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Wow, Feb/Mar that late after Japan PO? There's no worry about it not being able to order in Feb/Mar MWW release?? I'm hoping this is my first foray into this new convenient/civilized world of ordering as long as I don't get screwed. 😬

I totally feel the same way @derex3592 - I’d totally get the white & gold Elvis version. It’s quite nice in Gerwalk mode IMHO.

$100 mark up?!?! Wow, that's a lot. But do you think that would include shipping? I can easily pay $60cdn for shipping and $40 for customs and duties (I'm in Canada ) I think I paid around $380cdn for the last VF-31AX shipped and customs charges all in (we get pretty hosed up here!) As long as I'm guaranteed to get one from WWM Amazon.com I think I'll pay the markup since I have a Amazon.com Gift card I should use up that's not transferable to Amazon.ca.

Wow, step away for Christmas for a few days and all this happens!!! Looks pretty darn good in the photos now! So this WWM release means I can order it off the Amazon.com Tamashii store site a week after Jan 10th PO in Japan and not have to fight the madness? I've never done this before - its seems almost too good to be true?! So it WILL go on pre-order on Amazon.com Tamashii store site a week later?

That's a great size! I love the lines of the Bone!!! Might have to put that one on my list. Are there any resin/3D printed nozzles for the exhaust in that scale? Is the first bay a fuel tank or a really big bomb?

Beautiful work as always @derex3592. How long is it at 1/144 scale? Does it come with a stand?

LOL, I thought I was the only one hate watching it...

Wow, that fighter mode just looks so much better than I was thinking (or from previous photos) - the nose actually looks somewhat in proportion. Did they come up with a new mould or is it just all camera angles/lenses?

Well its been a while since I built up a Hasegawa Valkyrie. Hard to believe its almost a 20yr old kit, still very nice, but some flash and ejector pins to fill. Tried my best to paint up Minmay and Hikaru from @arbit's amazing 3D prints (thanks for making the helmet a separate piece it made painting her much easier). I wish I could paint in Minmay's eyes, but I just didn't have a brush small enough to lay down paint, I ended up just using a pin to make some depressions where I thought they should be. With the Canopy (dry fit) on you don't see as much as I would have hoped. (I really should have dusted before I took these photos) These are just some other reminders of the injection pin depressions I filled (with crazy glue) some added cut styrene and notching out the thruster pivots so I can paint them separately and install them at the end after everything is filled/sanded and painted. Now that the strikes are over, I hope to be getting a paycheque from my real job, so I might not be able to finish this baby up too soon.

That looks great @Thom can't wait to see more! Would love to get my hands on the newer Academy kits but its not that readily available here in Toronto (lots of older Revell, Monogram & Hasegawa, but any of the newer FineMolds, GWH are hard to find and usually expensive online shipping only). At least I believe the Academy is supposed to be cheaper than the FineMolds & GWH ones. Those cockpit decals really bedded down amazingly! Wow, who needs the 3D stuff when they lay down so beautifully especially if you've going to leave the canopy closed. I wonder if the rear RIO coaming is too narrow like the GWH version (reason why I did mine with the canopy down in the end) but that lump above seems odd as well as those lines in the forward coaming too. I've finally started on my VT-1 (after about a 20yr wait...) thanks to @arbit amazing 3D print. I've always wanted a Minmay in the back seat without her helmet off (on her lap and @arbit was kind enough to make it a separate piece for me) yelling at Hikaru in the front and finally got my wish. Thanks so much to @arbit for his amazing sculpt. The only things are both of their legs are a bit long and I have to cut their butts at a 45 degree because the Hasegawa has this strange seat bump that comes out like butt cheeks that pushes the figures too far forward. I wanted them to look seated into the seats, I ended up having to cut poor Minmay's legs at the ankles. I didn't realize how brittle these 3D prints are (never worked with them before) - I ended up breaking Hikaru's right arm at the elbow (weak spot) and Minmay's left leg at the knee. A little crazy glue fixed it and I'm in the process of painting now. I thought I'd try to use crazy glue as filler this time around (I'm sick and tired of using multiple coats of Tamiya or Mr. Surfacers only to find out they contracted during drying and having to do another coat). I've been told crazy glue is a good filler and it doesn't contract - we'll I'll try to learn something new.

