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Pike's way out is Talos. ---Dave

Okay, clearly this is going to be a Thing for me. (Could a mod please splice the other threads into this one?) Leader of Alpha Team, Master Sergeant Steadfast is a cyborg and a chef. So in addition to repainting the figure, I built him a tray of cookies. Comparison shots: Some WIP bits...

Even watching on D+ you have to play the twitch game of getting the credits back as soon as they get minimized for Watch Next stuff. ---Dave

And to add to the cost issue, while overall inflation may not be enough to explain the Great Cheapening, a lot of what's kept inflation from being higher is that manufacturers have found ways to make things less expensively. They couldn't just reissue T30 Waspinator for Kingdom, for instance...

I used a $3 app called NightCap and a cheap Bell & Howell telescope attachment, plus steady(ish) hands and a lot of deleted bad pics. The telescope: ---Dave

Glued the swords into the sheaths and painted them. Had to shorten and narrow the peg, since getting the stock swords in requires a fair amount of scraping and forcing. ---Dave

Hazing newbies to the Enterprise is kinda pointless...the missions will do a much more thorough job of it than any crewmember can. ---Dave

All of the XL ships have flight base sockets, none come with flight bases. Maybe they were planned but cut at some point for cost reasons. ---Dave

Slight physical modding (made her face more angular, bent her hair back a bit), otherwise just paint and noticing molded details that were concealed by the factory paint job. ---Dave

http://www.thefifth.world/2022/05/what-and-when-exactly-was-world-war-iii.html - Essay explaining how the timeline of the "final wars" still works without needing to contradict prior statements (much). ---Dave

The Zyklops drop pods are a little disappointing, in that only one of them actually opens automatically and neither of them stands up well when closed. The cockpits of the ships don't always like to stay closed, so QC is a little dodgy compared to Action Fleet. ---Dave

I was kinda expecting General Order 1 to be handwaved off as "their culture was already contaminated," but I guess tying it to Burn Before Reading level classified Discovery stuff made sense too, and at least was a new way to get out of jail free for violating GO1. ---Dave

Just a quickie from a Kharn Drone and a lot of white paint. ---Dave

Alfred Hitch. ---Dave

This one I didn't try for shading other than on the battle damage, to make it look more retro. ---Dave

Cute Silent Running ref near the end. ---Dave

Appropriately named asylum, a nod to Bill Sienkiewicz (who was the artist on the book during the story in which Marc's mental illness was established back in the 80s). ---Dave

2024 Soong strikes me as the sort of guy who has traditional biological kids but is extremely estranged from them. That, or the later Soongs are descendants of his brother or cousin. ---Dave

I was asked to baldify an Amari for someone, and the plastic really works well with a Dremel polisher head (after I sanded off most of the mohawk with the sander drum head). ---Dave

Another Final Faction figure. This time I departed a little more from the original colors (mostly the jacket), but tried to keep it at least a little toyetic. ---Dave