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I find that if you can't get the belly plates to close the gap enough, you need to play with the positioning of the arms and legs. There is a sweet spot they should be in so pay particular attention to the pictures on how the arms and legs are placed in fighter mode in the manuals. Note on included pic that I have the arms extended. The hands grabbing the ankles/soles of the feet and the ever important shoulder placement. Also make sure that you have the feet as symmetrical to each other as possible. Note that it will never be "perfect" but usually I don't get much closer than this. All the tabs are holding and while there is a little bit of a gap there has to be for all the tabs to stay in place properly as far as I am concerned. Note that while I can get the plates to join perfectly here the second I move the toy the tabs that hold the plates in at the rear will pop loose. Remember that shoulder placement is just as critical as the leg placement here. PS sorry about the pics being a little over exposed I was trying to do this quickly during my coffee break and I just threw the camera into auto to save time.

Overdrive has the Macross Quarter on for $200 so it isn't to bad. Glad I didn't cancel my order on the Quarter now. http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/produc...roducts_id=1550

Above and Beyond......cheezy I know.

Well.......glad I didn't cancel my preorder on the quarter now.........this blows.

Bayonet beats butter knife!

Cool To bad Joe's weren't a little bigger and you could use them as Zentradi.

It's one of those few you will never regret. It don't transform but it just has that "Cool" factor.

And now for the Sacrilage pics.......

Got a new Canon G11 and here are some pics. If you want to see them full sized check out the The Professional Photography and Photoshop Thread (yes I downsized them for the people with slow connections ......here anyways). Note they are a little dark but I was trying to match the lighting in my office.

I don't know....those are 1/60s beside it.....it's pretty big IMO.

AND NOW FOR THE SACRILAGE SHOTS....... HG 1/100s

Well here they are. These are full Macro sized images (you can compare and judge for yourselves) so sorry to all of you guys who have slower connections. ....Ahem...now...tried to keep the settings the same for every shot: Iso: 200 Exposure: -1 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter speed: (above 1/2, I don't have a tripod or anything yet so I don't go below 1/2 if I can) File size is around 1.5-2.2 MB per jpeg. There is no super fine option on the Canon anymore so this is the best they get in jpeg mode. Have yet to try RAW. - If you have any specific scene or setting you would like to see done for comparison let me know. FYI I don't have a light box yet. Been meaning to build one so maybe I will get off my ass and build one now. FYI the bayonet was touching the lens on this one.....

Yeah I only wish it had an F 2.0 instead of an F2.8 lens. Oh well it's not the end of the world. What I really love is that you can go to full manual mode and adjust all the settings easily. ISO and Exposure have dedicated knobs and the shutter and Aperture are quickly set through the menu. Edit: I will post full sized pics here and resize some of them for the "strike a pose thread".

G11 reviews. what digital camera review http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/equipment...g11-review.html photographyblog review http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/can...hot_g11_review/

I went and bought a Powershot G11 on the weekend and I have to say that I am fairly impressed with it. I bought it mainly for portability (fits perfectly in a pouch on the interior of my backpack) and I am rather enjoying it so far. It's no DSLR I know but when you combine the portability with the decent low light and ease of use I rather love the little thing. Here are some quick shots. I will try to provide some better ones latter on today. Note that I did look at an EP-1 and the Pansonic GR-1 but the price was just to high. I could have got a Canon Rebel for less than the $600 Can I paid for the G11 but I just love the performance combined with the small package of this camera. Note that I did not use a flash on any of these pictures and all the none Macross ones are taken at ISO 400 or 800. The Macross ones are set to ISO200 as I wanted to take some quick picks before posting and I wasn't paying attention.

Yeah it seems if you don't live in the same province as the point of entry you get crazy shipping times. I don't know why it has to stop twice in BC and once in Alberta before it lands in Regina but it does. Oh well anything beats UPS!

Hey Soundwave, Overdrive is usually pretty prompt with their orders (like within a week of the release) IMO. My only problem is shipping is 2-3 days from Japan to Canada and 1-2 weeks from Vancouver to Saskatchewan .......I've never paid duty on an Overdrive order but no matter who I order through it usually takes forever for it to get to where I live once it gets inside the country.

OMG if I choose Big Macs over Valks I will just stop collecting.........needless to say that would be an impressive pile for those buying the M&M VF-22s. add shipping and it will be epic!

From where I live in Canada a big mac costs about $5 so not including the the ridiculous shipping I could buy about 22 Big Macs for the price of a VF-1. If you take HLJ's price of $106US and consider the Canadian dollar is almost at parity with the US now. But back on topic I didn't mind the $80-$90 Canadian I paid for a VF-1 or a Destroid. I thought I was getting good value for my money there. Now while I do have a bit of a problem with the price of a VF-22 being almost double the cost of a VF-1 (I know molds, numbers produced, production costs, etc. play into this), what really makes it hard for me is all the valks that they are releasing in such a short time span. How can I be expected to come up with $400-500 for the Max and Mira VF-22 when I just paid $300 for a VE-1 and a VF-1D and have been consistently been paying $2-300 per month this whole year on Macross toys. Ive hit the bottom of the barrel and if Yamato and to a lesser extent Bandai and others expect us to pay for these they need to spread them out a bit. Not all of us can afford to buy more than 1 or 2 of these toys every couple of months (if we are lucky). We still need to buy things like FOOD........just me 2 cents anyways.

Sweet!.....now if only I hadn't combined my order with the Virgin Road......well at least I have pics...

Any news on the Virgin road being released anywhere?

Ohhhh! The VF-22s and the VF-11C are the same price........insert whine here.

Actually this is a repaint I can get behind considering they do change some stuff besides the paint (ie. Fast packs, gunpod,....) but It's getting harder to come up with the money. If it was $30-$40 cheaper.......... either way with all the releases this year my wallet is getting burnt out......... or maybe I just need to live on Ichiban and Kraft dinner again for a while.

Ah so it was a just got it and must review now moment?!?! I understand now. Back on topic again has anyone heard of the release date for VF-1D "ahem" Virgin "Load"? Yes I had to post this again. FTW!