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  1. captain america
    Thank derex3592: his builds, his pic. I take full responsibility for the advertising slogan, though. It's a great time to be a MOSPEADA fan!
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    The holiday season is upon us: tremble in fear!!
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    It begins!
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    Send me a PM and I'll transmit the payment info.
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    Hey guys! I've got the pre-requisite orders and can now accept payment. I'm updating the shipping information in the first thread. When all the payments are in, I'll begin the silicone surgery.
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    Indeed, I think some people grossly underestimate the cost and complexity involved with manufacturing, especially when subcontracting is involved. Just an FYI, know that the toys that you see in big retail stores are loss leaders, so night-and-day difference with highly detailed collector toys. With that said, ET deserves praise for scaling-up their Legioss so far beyond the published stats. In fact, it comes closer than any previous Legioss toy to the anime style sheet size comparison. Based on the size of the pilot in the Gosu cockpit that Ted posted, it's probably still a hair undersized, but close enough.
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    Thank you for all the awesome photos, Ted! I'm glad to see that it has markings and those will definitely enhance the appearance once applied. I wonder how it would look next to the Gosu.
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    Ted, does it come with sticker markings? Please tell me that it does. Looks very promising size-wise
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    Do keep us updated. Can't wait to see good in-hand pics and honest feedback.
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    For those of you in Asia or South-America: I've noticed a lot of interest from the latter sector, but shipping a single kit can be ridiculously expensive, so here's an idea. Have you considered group-buys to offset high shipping costs? Better yet, for those who love the building/painting process, you can get one or two extra kits, build/paint them, and then sell them for a profit as works of art/collectibles. It's not like there's anyone else muscling-in on the Inbit market, it's yours for the taking.
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    There are thrusters in the wrists and heels as you can see in the pic on the left. What I think would have been a nice touch would have been to hinge the ankle armor. This would give the soldier more poseability/wider stance options and also give the fighter multi-axis thrust-vectoring... Like a Valkyrie but better without violating the line-art outright.
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    So I had me a little fun with those high-def screen captures... Poor inbits can't catch a break. No wonder they're so crabby!
  13. captain america
    Ted, I think this would be a great opportunity to mix a fuschia maybe a little deeper than the Char pink, which would be perfect as the main Eager color. Most people paint the Eagers a rusty brown, but your screen grabs clearly show a more vivid color.
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    Yeah, in the anime the inbit is contained within an egg, which they simply place into the cockpit. Maybe after the insertion, they turn-on the heater, the egg thing melts and the inbit just floats in that green goo like some sort of inbit jacuzzi.
  15. captain america
    Hello once again! Following on the success of my previous releases, I'd like to propose a re-issue of my 1/48 resin kit BABY CRAB (Mospeada Inbit Eager doppleganger) as my next project. The kit would consist of: -2 Baby crabs: one with legs & beam guns, one space version equipped with flight booster (no beam guns.). Base price $134 CAD -Price: $163 CAD shipped in the US or Canada for 1 set, $302 CAD for 2 sets. -Overseas: $186 CAD shipped for airmail. If you require a shipping method w/tracking, please contact me for specific rates but be warned: the fees are heart attack-inducing! I'd need 10 committed orders to go ahead, with payment due up-front. Who's with me?
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    Along those lines, the center console also changed (got fatter) between ANH and ESB... And the fuzzy dice were taken down.
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    To shed more light on the topic, there were actually several Millenium Falcons used in the shooting of ESB: -The newly-built 32" model, which was used in most of the space scenes. The smaller model, while having different surface details, hull curvature and the addition of headlights compared to its 5' predecessor, by virtue of its smaller size, allowed for more leeway in filming the more dynamic flight sequences the film called for. -The 5' model previously used in ANH, now having "magically" sprouted extra hull boxes and landing gear with no on-screen explanation. This model was used to film the landing/departing sequences on the Cloud City platform (pics below). This is also the model they added landing gear to (which the 32" didn't have.) It may or may not have been used in the "landing claw" sequence of the Star Destroyer. -The full-size mock-up, with all its inconsistencies and newly-added landing lights. -A much smaller (1/144-ish?) model used in the filming of the asteroid monster sequence -A digital model was used for the updated films for the in-flight approach to Cloud City. So in point-of-fact, Bandai could very simply update their existing kit and legitimately claim that it faithfully represents the Falcon as seen in ESB, even if only used in a couple of sequences. To make a single model "accurate" to anything more than specific sequences is physically impossible by virtue of the dissimilarity of the various models and props used. So whether we want to admit it or not, when most people say "accurate" they really just mean accurate to the Falcon as they imagine it in their own mind. Bandai already cheated by incorporating an ESB version cockpit, detailed engine grilles, a landing ramp and landing gear--none of which the 5ft studio model had.
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    The forward part of the underside frisbee section is a separate component on the kit. No need to patch-up the maintenance openings, they can simply re-tool it with the added boxes and re-sized openings. A neo-trilogy Falcon would require more re-tooling, though (new cannons, maintenance openings, sidewall greeblies, dish, etc.) but still very feasible.
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    At least for now. Bandai's parts breakdown would allow for an ESB Falcon and even an EP VII-IX version should they ever decide to get more mileage out of their tooling.
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    Except that it has been confirmed that 'Last Jedi' is plural.
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    So 58 episodes in, my feelings about the series haven't changed: I think it's absolutely fantastic and quite surprising how much real-world political manoeuvering is shown in a series that was aimed at children. I'm looking at the Dougram combat armor now and thinking to myself how I would dearly love to tweak it and make some updates in the design. Much the same way I "updated and modernized" the Legioss. This also comes from being terribly disappointed in Max Factory's offerings, not just their scale but also the poseability and detail. The base design is good but much like the RX-78, it needs its own MG 3.0.
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    I do think that the EP-13 is way too big compared to the Legioss itself. The fighter is already an aerodynamic brick without needing to hamper it further with that comically oversized gun.
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    It's possible that the chest-caps/intakes are interchangeable parts on the toy, and admittedly that would be a nice touch. Either that, or it's a part that was updated. I just hope that they were able to make the main gear struts long enough: the Legioss has a very low-hanging middle-chest and needs to have an almost jackrabbit stance to have any sort of reasonable ground-clearance in fighter mode.
  24. captain america
    A point that needs to be understood is that not all toy companies/manufacturers/engineers are on equal footing. A company like Bandai is very, very far ahead of the curve in terms of experience, marketing, engineering, construction and quality-control; even Arcadia comes in a very far second to Bandai, and I'm being polite. You can pay the same cost for product from manufacturer A and manufacturer B, but that won't guarantee the same product quality. There are so many variables and hurdles to overcome to get a product like this to market that the average otaku knows nothing about. Frankly, I'm surprised that there are as many decent toys as there are considering all the fingers in the proverbial pie. Hard-headed engineers, sketchy manufacurers, bean-counters looking to save every penny, licensing constraints, approval delays and liquidity issues out the wazoo... And this is just the tip of the iceberg!
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    The Gakken toy was also aimed at a younger target demographic, was considerably cheaper, had far fewer parts, less detail, had very limited poseability, was produced in greater numbers and was also ultimately not a commercial success for its parent company.
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