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Or, for the billionth time, you could look under Hasegawa in the models section of the Macross World main page. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...2_valkyries.htm

Ya mean this one? http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=8348 He got screwed.

I like Clash of the Bionoids. It makes me laugh.

That's more of a Yamato thing to do.

You left out the option wich best reflects my opinion. I got mine so I don't care what they do.

Oh, only to have that kind of coin. I've seen guys on different firearms boards who discuss their collections of M1's and it just scares me. Just off the top of my head... Springfield Winchester International Harvester Harrington & Richardson Breda Beretta ...and I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody. But it's still easier than collecting M1 carbines. Name a manufacturer who didn't produce a Carbine at one point. I was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I got the IH from my pop for my 18th B-day and I got the SF in about 1995 when a local sporting goods store had a bunch of Garands and Lee-Enfield MkIVs for about $90 a pop. The increadible thing was they were unissued still in the original box with a cartrige belt and 10 clips. I wish I could have bought them all but stupid VA law says only 1 gun a month and they didn't last that long. I wouldn't be surprised if the prices on Enfields started going up. It's getting harder and harder to get one that's safe to shoot.

Well, the best solution is to simply get both rifles. Or you could be like me and own multiples of each. The great thing about M1s is the different companies that made them during the war. I have one from International Harvester and one from Springfield and you can really tell the difference. I wouldn't worry too much about Garand thumb. You're going to get it eventually so think of it as busting your cherry, You're not a man until you've lost a thubnail to to the Garand.

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My guess is to match the chest number to the last number in the modex so Roy would be 1 on the chest and 001 everywhere else. Since it never appears in the anime really you could do it any way you want.

Did you guys notice the little folded up cyclone? That's a nice little extra.

Dude, you gotta lay off the pipe!

Aside from directing you over to the licensing debate, the gist of it is this: Big West is the actual creating company (as they have Studio Nue in tow), and the rights they fight for are the rightful creative rights such as designs, concepts, stories, etc. HG was involved in none of this, they got their rights from Tatsunoko whom paid for the production, but none of that included giving them ownership to creative copyrights, just distribution of what they helped pay to make (i.e. selling the TV series pre-existing animation, and apparently DYRL's as well). What they're trying to turn that into is that they own creative rights, and not just distribution rights (i.e. since they paid to help produce the animation from Macross, they somehow own the concepts, designs, & story there in, while all they actually own is just the produced product). So yes, is this matter Big West is the "nobler" side. See, that's just it. None of us knows who owns what but since but since some people don't like what HG has done with what they believe to be thiers they assume too much. It's possible that Big West is the villian trying to renig on rights they gave away 20 years ago. we don't and may never know. I'm not tring to start a fight, just to debate the subject from as many angles as possible. Devil's Advocate is what I do best.

I really don't understand why everyone thinks that Big West is so great and noble. They're a corperation just like HG and in the same position would probably behave exactly the same. They'd both bend you over and pork you for a $. If HG is really entitled to what they say they are than I say more power to em. If I don't like what they produce I'll keep on importing Just like I did with TFormers reissues.

I rather enjoy the consistency in Matsumoto's character designs and storylines. I'll probably like this one as well but like all new anime, I don't want to.

So how many Starship Troopers books are there and if a certain dummie noob were interested in reading them which should he start with?

Did they at least do a good job closing up the all of those nasty gaps that were on the pre-production model?

I dunno. If I may drop a quick F-bomb, that thing is farting ugly. I think it strays too far from the original. I'd rather see something wholly original from the mighty Matsumoto-san. disclaimer: I'm a born and bred pessimist who hates almost all thing new.

Here's a crazy idea. Try the main site. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/art/_art_menu.htm

This isn't the first time they've used DYRL stuff. I used to have one of those learn to draw Robotech books that had a portrait of Misa clearly wearing a DYRL uniform and I'm sure there are other examples as well. Maybe they're claiming squatters rights since BW didn't stop them 20 years ago.

I dub thee Hecubus for thou art eeeeviiilllll! Now repeat after me, OWA TANA SIAM!

It's amazing how great minds think alike. I did pretty much the same thing you did only I hit it with a gum eraser afterwards making mine a lighter grey and still white in some areas. It still needs alot of work but I'm lazy and untalented.

Nothing is going to happen. The Japenese don't place the same value on round numbered anniversarys as we do. Now 25, that'll be a big deal.

Looks like Hikaru got a suntan.

I hear people say Taurus guns are junk all day long and I've seen some that are real crap but I must have lucked out because mine is great. My grandfather bought it new in 85 and it sat in his closed unfired until 96 when he gave it to me along with the rest of his guns. I've put several thousand rounds through it with no problems as long as I use factory mags, which I have a whole shoebox full of. Granted I've replaced the barrel and those crappy sights with fiberoptics. I used to keep a full 15 in my mags but I really don't need that many and I guess I'm just overly cautious due to the increasing age of it all. It's actually kinda funny, when I took it to a gunsmith to get new sights he laughed and told me I was wasting my money. When I went to pick it up after the work was done he said "I can't believe this is a Taurus, you wanna sell it?"

The nice thing about hi-cap mags is that you can under load them to conserve spring life and still carry a reasonable load. On my Taurus I only carry 10 rnds in a 15 round mag. The first bullet is rubber. The pschological effect of rubber bullets is amazing. It also helps to prove in court that you intent was not to kill. Mechamaniac, you need to move a couple of mile south to good ol Virginia where all you have to do is complete a weekend safety course and that CCW permit is all yours. Unless you're an ex-con.