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  1. pengbuzz
    Maybe they should consider Macross then and abandon RT!
  2. pengbuzz
    Yeah, that's the rub right there! Shipping can turn a 2 dollar part into a 12 dollar one! And when you only paid 5 bucks for the kit, that is often more than one's better half can tolerate. o.o Anyways, setting that aside right now: got an early birthday gift from a friend that I'm currently working on: My progress so far: Wish I had this kit when I built the "Storm Attacker" version; I think i like the carriers on this better, as well as the booms! Anyways, this means I can now fix the Storm Attacker into solid position and leave it that way, while having both versions for photography. Stay tuned...
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    Haven't seen any that aren't ridiculously expensive (the kit was 10 dollars back when i lived in Colorado a couple of years ago). Yeah. amen to that! Revellogram F-14 kits have stupid thin canopies on them; sneeze and they break. Looking on Ebay now, but the wife is freaking out over bills this month, getting me to see a doctor (tummy issues), and just life in general. Now's not the time for me to rock the boat, or I may need a "new canopy"! lol What's nice though is picclick: saves me a lot of trouble looking for stuff on ebay! Just wish they had it for the other sales sites...
  4. pengbuzz
    Let's face it: at this rate, either the Second Coming or the Sun going into its' Red Giant phase (take your pick) will come before HG ever gives up its' rights concerning Macross. Those people are just that greedy and delusional.
  5. pengbuzz
    Well, I thought I was retiring from kitbashing, but well...so much for retirement: Redoing this Tomcat as Maverick's from Top Gun, but the canopy (main and windshield) shattered when I tried to remove them. Apparently, monogram/Revel likes to mold their stuff paper thin. And of course to make matters worse, Revell is now owned by their German division and operate out of Germany, and they stated on their website: "Please note that currently no spare part orders can be delivered to the USA. Since the shipping has been stopped by the service providers. This is in connection with the COVID 19 virus. Enquiries are therefore currently not being processed. Please try again at a later date." So much for that. None on ebay, and a new kit is out of the question (bills this month...the internet jacked their rates again). *No...I don't want to do a crash version. Poor Goose died once already in the movie.* Anyways... more details soon. Stay tuned folks...
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    They have the issue of the sheer size of the parts; one warp nacelle is nearly as big as the 1/537 refit! I would build each component as an individual model were I to do it again. Really, i wish ROund 2 would do a new 2 foot Refit-E that was essentially a shrunk-down version of the 1/350 (don't we all, right?).
  7. pengbuzz
    Well, at least we know they won't name it Mjolnir. :P
  8. pengbuzz
    The 1/537 was something of a poor model, but I get the feeling it was a "rush job" and was tossed together as best they could. I just don't have the endless materials to figure out how to correct the problems with it. Otherwise, it's actually not too far from being finished; just needs the engines re-glued and some work done to prep it for paint and detailing.
  9. pengbuzz
    Thanks for the encouragement on the 1/537; my model is an old AMT "smoothie", so I doubt Round 2 could help. Besides, i would prefer to get a better set, as Ertl's were a bit too small (particularly the top hull registry). The WoK display is actually a dual bridge diorama that I built surrounding a Photoshop-doctored printout of the actual nebula scene from the movie (both backdrop and underneat hthe ships joined in PS). I hand-painted over some of it to add my own touch. The data printout was all done in Photoshop, as if this were a display diorama in the Federation's Museum of History
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    I thought I was getting a ".hack//SIGN" vibe from it; quite a bit from the little I know of it sounded familiar, but couldn't put my finger on it. Might still watch it, but glad I'm not going to invest too much other than maybe looking at the first few episodes and seeing how it hits me.
  11. pengbuzz
    I ran across an anime recently that I was considering watching: Sword Art Online (2012). Anyone ever hear of this one, and is it worth the effort to watch?
  12. pengbuzz
    HG trying to squeeze the last droplets of money out of a franchise is about as predictable as the Cookie Monster looking for a good chocolate-chip cookie. As for Battlecry: I truly hate that game. Had the PS2 version and half the time, Gerwalk/ "Guardian" mode would get me killed. Not that fighter or Battroid mode were anything to scream home about, but any level that needed Gerwalk? You may as well put in Metal Gear Solid and enjoy that instead.
  13. pengbuzz
    No Corinthian leather, but this diorama was done about 3-4 years ago (old relic).
  14. pengbuzz
    When I built this kit, I faced the same kind of issues (the K'tinga simply fell apart on me, so I never got that far!); the decals just would not play nicely, and even with micro-sol, some of them were a royal pain to get to lay down right. I found a hair dryer on low and multiple applications helped to an extent. In the end, I ended up doing battle damage to Reliant and Enterprise, which led me to this idea (the pics are old, as this was done a couple of years ago): The biggest pain here was fashioning the Starfleet pin; that took a piece out of me! lol As for the 1/537, still wrestling with rebuilding the warp pylons yet again. The following were how far i got a couple of years ago before needing to remove the warp engine/ pylon assemblies (it's still sitting to one side partly disassembled, in need of supplies and decals, and motivation to actually finish it!):
  15. pengbuzz
    I tried watching AoT; I found it so disturbing that after a few episodes I gave up. They may as well call it Attack on Sanity.
  16. pengbuzz
    Same; maybe a miracle could happen, and this version become the blockbuster it should have been before Joss torpedoed it.
  17. pengbuzz
    So then basically, even if the airframe can take the kick of the thrust, it does no good if the entire mess goes SPLAT because the pilot couldn't control it? While we're at it: I wonder if starships could somehow use heavy quanta for power/ propulsion (if they don't already do so and I'm just being incredibly dense for not recognizing that in the various ships? And could they ever reach a point where fighters were running off of it instead of fuel (again with same disclaimer about my ignorance on the matter)?
  18. pengbuzz
    *drool mode activated*
  19. pengbuzz
    I would have thought the fold reheat system would have been more robust and thus taken up more room and energy to operate properly. But yeah: the additional stresses on the airframe itself are a major concern, seeing as you previously mentioned Hayate was putting his fighter through stuff that was already incurring maintenance issues with just the onboard engines already. I'm currently laughing to myself imagining Hayate successfully turning his VF-31 into a mecha-pretzel.
  20. pengbuzz
    All they apparently need him to do now is part the Red Sea Sea of Japan, then walk on it.
  21. pengbuzz
    The thing is: they could reinforce for the direct thrust of the engines, but there would also still be the issue of reinforcing for the added stresses of maneuvering with said engines at their operational speed. I would have to assume that at their operational standards, the Sv-162 engines are going to be pushing the craft at higher G's in the turns and other maneuvers. At some point, is "reinforcement" going to mean rebuilding the entire airframe? On top of that, there's the issue of the fold reheat system; would a VF-31 (even with enhancements to the airframe) be able to handle that? What systems and sub-systems would they need to install to operate such a feature? Is there enough available room / power conduits/ engine connections/ computer linkage for control to include such a system? I would assume the Sv-262 was designed with these things in mind, but the VF-31 was not.
  22. pengbuzz
    That's because they couldn't see a thing in their helmets.
  23. pengbuzz
    I got very good at realigning shattered decals thanks to projects like that one! lol At least I don't have to worry about that anymore....
  24. pengbuzz
    Orbot, Vexar and Axoid:
  25. pengbuzz
    They could have gone with Charlize Theron for that.
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