saying that the parcel is ready and I should receive it by next week (hope its pack ok).
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Haven't heard a word from Luna Park (ordered it the day of the pre-order when I missed out on all the usual online stores). I emailed them today with a very polite ask - we'll see if anything comes of that.
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YES I 1000% agree @Thom - had many arguments about it, but always lost out to the practicalities of accommodating the shooting crew. You never want a grumpy crew on your hands as Art Dept would be the first to be blamed as we usually aren't on set late into the night of a 18hr shoot. Small sets means its difficult to light and you have to wild out walls to allow for shooting which slows down the crew and restricts the director's choices in long tracking shots - believe me I've heard all the excuses. It's hard to argue when time is against you especially on a TV series and not a feature. But yes, everything is huge - at least we don't have that cavernous interior or nothing for the turbo lifts to roller coaster through on Discovery!!!🤣 On K-19 (old Russian Sub) the sets had to be designed to break apart (wild) 1/3rd - 2/3rds on train tracks because they were so heavy to allow the camera into those tight quarters, shots had to be planned months in advance to have a schedule that allowed wilding of such major pieces (but that was a Harrison Ford feature!)
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Not a bad price @borgified especially if its $14.99 flat shipping and no customs or brokerage fees - but I'm not a real fan of the YF-29 so I think I'm going to pass on it. But I'm definitely looking forward to this if we get more Macross Stuff available in Canada!!! Thanks for letting me know about a Canadian Store/site - this would be a huge bonus if it can pan out for other releases that I want in the future.
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ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Gorgeous work @arbit. Does the Blast shield come up too? You need a few on-deck hands and shooter. I wished there was another Valkyrie in the back waiting in the wings. Looks amazing, you should be proud.
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Are you saying there is a Shapeways figures of these? I'd love some.
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Meh... when are they ever going to do a gold chrome C-3PO (gold paint doesn't cut it anymore)? Is that windshield a new specific part?
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Hey @Dangard Ace - I designed the Imperial FTL ship, look for it on surface details and engine details as well as the interior set with the beds. I also did the hovercar on Trantor (they flew me out to London to supervise some of the construction and I saw the Dune Ornithopters there as well as some landspeeders for Star Wars - very cool!). I also designed the Raven interiors only (probably my best work to date - other than Pacific Rim conn pods) which comes up in later episodes (but only 2 I believe :(). I did Beggar's Lament exteriors and there's always the Macross vernier thrusters everywhere (hard to sneak it into Star Trek 😛) as well as the exterior of the Invictus. I designed the interiors and bridge too, but they ran out of money and severely cut it back to the point where I don't really consider it close to the original design anymore.
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I'm just happy that they've done away with the serial storytelling on this series and its back to episodic stories with a strange new world every week. As such there are some stronger episodes and some weaker episodes. Writing is always a problem, but its part of a larger generational outlook (I am one of the few that are over 50) and its at least a step in the right direction.
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I'm so glad there's so much positive buzz here on ST SNW! It really is different from Discovery. Some of you know I've been working in film for a long while and love to pepper Macross influences into everything I do. Just wanted to let you know that I'm the VFX Art Director on the 2nd season of this show and its not like Disco at all! I was offered Disco a few years ago but smart enough to stay away. Can't give anything away because of NDA, but the cast is great on this. Now everyone go out to see Foundation (Apple+) and The Boys (Amazon) season 3 airs June 3rd to support me
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Thanks @Chronocidal! I'm waiting for the Delorean on a double VIP points day - hope its in stock whenever one of those rolls around again / or maybe May 4th?
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Thanks @Chronocidal - what did you use for the tips for your SRBs - did you modify the entire cone part or just the very tip? Looks great! I might have to try this one day or try the China knock off bricks like Vonado.
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Beautiful @Chronocidal! The tips of the SRBs always bothered me, but what you did there was perfect. Someday I might hit you up for your mods. I'd love to do this shuttle stack someday, just too many things going on at the moment. How much did it come out to?
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They did cry no less than four times!!! 🤣 Had to make up for the few episodes this season when somebody didn't cry.
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
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Perfect set for some of that aftermarket lighting!!! Just wished it was more silver pieces than just the wire chaseway across the back. To be absolutely nit-picky does anyone think we can add an extra stud to the length between the A and B pillars to make the door a little longer?
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Damn! All my childhood memories - I wanted to pass down my Galaxy Explorer and Technics Car Chassis - now I have to reconsider that. Thanks for the info @sketchley. With all this new info, I can't believe I survived my childhood 😛
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Exactly the same here, I just don't understand the appeal of SDs at all (other than they are the opposite of my aesthetic - fast and sleek).
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Hey @Dobber I hear ya! I just spent 6-8hrs learning how to use Bricklink properly with a lot of help from some kind facebook addicts and it takes a bit to get use to. Never just hit easy buy - you have to try to buy your pieces from as few local stores as possible, shipping across boarders kills you especially from multiple sources. Identify the problem bricks/items which are rare that is forcing the buy all from multiple sources and try to reduce or those and buy other items from those stores that carry the rare or hard to find pieces. Additionally watch out for the minimum buys as some stores will charge a fee if you are getting just a few pieces from them. After playing around with the site and manually selecting the stores to buy from I managed to get my stores down from 6-7 to 3 stores and 2 of which were even in Canada (locally) - I ended up saving 70% of the original "easy buy" costs. The trick is to isolate those hard to find/rare pieces and then look at who actually sells them and start your buy from those stores. Good luck, its pretty cool once you get the hang of it, but it will always be more expensive than buying a Lego set. I'm a total newbie and just started to get my feet wet in this whole new world.