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    I had to look into that one. From Military.com: "Despite being just 10 days away from its August 1 release date, LEGO pulled the Osprey from its website and announced that shipments of the new set would not go out to retailers. In their official statement, LEGO said: The LEGO Technic Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was designed to highlight the important role the aircraft plays in search and rescue efforts. While the set clearly depicts how a rescue version of the plane might look, the aircraft is only used by the military. We have a long-standing policy not to create sets which feature real military vehicles, so it has been decided not to proceed with the launch of this product. We appreciate that some fans who were looking forward to this set may be disappointed, but we believe it's important to ensure that we uphold our brand values. LEGO's policy of not making sets based on military vehicles goes back to its very beginning. In fact, the original LEGO brick colors in the 1950s didn't even include grey because LEGO feared that they could be used to make military vehicles like tanks." and the same quote in a "the Brothers Brick" article. Though that article does point out this: "The German Peace Society organized a petition to halt LEGO’s production." Seems it was LEGO's anti-war stance, and public pressure based on their previous "no military vehicles" track record. Which, while I disagree with the decision, is their prerogative. Nothing I can find mentioned license fees... Looks like I get to blame them damned Peaceniks again! lol also: does that mean that when it eventually DOES get picked up by some rescue service, it'll be kosher?
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    I can see the press release now: "After much feedback by our customers, we've included grey-swappable goggles with the GBP set. The MSRP has been revised up by ¥5000. Good Day." -- Bandai
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    Very Nice!!
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    yes, earlier Black Ops games had more accurate Hueys, for example, these ones look like UH-1N's... or at least I recall them being so... that's exactly why they do it, and why none of the guns have their proper names. it's still BS, Activision has more money than the Church, and that's just in their CEO's bank account! As an aside: the "licensing fee" thing never made sense to me... *insert firearms manufacturer* makes a game company pay to advertise their product? What? Same goes for things like Ace Combat games licensing the real aircraft... I mean it fit's with a company like H&K, since they've only very recently been seen to give a crap about the US-civilian market, but does anyone else not understand the logic here? is it a case of "*insert videogame* isn't going to change the rate of sale of our product appreciably, but $*insert amount* up-front from a licensing deal can immediately be folded into our budget"?
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    one could say the designer of this display.......... Nailed it!
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    Wait... BEACH-HEAD's real name is Wayne Sneeden?
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    Cannon Has No Standard - But, I Put Them Wherever I Like At The Time was my vote. Depends on the pose/situation, for me. I suppose as a default I tilt '1S head lasers back a bit from vertical.
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    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's a deathmachine... I always thought that it was thrusters, that the pod was floating in an artificial gravity field, and the "armature" was actually fuel lines, power-lines and buses for the various AG generators and instruments inside the pod... but maybe that was me overthinking it on that one... now that I type it out, that sounds REALLY expensive... especially considering what we saw Isamu do to it Then again... didn't they new-build the '19 once, then have to repair the crap out of that second one for Isamu's assignment to the project? Overtechnology must be wondrous for stuff like that. I can't imagine having any sort of remote shutdown/control stuff in a fighter, but then again, Alto was able to slave his VF-25 to his EX-gear wirelessly... which, I suppose, is the same thing connectivity wise... No worries, I became quite interested when it was mentioned and decided to find out. I have a PS for that post: If you sail under a star of fortune like Chris Hadfield, once you've spent some time at CETE, you apply to the Canadian Space Program and get to ride the big rockets with NASA!
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    I AM broke... but thanks for sharing!
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    Simulators are used to teach pilots systems-management, procedures, emergency procedures, cockpit familiarization, etc. while safely on Terra-Firma. They also allow a pilot to get an expectation of what's up with certain handling quirks [I'm lookin' at YOU, F-14 Tomcat!!] in a safe environment, so that they can spend their actual flight-hours integrating all their previous flight knowledge with the minutia of running/flying a new machine specifically. so yes. In the real-world, it's an absolute luxury to have a gov't rich enough to order dedicated training models of a front-line fighter. Even then, dedicated trainer models are typically rare, short production-run things. Canada, for example, has 2-seat CF-18's, but they're not dedicated trainers, they're fully operational air-frames that may conveniently be used for the training role. This is how most nations get around that problem... they're 'not trainers', but they can be/are often used that way. Of course, then there are countries like India, whose entire Su-30MKI fleet is Tandem-seating... "training versions of the more ambitious aircraft " ...... that's at odds with modernity it seems, as there are no two-seaters for our most advanced, ultra expensive air-frames like F-22, F-35, Su-57. J-20, J-35, F-117 [though Nighthawk is more of a unique case.. especially since she's an attacker]. However, since NUNS runs the world(s) in a way our current world powers can only have steamy dreams over, they can do whatever they want, I suppose, so they could just order VT [or B, D, etc] versions of everything. Anyhow, I would suspect a "Test Pilot School" would be about teaching very competent pilots about test-flying and those procedures/skills, which is a big change from combat-flying. In addition to a set of "instructor controls", I suspect the rear-seater in the New-Edwards VF-11D's has FCS/computer-access and all sorts of failure/kill-switches to mess with the student. For anyone interested, the current training scheme for an RCAF Fast Jet pilot is as follows:
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    Thank you, SIR!
