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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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    For my part, I rarely wash my plastic kits. I've always reserved baths for resin kits, which typically use a more resilient mold release than injection plastic kits. That said, Noel's advice is still sound. Even IP kits use some form of mold release, and sometimes they leave behind residue as well. The Ground GM Sniper I snapped together the other day had a thin layer of white powdery stuff on some of the parts. (By the by, those Ground Gundam/GM kits? Beautiful things. I'm falling in love with them all over again.) As for wear and tear, like Noel said, it's mostly on areas that will be rubbing up against other areas. Specifics change from kit to kit, obviously, but in general, you can expect joints to see the most flaking. You can work to minimize the impact by, say, masking off the surfaces that will rub each other and painting only those faces that don't touch anything, or not painting the joints at all, among other strategies. Painting parts makes them that little bit bigger, too, so they'll fit together more tightly; articulated areas will resist movement more strongly, which creates the additional potential problem of stressing the joints. You can test-fit beforehand without necessarily having to cut pegs, but it does make disassembly a bit more difficult. As long as you're careful and patient with the kit, you should be able to figure out a plan for attacking it. Anyway, enough of that. Have fun with the build!
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    Calling SDFM's art style "adult" is ridiculous. EVERYTHING looked like that at the time. All of the what would grow into "shounen" anime did, at any rate. As Macross has grown, it has changed styles to suit its needs, be that including other "genres" or matching the popular trends of the time. Moe is the popular YA style right now. If SDFM were made today, it would surely feature character designs that match those of Frontier and Delta.
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    Shakespeare didn't really become super popular and heralded as the sage of an entire language until centuries after his death, when a bunch of old aristocrats were like "Pssh, all y'all english scholars are wank, i'mma show you REAL english art, ohhhhh look at shekesbeard he was so ahead of his time y'all don't even know." So basically 1700s hipsters turned a decent but unnoteworthy poet with a penchant for plagiarism into God's gift to the English language.
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    Wait... which episode did Messer die in? Because I could watch that episode--no, just that scene is enough--I could watch that on loop for the rest of my life and be content. Why do it? Well, when you boil it down, these productions are basically just expensive advertisements for toys for the kids to beg their parents to get them. From a purely business perspective, if you can get comparative merchandise results without the additional monetary investment in a good story and good characters, then it's a great business decision. I mean, it's done wonders for Transformers and Gundam... I wouldn't equate "serious" with "good," although I'd agree to an extent that Western audiences tend to do this. Delta just stretched itself too thin. Notice how Plus was all about the competition, all about the love triangle(s), with very little extraneous material. (Maybe more in the OVA than the movie, but even then...) Zero has a similarly "serious" overall tone, but it tries to cram a world war and an alien world destroyer into the plot, both of which are better suited to long-form media like a traditional multi-episode series. Delta retreads much of the same plot as Frontier, but it tries to cover over a dozen unique characters, all with complex, intersecting relationships, and that's just on the protagonists' side. The Windermereans nearly match that. EDIT: I seem to recall "no love triangle" being part of his original idea, as well as competing air shows/idol groups. Much smaller scale, certainly nothing on the level of intergalactic war.
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    If you don't want to use primer, a trick is to sand the surface of the kit pieces with fine-grit sandpaper (1000-grit or above) to remove the glossy top and introduce some texture for the paint to adhere to the plastic. I'd still recommend priming, but this is a cheap, fairly easy alternative.
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