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    Now there's a showdown: Henry Rollins vs Steve Blum But come on, the real kicker was at the very end.
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    I have 4 unbuilt gunpla and 1 1/24 car, plus my unfinished MG GM Sniper dio. This one needs funding.
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    I notice the wise decision on Ford's part not to include any SN95s. Actually, I drove a new turbo Mustang last week. It was surprisingly good. The car is a lot more confident with that IRS in the back, and there's just enough boost lag to make it fun. Plus I got it to bark the tires in third, on a test drive so that's always a plus. I'm also a big fan of the display in the center of the instrument panel. I can watch all the gauges that there wasn't enough room to put analog sweepers in for. Boost/Vac, IAT (which was surprisingly cold- Ford must have figured out cold air intake), cylinder head temp, EGT, oil pressure, oil temperature, and others. That's my favorite thing about all the technological intrusion into cars. Of course I also noted that backup cameras are standard equipment. Which is good, because there is no rearward visibility in this car. The whole thing feels refreshingly small- from the inside. Outside it's still fairly sizable, and if you spend some time looking around inside, you realize just how big all the steel structures around you are. No wonder they couldn't get the weight closer to 3000lbs. Having driven the S550, I would buy one, if I had the budget, to daily drive. Of course, if I wanted a 300hp 2.xl turbo 4 sport coupe, I'd bolt a snail to my 240SX. Be a lot cheaper. Much lighter weight too.
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    With all the weapons on the K9, it's gonna be awhile before I put beam saber in hand, but I like to change up my gunplas' poses every so often. Except MG Unicorn. That pose I have that one in is just too cool. Anyway I just wish the beam saber design were a bit less flimsy on the Sniper II.
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    I like all the specialized GMs. I plan on picking up another K9 pretty soon, for further customization purposes. Watch out for your beam sabers though. The handles may give you trouble disengaging from the skirt. Why they didn't cast them as single pieces is beyond me, but the small piece around the emitter is prone to cracking.
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    Yeah, I got those too. They're just too expensive to be sustainable though. I picked up some pipettes from a science supplier on Amazon. Like 50 pipettes for $10.
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    Korra herself is pretty weak as a character, pretty much all the way until the end of book 4.
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    MSRP is around $20, low-overhead pricing is $16 or so, shipping from Japan to the US is expensive, and US-market markups are huge. So $30-ish sounds about right.
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    Car Throttle is a bunch of half-wrong clickbait nonsense. If you're using a picture of Vin Diesel to demonstrate what a tuner is, you're doing it wrong. Not to mention, The Fast and the Furious was the source of Rice as we know it.
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    I did that for awhile, but some of my older paints had lost some of their thinner with time, so staying strictly 2:1 sometimes left me with paint that was too thick for consistent use. Now I just eyeball it so it runs down the side of the cup about the same as milk. Haven't had a problem yet. As for storing mixed paints, I've been trying to get my hands on some vials like these. They look to be about the perfect size, and they have sealing caps for bonus storage length. Lab supplies are a good, cheap way to keep your modeling hobby fueled, that's for sure.
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    The trick with acrylic is to thin it so it's roughly the consistency of milk. There are ratios tossed around, but you'll get a feel for what works best. I recommend disposable dosage cups for mixing paint. They're cheap, they're graduated, and they're available. I use either a toothpick or an old airbrush needle for stirring paints. I always recommend stirring outside the cup, so you don't get sediment in your cup, or fail to homogenize the paint that will settle around the needle while the thinner floats on top. Tamiya also has semi-gloss, and if you mix a small amount of flat base into gloss paint, you get semi-gloss. Or if you mix a lot of flat base in, you get matte. I prefer to paint gloss and seal matte.
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    You and Hikuro both in one day. Welcome to the club.
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    For a second, I was jealous of your new airbrush. Then I looked to the right a bit and saw mine.
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    When has Hollywood ever set a film based on Japanese pop culture in Japan, portrayed Japanese themes, or told a Japanese story? They can't even get an American cartoon's adaptations right.
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    Many of the issues attributed to various Millennium Falcon models comes from people picking a favorite screen-use model, or their favorite aspects from each of the several screen-use models. Star Wars and Empire each had their own full size exterior and interior sets, plus a 5-foot model, a 3-foot model, and several more. And each was built differently, with minor differences in shapes and greebles. I'm not super picky about those kinds of things, because it's the overall depiction that matters. As long as the proportions and details are better than the Revell kit and Kenner/Hasbro toy releases, and the major greebles are intact (I'm looking at you, first-generation Mazda RX7 transmission/shield emitter detail) I'd totally buy a Bandai Falcon, regardless of petty things like mandible angle and cooling vent grille count.
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    Excellent work at a good price point as always Bandai. Now when can I expect my Falcon?
