News  When I put the new sketchbook into storage and compared it with my older ones, I noticed that the scan from 2017 of the first big sketchbook that I got, wasn't the right aspect ratio and that the top and bottom had been trimmed.
I re-scanned it with four passes and ran a photomerge so that you get the whole image.
The filesize of the original one is quite a bit higher, despite it being a smaller image.
The new scans are saved at the same quality level (10) that the original one would have been, so I take the difference in filesize to be down to a better compression algorithm in the newer photoshop.  I finally got around to scanning the sketchbook that I got months ago.
Its dimensions are exactly the same as the first blue one that I found in 2017.
The cover image on this second one might not be quite as exciting.
They both have a similar theme: X-Bomber flying towards the camera and the Dai-X behind it on the right.
The first one has quite a few cast members shown at the lower-left (including General Kyle, but oddly not Dr Benn).
In the second one, we have only Shiro, manning one of the turret guns.
I've uploaded a number of scan variants to the Showa Sketchbooks folder.
 I remember these being released quite a while ago: a few years after the big Dai-X that UNBOX did.
I have the one with the yellow mask but the colours on this one are a bit different all-round.
I was on-track to win this on FromJapan but the auction got deleted. Lame  It'd been a while since I'd seen anything Star Fleet-related from YmiscY but I found over nitter 4 images that have been re-done with much darker colouration than before and come out quite striking.
These have been added to the YmiscY folder, for safe keeping.
Incidentally, nitter was supposed to stop working in February when twitter removed 'guest accounts' from their service, that were used by old, unsupported versions of the android twitter app to display content in the app prior to user login.
This functionality allowed nitter to pull content from the service and serve it up anonymously.
I found one instance of nitter (as above) that still works, although it's not altogether clear how, but it's very handy for people to be able to view Star Fleet content on there, without them needing to have a login.
I've been watching a lot of Babylon 5 lately. I suppose "faith manages".  I found this project of building and painting a Moderoid Dai-X model on nitter.
These photos illustrate the long series of steps involved. They also show the flourescent yellow paint that was used for the eyes.
It gives it a green glow in the photographs. I think I might even prefer that to the yellow. Perhaps they upgrade the sensors/lasers in the eyes after the events of the show.   Nice new image that I found on twitter of Lamia, the way the face is drawn captures the character well - would be great to see a colourised version.  I'd not seen this item before until now.
It's a small snack box/tin produced (I think) by Showa.  I was sent a huge number of great images from Dan at SFFB over the past few weeks...
I understand that Gary Cass has started producing X-Bomber 3D prints that are colour-3D-printed:
Gary Cass - More Projects
At the same time, I have some great images of cpltony16's PPA model.
I also received some detailed and interesting images of Andrea Mazzuzi's and CJ Jones' Dai-X model builds.
Matsukami too is working on a 3D X-Bomber model. Take a look on the forum for more.
I spotted that a number of further Star Fleet-related paintings had been done by eBay user greggsinnit.
The Shiro one is really good, but the Dai-X is still the best to my mind.
Lastly, I noticed last month that there was an odd behaviour with the site, where the server seemed to be interrupting the SLIR image processing, and gallery pages with 100+ images were only loading about half of them.
This behaviour now seems to be fixed.  I really like this painting but I already have a nice illustration of Dai-X in my office:
Dai X; Star Fleet (X Bomber) - Original Acrylic Painting On Deep Edged Canvas | eBay
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