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2026.02.07

I scanned two further double-pages from the Uchusen 140 Yearbook...
There is a nice collection of promotional images of the original larger toys, that gives a nice overview of the main versions of Dai-X that were sold.
The other double-page has some illustrations by Takeshi Okano, who already features on the site, but there are a number of illustrations there that I hadn't seen before, including Captain Halley and Makara.

The remaining X Bomber material in the magazine is a series guide with illustrations of all the characters and vehicles.
It also seems to contain some information on what happened to some of the models after the show, which has been a subject of historical revision, particularly since the 2022 Expo.

The scanning takes quite a while because of the size of the magazine. It requires at least 6 scans for each whole double-page output.
You need 4 to ensure that you capture the top and bottom of each page, and you also need two further ones to capture the mid-section between the pages, so that photoshop has a good area of overlap in order to perform its photomerge.

You also get a certain amount of skew due to the magazine binding not opening completely straight/level.
I found that the best way to fix this was to use the skew tool to straighten the sides and then use the warp tool to 'jack up' one page against the other.

The results seem to have come out fine.

At the same time, our friends at deadnet.se are having more trouble with the now-familiar DDoS-ers ('whoever they are').
I would advise people to support whatever independent sites and forums they know of that are left, even if it just means by visiting them, otherwise we might end up with a dead internet.

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