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    Eh, black lining on white parts is fine... if you're going for a particular look. It's easier to use other, lighter colors so that there isn't quite so much contrast, but the wonderful thing about black-on-white IS the absolute contrast; you have a broader range of "shading" available to you, so you can thin certain areas of panel lines to achieve certain effects. Mainly this is useful for simulating the uneven visibility of panel lines; if you look at real-world machines, their "panel lines" vary greatly in terms of visibility. You can do the same with an easier gray/brown panel wash, but just to a lesser degree. And sometimes the stark contrast is precisely what you're going for. See any "cel-shaded" model kit build for an example of what I'm talking about.
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    Oh, is this a 1/60 kit to go with the 1/60 Laevatein? I had a blast with that kit, and I had thought this one would go the way of the dodo (its last appearance was an unpainted prototype from a year or two ago). I'm glad to see it coming back. Hopefully there'll be a reissue of the Laevatein as well. So that's the two 1/60 Kotobukiya kits, the three Aoshima 1/48 re-issues plus their own Laevatein kit, the Almecha Arbalest, and the upcoming Metal Build Arbalest to go with the Metal Build Laevatein. Phew. Gonna have to stock up on ramen now...
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    Right, that's what I was referring to, the airbrushes that use markers as paint source. They've been around, but I don't know anyone who's actually used them. The inherent flaws in them have seen them mostly marketed to kids as super easy introductory ABs - Crayola, especially, advertises an easy airbrush system that uses their own markers.
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    By the by, how'd the earlier copyright strike go? Hopefully this won't turn into a recurring thing... :/
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    I mean... kind of? These "beginner" airbrush systems have existed for a long time, but I don't know a single person in the hobby, or even in general, who has ever used one. Maybe with the Bandai name recognition, some of the "amateur" (I hate to use that word, but I hope you know what I mean) modelers will pick enough of them up that we have an idea of how well they work. The biggest drawback is the compressed air cans, as I DO know that people have tried and really disliked (or at least look down on) those for the uneven pressure they put out and how expensive they get how quickly.
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    Maybe this thread should be merged with the Ace Combat discussion thread, since now it's not just Hasegawa actively doing Ace Combat:
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    They're the same objective height (around 16-20cm), but whereas Gundam kits/figures at that height are 1/100-scale, the Laevatein figure is roughly 1/48 scale. The Almecha figure is 1/60 scale, putting it in the same height range as the Robot Damashii line.
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    HLJ's got some more pictures of Gerwalk mode and runners: Not a fan of that left hand... Hopefully they'll include alternatives. Detail on it is super good, though.
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    Not strictly on topic, but... Aoshima 1/48 Laevatein on display at All Japan Model and Hobby Show (not yet open for preorder, shop link takes you to other FMP merch, including Aoshima's October/November re-releases of their M9/Arbalest kits):
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    Oh wow, completely missed that lol. Thanks.
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    Oh, nice. I don't think I've ever seen that, myself. As for the VF-31, it was just a display piece (sadly). According to this site, it's 1/6 scale, which sounds about right. And here's a shot with the whole thing in frame for a better sense of its size:
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    Okay... so I WASN'T interested in Metal Builds...
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    Not necessarily. Fumoffu took the preexisting high school slapstick humor of the franchise and ratcheted it up to 11. Macross doesn't balance slapstick comedy and action thriller quite like FMP does - mostly Macross is just lighthearted - so something like Fumoffu wouldn't work as well. I'm thinking of something about the little guys, a la Patlabor, who don't really care all that much about the larger goings-on of the universe. Or G Gundam (which is a bit more meta about it), that takes Gundam's tendency to be self-important while flirting with silly super robot tropes and turns it on its head.
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    Up on HLJ, too: https://hlj.com/product/bann19775
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    Phew... The physical thing puts me at ease compared to the renders. I'm feeling much more secure about keeping that preorder. Last image: I'm gonna assume the two runners on the right-hand side are from a different kit? I mean, that'd be a pretty interesting gunpod, but...
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    I remember there being a 1/35 VF-1 by Bandai, but that was just a display prototype or something and never made it past that stage. ...then there was this sexy beast last year:
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    Oh man, I keep telling myself to watch LWA. Didn't it start out as a Youtube animation? Do you know how to get those original videos, or is the Netflix show the only thing out right now? You're the first person I've seen say they actively enjoyed Arjuna. Everyone else has ranged from "What's that?" to "It's alright..." I remember watching it back in the day and the climate change monsters were really cool, but that I didn't enjoy it because the conflict wasn't straight forward enough. Maybe watching it again would make for a more positive impression.
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    Popular Anime "Your Name" is Getting a Live-Action Remake from J.J. Abrams: http://www.mtv.com/news/3038325/anime-your-name-live-action-remake-j-j-abrams/ Hm... how best to sum up my reaction to this news...
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    Nice to see continued proof of this thing's existence. Waiting patiently for that preorder.
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    I don't know much of his work outside Macross. I know he created Escaflowne and Arjuna, the former being awesome and the latter being unmemorable. That's hardly a 10:90 ratio there, but what else has he done? Oh, and mecha designs for... whatever that flying surfboard mecha anime was... but he didn't have input on the story there, or did he? EDIT: Anyway, the poster's looking pretty neat. I'm getting hints of Hong Kong meets Xenoblade Chronicles.
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    They look like they're trying to kiss. Really, really angrily.
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    One of these doesn't belong anymore, unfortunately... I really wish Capcom would bring back her Zero/Alpha design, though. I loved that look, way more than her default.
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    Then again, some changes to the formula couldn't hurt. It is getting a bit stale. It's been suggested before, but a Patlabor-esque show centered around a Destroid crew seems like it would be interesting. Just a bunch of run of the mill guys and gals who couldn't care less about The Sky, who man we just wanna get through this day without some crazy girl attacking the alien bugs with music and her hot boyfriend stealing our robot... Something that takes the piss out of itself a bit like how G Gundam did to Gundam.
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    Massively popular for sure (definitely a misspeak on my part to imply the exact opposite), but his works faded from literary scrutiny as soon as he stopped writing. It was only when historians re-examined his work centuries after his death that they started extolling him and immortalized him as a great bard. ...but then again, this is me trying to remember literature courses from nearly a decade ago, so I could definitely be fuzzy on the details... or the entire thing. I just recall that being a thing. He was just a writer of his times, a competent one at that, but just another writer with contemporaries who were arguably better and possessed of better inspiration and creativity than he was. And his ascendance to the highest echelons of the literary canon could almost be described as a fluke, with some prominent scholar or another being a bit too high on him, convincing another prominent scholar to do the same, and from there it just kind of snowballed. Works that deal with Shakespeare consistently play with this, that his body of work isn't necessarily inherently ascendant, but is later made ascendant.
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    I mean, Gundam's fine and all, even if I can never get into it, but we can all at least agree that no one wants to see a repeat of this:
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