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    HAH! Those Crumbums would have to get in line... I'd be much more fearful of 'Prosecution' by the US Navy than HG!
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    Not just @David Hingtgen... wtf happened? Laziness. Pure. Simple. Laziness. smells like an activision effort to me!
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I need THOSE too... Looks like those were WF exclusives?
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    Hi-Metal R

    slide replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I believe @sh9000 glued some hard-points to the wings of that VF-4, and used extra munitions from VF-1 sets.
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    Who?!
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    Hi-Metal R

    slide replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    INNOCENT!!!
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    My vision for a Detolf shelf: I bought a Flashback:2020 LaserDisc to use as a backdrop. I'm going to follow @Lolicon's lead and DIYPF mine, along with my two HMR VF-4s. Display them all in front of the LD with the Arcadia in Fighter mode, and the HMRs in Gerwalk and Batttroid mode. come to think of it... I might need a third HMR for another Fighter in forced-perspective...
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    I picked one of the kits up for ¥40,000 from Mandarake not too long ago. I knew about the option parts, but not the decals and photo-etch... I'm so glad I got it Can the option parts be swapped-out after it's built? or am I going to have to choose?
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    fixed that for you I'm pleased it worked so well for you... my experiences with simple green and non-acrylic and/or old paint have been... less than successful than your effort.
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    https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1064034984&ref=list&dispCount=240&dispAdult=0&soldOut=1&keyword=マクロス 1%2F5000&lang=en If you're willing to hunt one down, they're not that pricey [shipping/current related hassles not withstanding] but if there really are two kits in a Revell box... that's maybe a bet worth taking
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    The Protoculture either manufactured it, or harvested it from the Vajra... or there's some in a mine-able form somewhere in the galaxy, presumably other than ruining a Protoculture ruin/structure/artifact, which would presumably be far more valuable. Grace implied quite strongly that the Protoculture remade themselves in the likeness of the Vajra, which I take to mean they developed synthetic biological bodies built around fold-quartz [like the Bird-Human from Macross Zero, which was, in fact, a long dormant member of the species we know as the Protoculture, or do I have this wrong?] as well as their Fold-Wave-Hive-Mind-System [again, an attempted imitation of the Vajra]... Is this, perhaps, what caused the schism in the Protoculture? Some were all "Grace O'Conner, Queen of the Borg" about it and some didn't want to be assimilated? Or was it that they were harvesting the Vajra for Fold-Quartz and some thought that was abhorrent? [also an interesting reason for the Protoculture to have developed the Zentran] I guess that all hinges on whether the Protoculture revered or were mortified by the Vajra... Anyhow, if they manufactured Fold-Quartz eventually we'll figure it out, now that we've begun to make use of the stuff, for good or for ill. Hell, we used to not know how to make fire... and Fold-Quartz seems to be just about as fundamentally transformative a substance to master...
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    It's a tip-of-the-hat to all the legends of pilots landing their kite, then dying of their wounds later... not an infrequent occurrence during wartime, it turns out. the Realest explanation I can think of is Roy got wounded and went into shock, and then mentally fixated on his date with Claudia... on the wounds themselves: he got hit with an energy weapon burst... regardless of the internal/organ damage they caused, his wounds were likely cauterized and not bleeding that badly while he was still strapped into his seat, not moving a lot, then once he started moving they would've begun to open up and bleed a lot worse. This process was likely initiated by the impact of carrier-landing. As long as there were no major arteries opened up, it could absolutely have taken several minutes to an hour for the internal bleeding to become fatal. All the while the increasing pain and blood-loss would be worsening his shock symptoms... then he bent over and reached for that guitar.................................................. it only took a couple minutes after that. But yes, the whole "nobody noticed" until his ground-crew looked into the cockpit [and saw what we all presume was the pool of blood and holes in his ejection seat] is blatant story contrivance. Also, the way the dogfight went down in SDFM was better IMO: Max is dealing with Miria, and Roy gets into a furball with several Zentran, with no apparent wingman, and he gets blindsided by "the one he never saw"... Classic air combat, straight out of a Biggles book! Either way, I hope I meet a better fate when I have to hunt down a Roy DX in the post-release market!
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    I built that Revell Tomcat when I was about 12... There was so much wrong with it: fit, shapes, details, I decided the only way to save it was to recreate the Hollywood/Wolfman shootdown from Top Gun. So I got a "Mig-28" and had them hanging from my ceiling about 4 feet apart from each other with the missile trail and explosion in cotton batting/balls on wire... If you're a Tomcat lover don't put yourself through that build, friend. If you're in it to put your skills to the test, then giv'er! Waterslide decals have the Ink beneath the carrier film, so it's relatively safe to lighty sand them. Glosscoat first, wet-sand with high-grit to level everything off, repeat as necessary [can take a couple times depending on how thick your decals carrier film is] As @peter recommended, check out PLASMO on Youtube.
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    Oh I'm sure he felt it, and it's a mark of his professionalism and Leadership qualities that he never showed it in public, but we got to see/hear Kirk lament about it [combat, war, losing people under command] several times... Roy did that Pilot thing: Looked at his shoes, shuffled his feet and said "War is Hell" then went on with the job. They didn't even give Roy a mentoring Hikaru on losing people, ie: "This is how you deal with it" scene, since Roy died right before Kakizaki did...
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