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Here's one of the pics taken. I put up a thread in the customs section. Still have a few more things to do, but pretty much done.

OK, I said I was gonna post this up when it was done, and it still needs some items tweaked and all, but here is what I have so far. Sorry, pics would've come in sooner, but I just hooked up a new wireless router due to the other one failing. So, I'm back on a regular basis again. Anyways, comments and all more than welcome. Thanks for looking. Credit for help on the painting process goes to Flakpanzer for the tips. The paint colors used were Gry primer, Model Master Lt Ghost Grey, then Lt Ghost gry w/ blk, then Drk Ghost Gry w/ more blk, and then Panzer Gry. I also used Flat white and Gunmetal, and a Tamiya weathering set. The designs were painstakingly done using blue light adhesive 3M painting tape, drawing the designs, then exacto knifing them out, then repeating the process about 3 times over for each part. So, without further ado, here's the pics.

Digital camo is done, and now putting the damn thing together. I haven't put decals on yet, as I'm test fitting everything, but so far so good. I think the imperfections in the paint give it more of a realistic look and all. Hope to have pics up tomorrow, as I will be off work.

This fact seems to be only overlooked by RT fans. Anyone without the fanboy/fangirl goggles on can and should understand that WB is in charge, not HG. I find it sad, yet amusing that HG has these panels, and announces writers and directors of the LAM as if they're the ones who put all that together, as if they're the ones who forked over the crates of money for all these people to get the ball rolling. If I was WB, I'd be thoroughly pissed off that this little pee-on company was indirectly claiming the work I did as their own. Not really something they'd be able to sue over or anything it seems, but something that is part of HG's M.O.

If HG was doing absolutely nothing with the Macross line, then it'd be squatting. However, they have a licensee that is making 1/100 scale vinyls of the franchise, and is still working on the 1/100 transformable toys. I think that would be proof of them not necessarily squatting on it, even though they'll never use any of the designs in any future production. As far as Tommy being at the MW con 10 today, I could've sworn he came, did his presentation and was in and out within 45 mins. I guess he wanted to do his Photoshop panel right after Mari's concert, right when everyone was in line for autographs and needed to stretch out. I think he had about 8 people sitting down listening, and out of those 8, 1 knows next to nothing about photoshop, and probably doesn't care, and half were just wanting to relax from the standing room only during the concert. Since I didn't here anyone ask questions about Robotech, or seem to have a big audience to care, I think Tommy probably decided to leave early. At least it felt like that, since he posted up some Robotech pic that many RT fans would've asked a million questions about, and no one even blinked twice at it at the con. Quick, cut, and dry. Sorry, you can't compete with Mari, and awesome Macross product and custom toys. Oh, and don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Tommy's presentation. From what couple sentences I heard, for those that don't know photoshop, it sounded like it'd be interesting. But as one girl said to her friend in Mari's line, "What's the point? If you really wanna learn photoshop, use the product enough and you'll learn what you need." QFT

Wow, what an experience. Thanks all for putting this together, for the customs, the displays, the donations, the contests, this was a hell of a lot of fun. Mari was wonderful. I enjoy watching her perform. Clean up wasn't as bad as I thought, although being tired and kinda in a fog, I had such a hard time transforming my VF-27 Grace back to fighter.

I like the character designs in that, looks very anime like, but the Valkyrie in that looks like it needs some help. On the other hand, Aria has a lot of people working on it, doing 2D, 3D, and things like original music, and the Mercury's Word is awesome. I think they're very close in styles for both projects.

