Scream Man

I didnt think it was out till next week? Or is that just here in Australia?

that double page spread: Is that the Strike in most of those pictures?

sweet, thanx

yes there is, he also had a lightsaber and (I think) a little t-16 model.

id think we'd have heard something if it was really close. i suspect Mid-may as well.

ive just gotten up to the episodes introducoing the 3 thrones. Im not keen on the deigns for them at all; a little to over the top compared to the sleek lined of the main 4 machines. i DO like the MS's that were created to fight against them. i didnt here what they were called, but they're white, have GN drives and are p[iloted by the white haired girl and the scarred colonel guy.

See, Im the reverse of Graham. I really liked the characters, the situation, the aniomation etc. As i said, its what hooked me after all these years of not liking Gundam designs. Macross is to different to Gundam for me to compare. It just FEELS different. Ill always like it more. On the model kit front botht eh Destiny and 178 I grabbed are really nice! Still working on Destiny but 178 is done. Looks awesome! The inner leg mechanisms for making the armour move around properly when the legs shift is incredibly well designed! And all togeher you can get soime AMAZING poses with these guys! The one bain of my existance continues to be those press on....decals i guess they are? Its so hard to get them on and straight and once u cock it up thats it!

Good on em! the show was picking up some pace and with a bit mnore time could get quite good!

gabbed a couple more kits; The 1/100 MG Destiny Gundam, and the Gundam Mk2 - AEUG Prototype RX-178. Ive started on the Mk2, which seems larger than the otehr gundams in 1/100 scale. is the MG 1/100 strictly accurate, or more of a "pretty close" kinda of scale. Also gott o see the 1/60 Exia in person; if it is 1/60 and so is the VF-0 then its a BIG Robot. Yet to watch them on screen i wouldnt have thought it that much larger than a zero. To be fair i havent compared the 2 side by side, but it certainly LOOKED bigger.

Id get an M-0 f-14, but thats would be about it.

Meaning they will release their merchandise int he US? Dont they do that with their kits anyway? granted Im only just over halfway through 00, but so far Im loving it. The 2nd openign is also one of my fav anime openigns ever.

fair enough. Ill have to post a new collection pic when i get the chance as well. Im actually up to date of the oens i want now.

that Major figure is pretty cool. id love a line of 6 or 7 inch GITS: SAC figures. id actually prefer the najor in ehr grey bodysuit, and then the rest of the team int heir normal clothes.

Yes but see, saying "Go watch it!" doesnt help me. Whether or not Im suypposed to have pieces left over after building m yCrossbones, that would help me Nah Ill get there eventually.

Why are we doing a new SS thread? i found the old one very helpful when i got into the series....

I feel like i got thread jacled U guys are now talking beyond my experience level.

Ive started watching Seed now, and while Im enjoying it, Im not finding it as good as 00. The designs on the GUndams arent hooking me as much, the charatcers, while good, arent as compelling and overall its just a weaker one.

So I finished assembling Crossbones, and i have a question: are there usually parts left over? I seem to have quite a few....

wow. i have no idea what yu're talking about. Ace - Ill tryand get some pics up soon. Im over my monthly data limit so my net is slow right now. Ill have to wait till it comes back up. crossbones is coming along slowly, but well. this sucker is pretty coo9l, it has HEAPS of weapons all over it! its also challengingly slow to assemble, but thats ok, Im having fun with it.

Holy crap Neovas alive

Well I put together my freedom with no paitn or glue. I DID use a pencil for panel lines but that's it...

Thanks for all the help on this man! Am finished on my Freedom, now to start on the Crossbones...

Aioria is worth every cent and more.

Sure, but i also have limited time and resources. If i can find em ill give em a try, quite happily. mecha pistols makes more sense to me than the scythe. i mean u have to accept a certain level of disbelief anyway, because if u have the technology to make giant super agile robots, why would you do many of the things and use much of the gear that they do in the series? But some stuff just doesnt get me. maybe it was that I hated the series, that the designs bounced on me, i dunno.

Im not so much into super-realistic or anything. i like my anime to take itself seriously, but also ghave some fun. I love full metal panic for example. Honestly for me the avoidance was never the plots. as a kid in Australia, Gundm was a name i knew peripherally. I knew it was a big Japanese show but not much more. i was only a kid when the anime revolution of the late 80s/early 90s hit, and so wa slimited to only getting what was released here on Video (Yes.....VIDEO!). And even then, Australia is in PAL format, not NTSC, and so I couldnt import anything to watch from overseas. Not every anime translated in America came here, and not every anime was translated to English anyway. I have dim memories of knowing that Gundam was a bunch of crazy model kits with robots. i rmeember that the early ones were always a bit blocky for me, and therefore never appealed. So i stopped looking to closely. By the time i saw my first Gundam series i was already into anime. And even then; I am primarily a toy collector, so any other hobby comes peripherally. i have quite a bit of anime, but i know true anime FANS who have a lot more. Anyway, Gundam Wing aired on Cartoon network, and i figured now was the time to see what all the gundam fuss was about. And i hated it. the designs of the gundams i found vaguly dizzying and over the top. there were weapons and gear i just didnt like. Deathscythe? Why arm your robot with an impractical weapon like a Scythe? i just didnt get that. And even if I could have gotten past the designs ("Why does th Gundam have feathered wings?" I d ask...) the story itself was.... well it was a little boring frankly. i didnt give a crap about any of them. i gave it a good 3 weeks or so to grab me, and nothing. So i stopped watching, and that was it, no gundam for me! 00 hooked me because it was exciting and interesting. i liked the idea of the paramilitary force, coz im a sucker for secret organisations and the like, no matter how little sense they make (Come on, the goverments of Earth just HAD to know where Tracy Island was....), and i love the kind of graceful martical arts fighting of the Exia. The characters were interesting, the setting was fun, the animation was awesome....and for the first time the designs seemd clean and simple to me. i LOVE Exia as a robot design. i also like kyrios and dynames, though not as into Virtue. Anyway, as to model kits i have decided i like enough to get, or try too: http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=8953&table=207 - That one is awesome http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=7643&table=207 - That one im still deciding. Im not sure bout the colour http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=6530&table=207 - That one, though i dont think i have the painting ability to do the small Gundams. http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=4370&table=207 - Ditto, and it has ships Id need to paint too.... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=5558&table=207 - Kinda like that one... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=...9&table=05a - That one intrigues me, but Id like to see clearer pictures. http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=...8&table=05a - Again, interesting, but need cleaer pics. http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=8880&table=05a - Really like that one. http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=8548&table=05a - And that one. i have no idea what this or the 2 before are from.... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=6696&table=05a - Thats ok... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=6403&table=05a - Thats pretty cool. im not sure why it says it has crew in its feet, but ok.... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=1028&table=05a - Im really torn on this one. i think i need better pics.... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=235&table=05a - Thats ok.... http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=233&table=05a - I didnt realise that Gundam competed in the street Fighter contest, but ok. This one is funny anyway http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=197&table=05a - this guy reminds me of a swat trooper i dont want to get it, i just liked the colours... Im still hunting round looking at stuff, but toywave is one site that i have found easy to navigate and has pics. So there u go. Long winded aint I?