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How to Kill Your Enemy Dead in a Variable Fighter (and Not Get Killed Yourself) by Roy Focker, Esq. -
*turns blue, then purple, then plaid, then paisley, then passes out*
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Didn't know about the medal; good points all though.
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Sorry, but that reminds me of this scene: "Five is right out!" That would be scary; if they could do that with ships and armament, then couple it with cloning tech, they'd have the ability to challenge Zentraedi Main Battle Fleets. Talk about restarting the Protoculture Wars...
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You could "knock down" the overall brightness of that engine nozzle with a slight dark metallic wash, followed by some drybrushing with alternating base-color metallics (gunmetal) and a very fine drybrushing with a lightened near-silver drybrushing. It doesn't look too bad now, just kinda obvious; a slight revision with what I mentioned would make it look better, I think. Overall, incredible job, Peter! Your paintwork looks better than mine! lol My latest project: another custom Transformer- On that note, I threw Maverick's Tomcat into Photoshop: (probably should have thrown it out while I was at it!)
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Hey, it's all good! Just my 2 cents worth (for what weight it carries!) And the control panels are made of Explodium™ Imagine the NUNS trying to do this with armaments for their forces...
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Er...no comprende espanol here.... O.o
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Watch 7 and MII; you might be surprised.
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It's the original Skull-One. Everyone who saw RT in the 80's knew of that one.
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Yeah, Terry Silver's a heel alright.
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Wish I could find just the Ten Kings' (Blazing) Sword for my Voltron, but I don't think anyone sells that separately (at least, not for a price I could afford!).
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Wow...no wonder no one sneaks into Canada!
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I'd have to say the characters have been a driving force in the stories; otherwise folks would not want figures of them.
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When Seto Kaiba examined my self-produced Variable fighter kitbash, he and I had a discussion about how quickly things can get cramped when you start trying to get missiles and a gunpod in the same space at the same time. In addition to the transfer and launch mechanisms for the missiles, you need telemetry feeds to them to get data prior to launch (part of the launch mechanism, admittedly), systems to handle the exhaust gases from firing the missiles (so they don't get inadvertently vented into a pylon or strut and burn a wing off or a hole through the fuselage), braces and data/ control links for the gunpod(s) to fire from within the craft, launch/recovery mechanisms for said gunpod,etc. So even with an external pallet, it still has to maintain aerodynamic profiles, structural integrity in attaching to the craft, not get in the way of the transformation, and be jettisonable when needed. That's a lot of stuff to cram in, in addition to the missiles and gun pod(s), internal or otherwise.
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That's why whenever I go to a convention to see the people who've played those roles, I'll try to research not only the other stuff they've done, but what projects they might be doing now (many will post that on their blogs or other venues). I have to say: it's never failed to amaze them when I bring those up, and they almost always seem to light right up! Actors are people too, and I cannot blame Mari Iijima for how she feels.
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Hasegawa seems to have issues with heir plastic (found this out personally when trying to build a 1/72). Suggestions for you battroid: 1) I would drill those arm pins out and replace them with ABS. 2) Glue the lower ring back into place, then reinforce with a plate of styrene or ABS, then redrill the hole and remount the joint. 3) Get a nice stiff drink for the both of us bro; just had to remove a thumbprint from the paint job I just busted my can trying to redo. O.o
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Yeah; the places like Odd Lots (now Big Lots), Railroad Salvage and other discount clearance places had literal tons of them. Now, I can hardly find any. I cannot even find "Code 007 Iron Monarch (G1 Megatron KO)" without it being as expensive on Ebay as the real one! And the Convertors series had some really good ones that I would make into Autobots or Decepticons as I needed them. I remember those: they were the M.A.R.S. Convertors- This particular one was the basis I used to build my custom MP Leader-1 (Go-Bots)- Sadly, even those are gone. But like you, I fervently hope one day, all of them return.
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Or you can use 2000 grit sandpaper and toothpaste to polish off the super glue.
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Or, they get the mother ship sick with time travel.
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I miss those days. (sniff)
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Lol yeah, sometimes I can get lazy on stuff as well. Some days, ya just gotta take it easy on yourself! As for the diorama that the mech I'm repainting was a part of: the original factory is 1/100. I built my own at 1/72, given that the factory was too small for my mechs and I wanted one at the scale my mail line of mecha are at. Blast from the past for you peter; here's how my diorama began: Just plain mat board. On that note, I'm thinking of putting together a PDF or something on how folks can make their own out of mat board or cardboard. Feel kinda selfish for having this to myself!
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Yeah; the Hasegawa valks have some really shallow panel lines, especially in the 1/72 scale range. When I built one up, a couple of coats of paint from a rattle can were enough to nearly obliterate the panel lines. Since my method was to paint the main color and then then overpaint the secondaries, you really gotta watch it with those layers! My hat's off to you Photogirl; not sure I could pull off masking everything separately like that.
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Yeah...I wanted to show what I was trying to cover. The mech originally looked like this: So due to the paint job failing (due to neighbors upstairs and their toxic brew of whatever they were smoking getting onto my poor valk), I now am having to repaint it. This also means sourcing some new decals. *Grrr... growl, snarl, huff, puff, wheeze... cough, gag, sigh*
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*wooshes SDF-1 around room while Macross theme plays*
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Right?After the incident where they damaged my Refit E, I was ready to use a Macross Cannon on them! As it stands, the landlord just pulled the industrial dumpster that she had to rent to clean out the utter disaster they left in their apartment after they left! They were filthy to the point where the entire inside had to be scraped down and redone. They also had roaches, but refused to let the exterminator the landlord contracted with into their apartment (we ended up sealing every crack and crevice in our place with boric acid and then silicone caulk over it). Not sorry to see them gone, tbh. I just hope the next neighbors aren't a nightmare of any nature (not holding my breath though). But the damage they did is done, and now my poor VF-1J needs a complete refinish and decals. Yeah, not much hope, eh? lol Anyways, progress pics on some of the VF-1J parts: The major pain was that the VF-1J was molded in red, and I redid it as Hikaru's in white. So now, I have to re-prime it and ensure that I can successfully recapture the "magic" I got when I first repainted it. I have to make sure I get every crevice on it, or it's going to look like crap. I left one arm red for the shot so folks can see what color it was before the repaint. The fighter nose is going to be "fun", since I don't want to repaint the cockpit tub or pilot! Sigh...