OK, not sure where you were going with that, but yeah, sure. Ding Ding Ding!!! Right answer! Tell the man what he wins! Speaking on the TOU of RT.com, you have to understand that the staff doesn't run the forums, at all. It's run by mods who wanna feel like they're employed by HG, or simply wanna feel like they're big players in whatever game they've created for themselves. The mods who actually do a decent job over there are mods that are hardly on the site now. When I was modding there, even then in 2006-2007 there were emails I'd get of frustrated fans who were leaving the site in droves over stupid HG staff antics and other mod's lack of judgement and skill. I didn't want to step on "mod toes", so I'd tell those people to talk to Steve, and unfortunately, Steve only checks the site like once a quarter, so, there you go. If any of the staff is sadistic enough to read through every single post that goes up, it's probably Tommy Yune. If he sees something that offends him, or bothers him, more than likely he calls in his troops to ban them, so that it doesn't reflect on him. As a matter of fact, in certain instances, I know for a fact that, that was the case. There's a little on how the board is run.

You know, Tom, there's gonna be another 2 hr. episode dedicated to your two sentences from someone's nutjob podcast. Isn't mindscrewing some people fun?

Unfortunately, when it comes to most Robotech products after the original airing, the "don't knock it till you tried it" statement usually ends up being a "how much money did I waste" statement to follow. I have most of the Robotech comics (got most for free), and I must say, they are pretty attrocious overall. There are some where the art is decent, but it's far and few between, and in some, where the art is good, the story is just lame. When it comes to Robotech nowadays, if there's ever the "don't knock it till you tried it" statement, I'd rather just pass unless I can get it for free. Like when and if Shadow Rising ever rises it's ugly head out, I'll wait till hulu or it comes out on bittorrent. Then I can knock it after I "tried it". That's not an issue based on the ugly politics, but one based on product history of beeing shoddy.

Looks like Rick was gonna try to frontman in some emo band, and Max was gonna try to be the manager. That is some really crappy art.

Next time, can you make the pictures even bigger? They're so small when you click on them to enlarge them. I need them in full poster size.

I find this very true. If there were more places like that, I think my fridge would be empty.

Because it's resin, I'm using enamel paints to paint mine. I started with a white enamel Model Master primer (to give a contrast of the grey color mine came with). I'm putting two light coats on. Since the panel lines are nice and pronounced on this kit, the panels will still show up. Next, I'm using an airbrush for the top coats, but just using a gunmetal enamel to cover the parts that are supposed to be more bare metal. I'd put up pics, but I'm trying to get this thing done in two weeks, and I don't have a lot of time left with all the work I've got going on. Anyways, that's the paint I'm using. Oh, and let the enamel primer cure for 48hrs to get a strong bond to the resin.

If they do that, I'd rather spend the time customizing this kit so that it can attach those packs. The scout??? I really doubt they'd ever make that, but it'd be nice. Don't know about paying over $400 for it though.

I like the alternate book cover for MtF vol.2. Glad I bought 2 copies of it. I'm hoping Kinokuniya get vol 6 in soon.

Hmmm, also just received this via email. http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f60cb1eee37a8df2b5c8e588c&id=bcb0f2c93a&e=646c3ffe21 I sure hope this applies to this item.

Already got a notice from HLJ that the order is being processed?!? If that's the case, this will be coming in quick. I hope it just means that the preorder info is only being processed.

Even some people gotta like poo, I guess, LOL.

Damn, that song is much harder than I expected. That was truly awesome.

He was a bit miffed in The Princes Bride. Now that's a jump, going from RT comics to that. OK, I'm done.

Preorder placed...I'm jumping on this. I think if they do a toy version of this, it's not gonna have the same detail, and IF they don't do one, I'd hate to pay through the nose for one of these (even moreso than they are now).

So, with HLJ coming to bat with this item, are we foregoing a "group buy". I know nothing was set up, but I don't wanna miss out on this. If there's one being planned out, I'd like to find out. Hopefully the price would be cheaper that route than paying shipping for one unit by ems.

Seems like such a strange and odd petition-esque thing. Too bad I have no clue what it's talking about. Even so, why is it in this thread?

I hope you know that "reading comprehension" refers to what you have written, not what isn't suggested or inferred. Since you didn't list everything, I'm kinda curious as to what you do actually like. As for what I don't care for, it's the Toynami MPC 1/55 line of Valkyries/Veritechs. Also don't care too much for anything SD or chibi, although, the chibi character statues and figures are fine.