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  1. 7 hours ago, Thom said:

    Recently watched Black Widow for the first time. Good movie. Wished again that Nat had not been killed, and that there had been more for Red Guardian to do. Really liked Yelena, though I saw her first in the Hawkeye series. Liked her there too. Looking forward to Thunderbolts.

    I didn’t really like it much, but I did like Yelena and their pops. A lot of that movie was just kinda mishandled. I hated how boring they made Taskmaster, such a waste of a character. There were some good moments here and there though, just the overall movie kinda suffers. Definitely not the worst of the post endgame movies 

  2. 3 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

    We have an Ollie's opening where Big Lots used to be later this month.

    I hear they’re really big closer to the eastern side of the country, while over here in the west coast all we hear are YouTube toy archaeologists speaking of legends regarding mountains of Hasbro toys, only to find the fools gold of piles of unwanted Reva and Eternals.

    Out here we always had Pic’n Save (which always got jokes from kids on the playground) and getting replaced by Big Lots. But I have heard that Ollies is creeping closer and closer here to the west, while In’n Out is trying to slip the double doubles closer and closer to the eastern shores

  3. 5 hours ago, geck said:

    Finally got both of mine from eBay.  Very nice kits.  Gate removal and cleanup has been a breeze so far.  I hope Bandai keeps adding Macross.  Maybe one day we'll get RG or MG type kits from them.

    The hg ones are great. As far as mg and real grade, I kinda want them to get some more advancements in their tech before trying things too complicated. They’re getting better all the time and I’m sure sometime in the future they’ll do better than their 1/72 offerings as far as stability and sturdiness 

  4. 1 hour ago, Papa Rat said:

    Only issue I am having is the PC for the head doesn’t hold and I think I’m going to have to glue it. It’s as though the sizing is off. Maybe it’s just me. lol

    You could always thicken the part that goes in with a layer or two of super glue if it’s really loose. Just a drop or two and let it harden till it’s thick enough to get some tension. If it’s just a little, some thinned down gloss coat can work.

  5. 14 hours ago, 26662 said:

    I used bare-bones prompts.  First three images: "macross invid enforcer standing in an open meadow on a bright, sunny day."  Bless its heart.  It tried. 

     

    Tried again using the following prompt: "max sterling piloting a VF-1J valkyrie in the robotech animation."  These three are nightmare fuel.

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    I think it’s hilarious that it doesn’t seem to understand Robotech or Macross and tried to grove you Star Wars, Gundam and Transformers instead 

  6. On 3/7/2025 at 2:04 AM, SteveTheFish said:

    Thanks. I knew about the tape trick. I actually tried that first. There is no clear coat, so I can just apply some Micro Sol to it and try from there. I didn't think about doing so, but that makes sense because it re-loosens the decals a bit. Thanks!

    If it’s slightly stubborn, you could also try a little warm water with a soaked tissue or cloth. Since it doesn’t have the topcoat, it could help lift it.

  7. 5 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

    Anyway, I’m intrigued by the salt idea. I assume it’s with water based paints? I’ll look it up. Thanks for the insight and encouragement. 👍

    The salt method works for most kinds of paints. The best techniques I’ve seen use a kind of mottled rust base color with bright and dark rust colors showing uneven.
    Then you get some salt and a bit of water and let the salt kinda stick to the surface like you’d see a pretzel or something. And in places you don’t want chipping, you can just wipe the area clean with water and a napkin or something.

    Then you cover the kit with your desired colors and decals like normal. Then you can use your finer nails or gently use a blade to kind of scrape off the raised areas. It leaves some raised paint and shows the rust underneath. The paint that’s somewhat raised will appear like real chipped texture. You can add extra weathering to make it appear as rust or oils or dirt at dripping out of those spots as well for some added detail 

  8. Hope that means less of the cg look to the mecha in the anime. I feel like sunrise has done alright in some of their recent shows giving a more animated than cg look to the mecha despite actually using heavy cg for their mecha in shows like Gundam with a few exceptions 

  9. 2 hours ago, Thom said:

    The rest was literally just making a profit by playing mix-n-match with someone else's creativity. HG missed it's chance after the third Robotech series to actually go off and creatively make something of their own. Instead, their name will alsways just be known for being a Macross rip-off.

