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That's looking really awesome!

Here's what I've found. Chrono, comparing those pictures won't give you a correct scale unless there are known lengths for all the ships you are comparing. Then you could scale them to each other. ARMD 430m Prometheus 512m Daedalus 488m Oberth ?(215-390m) I say 215m or even smaller. The ships on the cover of the PM are not to scale with each other, just a graphic. The The ships are not to scale with the SDF-1, Destroids are not to scale with each other, and flip it over, all the Zentraedi are not to scale with each other. That's not gonna reallly help you. The Oberth is a destroyer class while the ARMD, Daedalus and Prometheus are super carriers. In modern days and navies past, a Destroyer is significantly smaller than a carrier class. Battleships and cruisers are bigger than destroyers, but smaller than carriers. Destroyers are generally very fast and light packing a large amount of firepower and less armor. The Oberth has 4 main cannon that are mounted forward. If it were the size of the ARMD, those cannon would be bigger (bore) than the SDF-1's main cannons. It would also be slow to turn to pick a taget. That seems counter to it's design of massive engines and canon. Also of note are missiles. It would be ridiculous for the UN SPACY to commision a ship which carried nukes so enourmous that they'd require their own small fleet to create and resupply. (Not at least when the VF can carry 6 large tactical nukes) Also the antenae and mast would seem to be overly large for a ship nearly 400m long. I'm sorry I wasn't able to find a actual length, (other than the 215m). To me that makes more sense being at least as 1/2 as long as the ARMD carriers. At 215m, those cannon are still enormous, but the missiles would be more believable. In the animation the explosions and battles imply a smaller ship than ARMD carriers, but that is the nothing concrete.

I feel like a refugee. I can't believe how much info was just lost. Links to sites, projects underway, and all the people that I consider friends. I do hope he does not let the hacker win and brings the forums back.

the hostile responds of some people here is not very incouraging to people there. Somehow I'm beginning to think that's a good thing in this case. hostility and hate is never good. bad karma. I've heard it can lead to the darkside as well! Graham Bu the dark side is cooler anyways. Light side: jedi mind trick, jumping. Dark side: force choke, lightning, red lightsaber. And in the shocking news of all bad Karma, Robotech.com buys Macross World from Shawn who has grown tired of all the fighting instead of contributing. Macross fans riot and silently fume that they can no longer be the purists. Robotech fans are confused by the altering of Robotech into some Japanese cartoon with funny names. Bandai moves in and slaps everybody down. The sites are locked away, leaving only partial pieces saved by a fan or two and hidden on their own personal sites. Bandai officially shuts down all Macross replacing it all with some new reimagining of Gundam yet again. An announcement is made it will be rereleased in 2032 for the 50th anniversary. However wanting to be totally out of touch with the old decrepit fans, the new generations love it and is reimagined as a type of Power Rangers team.

It's the masters not the kit. There's almost always some differences between the master and the cast like seams and a clear canopy instead of a plug. I assume this canopy was done this way to offer a spare for the cast kit incase one is wrecked during construction.

To vacuum form the canopies.

Great looking model Jesse! You should bring it and enter it on the model show on April 3rd. The masters look to be even sharper still!

??? I don't see any comedy in any of the Patlabor movies, these were designed from the get-go for an adult audience (get your mind outta the gutter) as you can tell from the political subject matter and level of sophistication in its character treatments, unlike the TV series and the "new OVA" it spawned, which relies more on comedy for its target audience (kids & teens). I'd recommend the Read or Die movie. No prior knowledge of the manga or TV series is required, a good standalone 2 hour movie with plenty of action and fun. There's a bunch of comedy in Movie 1. Ohta vs. Tyrant, Kanuka claiming her reason for coming to Japan. In Movie 2 there's fewer, but Ohta at the target range comes immediately to mind. I don't mean they're a comedy, just that there are genuinely funny moments.

It'd be silly not to be able to move the barrels. What if a leg was damaged, the ground soft, or simple fine sighting adjustments, etc. By being able to position the barrles, you gain that much more accuracy. When you see the barrels spread, they aren't aiming at a target and they aren't ready to fire, but reloading or just in the 'safety on' sorta position. However, when all 4 are aiming together, there's little chance their targets will know what happened. The arms have the same poses, a firing stance and a 'at ease' stance. On page 2 of this thread, the line art is both arms and cannon aiming, while the CG pics are of the cannon only aiming. The kit shown on page three is 'at ease'.

Duuudes?!! "Macross: Do You Remeber Love?" And you call yourselves Macross fans? "Patlabor 1 and 2" are pretty funny and strong together, and seperate.

Cause he's a member here and it's really Rodan awakening.

Will the Regult large and small missile variant parts be sold seperately? I'd like to use them on the old plastic kits.

Farscape is cool. Definatley an original.

I've got a first generation set from the original pre-order. All mine are perfect. Maybe some people are just rougher with them. The only difference between my disc centers is some are mirrored, while a few are clear. All of mine are fine though.

SMT got my masters May 2003. I can't even count how many kits were done since then. 20+? I'm not saying mine should have come before his bigger money makers, but it's just too long. If the Monster is still in limbo this May, I'm telling him I'd like the masters back. I'll find somebody else. SMT does great work, but I agree, they seem to try too much in too short a time. All the while taking orders before getting caught up.

I just recieved the Jan 2005 Hobby Japan. (I know it's February) Just wanted to let you know there is a tiny 3 view drawing of a 1/48 Armored VF-1A. The armor doesn't strike me as being correct in proportions, but like it was made to fit the toy solely. Somebody who can read Japanese might be able to get more info from the litle blurb, or there might be new info in the newest HJ.

There is no way too putty and sand away the seam without destroying the plating. Seam lines are part of plated kits. You can try to paint the seams with a metallic paint, but it won't look plated either. The best plated kits that I've seen so far are the Gundam kits. Their only advantage though is the seams are along panel lines.

Just different. I chop up my boxes and make them mini posters. The kit is the most important thing to me though.

Sorry to hear it and tell you this. It sounds like a bad batch of resin. It probably wasn't mixed properly. Your best bet is to talk to the guys you got the kit from, and see if they will send you a rplacement part. Your only other option is to drill out the gooey area, and fill it in again with a putty or epoxy. But it may be even gooier deeper.

I got so hooked on this game. I beat it and I can tell you the re's some nifty mini missions after, plus playing again with all the upgrades is kinda entertaineing.

Fine Scale Modeler forums should be able to help you out.

It looks about the same size as the LS kit which is 1/24 if I remeber correctly.

Does the purple come with the Round Mover backpack?

Sorry Jesse, the link wasn't working for me earlier, and I didn't know it was the same auction. To the rest of you, quit being cheap!

And don't be stingy with the cash!