mechaninac
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Damn! Found me out...
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Seriously, there is pointing out absurdity by being absurd, and then there is off the wall, paranoid, hyperbole.
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They didn't nickname BattleStar Pegasus "The Beast" for nothing... That's glorious! -
RP process, material, and layer resolution all affect part finish; but since they're all additive technologies, nothing has as much impact as build orientation. Most service bureaus will set up their builds to maximize efficiency (a wing take quite a bit longer to build vertically than horizontally, thereby monopolizing more machine time), but they're also willing to comply with customers' requests. It wouldn't hurt to instruct Shapeways on how you'd like your part built.
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More likely that that description was supplied by HG themselves. No trolling intended.
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I read you. But I won't take a bite at that apple untill HLJ, or another online retailer, has a sizable sale or shipping discount -- around 40%+ of the item's price hefty to send it my way... No deal.
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Still neither explains nor excuses the clear animosity, bordering on rage, against the fan project and its creators, that is the subject of this thread. Destroids have been a part of every Macross brought to TV and theaters (except Dynamite 7, if I'm not mistaken) since the original; granted, in Macross Plus only an HWR-00-MK II Monster is shown, as an ignominious target... which was still far more dignified than the civilian "clown" review in Macross 7.
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I think you guys will get a kick out of this, 1/100 scale: http://www.geocities...adouenjin-6.htm
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The severity of the stair-stepping is wholy dependent on the part's geometry and the orientation in which it's built; there is nothing that can be done about the geometry, but the person setting up the build platform determines how it's oriented. If a wing is built flat (parallel to the platform) you end up with a lot of obvious steps, that require a lot of sanding, from the way the layers are stacked; if the same wing is oriented vertically (perpendicular to the platform) the result is far superior, with no stair-stepping on the curved surfaces even if they taper.
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Once the aftermarket uder-belly door panel with integral hard points hit shapways you'll be able to load the VF-4G just like that, at least between the nacelles... outboard of the engines, not so much. All these LA customs delay stories have me considering FedEx once I request HLJ to ship mine. Edit: A vertical line that looks like an antenna?
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Very. very nice. A non-color keyed Armor, or Fast, pack, for that matter, makes so much more sense in a military context than the chatacter specific ones.
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HG bought the rights to the three series that comprise ROBOTECH for international distribution; therefore, they have the rights to do with those properties as they see fit (they even had a subsequent legal judgment in their favor to that effect): instead of just straight dubbing them individually, they hacked them up into a single story due to the vagaries of US TV cartoon scheduling at the time, and Revell's sponsorship... it was their prerogative also, as they owned it. That makes ROBOTECH its own product, whether or not one likes it. Besides, the existence of ROBOTECH does not, in any way, tarnish or diminish the originals; last time I looked, Macross was alive and well -- thriving, as a matter of fact; GC Mospeada was far less popular, even in its day -- it can even be argued that its inclusion in RT gave it more longevity than it would have had otherwise; and SDC Southern Cross was never popular. That being said, I wonder if antibiotictab attacks fan projects associated with, or inspired by, Star Wars or Star Trek or any other IP with the same foaming-at-the-mouth fervor and vitriol that he clearly bestows upon anything, as he puts it, Borotech. Or if this is just a particular sore spot that pushes his "raging D!ck" button. I can understand the dislike for ROBOTECH -- many on this site share it, and I sympathize with, even join in, the antagonism towards Harmony Gold for how they've (mis)handled the whole mess since the show aired, specially for making collecting, and getting support for, anything connected to the originals such a difficult and unnecessarily expensive proposition (which does not affect antibiotictab in any way whatsoever as he resides in Japan, making all the b!tch!ng even more curious). However to denigrate a fan effort, because of the name they decided to give it, strikes me as supremely arrogant, small minded, and childish. Let them have their fun within a context with which they're familiar.
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Kibblefragelistic-expiellatrocious. It's just a monolithically grey ZZ with a somewhat unique head... impressivelly detailed and 1/60 huge, to be sure.
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If you reserved a copy with AE at a time when the item was open for preorder, and since they charge up-front, you should be getting a shipping payment request next week if you've made a shipping request, as they may be closed until Monday just like HLJ. If I were you I would log on to your account and check your order to see if it's listed. However, to be sure, you should send them an email to get a status update on your item.
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In both the original SDF: Macross and ROBOTECH: The Macross Saga, the VF-1 is named Valkyrie; what is called a Variable Fighter in Macross is refered to as a Veritech Fighter in ROBOTECH. In Macross the VF-1's given name was adopted as a general term for all subsequent VFs, regardless of their official names. In ROBOTECH, Veritech was the class name of all transformable mecha (not sure if the Cyclones followed this convention): Veritech Valkyrie, Veritech Alpha, Veritech Spartas, etc. In short, calling the VF-1 the Valkyrie is equally valid in both properties. Personally, I prefer VF to stand for Variable Fighter, the way it does in the original. Veritech, although presumably intended to mean Variable Technology (why they didn't spell it Varitech, I'll never understand...), is just a coined word that served the dual purposes of facilitating the bridging of the three unrelated series and differentiating the terminology from the 1st generation source material.
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Me, I liked Batman Begins the most, despite the convoluted Rube Goldberg-esque scheme to bring down Gotham. I place TDK in second place because I didn't find the story quite as compelling, but Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker was a pleasure to watch... it was a tour de force performance. TDKR gets relegated to third place to me because, like TDK, it just didn't grab me like the first did, and due to its lack of any break-out characters; it was a good movie but not great. One thing I did enjoy immensely with Nolan's trilogy was the consistent narrative, and recurring second tier and minor characters, even if just for a cameo... like Dr. Crane.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
mechaninac replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
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That looks more salmon-pink than red. Red -- me likey; pink -- me
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Hurray for a big red gorilla!
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A better solution would be purpose built pylons to allow the Yamato ordnance to be mounted on Bandai's 171 without having to drill anything... Shapeways to the rescue.
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In no particular order or priority: VF-25S renewal reissue... gotta complete the set. VF-5000 VF-2SS VF-2JA VF-27 renewal SDF-1 TV series version ... and enough money to afford it all.
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You have nothing to apologize for? Your English, with very few exceptions where present/past tense of verbs are concerned, is better than many Americans to whom English is their native tongue. And you're right, Robotech is its own beast cobbled together from 3 different things, Macross among them. If the talented folks behind this project want to associate their creation to HG's property, so long as HG is cool with it, who are we to criticize. Let us just enjoy the work they're doing, which is amazing for a fan endeavor, and appreciate what is obviously a labor of love.
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That was one of the first things that came to mind, specially given how Yamato designed them to be removable. It would be the simplest of swaps to replace the hinged assemblies from the toy with RP ones with built in hard points to allow VF-0/VF-1 ordnance to be mounted between the nacelles.
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Right, I'm not going to indulge in fanboy speculation that tries to make the ending somehow more poignant. I'll take the ending as portraid on screen.
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I felt this was the weakest, or rather the least strong, of the three movies... but still a damned good ride; although, the "Wrath of Kahn" style 'out' they put in there made the self-sacrifice angle entirely meaningless. I also thought that the odd switching back and forth from wide screen to full screen in the BD was very distracting.