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Just put in a ticket through the website to request a change in invoice currency from USD to JPY. They're very accommodating in this regard.
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amateur, amateurs (plural): noun, a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity. adjective, characteristic of or engaged in by an amateur; nonprofessional.
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Here you go...
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Yes. Pantone, or equivalent, for standard colors, but also custom mixes should not present a problem as, much like paint matching, there are applications and equipment to pin down correct mixing ratios to arrive at a desired end result... which begs the question: Is Arcadia dealing with complete incompetents or armatures on the raw material sourcing side of production?
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Two places I will never order from so long as I live: Nin-nin Games (They completely ignored a cancellation request for an item I once ordered from them, no acknowledgement that I even asked or even a standard refusal email; and when I did get it, their packaging job was so damned lousy that the item's box was crushed... immediate loss of MISB condition, and overpriced to boot), and Play-Asia (most of us know why at this point...).
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Science and Technology MEGA THREAD
mechaninac replied to Max Jenius's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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Sorry to read that. Did you use a cutoff disk (~1/32" thick x 3/4" diameter) or a grind wheel (much thicker and of varying diameters)? If the former, did you hold the tool so that the disk would plunge perpendicular to the screw remnant's shaft in order cut a slot into it to receive a flat head small screw driver? If the latter... wrong tool. I do hope that the bit of die-cast that got ground into is a hidden surface that won't become an issue once the whole assembly, after the offending screw is removed, gets put back together. A last ditch solution, if all else fails, is to drill into the broken screw... basically saying "the hell with it" and recreating the hole in the boss through the broken screw. The problem with this course of action is that the screw is likely harder/stronger than the die-cast, which makes drilling it difficult without the use of a very stable vise to hold the piece steady and a drill press to plunge down the center of the boss without going astray and causing irreversible damage. You'd need to steady the piece, keeping it from moving, with the screw boss concentric with the drilling vector; grind flat the surface to be drilled; use a center-punch to mark the spot of initial drill contact; carefully drill into the screw with a pilot drill (1/3 smaller diameter than final bore) in small (1/16" at a time then backing off an blowing away the chips) increments; repeat with a bit 2/3 the final bore diameter with the same in--out--blow--repeat technique; finish with the final drill diameter (based on the appropriate diameter for the screw to be used. Ex: 1.8mm drill for a 2.0mm screw). Good luck.
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Moo-Suu-Pii-Dah In-Bii-Toh: the final
mechaninac replied to captain america's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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Miro79, when you remove the broken part, don't throw it away; as long as it has not completely disintegrated and the crumbled pieces have not been lost, it can be repaired with plastic weld (plastic cement) containing Dichloromethane (Methylene Chloride).
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Agent Carter starts tonight at 8:00PM EST; looking forward to this... almost time
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Moo-Suu-Pii-Dah In-Bii-Toh: the final
mechaninac replied to captain america's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
A protector in either 1/18 (CMS Ride Armors scale) or 1/10 (Beagle/Toynami scale) would be awesome. I'd actually prefer 1/18 since CMS' lineup of Ride Armors is complete, and the price would be more affordable too. -
One from CDJ and done. Not happy with the pay upfront crap, but what's done is done, and I guess $216.17 shipped ain't bad.
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4:00PM Japan time = 2:00AM EST... this sucks.
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A few of the early episodes from Book 2 were farmed out to a different animation studio, if I'm not mistaken, and it shows, but it reverts to the better quality animation and the story picks up 1/3-1/2 of the way through. Then, there is the flash back to the first ever Avatar, which is drawn in a different (simpler, and more pastel) style which is a bit jarring at first.
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Sonic(o) overload...
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The RVF-171 comes with the slick wings by default, but the hard-point wings are included in Luca's Nightmare plus box to swap on the spot. If (probably when) Bandai releases the Tamashii web exclusive super pack set they will, I assume, skip the wings, and perhaps include additional ordnance -- maybe a set of anti-Vajra missiles -- to justify the same price point of the previous 171 SP sets.
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Star Trek Beyond (the not The Search for Spock)
mechaninac replied to areaseven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
^ The only caveat to that is that movie makers tend to focus far more on the bad and the ugly, than the good... too often glorifying the bad and the ugly, sometimes to the point of portraying the worst of human degeneracy as the norm of the "human condition"; while, at the same time, denigrating the good as old fashioned, judgmental, and unenlightened. The definition of "Human Condition" may be neutral, but it's use in practice often is not; more of a lowest-common-denominator "fun house mirror" tool to steer audiences' perceptions and opinions. Let's face it, though... it's nothing new, and bad and ugly are far more entertaining than good and honorable. -
2014 was a very heavy burden to my wallet, busting through my frivolous expenses budget with a vengeance. Here's hoping that 2015 will be far kinder to my finances... THAT would help make the new year a good one.
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^ You're right; at .04C to Proxima Centauri (100 yrs for a 4LY trip), Ascension would have continued to be able to communicate with Earth, albeit with an ever increasing time lag... provided that home base continued to transmit and receive. From the point of view of those in the "ship", and considering the cold war paranoia, turmoil, and conflicts at the time when the mission was conceived, executed, and "launched", Earth has suffered the fate their progenitors feared and there is no one left to send or receive signals past the point when they stopped getting messages. They may have tried to reestablish contact, and given up after a few years without any replies. The miniseries itself, however, was rather dull and disappointing. While the reveal was interesting, and surprising, it happened too early in the story, IMO, and the whole thing really went nowhere plot-wise in all its 6+ hours. Combine all the little flaws, the inside man (nobody could keep that kind of secret and stay sane when having to face all the clueless crew, day in and day out for a whole lifetime within such a confined environment), the directionless plot, and the Newtype angle, and the end result was far less than the sum of its parts, and ultimately: unsatisfying.
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Once you add stripes and other colored -- or even different grey(s) -- details, panel line it, and put on the decals and/or stickers, that primed look will be displaced by a low-vis, "realistic" military-like appearance.
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It looks too uniform to be a dye job... looks like primer grey to me. If so, I wonder how well it holds up to transformation.
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Moo-Suu-Pii-Dah In-Bii-Toh: the final
mechaninac replied to captain america's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Oooo... baby crab cakes for the new year... -
What I'd like to see is some standalone animated movies of either series, much like what we get with a lot of anime. A movie about Zuko's quest to find his mother, for example (a plot point introduced in the last episode of TLA, and never pursued); or Korra's and Asami's adventures in the Spirit World, or a future crisis not connected to the series's events. Edit: Just to emphasize the point... keep this property away from Hollywood hacks. Shyamalan's farce was an insult, completely devoid of any of the quality, charm, and heart that made the series so great.
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^ This! 1000X this!
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Well... you asked...