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Good thread idea. I am actually liking all of them at the moment and would be happy to have any of them as a GF! I know I am hard up! I like Ranka but she is too young and immature but still has a pure uncorrupted side that is attractive. Sheryl is fun and spontaneous but dating a rock star is only going to end in trouble. Klan Klien seems very mellow grounded and strong as a meltrandi and when she is micronized she is a firecracker and I kind of like that totally imbalanced quirkiness. I can not place a vote yet on this topic but so far I am liking the ladies! and yes, someone post some pics please. lots of them.

These are looking good. I will probably skip the tomahawk as I just cant look at it without seeing a happy face (I know it is my own mind that is at fault). However I am liking the defender and will almost certainly pick up one of those. A monster would be insane but I would need an extra room in my house to display it in!

Thank you! That looks great.

I had problems with episode 05 .mkv using VLC in both PC and Mac. mainly video jitter. For now I am just trying to collect the mpeg4 AiA subs. By the way does anyone know a way to get the mpeg4 files to DVD that keeps the wide angle aspect. I have tried to put them in final cut pro and DVD studio pro and they will not accept it. Then I tried to encode them as mpeg2 and wav on my pc in canopus procoder but the video did not work. I also tried mpeg stream clip and that did not work. Finally I tried burn but it did not keep the wide angle so playing it on a TV cut off the edges and major portions of the subtitles too. Any ideas?

Yes, this is a great kit. I have one which I am very slowly working on. However I had contacted Ron5864 to make one in the exact size that I wanted for a specific need. Also I really liked Ron5864's style. Additionally having him paint it all up for me (a noob) is great. I have had the kit above for a while now and have not had much time to work on it. I will have Ron's built diorama before I even apply the first primer coat on my other kit. The kit above really works best with 1/72 or even 1/60 valks. Standing a battroid in it looks a little bit strange since it is taller than the doorway. But yes that kit is really cool and I totally recommend it to anyone who is interested. And thanks for posting it here.

Mine!

I had originally pre ordered all three but I have just decided to cancel the 19 and the 11. I am still going to get the 21 as I really like the sculpt on that one. I am going to go for the revoltech for the 19 and may get a revoltech 21 as well.

I was just thinking earlier today how great it would be if more fans could have one of these beauties. I am not sure if RON5864 would want to but I suppose that if there was enough interest it may be possible for him to do a medium sized batch of these all at once in sections like he is doing for macross man as sort of prefab kits that only require some glueing. Also I do not mind if RON5864 makes one just like mine for someone else. I would be honored. But being hand built no two are the same. Thanks for the congrats everyone. I will take loads of pics when this beauty arrives to me at the end of the week. So hopefully by Saturday or Sunday. Latest would be a week from tomorrow probably.

Yeah, what he said!

Yes! Gallery good!

why do I not see anything?

Thanks TwoDucks!

Amen! I would definitely buy a VF-4, VF-5000, And and Quedluun Rau (or 3) if yamato made those in the GNU line!

AWESOME!!! I love it!

I think you are right. It does look like the yamato 1/60 Rau custom painted for TV colors. Well done by the way RON5864! I am so happy to be the proud owner of RON5864's diorama. Should be in my hands in about 10 days!

Am I the only person who likes the VF-25 with the armor on?

:lol: I am sorry that you do not like it! :lol:

Very creative. Very cool. Looks like the macross plus fold booster!

Mmmmmm, strip search..... As long as the sexy stewardesses are doing it, may not be so bad? But really I will not be driving down so it would be best to see if we can convince RON5864 to come to the con and bring some of his stuff because he is not so far from the venue.

