mechaninac
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It could be that because they have the ability to manipulate elements, Benders in general, tend to rely on it too much, or just focus most of their training towards honing their bending; they also tend to be entirely over-confident. Non-benders must train in physical combat martial arts, and train harder, if they hope to even the odds in a fight with a bender, and they likely have developed specific techniques to counter benders, shock sticks and gloves notwithstanding... in the case of the Equalists they even have shock troops composed of chi blockers.
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And that answer completely failed to address the inquiry in question. Established canon elitists will always dislike, loathe, or hate Macross II and anything associated with it to varying degrees ranging from mild condescending disdain to foaming-at-the-mouth apoplexy. And fans will often point out that once-upon-a-time MII was the sequel to DYRL?, warts and all, until being relegated to Alt. Universe, second banana status. None of that alters the design/aesthetic merits of the show's mecha, and the Valkyrie II and Icarus are very nice, and sexy, indeed... to those who appreciate them. So, all that baggage aside, the question is a valid one... what about the VF-2SS? I'd personally love to see it given the 1/60 treatment by either Yamato or Bandai, I don't care which. Edit: And Yamato's rendition of the sexy VF-4 thusfar looks outstanding.
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Very entertaining "meanwhile at the..." episode this week, and a satisfying resolution to Kit and Kat's absconded goods.
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Another great episode; this show hasn't dissapointed at all so far.
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Regarding the Alter toys; 1/100 just like the Bandai models, and for that much moolah? Easy pass. Make these in 1/72 or larger, for a reasonable price, and they'll get my attention and money.
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So, is that like a Kakizaki scheme with dark or olive green in place of the beije? Whoever took that image must be the same guy who takes all the UFO photos...
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I was able to run the stand a bit sooner than I thought. So here it is in its physical form. The screen capture: The stand components (The individual tiles are meant to make painting easier... paint them red, let dry, and drop them in ): Assembled: Beauty shot with the Lancer II on it... couldn't resist trying it out (the mechanics of the stand work flawlessly ): And a 3D pdf for those who'd like to spin it around: un_spacy-stand.pdf Now, to get back to sanding...
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Wow! That was really good, better than I expected and I found it much more enjoyable than either Tron movie (I felt the second one was incredibly "flat", and the first one rather dull and it has not aged well). It is great to see them keeping the design style of Legacy, however... what that movie lacked in substance/acting, it more than made up in visual appeal. The character designs are a little jarring at first but you quickly get used to it and they kind of fit the look of the show, and you can't fault the fluidity of the animation or voice talent. I sure hope to see more of it online... I don't have Disney XD.
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Oh, be nice. It's not easy translating from one language into another without the result sometimes being a little disjointed. You try going from English to Portuguese with only Google or Bing or Babblefish translation and we'll see how that looks.
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I never even considered that possibility; the design intent was just to have something on which to mount the SF-3A for display as it does not have landing gears or skids... the design just can't accomodate them realistically. That being said, if the stand is able to support the total weight of the SLA model or resin, if that ever materializes, then I see no reason why it wouldn'd be up to the task of handeling a Yamato 1/60 VF-1; it would just need an adaptor to have the current head fit a standard Yammy stand adaptor, or a different head desing purposed for a Yammy mount. However, I've no idea how stable it would be for anything larger than a VF-11... it was inspired, in part, by a Gundam Action Base 2.
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1/60 VF-1 Accessory Parts from Yamato displayed at Wonder Fest
mechaninac replied to Graham's topic in Toys
Got my VF-1D from AmiAmi today...
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Let the wait for clandestine and official photos begin, followed by copious amounts of drool...
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Thanks Reïvaj, this has been a lot of fun to model and prototype. Had some free time today so I cranked out a UN SPACY Kite Stand for the Lancer II. It's modeled to have a 3.5" diameter base disk once built for 1/60 (hopefully this weekend); it's also designed to tilt and rotate with screws holding the pivoting parts in place... won't know if it'll work as intended utill I've had a chance to test a physical model. Edit: replaced image with a better one.
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Hahahaha!
