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way to skew the results march j/k

"that's it man, game over man! Game over!" I do love the 21, the only problem with the no arms and legs thing is that without the arms/legs it's got no offensive weapons other than missiles. for innovative valks I like the VA-3 family just because it was the only valk that was designed from the begining to be a variable attack valk.

probably members only as in "you must be +18 to enter this site"

weird, I hate painting small parts. I've noticed something though about that decal, on the michel and luca versions they use the same red decal, is the little triangle supposed to always be red, or is it supposed to be color matched? anyways I'm debating what I want to do with the landing gear. the kit pieces look like absolute crap and considering how simple the real gears are I'm thinking about scratch building new ones out of brass tube and styrene. but considering that I don't plan on displaying any of mine with gears down at this point, I don't know if it's worth it. I really wanna get a third alto now and see if I can make it PT.

I just want to make sure, you're using a decal set like Micro Set, right? maybe you should consider using an actual Decal softener, a little bit of that will make a decal conform to almost any shape.

it's mostly the "Japanese have no space" that does it, which sucks for me because I live in America and have room for larger stuff, but said larger stuff does not exist. I figure a 1/48 VF-25 model without armor would cost as much as a PG kit, so maybe around $150? with super parts, more like $200, and I don't even know about armor parts. (personally I'd be fine with the cheaper valk only kit since I think the super/armor parts look like ass) the thing that bothers me more than not making stuff in a larger size like 1/48 is that they make things in 1/60. valks and PG gundams are the only things I can think of that come in 1/60 scale, so they don't match with anything I own (I mostly build 1/48 and 1/72 aircraft models, though I prefer the 1/48)

you do know that both the 360 and PS3 are sold under cost right?

no, he's talking about somehow mounting the boosters from the VF-1 FAST packs onto a VF-25. (how you could possibly do that, I have no idea)

I'm getting a strange kind of wedding vibe, I wonder who for?

My VL worked great, and they are more robust and precise than Aztek's. I got fed up with the VL mostly because it was a bitch to clean. paint would get in to every little nook and cranny on the thing, and I'd have to regularly tear it down completely. at that point I would inevitably lose something, (usualy part of the stupid screw thing that holds the flow control part of the trigger open) and need to spend the next hour or so looking for the missing part. any level of cleaning takes about half as long and is much easier on My Eclipse. Now I just use the VL for doing large areas since I've got some large Jars for it, and I've got a High flow nozzle for it.

or they can just go talk/ask about them in the correct thread here: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=27059 and now this thread's gonna get locked.

the EX-Gear probably has some way of detecting if the pilot is incapacitated, or otherwise not piloting the thing, and will automatically descend slowly using it's thrusters. and as for the person in back, they're probably sitting on a conventional ejection seat, so in the event of a bailout in hostile territory, they have to take care of themselves the old fashioned way.

wow, it's like a time warp in here . if you guy's wait much longer they'll be on to 8th-Gen systems. (GET AN 360, IS SUPERIOR )

perhaps they have a slightly different engine variant for each model.

blame Microsoft word spell check.

yep, pics showed up here a couple of day's ago. it's just a 3D print only painted now, and the tag by it says "sale unconfirmed" but there's hope, and it looks awesome.

well it helps that bandai has ABS plastic pilots instead of soft rubbery gummy pilots.

I however was referring to the naked valk without FAST packs (which is how the VF-1 is seen for probably 3/4 of the series), in which case the backpack thrusters are tucked between the legs facing forwards, not were you can use them. also, weren't the FAST packs designed AFTER the VF-1 was already built? either way my point still stands that the VF-1 has an engine on it that is only being used some of the time. and i don't think the backpack can be intentionally exposed during fighter mode. it would eliminate two of the aircraft's control surfaces (the tailplane's, or are they rudervators on the VF-1?) create aerodynamic instability in the plane, increase drag, and probably wouldn't create that much more thrust anyways. to me the backpack's main purpose is for stability in Batroid mode, providing thrust above the center of gravity, which is more stable than thrust cumming from bellow. it also serves as a limited source of supplemental propulsion in GERWALK mode sort of like the engines on some helicopters, they provide some forward propulsion, but the main source is the same as the one that provides primary lift.

wow, my first airbrush was a Paasche VL, I still have it but I can't stand the thing. it was a pain in the ass to clean and I managed to ruin several sets of nozzles trying to assemble it afterwords. (the brass on the nozzle was so soft the needles would splay the nozzle open when you try to adjust them)

inkjets can be problematic. ink doesn't really obsorb into decal paper, rather it sits on the surface of it so it smudges really easily. you need to let it dry for several days. seal it (krylon Crystal Clear acrylic is supposed to be good), then let it sit for at lest a day or two. it also works best to print at the highest resolution possible, with the printer set to printing on Gloss photo paper. basicaly it's a pain in the ass to print with a normal inkjet, but it can be done, and the paper in the testors kit is I think only for injet. I know micro mark makes decal film for laser printers, and that through a color laser printer works fairly well (no smudging and you don't need to seal, though decal paper tends to not feed well)

yeah, you'll also notice that the lenses on the head are just painted on, it looks like for the Michel and Luca versions they took a couple alto kits painted them the appropriate colors and stuck on Resin parts unique to that model.

it's a 1/12-scale replica of a gundam beam saber. it makes lights and sounds, sort of like those life size light saber replicas. http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN954964

actually I voted for Sheryl.

Sheryl looks like a moderate to large C. Grace looks like a large D, maybe even a DD. and klan... DDD-DDDD if see still had them when she micronizes. I wonder what that would be when she's macronized, decuple Z?

no, it's just really a bullet. 7.62x25mm Tokarev to be exact. I can tell from having shot bullets, and having seen quite a few bullets in my time.