Oh, did I break a rule? I hope not. No ill will intended.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/eu...amp;oref=slogin Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102 By CRAIG S. SMITH Published: April 30, 2008 PARIS — Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102. The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann’s 1979 book “LSD: My Problem Child.” Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid. He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug’s value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity’s oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life. Dr. Hofmann was born in Baden, a spa town in northern Switzerland, on Jan. 11, 1906, the eldest of four children. His father, who had no higher education, was a toolmaker in a local factory, and the family lived in a rented apartment. But Dr. Hofmann spent much of his childhood outdoors. He would wander the hills above the town and play around the ruins of a Hapsburg castle, the Stein. “It was a real paradise up there,” he said in an interview in 2006. “We had no money, but I had a wonderful childhood.” It was during one of his ambles that he had his epiphany. “It happened on a May morning — I have forgotten the year — but I can still point to the exact spot where it occurred, on a forest path on Martinsberg above Baden,” he wrote in “LSD: My Problem Child.” “As I strolled through the freshly greened woods filled with bird song and lit up by the morning sun, all at once everything appeared in an uncommonly clear light. “It shone with the most beautiful radiance, speaking to the heart, as though it wanted to encompass me in its majesty. I was filled with an indescribable sensation of joy, oneness and blissful security.” Though Dr. Hofmann’s father was a Roman Catholic and his mother a Protestant, Dr. Hofmann, from an early age, felt that organized religion missed the point. When he was 7 or 8, he recalled, he spoke to a friend about whether Jesus was divine. “I said that I didn’t believe, but that there must be a God because there is the world and someone made the world,” he said. “I had this very deep connection with nature.” Dr. Hofmann went on to study chemistry at Zurich University because, he said, he wanted to explore the natural world at the level where energy and elements combine to create life. He earned his Ph.D. there in 1929, when he was just 23. He then took a job with Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, attracted by a program there that sought to synthesize pharmacological compounds from medicinally important plants. It was during his work on the ergot fungus, which grows in rye kernels, that he stumbled on LSD, accidentally ingesting a trace of the compound one Friday afternoon in April 1943. Soon he experienced an altered state of consciousness similar to the one he had experienced as a child. On the following Monday, he deliberately swallowed a dose of LSD and rode his bicycle home as the effects of the drug overwhelmed him. That day, April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as “bicycle day.” Dr. Hofmann’s work produced other important drugs, including methergine, used to treat postpartum hemorrhaging, the leading cause of death from childbirth. But it was LSD that shaped both his career and his spiritual quest. “Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom,” Dr. Hofmann told the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof during an interview in 1984. “I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.” Dr. Hofmann became an impassioned advocate for the environment and argued that LSD, besides being a valuable tool for psychiatry, could be used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind’s place in nature and help curb society’s ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world. But he was also disturbed by the cavalier use of LSD as a drug for entertainment, arguing that it should be treated in the way that primitive societies treat psychoactive sacred plants, which are ingested with care and spiritual intent. After his discovery of LSD’s properties, Dr. Hofmann spent years researching sacred plants. With his friend R. Gordon Wasson, he participated in psychedelic rituals with Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico. He succeeded in synthesizing the active compounds in the Psilocybe mexicana mushroom, which he named psilocybin and psilocin. He also isolated the active compound in morning glory seeds, which the Mazatec also used as an intoxicant, and found that its chemical structure was close to that of LSD. During the psychedelic era, Dr. Hofmann struck up friendships with such outsize personalities as Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Aldous Huxley, who, nearing death in 1963, asked his wife for an injection of LSD to help him through the final painful throes of throat cancer. Yet despite his involvement with psychoactive compounds, Dr. Hofmann remained moored in his Swiss chemist identity. He stayed with Sandoz as head of the research department for natural medicines until his retirement in 1971. He wrote more than 100 scientific articles and was the author or co-author of a number of books He and his wife, Anita, who died recently, reared four children in Basel. A son died of alcoholism at 53. Survivors include several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Though Dr. Hofmann called LSD “medicine for the soul,” by 2006 his hallucinogenic days were long behind him, he said in the interview that year. “I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore,” he said, adding. “Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.” But he said LSD had not affected his understanding of death. In death, he said, “I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.”

"are you carrying any fire arms or bombs", "hell yeah, my fokker is loaded up with reactive armor missles and a gun pod that would put your tanks to shame!"

Thanks for reminding me. I would love it if Ron5864 would come to the convention and show off some of his other stuff. He lives not far from the Long Beach and he has some things that would blow you away. RON5864, if you are watching this thread I am sure the others here would love to see your macross city diorama. Would you post it? That may be too big to bring to the con though. But if you come to the con please at least bring your awesome destroids and custom painted 1/48 valks.

Thanks! I have intended to share all along but I did want to wait until he was finished and also to get his approval to share before doing so, which of course he gave. I am very excited! Now I have to install that new shelf so that I will have somewhere to put this beauty!

So now I am in the process of getting this from Southern California to Norther California. When it arrives here I will set it up with my half armored (urban) Milia battroid in the gantry and my Roy fighter with stealth super parts and the ground support crew and then post more pics here. That will probably be the end of next week. Again I thank RON5864!