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Oh, come now, I posted that tongue-in-cheek. I thought the "sort of" and " " made that clear... And all these designs are rip offs of those Egyptian burrial pointy thingies... If I had to name a Thundercat to connect to Bassara it would be Snarf from the original series.
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So, after discovering, to my chagrin, that I had made an input error from the get go which resulted in a model that was way too big for 1/60 and slightly undersized for 1/48, I made all the corrections necessary, and while at it made minor modifications to the fuselage and wing shapes, then ran another copy at the correct size. The smaller size does end up causing some inevitably delicate parts (nose cap and wing pylon), but the model looks so much better in relation to a 1/60 VF-1. In the following images, the Lancer II on the left is the old version, which has been fully sanded: A shot of the 1/60 model from the rear quarter (some parts are not mounted on the mock-up) And with my VF-1J v2 Now, back to sanding and an eventual coat of white primer... For anyone interested, there is a possibility that at least the 1/60 version will be made available as a resin kit; however, nothing has been decided.
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Music soothes the savage beasts, but if we're talking about most of Fire Bomber's songs I'd bet on the beats going into a mindless murdering rampage, tearing each other apart while Mumm-Ra sits on a mezzanine somewhere, eating popcorn and watching the show... And without Dr. Chiba and others providing the technology of the Speaker Pod Gamma and other Spiritia projecting and enhancing goodies, Bassara would be nothing more than an annoying loud mouth peacenik haranguing people with "Listen to my Song!" And hmm... Ancient Spirits of Evil: Primordial demigods from the lower planes who posess the power, directly or through their spawn Mumm-Ra's Techno-magic, to completely destroy an entire spiral galaxy within seconds or... Protodeviln: Left over bio weapons engineered by a, form all evidence, long dead race who look, for the most part, like a troupe of rejects from Cirque du Soleil... I'll let others be the judge.
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boçal, Ha! For anyone wondering, it means rube, ignoramus, stupid, baka... kind of fits Nekki Bassara to a tee
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mslz22, you half mad, half crazy lunatic, that is just too impressive for words!
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I knew I'd seen Mumm-Ra's ship somewhere before... sort of... BOMBA!
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Two solid episodes in a row; and on the latest one we get to see the sarcophagus tank again, as well as Leo and Pantera.
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If you mean "will I be casting the parts to sell resin kits?" The answer is no, unfortunately. I don't have the know-how, equipment, or inclination to go down that road. I would be open to making it available to a recaster willing to take this to the next level, however, provided I got full credit for the creation of the base model and the first sample out of the molds for my very own... I'm not even interested in a percentage of profits either as this was done for sheer fun. The other possibility I considered is making extra copies in SLA (see PS. bellow), and make those available. This rout would be very limited in numbers and entirely subject to the machine's availability. The neat thing is the possibility of running copies in any scale desired (1/100, 1/72, 1/60, 1/48) by just manipulating the scale percentage at the prep stage. Sorry, I never mentioned price(s) in the original thread... see above. It would have been expensive. That many parts would have added up to anywhere between $750 and $1000 at a service bureau. That model has at least $80 in resin, plus 1.5 hours of pre-build prep, plus about 7+ hours build time, plus 2 hours of clean-up and post cure; if I were to add all the labor and machine associated costs this thing would come in at well over $400. The resin is a water clear formula... gotta go with what the machine has in the tank. --//-- Thank you all for the ecouragement. PS.: When I imported the image upon which I based my model I entered an incorrect number without even noticing, and ended up modeling my 1:1 file too large -- 830in long instead of 720in (this assumes that the SF-3A is 60', 18.3m, long in "real life" -- if anyone has official dimension stats that differ from this, please share so that I can create the most accurate size possible); this means that the SLA model shown is too large for 1/60 (12")... damn! Now I have to start another build scaled from a corrected master (already updated). Because of this, I now have a full set of parts to what amounts to a non-scale model of 14.17" (just shy of true 1/48's 15" length). If anyone would be interested in this oddball that's had a lot of sanding work already done, just PM me and we can discuss further.
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Hope this answers the question...
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Thank you for the high praise. I'm restarting this topic here since this has now graduated from CG to reality.
