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  1. David Hingtgen
    Right. "Adding logical details that the animation simply couldn't do when hand-drawn across 50 episodes" (like a zillion little no-steps, the modex numbers, and the squadron insignia) is a good thing. Completely inventing a new paint scheme (stripes!) is not.
  2. David Hingtgen
    This is one instance where "Bandai excessive tampo printing" could look great---on Emerald Force -19F's and 19S's. They look really good with all the optional Yamato stickers on.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Considering how many Frontier DX valks are out there, I think an SMS-logo one could be nice (even though Bandai has already done their own version)
  4. David Hingtgen
    If you have any interest in the J-20, this pic is likely to catch your attention, insane details: https://www.airliners.net/photo/China-Air-Force/Chengdu-J-20A/7721053
  5. David Hingtgen
    I haven't thought of Macrossnald's in years!
  6. David Hingtgen
    They changed the green between Grace releases----but in the wrong way. It should have been made MORE brownish and less green, but they made it even more green. They could possibly make a revival version "the brownest one yet", and get closer to the 1/72 model kit, but could just as easily go even further into an incorrect "pure green".
  7. David Hingtgen
    If anyone buys this and wants to sell off the boosters from their old one, I'm interested... (the odds of a revival Grace are low, I figure)
  8. David Hingtgen
    Make the yellow less intense. It's not THAT insanely rich a shade on the show IIRC. They've got "fast food golden-yellow" there, which a lifetime of seeing such conditions people to associate it (especially with red) as "cheap".
  9. David Hingtgen
    Never tried it on acrylic, but I use Novus #2 on both ABS and Polycarbonate.
  10. David Hingtgen
    The original Yamato Sv-51 is the only valk that has drawn my blood more than once. (not that many have drawn blood at all, but the -51 is the only one where it happens like half the time you try to transform it)
  11. David Hingtgen
    All black but yellow scanner? Then you need to make it all dusty and covered in sand.
  12. David Hingtgen
    I still plan to wait for a KARR repaint. I mean, c'mon---it would have Peter Cullen voice clips! (if they're smart---though technically, Cullen only voiced it for the earlier "looks utterly identical to KITT" version, and not the later appearance with the cool 2-tone paint job and yellow scanner)
  13. David Hingtgen
    Mech Invasion's Hook and Long Haul are SO good, but making Mixmaster an arm, and a conventional truck instead of a cabover, is a deal-killer. It's like they're trying so hard to be both G1 and Bayverse at the same time. Long Haul being clearly a Bayverse dump truck instead of G1 isn't that big a deal IMHO--still forms the lower torso, and it's still a generally similar-looking type of dump truck. But Mixmaster is so clearly neither the G1 position nor type of truck. And it doesn't even look good as an arm, it looks terrible. Maybe if they'd made an awesome-looking arm mode out of that cement mixer, I might possibly be convinced. And Scrapper just has a terrible bot mode with shovel-feet. (and is also now an arm...) If they redid it with the same torso bots, but made the legs legs and the arms arms, as they should be---I'd be all-in.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Buyee is a proxy service that makes it much easier for people not living in Japan, to source from Japanese auction sites and sellers. I use "From Japan" myself. They act as middle-men, that purchase and receive the goods within Japan on your behalf, who then ship to you. You are 20x more likely to find the parts you need on a dedicated Japanese auction site/shop, than you are on Ebay etc. But many of such shops will not ship internationally, thus the need for a proxy agent within Japan that they will ship to.
  15. David Hingtgen
    If they do Grace's in a proper olive-brownish-green, I'll likely have to buy it...
  16. David Hingtgen
    Kinda sucks for everyone who already bought the recent revival with Super packs, or still have the previous renewal but no Tornado pack? I'd probably buy a separate Tornado pack--but no way I'm buying a whole 'nother -25F just to get the Tornado parts... 2 "combo packs" in a row seems ridiculous for the same exact base valk.
  17. David Hingtgen
    And make it just a BIT darker, it's awfully pale. (but I feel Bandai's is TOO dark/tan)
  18. David Hingtgen
    I too am curious about matte-coating the armor pack, since I now have a revival -25, and the sheen difference is pretty extreme. My main concern about various coatings is durability.
  19. David Hingtgen
    I'll probably pick up Sulu if it turns out well, I'm a huge Excelsior fan.
  20. David Hingtgen
    You know, if they do Dr Brahms, they could easily re-tool for Captain Benteen. Might be enough to make producing her worthwhile.
  21. David Hingtgen
    The new Deluxe Prime is the first I'll buy in years. ROUND FUEL TANKS. Makes truck mode 10x better. I really, really hate the 'flat' tanks so prevalent nowadays---so unrealistic and clearly "not how a transforming Freightliner would look". Look at how simply and elegantly the Netflix one dealt with "round tanks as a truck, but not as a robot".
  22. David Hingtgen
    Reminds me of the days of multi-disc CD games, where you needed to have a pile of spare cases, because the discs were nearly impossible to get back in safely/scratch-free from whatever they had rigged up to hold them inside at the factory "that wasn't anything like the normal way"---because it was panic-inducing just getting them out the first time. (that, and when it was trendy to make the part actually holding the disc clear--which meant half the teeth would shatter within the first 1 or 2 uses due to brittleness)
  23. David Hingtgen
    If you're gonna repaint it, fix the inverted chest stripes while you're at it... (the #1 reason I don't own the DX -19, might be the chest stripes--bug the HECK out of me)
  24. David Hingtgen
    Flightsuit Makina? Moderately interested, if not SD. (though something like that would be totally out of their normal range I think). Sv-262 with drones? Much more their thing, if not SD/eggplane.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Is it possible that they simply don't currently offer the particular metal that was originally used? I see quite a few metal options overall still, so surely some parts they allow in metal? (thinking maybe it's time I try the mod on mine, too---I remember the thread/mod from back when, but was too chicken to try opening the wings up). But after years of "being mildly irritated by them", maybe it's time to go for it. And if it breaks---same as Graham, an excuse to get the PF version...
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