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Actually, that's not even Wild Bill. It's a new Joe, supposedly a native american (you know, because so many of them wore cowboy hats?) Retro line Wild Bill is rumored for later this year, but he's not a mainline. I want Zanya, but damn that swamp skier is ugly. Word on the street is that it...

"Joe Day" reveals... basically Airtight and a metric ton of "meh". https://toynewsi.com/278-61637

I suck at hand-painting little details, so this is as good as it's going to get... but I'm happy with the results. Much better than the stock Lenny-missiles.

There are several characters they've done in the 2.5" line that I hope get done in 5" in the near future. That line feels like a "coming soon" for the 5" line. This is by far the best resource I've found about the JP Simpsons collection: https://jakkspacificsimpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Checklist...

Your simpsons figures crack me up! I've been collecting the new Jakks-Pacific 5" line, and they're great. I'm not sure how long the line will last, but I'm excited for the characters we've gotten, and I hope we get at least a few more waves to round out the most important characters. The...

It's still not a *perfect* color match (hue is about right, just a bit too saturated, not quite grey enough), but I'm going to declare it "close enough". Now I've gotta figure out how to paint the decals without losing my religion.

Our office has a built-in 2ft wide hexagonal display case. My mother puts holiday decorations in it and such, and the rest of the time she has a little display of all the armed forces flags... because why not. But because I'm fun, I decided Feb needed a Daytona 500 theme. So I'm building a...

This is the way. It's a line with like 15 different head/neck connector designs. Clearly compatibility is not a priority... or maybe even intentionally the opposite.

I think I'm good on those... but it wouldn't matter. I've never found anything at a Ross... ever. And I feel like I need to take a shower after I leave, like I've been shopping at a skeezy flea market. I believe that there exist good Ross stores, but none of them exist in my orbit.

Got three of the seven greens today... no luck. One far too light, one far too dark, and one too crayola green. I have more optimism for three of the four coming tomorrow. I'm going to have the most comprehensive collection of green ABS, PLA, and PETG filaments in existence. 🤪

Yeah, waste is a legit issue. I'm glad there is no way to calculate my cumulative filament waste. I probably have the environmental impact of a chinese coal plant. I was printing bunker walls overnight, and 95% though, something moved and I ended up with "bird's nest" for the last 5%...

No, even with a multi-color printer, it has to flush the print nozzle, feed the other color, etc... for every 0.16mm layer with more than one color. Thus it's very time consuming and wastes a lot of material. I try not to do it unless the number of multi-color layers is minimal. Print...

I could print in a frosted translucent orange... not exactly "crystal clear" but not opaque. Then you'd have to add your own touches of white. The one in the pic is the smaller of the MMS's effects. I was just checking the port. It's the same size as the official's port, but my plastic is far...

So I ordered three shades of green for the missiles... one that looked just right, one lighter, one darker. Gotta hedge my bets. When they came in, they were all lighter and all looked identical. WTF Mattel! I printed with the "darkest" one of the three, and it's still too light. I mean...

It feels like a car. It'll run forever with no issues, and then something happens and it seems you can't get anything to work right. You pull your hair out, take too many things apart, and eventually something works, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I finally got it started, some kind of epic clog in three places...

The other issue with the horizontal/vertical fins is that they force the mounting point on the missile further forward... so as not to be in the middle of a fin. So it looks a little back-heavy. I agree that's one thing classified got right... a better "balanced" look if you will. I'm not...

I decided the best way to handle the decals would be to emboss (a mere 0.5 mm) to make painting them easy (ish?). I had to make the decals in CAD, and it was especially challenging to get the ones on the main body properly curved to the radius of the missile. And of course, the three missiles...

I think this is where I've landed on the MMS missile design. I had to do a little CAD work to slice and dice the design I found, make the connector match the official (better than trying to retrofit magnets or something), get it positioned in roughly the same spot, etc. The hasbro version is...

According to my printer app, I started printing on 11/7, finished on 11/25... so 18 days? In total, the final parts took in excess of 224 hours to print... but, as usual, I had my share of failures and screw-ups that added to that total. Printing anything with this many big parts without a...

Funny you mention the MMS... I've been looking at CAD designs that I can mod for classic missiles, and looking at different filaments that would be the best color match. I haven't settled on either yet, but I suspect I will in the next week or so.