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    Not bad for your first time out. I think the biggest thing to remember with weathering is, subtlety. At 1/100 scale, everything you do is 100 times bigger in "real life". I think you did pretty good in not going overboard. Keep practicing, refine that skill. My favorite weathering to do is drybrushing metallic, and my favorite examples are the kind where you have to move around the kit to see the glint off the edges. Of course, I say that, because I suck at everything else
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    It's non-scale, but if I had to try and pin it to a scale, I'd say it's bigger than 1/72 but smaller than 1/48. Maybe in the 1/60 range. I might try and find a scale person and try and match it, but then I might not. The mecha in Eureka Seven are pretty small. The kit itself is between HG and MG size. I need to get up off my ass, though, and clear coat it. I have a bad habit of getting paint done at night, cleaning up, going to bed, and never going back for clear.
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    Look! The East is burning red!
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    And the color scheme, and the weird hip flares, and the fact that it spends its time destroying the city. The whole time I was just wishing it would use Sudden Impact on Spirit Korra.
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    My little turtle duck. So, am I the only one who thinks Unavaatu looks like Big O?
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    Of course, I also don't think of any Japanese person when I think of Major Kusanagi. She doesn't act Japanese, she acts like The Major, and she doesn't look Japanese because her body's a robot, so why should she be portrayed as a Japanese-looking-and-acting person by a Japanese actor? I could see it for some of the charatcers, especially extras, because this is a story set in Japan. But in the case of Motoko Kusanagi, casting a Japanese actor would be token, and would be just as mis-cast as ScarJo. It's kind of the same thing in English-voice localization. Should we only have Japanese voice actors, because only they can speak English with a perfect Japanese accent and sound like Japanese people? Or can we overlook that, because good casting of capable voice actors leads to a performance that is believable and communicative of all the same kinds of feelings, in English? I agree that the Speed Racer movie has been maybe the best anime adaptation by Hollywood thus far, which is really a bit funny if you think about it. But then, Speed Racer worked for a fairly-low-budget kids movie. The premise, the characters, the setting, and ultimately the portrayal all work. Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer (who is really the Japanese national, Go Mifune, in the original Mach GoGoGo!) was actually really good. And John Goodman as Pops (Daisuke) was perfect. The characters of Speed Racer were all technically Japanese, but that didn't matter in the English adaptation, or in the film. The story was intact between the Japanese and American distributions of the anime (even if America wasn't ready for a show with Japanese names) and the overall idea of the story was transferred to the movie very well. Of course, Speed Racer/Mach GoGoGo! isn't a very serious story, and it doesn't make for a movie with the kind of presence, budget, or cultural impact as Ghost in the Shell does. And maybe that's why Speed Racer, unlike DB Evolution and The Last Airbender, can be considered a good adaptation. The other two were fairly serious stories, that got butchered and made too self-serious by Hollywood production teams with no familiarity with the source material. With Speed Racer, it didn't matter what they did with the story in the first place, because it was never serious enough or expected to be a big blockbuster. Ghost in the Shell, though, is a very complex and serious story, that surrounds some very serious and complex questions and ethical dilemmas. It's not an action thriller like Speed Racer, and it's not even a 3-act epic like Avatar: The Last Airbender (which really begs the question of how they were able to screw that one up), but something much harder to pin down into a concise story without being intimately familiar with the original, and without having some really good skills as any member of the team involved in a movie. Rupert Sanders, Scalet Johansson, or anybody else though, I don't think Hollywood has anybody in its midst that could pull this one off. I think they could hire Steve Spielberg and pick any Japanese actress, and it'd still miss the point and it'd still have everyone who likes Ghost in the Shell unhappy. So I don't really care that they got ScarJo on the cast. That'll just make it all the more painful for the studio, when the budget goes up to accommodate her, and when she fails to have enough star power to make it good.
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    I don't know anywhere you can get Mr Hobby in America. Shipping paint via parcel carrier is prohibited in the US, and there's certainly nobody local who can procure Mr Hobby on freight shipments. You might try a floor polish, mixed with Tamiya flat base. That should at least create a base clear coat that you can lay a proper flat coat on without risking your sharpie running with alcohol-thinned or enamel-based clear coats.
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    Gunship grey is also a good color, but I guess I just prefer my frames and such to be a bit darker. Not a huge fan of bluish greys though. Not enough to buy any, anyway. If I need a little bit of bluish grey, I'll mix a lighter grey with some blue, then darken as needed with German Grey. I'm pretty good at mixing colors. Had a lot of practice in high school, getting the exact right shade for painting homecoming banners. (Do you know how hard it is to get Carolina Blue acrylic paint locally? Sheesh) You take a generic foil sticker, apply it in the crevice, run either a transparent yellow paint marker, or a yellow magic marker over it, then use your hobby knife to cut the sticker, using the crevice as a guide. Instant glowy radome effect. I find that the one-point technique sections are pretty straightforward in pictures. The K9, for example, suggests painting silver along edges, then accenting with a metallic brown to imitate rust and wear. I can't read moonspeak, but it's fairly obvious.
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