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Also, add an extra 6 inches to any 6-foot soldier to account for the thickness of the helmet and the high-heels of the boots, armor-mode boot extensions not withstanding... And assuming Riobot scaled the figure appropriately to begin with.
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30 orders per kit. If you can help spread the word, that's definitely a huge plus! As a precaution, I recommend using the 3D renders in Jorwar's OP as reference and referring to it as an Auroran/Ajacs doppleganger kit, just to be safe. I don't use any copyrighted images or trademarked names (other than in parentheses) when referring to my kits to avoid any, er... "Imperial entanglements." Also, you can add member RKSC to the list of interested parties for one ofeach/any SC kit.
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...Aaand it looks like the Blueberry Crab project gets the green light! I will start setting things up and taking payments starting tomorrow. -
My prayers are answered!!
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What if it ends-up being a total turd of a toy, or it's delayed? If i waited for the "right" time to release a model I never would, because there's ALWAYS something being released/delayed by some other company. If anything, having expensive releases staggered as opposed to clustered-together makes more financial sense and ultimately, I have my own projects and schedule. If people are interested they call dibs, if not, the project isn't self-supporting and I move on. People vote with their wallets and if they'd rather have yet another sketchy Legioss toy produced in the thousands as opposed to a hand-crafted Inbit model of which only a few dozen will ever be made, then that's where the money flows.
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I'll leave the order window open until October 7th. If I haven't been able to get the requisite MOQ by then, I'll move on to the next project. Also, you are all invited to follow me on instagram at #moscatohobbymodels
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Auroran and Spartas are more expensive to develop by virtue of their variable geometry and the extra time required to engineer them properly. Something like a Bioroid is more like a Zentran mecha in that the shapes are more straightforward. Compound curve/organic shapes are > complex than squared, but still < compared to anything variable.
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There was a 1/48 plastic Bioroid kit made by LS and also re-issued under Academy. It's not great, but it's something. Any scratchbuilding project of this type is easily several thousand dollars in labor. Bigger means more complexity, more detail, bigger molds, more resin and a higher development cost. It would already be a challenge to find enough interested parties to do a more manageable 1/48 scale model that I don't think it would be cost-feasible to do something larger. I have the skills to get it done, but often times peoples' finances struggle to keep-up with their desires.
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The general form of the Matchbox Hovertank is OK, and is perhaps one of the very best toys in the whole Robotech line, but I'm confident that I could hit a home-run for both that and the Auroran. Who knows, if we ever get to green light one, it may open the door to a whole slew of otherwise unattainable highly-detailed SC stuff. It's actually a very decent series that will probably never get a reboot because the original was so badly received.
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That would be a >$300CAD model without even batting an eyelash.
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Centimeters, not inches. The stats put the Crusader at 9m in length (closer to 18cm in 1/48), but I like to size my mecha so as to be able to seat actual human-sized pilots in the cockpits. The stats and reference material for SC mecha are so very elusive that I might as well fill them in properly.
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One kit that could be built in any of the 3 modes (Crusader, Cross-Fighter, Cosmo-Sniper) Based on the few numerical values I could find, it would be somewhere in the range of 21-24 long in Crusader (fighter) mode, once properly scaled to 1/48. I wouldn't consider the current thread as anything more than just a project primer at best, simply because people can be rather fickle over long wait periods.
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Lol, I guess that's one way to look at it! I think we're up to 7 now.
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I think maybe you mean "Spartas" and not "Spartan"?
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My Crabs are already perfectly scaled with my 1/48 Legioss Armo-Soldier kit, but that's neither here nor there. Have Evolution provided any height specs for their Soldier yet?
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Correct, sir. Like the Spartas, the Auroran is technically a triple-changer which has a spacecraft mode and that's what I remember most. Once I get past the 1/48 Gamo, I'd be game to tackle something like this, but it's a complex design and I'll easily need 30 orders to cover my time/labor.
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Bump to keep this project alive.
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That brings me to the crux of the Auroran issue: I've never seen (published or otherwise) any diagrams of just how it transforms. The Spartas on the other hand, is relatively simple.
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The Auroran and Spartas are both great designs. I'm contemplated whether I should dip my toe back into the sculpting arena.
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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
captain america replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I was already floored when I saw the decal guide: those alone will take days to apply correctly! Now seeing the inside of the canopy frame, the lighting system and the PE parts... I'm glad I ordered moar than one! Oh, and Pinky is totally outmatched. -
It's possible that the Resistance has newer, better fighters coming and so they may have just jerry-rigged a temporary performance boosting device to bridge the gap.
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Keep 'em coming!
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People who grew-up with the prequel films have occasionally commented on how some shots in the OT look rickety and fake, and that some of the OT designs look like a bunch of junk cobbled-together. Arguably, ship crashes, explosions and complex moves look infinitely better in the prequels than the OT. Frankly, I'm more concerned with how Disney will develop the story going forward, but in the end it's out of my hands.
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Back in the 80s, you were a lot younger and more impressionnable. Second, Star Wars was such an out-of-the-box phenomenon in the late 70s/early 80s that there was little-to-nothing else in its league, so it stands to reason that it would be memorable if only for that one fact. You also have to account for the nostalgia factor, which is probably more significant than anything else. Lots of old films/series I used to watch as a child were really cool to me then, but if I look at them objectively now, they don't always stack-up too well. For what it's worth, I really like the Jedi Starfighters, the 2-seater X-wings (that remind me of an F-4 Phantom) and the Republic Freighter, but I realize that taste is subjective. Fun fact: the prequels utilized more physical models/miniatures than the OT.
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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
captain america replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
The Perfect Grade Falcon looks to be out. Also a few sprue shots here: https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/iakitoo/GALLERY/show_image.html?id=15546524&no=4&fref=gc