NZEOD
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as I understood it, the Tactics game itself isnt that bad its just the production issues with the figures right?
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1/72 scale Regult?
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in theaters Dec. 16, 2016
NZEOD replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Thats a mistake. Katee Sackoff played a great gender irrelevant Starbuck and the series was pretty good aside from the rushed ending due to the screenwriters strikes. The female characters in Razor, the Battlestar Pegasus Story are brillaintly done without an ounce of sexism. -
Tonights meagre efforts... the install of the first of the Hallway display plates for the Valks. Each plate is held in place to the back frame by Extra heavy duty Cabinet Door Latch magnets for easy removal and swapping and will get a 3mm Acrylic cover and 4 hidden LEDs as mini spotlights glowing from under each Valk. They will be hooked into the same PIR sensor that turns on the end display rack as someone steps out into the hall. Each will light up at a 0.5sec delay down the hall as a night light.
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Thats pretty much how I fell back into all this as well. Check out "Photoreal Macross" and "Yukikaze" on google
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All in pieces at the moment. I have 21 Valks I'm in various stages, from :only opened the box" to "ready for weathering and mounting" that I'm building into a hallway display like the Macross Museum. I can email you links as each is finished if you like.
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ohhhh
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Sorry Jeff...
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damn that messes with your head looking at it. The longer you look at each photo, the more your mind convinces you its a 2D CEL and not a 3D physical object!
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Theres somewhere you really would have to be unlucky to be billeted. Having a room in one of the main Cannon arms would get a little tingly.
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Bandai, only one I can find in 1/72
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Some good resources in that Link!
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I used to paint figures many years ago under the Asylum Art Label to pay for Varsity before I joined the Bomb Squad. So many techniques forgotten now!
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Its been out for years with Warhammer 40K stuff Its an older technique that was used to emulate metallics without using metallic paints. The end result came out looking very good but very Cartoonish. Its also used to emulate the back glow and reflection off screens and weapons like power swords. Its fallen out of favour in the last few years but was amazing for how well some could blend in the colours. There is a bit more info on it here. http://www.bugmansbrewery.com/topic/28395-nmm-a-myth-or-is-it-reeeal/ Another good tute site for getting your Anime look (Referred to as NMM - Non Metallic Metallic Technique) is http://tutofig.com/painting/metallics/nmm/
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Last nights mission while we waited for the Old man to have his CT Scan was to base coat a 1/72 Regult in EXPENSIVE Alclad II Steel and Magnesium so its top paint layer can be chipped and worn off later. I intend to heavily wear the paint but not to rust anything. Rust implies Steel and Iron and that just doesnt seem to fit with the Zentraedi advanced Tech. Next step is to fit up the LEDs for the Leg and Body sensors - basic red LEDs, Main "Eye" - Programmable Neopixel LED so it pulses and oscillates red shades, and 2 Blue Blinding Ultra Bright LEDs for the main Beam Cannons as well as the wiring and foot socket for the connections to the diorama. The connection will be hidden within a crushed car the Pod has stepped on as its fired on, and blown off its Super pack, the Valk thats hugging the Hotel block. Very easy kit to build, very fast to assemble, HORRIBLE seam lines and joins with a pointless opening rear hatch - pointless as it opens to an empty hollow detailless space more like a Mr Potato Head! Make sure you have a tube of Putty and lots of sand paper for this one. It also needs 2 spots of clear resin to replicate the two upper body sensors as they left the clear parts for them out for some reason. Buying some more of these to make bookends like the limited edition ones out of them. Have 4 of the Resin Valks in the kneeling/aiming position for the other side of the bookends.
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If you ever need something made up I can always work it for you then email the .eps or .ai vector file back to you to print out. I used to make the stencils up for my guys to slap on anything and everything. Helped pass the time between weeks of boredom and moments of tension when your stuck in the back side of god knows where. Making some silhouettes of some Zentraedi capital ship for kill markings for some EMU units and some Pod/Anti UN SV-51 kill markings for the Valks.
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its 3.5mm x 4.5mm. Its nothing fancy and anyone here can do it. I used Inkscape freeware as the vector program (all decals etc should be made in vector format as it is lossless when scaled up or down) and downloaded a freeware freehand arrow Vector pack and a freeware font pack called Permanent Marker. Its printed in plain A4 paper. This one was just a test piece to see if the idea would work. I'll be making a slightly smaller one for the final version once the pilots are painted up, hopefully tonight. All my models have a small joke hidden somewhere on them. Legacy of being in uniform so long. You'd be amazed at the things we get up too to let off steam. I tagged an M113 as "Canned Veggies" for its crew as our infantry wear green berets so get called Cabbages. I've tagged a SeaKing for the Aussies called the Suai Sally - The Timor Express. YOu park a vehicle, ANY vehicle, whether a ute, a Humvee or even an armoured vehicle unattended near any unit while on deployment and you can expect it to be tagged with that units logo or mascot within minutes. Check the rear of military vehicles, especially Commonwealth ones, and you'll see all sorts of small odd logos and numbers and symbols sprayed on them.
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Anyone ever make any Meltran/Zentran 1/72 Figures? Or is there anything in 1/10 to 1/12 figures that can be converted into ground troops?
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Yus!! Got home from helping the olds out with winding up Dads business whos a medical mess at the moment and found a Sonic birds VF-1 and and 1/72 Regult waiting for me. Now to buy JasonCs Ghost and Jeffs spare Valk models. This is becoming an addiction
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Hasegawa hands down. You'll start with the Fighter only kits but then find you'll want to try the Gerwalk ones... which will lead to the Battroid ones. All 3 modes are a joy to build and have some great lines and personality to them.
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My tribute to the Mach Loop...
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This mornings efforts
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Definitely the more realistic DYRL hands
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Same! I have 3 trainers I have on the bench right now that I'm all set to slice to match the my 1J Gerwalks to my 2 seater Navy unit... stuff that! Saving them and getting this one!