And various pics of the various little squads/units I’ve put together.
The grunts. An actual, nearly functional, combat unit. I still have another missile carrier, Alto ('bot at the rear left), the rest of the Baskyrotto’s armaments (the bot at the rear right), and about 8 more spider bots to add to this group.
Semi-autonomous AI Security units. Fancy, semi-experimental weaponry and generally not suited for extended deployments. Which is fine 'cause they’d spend most of their guarding Camp Definitely Not War Crimes.
Those Special Forces Assholes. More advanced units with the kind of fancy weaponry that’s as practical as it is lethal combined with units with substantially enhanced mobility and a couple autonomous units for good measure. Still need to add the leg boosters to the Forestieri units (the 'bots with the large backpack guns).
I got one of these laser cut wood diorama kits for my birthday back in April, and started assembling it around then. After various lengthy breaks and maybe 8-10? hours or so of actual time, I finished it this afternoon. It is meant to be placed amongst your books on a shelf, there’s a series of similar ones from the same manufacturer “Rolife”.
Along with the bulk of the press-fit tabbed wood pieces there were lots of little glue-on wood, plastic, and printed cardboard parts; fun little party-piece extras like the textured plastic sheet water, mirror backplate, flexture-cut bent panels, working led lighting, metal screw brakets, etc.
Whoa that’s so cool. How strong are its sides- do you have to be careful about it being crushed by the weight of books that are too heavy? And how about maintenance of the lights- can you easily switch batteries and lights or is it kind of a one time use thing?
Edit: Rolife is an extremely dangerous website to be checking out if you don’t want to spend money.
At least as-is I probably wouldn’t want to put it somewhere that’d have anything jostling it around or knocking into it. The side panels are wood and sturdy enough themselves but there’s lots of stuff in there that isn’t fastened very tight and if you were to angle/bend the sides stuff would end up coming loose. Maybe if you glued all the sockets as you went along, that would toughen it up.
It has a battery compartment on the bottom that takes two AAA. There’s a little capacitive touch button on the front panel to turn the lights on and off.
Ok. Yes. Fine. I did get another one of these. What can I say? I am a weeb at heart, I do not run from the desire to soothe my aching soul with wooden toy models of the Enoshima Electric Railway.
This one’s lights run direct off of 5v USB-C instead of batteries. In general it was less complicated than the ‘book nook’ one, no gluing required at all, less pieces, etc. You can slide the train car up and down the track a bit.
posting here so i keep working on it. building the first real kit since i moved (i built a haro loader when KM came over but thats a really quick and easy kit), the MG hyaku shiki raise cain. wearin gloves and everything handling that gold. will post progress pics tomorrow
I went to a store at the mall last thursday and there was some shop I hadn’t seen before called PONO that had a big display at the front with a whole bunch of Rolfies. Luckily they only had a couple of booknook models so I was able to resist the temptation to buy one.
But also, the next day I went to a small anime convention and somehow ended up spending way too much money within 15-20 minutes of walking into the very small dealers room.
I’ve been model-kit-purchase abstinent free for a couple of years, been hee-hawing about some Five Star Storie Kits for a year, and then lo-and-behold, this small con had three FSS kits at the booth for Old People. Picked up two, and then a few others for good measure. Been holding out on Umamusume kits for a few years (a local hobby shop had them in stock even before the global goldrush) and decided to finally give them a shop, though I’ve historically not liked FiguRise stuff (too simple to construct). I talked to the booth owner for a bit and the Bandai’s 30 Minute lines sounded more interesting than I gave them credit for, so I’ll probably try jumping into those eventually.
The booth also had many Blockees, and they looked neat after he showed them to me.
seconding this for sure - actually just this afternoon I went to the one nerd store in town and they had a bunch of the FSS 1/144 kits for ~$45usd… folks is that what these things usually go for? i have no clue about this stuff but I looove the designs
ive built two of the led mirages and the proportions are really weird. they are very narrow kits, spindlier feeling than the 1/144 volks kits. fitment remains an issue and the combination of tiny parts with lots of scribe marks x gluing/bondoing was not fun to me. fun to paint tho
