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Add a little armor for the operator and this thing could be an urban combat nightmare. 😁

Scrapyard scene, cutting up old equipment for scrap. Or...a disaster scene, clearing construction debris. I'd guess there are a lot of things you could do with it, but for now, I'll be satisfied just building, detailing, and weathering it.

Well dang, it seems that this machine is used to cut apart even heavy equipment as can be seen in this promotional photo. Being a high-powered robot fighting weapon may not be too far-fetched after all. Double-Front Work Machine - Hitachi Construction Machinery (hitachicm.com)

I've never seen one of these in real world usage, but it looks like a forestry tool, maybe for harvesting timber, although machines I have seen utilize a circular blade for cutting the trees vice the type of cutter this machine employs. It does look like a mean alien extermination tool. 😄 Spruebrothers have "lightning sale items" and this is where I scored this kit for a favorable price. I've seen a few more heavy equipment kits in this series from Hasegawa and I was interested to see how well it was done. Looks pretty darned good inside the box. Detail is excellent. Having been in and around heavy construction most of my life, I recall when heavy equipment from the East were the brunt of many jokes, but that is no longer the case.

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On this guy's YouTube channel, he creates movie props/sci-fi models using dollar-store items. He builds some interesting models for small money.

The nice thing about the Flory wash, if you don’t like the way it looks after you’ve applied it, you can wash it away with water and start all over again. Very forgiving whereas most washes are somewhat permanent. Trying to remove them will damage the paint underneath. Flory doesn’t do that.

A gloss varnish, decals, seal the decals with another gloss varnish, then a liberal covering of Flory Models dark dirt wash. Almost done now.

Man, that is fun to see. So many details to capture the imagination. Great model/diorama Greg.

Will add a gloss varnish, then do some decals and weathering before calling this finished.

What's the history of that castle, OC. The name of it?

Have you ever read the story about the Coral Castle and its mysterious builder? It's one of those things that makes you scratch your head, that's for sure. Coral Castle Museum

Wow, what a great looking model Alan. You know, the more I think about it, you may be revealing something about the mystery of how the great pyramids and other ancient world wonders were constructed...by a yet unidentified gigantic scale modeler from the ancient past. You are handling those huge stones with ease. 🙂

Great looking Fokker, Denis

I've been having a few small issues with my PC lately. I built this PC rig somewhere around 8 or 10 years ago and used quality components throughout and it has served me well. Processor, motherboard, and RAM have held up well. Along the way I relaced the power supply and upgraded my video card, the video card only a year and a half ago. I decided to buy a new upgraded motherboard, processor, RAM, additional 2TB SSD, power supply and new RAM as the old was the previous generation DDR3 variety while things have moved to DDR4 today. On Monday all my new parts had arrived, so I tore down the old and began assembling the new. After a few hours when it was all together, I tried to fire it up and nothing happened. I tried everything I knew to try and could not sort it out. Yesterday I decided it was time to take it all to a professional, and boy am I glad I did. Turns out that an old peripheral device, a card-reader, an interface that allows you to plug in and read SD cards, USB memory sticks and the like, had shorted out and burned out the new power supply. Next time I'll save myself some aggravation and take it to a pro right off the bat. He really did a great job with the wire routing/cable management, and trouble shooting. I probably would not have diagnosed it myself in a month of Sundays. Man, this thing is fast and smooth as silk now. I'm getting upload and download speeds of better than 500MBPS. Before the upgrade I was chugging along around 90MBPS which isn't terrible but much lower speed than the fiber optic provider standard.

Sure, I'll make a copy and post them here.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that trick.

Literally everything on the instruction sheet is written in Chinese or Japanese don’t know which, so I have no idea on the probes.

I began by removing parts from the sprues, cleaning them up then dry fitting to see where there might be fit issues and/or needs for filling and sanding. To my surprise the kit practically falls together with few, maybe even no issues at all. Heck, you could probably assemble the whole thing without any glue whatsoever. Even the color molded parts are engineered to replicate the model shown in the box art without any paint. The kit gives the option of displaying the model in a flying simulation on a stand that’s provided in the kit, or as it may sit on a tarmac or within the hangar of a mothership. If displayed in the latter configuration, the wings are built in a folded position as they are too tall extended and won’t allow the craft to sit on its landing gear. I intend to display mine flying, on its stand. My intention is the paint all the parts in their respective colors, assemble them with glue then add final details and weathering. This kit also includes a nice decal sheet.

Maybe there is the idea they must operate within atmosphere as well as outside of it? Just a guess as I’ve never read what the real rationale was, if any. This ship has a lot of features of contemporary aircraft.

All through my school years, I religiously followed the space exploration program. Fictional Shows like Star Trek were an extension of the reality of space exploration. The cartoon-type sci fi shows never interested me at all. Star Wars was interesting to me right from the start.

Could be but have never read or seen anything about Captain Scarlet. Way after my days of watching Sci Fi probably.