    That’s why I really think their best move is to try and work out a deal to allow themselves and big west to profit from releasing the og stuff and DYRL. And then just to do Robotech as a disconnected reboot. They could do their own designs and new characters in a story that’s new to rebuild their name. Or just watch the cash roll in from making distribution deals and the streaming rights

  10. Just finished the newest episode. Still rolling strong 

    Spoiler

    Even though I hate multiverse stories, at least they never try to get stick on explaining how it works or doesn’t work. 
    Mark’s lil bro definitely has a higher understanding of what sometimes needs to be done and this episode really squashed mark’s lesson about not killing your super powered psychotic enemies.

    i kinda wish Rex picked a better way to defeat his opponent though, it just seemed like way to close to a certain episode of X-Men 97

     

  11. 7 hours ago, Phren said:

    I poke my head in here after forever and immediately see something I want. I guess this is just my fate. I have the ancient VF 2 model but I never trusted myself to build it

    It was god for its time, but age really shows. Lots of awkward shapes and such. The hmr blows it away easily. Although, I would love to see a new hg kit of it along with other Macross 2 designs 

  12. 42 minutes ago, MinmayMusicManiac said:

    I was shopping for macross stuff when i cane accross this oddity. I have checked the robotech wiki & even tried contacting Harmony Gold (who i'm well aware is a MASSIVE TABOO to us uncut Macross Maniacs) but was unable to find out the answer.  Please forgive the lack of photos as i've taken every image I could find online that shows off the set in as much detail as possible on this obscure set.

    https://www.picclickimg.com/rSAAAOSwcc5jfXng/Robotech-The-Macross-and-Masters-Saga-Collectors-Set.webphttps://www.picclickimg.com/AV4AAOSwXWFiJDct/Robotech-The-Macross-And-Masters-Sagas-9-DVDs.webp

    https://www.picclickimg.com/ofgAAOSwGhdiJDcy/Robotech-The-Macross-And-Masters-Sagas-9-DVDs.webphttps://www.picclickimg.com/QZ0AAOSw5QNjfXnh/Robotech-The-Macross-and-Masters-Saga-Collectors-Set.webp

    Not sure, did the remaster come on dvd or Blu-ray? 
    also , I think it’s odd that it doesn’t have Mospeada, but I really don’t know how the show was marketed down there.

  13. 21 minutes ago, Papa Rat said:

    Too funny to not share this. 💩
    So here’s my first go at acrylic hand painting, texturing and weathering. 
    I hate it and love it. Hahahaha

    I learned a lot today and had lots of fun with this little mech. 😂

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    It’s always fun to have a chance to try something new. I like how the armor looks like that old fashioned iron kinda look rather than smooth manufactured steel.

  14. 1 hour ago, jenius said:

    That makes sense. What's the last photo showing us? Is that the HMR extended or another model? I thought they were trying to tell us it could achieve 'tall mode' it something :P. 

    Yeah, that’s with all the extensions. There’s a bit more than I listed, like the ankles to get better articulation around the armor and the hip gimmick that allows for a higher kick and helps in downform. Basically it’s not to extend height, but to allow for more anime style poses with the all those extra joints moved around, it adds significant height when you extend everything outward.

  15. 52 minutes ago, jenius said:

    Can you remind me why it extends so much?

    The legs are for the downform, the arms are for the punch and forward reach and the waist is for forward articulation.

  16. 7 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

    Should The Loyal Subjects get around to it, it seems they'll follow the same formula of cloning the OG toys, and their figs, like the Kenner figs, have no elbows either.

    I didn’t even check think it was odd that they pretty much redid the joints on theirs more like G.I.Joe, except for adding the elbow joints and a waist articulation. The other joints go some petty good upgrades, but if they just went that little bit more, these would’ve been tough to pass up

  17. 6 hours ago, Cowboy17v2 said:

    Despite 2 decades of building gunpla and macross kits, i rarely painted anything 100% with an airbrush before. just pieces that i thought needed paintwork, which i'd do with rattle cans or airbrush, and then hit everything with a flat coat to even it out.  My previous valkyries were all done via rattlecans outside.  This is also my first attempt at any sort of camo pattern, and weathering.  Definitely a bit rough and I could have toned down the clay wash a bit but overall im pretty happy with how it turned out.  

    Here's a link to a flickr album with a lot of photos of the process. i didn't detail it out but you can get the idea from the pictures themselves I hope!  

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    Turned out really great. Thanks for sharing.

    id love to see something like this on the hg kit as well.

  18. 1 hour ago, Tking22 said:

    It doesn't hurt that Aaron Paul is a phenomenal actor and gave a great VA performance, he really sold the whole conflict and character. 

    Totally agree. I didn’t even check who it was that did the voice, but he was pretty great here.

    Spoiler

    I kinda felt like his character wouldn’t have gone quite as far if it wasn’t for his wife pushing him further over the edge.

    Overall it was kind of the type of plot that easily could’ve failed if not for the talent behind the character and the circumstances pushing things in that direction.

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