Hey @Thom - looking good, what's in the cockpit of that F-14 - looks like a 3D cockpit set? I'm surprised you got the seamless intakes before resin seats - you see the seats up front and personal, you really have to shine a flashlight into the intakes to see that far back. I'm always disappointed with all the work I do to the fan face when its so difficult to see afterwards. What do you think about the Academy F-14 (I've been meaning to get one) compared to the GHW or FineMolds (I've got too many old Hasegawa that I don't think I will ever get to nowadays with so many better kits out!) @electric indigo - that's a lot of bad seams on that HobbyBoss kit. I wonder how the new Trumpeter Intruder at that scale will be fit wise. I just race through to get to the painting and decaling stage - I hate doing all the filling and sanding.

It's just not the same angle, it has to do with the focal length of the lens. You shot your Yamato with a very wide angle lens (short focal lengths), so it exaggerates the perspective and elongates the nose disproportionately. Where as long lenses (long focal lengths) tends to compress background and foreshortens length towards camera. I think the magazine was shot with a long lens, look at how parallel the wing root separation lines are vs. your Yamato wing roots definitely converge at the perspective vanishing point within the image. I'm still holding out hope for that side angle view we were treated to earlier on. I just hope all this complaining here means I might have an easier time at pre-order (but somehow I don't think so :P)

OMG! That looks amazing especially for 1/72 scale. Thanks so much for pointing me in that direction. Although they could have had a more interesting colourful scheme to provide decals for.

This looks so good! Man I really didn't want to branch out from Star Wars too much, but with this and Concorde lately, my wallet needs a break especially with the strike still going on!

I don't get how the nose in fighter mode could look even shorter but in battroid mode look too long?!?! I was hoping there would be some magic transformation to extend the nose in fighter and shorten it for battroid as the YF-19 lower calf fill out panels were genius. I'm still getting one though (if I have any luck at pre-order time).

Wow @electric indigo that is absolutely stunning!!! Congrats on another amazing addition to your collection. Love it so much. Is it 48 or 72 again?

I feel the same way, I had a good laugh when it came out, but when I have it in hand, it is quite fun (wished it hand landing gears of its own), different and even looks good attached to the VF-31. Although the orange doesn't suit the blue, magenta or green schemes as well and seems to match the only one that hasn't been released yet?!?! Can't wait for that release if it will ever happen.

I'd love an Intruder in 1/72 - is that a 1/48? What's the best kit in 1/72?

Hey @Darkspire17 which toy is this? Is it the 1/24 Arcadia?

@electric indigo Wow, love the design of that Helicopter - don't know it, what is it again? Great job on it as usual especially in 1/72 scale! @Chas Gorgeous clean build, love that ship too. Any plans on weathering or finishing ideas? @derex3592 That's amazing, what scale is that again? Hard to tell how tiny they are without some reference @Chronocidal Cool 3D print, what is it that you're printing? Is it your design?

It was scripted to begin with (mostly because we could shoot in the Discovery sets so it made sense to have the saucer from Crossfield class) - other than the saucer, we were pretty much given free range as long as it didn't visually look too much like the Enterprise as you want to instantly distinguish between the two during the fight in the rings (my first version had the nacelles up and the dish below the saucer but it looked too smiliar to the Constitution at first glance).

Here was some of my design contributions to this great series! (they didn't use my Klingon BoP for the J'Gal episode due to budget 😭)

Beautiful Typhoon and weathering @derex3592!!! Wow @Thom that Lancaster kit looks amazing! Did it come with resin seats? I saw a 1/32 Lancaster kit at a show a few months ago that the fuselage even had a "tin-canning" texture from really thin metal panels, the molding quality was phenomenal but it was over $1K - is this the same kit?!?! What a beauty, its going to be HUGE.

That Concord looks amazing!!! I wished it was a more interesting livery but I guess it doesn't prefer either Britain or France. That retractable landing gear mechanism looks great, I hope someone comes up with a mod with landing gear doors too!!! When is the VIP points sale in the fall - I guess its too much to hope for its sale to coincide with the VIP, most likely will sell out immediately and be backordered for a while afterwards like the Aston Martin DB-5?

Hey @electric indigo that camo and weathering variation on the paint is just superb!!! Looks so good, its it all freehand - black pre-shading underneath with white random sprays and then sprayed each camo green over that pre-shading without overlapping?!?! Amazing! Is that a Tiger Eurocopter? Which 1/72 kit is that?