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  1. David Hingtgen
    The F-16 that survived a mid-air collision and landed missing part of its wing? Here's the other F-16, not so lucky, and very flat:
  2. David Hingtgen
    We know what the VF-0A/S carries and uses. If anything, the VF-0D has an even greater variety that it can use, being a two-seat delta-winged variant. The 0D can surely use everything the 0A can, if not more Question for anybody who knows---is there any canon line-art etc, showing the VF-0D's hardpoints? Knowing Kawamori's like of the F-16XL, and the XL's reason for existence/hardpoint design--the 0D should likely "officially" actually have many many hardpoints, far more than Arcadia put on. FYI, the F-16XL has no less than 27 hardpoints, compared to a normal F-16's 9 hardpoints. Cuz Delta wings allow for front-to-back loading: For doubling the wing's size, the 0D should certainly gain more than just 1 hardpoint per wing vs the 0A/S.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Sorry, but missiles that are top-of-the-line in 2040, are not going to look right in 2009. It'd be like putting AMRAAM's and laser-guided-smart-bombs on a P-51 Mustang. Especially since the VF-0's weaponry is already well-established. (and half of which wasn't included at all with the 0D release). It needs some of these: Some of these: And more of these:
  4. David Hingtgen
    So it's the pointless opposite to their YF-19. The YF-19 came with TONS of ordnance that was never seen nor used onscreen, nor did we see such equipment used by any other member of the -19 family. But had enough of it to load the valk up 3x over. Yet the 0D, is lacking much of the "Zero" equipment seen on-screen throughout the OVA (the "bronze" gunpods, triple-missile racks, etc), and doesn't have enough remaining weaponry to even fill up the existing hardpoints. Yeesh Arcadia. It's one thing to buy a $300 -19 and get some extra weapons you don't want. It's another to charge $300 for a 0D and not include just 2 more single missiles to fill up the last hardpoints. Hoping for a 0C or non-canon "neat-looking 0A" at this point, for a full weapons/ghost pack. (or, you know, an "anime-colored Shin with full weapons-pack" release of the 0D)
  5. David Hingtgen
    I laughed.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I can only hope. (Sad but true)
  7. David Hingtgen
    I'm waiting for elbows too.
  8. David Hingtgen
    I thought I saw 3 hard points per wing. Not enough ordnance included to fill it up?
  9. David Hingtgen
    That's----appropriate. (though sadly my plan of a dual Nora-Shin display is now unlikely to happen)
  10. David Hingtgen
    Has anyone posted what all it comes with? Like stand adapters, how many of each missile, etc?
  11. David Hingtgen
    Ah, ok. I was just worried that I was stressing the peg in an unintended way or something.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Is this due to how the layers are arranged? Because adding or removing elbows will effectively change one orientation to the other---and I likely have at least one valk "wrong" right now. (sharply banked on a standing adapter etc)
  13. David Hingtgen
    It's what people who weren't around in the 80's, think the 80's looked like. (though I will freely admit, I was totally ignorant of the "girl-power-glam-rock" scene at time, only listened to Van Halen and Bon Jovi etc)
  14. David Hingtgen
    Except for, his lower legs being so huge and blocky, they touch each other in a normal standing/walking pose. He only has "clearance" in the "half-squat" pose a lot of people use. These aren't legs, that's not a torso: "Looks sorta decent from front-view only" doesn't fly for an MP. Look at MP-10 from the back.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I like panel lining as early as possible, as much while still on the sprue as possible.
  16. David Hingtgen
    You know very well that "exact" isn't the request here. Just "in the friggin' ballpark". Monitors don't vary THAT much. (certainly not among anyone with an eye for color at all---which the "Arcadia factory colorist" hopefully is) And they obviously know what the proper color is, or they wouldn't have posted 30 different angles of this: Arcadia knows perfectly well that's what color it's supposed to be, and posted that as their "fixed" colors to go with all the pre-orders after the negative reaction to "max blue". They just didn't get anywhere at all even half-assed close to that. They're either incredibly incompetent, or somehow said "make it navy blue" to the factory.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Well, here's what the CF VF-0D should look like (and these are as "right" as can be---"perfectly lit" reference shots from the M0 site back when it was airing, with no color issues from scene lighting etc----was always annoyed they never posted Shin's, or we'd have a specific shade that is "correct" to reference from) (I also have these for Nora's BTW, and they were sent to Yamato via Graham---and the coloring on Nora's turned out great--they had missed a lot of the black accents the first time, but once they got the pics, the revised version was spot-on) Sadly--the CF 0D may be about the second-most boring-looking valk around. (most boring being the CF 11C from M7) PS--if you want proof that the 0D's have light grey bellies, and not white---look at the forearms in battroid and GERWALK mode. White stripe, light grey "outer edge" of forearm. Hmmn, the Yamato 0A also came with stickers for the Wolfpack----some red stripes and logos like that would certainly enhance the 0D as well. But painted-on markings are 10x better than stickers.
  18. David Hingtgen

    VF0D GW

    David Hingtgen posted a gallery image in Macross Collections

    VF0D GW

    From the album: Reference

  19. David Hingtgen
    VF0D fighter

    From the album: Reference

  20. David Hingtgen

    VF0D BR

    David Hingtgen posted a gallery image in Macross Collections

    VF0D BR

    From the album: Reference

  21. David Hingtgen
    Unless they went with the second-sample colors they showed , those were perfect.
  22. David Hingtgen
    They don't need to tweet test-shots every week etc. They just need to get the color half-ass correct. Yamato never screwed up a color due to incompetence after multiple attempts, the only example of a wrong color was "intentional trolling by Kawamori" of the -0A. And when they need to do anime-accurate coloring later----bam, they got it spot on. No "it turned out darker than we thought" lame twitter excuse. Heck, Arcadia couldn't even get the YF-19 right, though it's "acceptable".
  23. David Hingtgen
    No, they won't learn anything. Otherwise they'd have gotten it right after hearing how wrong "Max blue" was, and how positive the response to the grey-blue pics were. Yet they ended up with almost navy, which matches nothing and was the "none of the above" out-of-nowhere color.
  24. David Hingtgen
    All that is meaningless in the face of a 500-yen gashapon VF-0D that is 10x more accurate, color wise and probably took a week from concept to production. We don't need perfect----but Arcadia isn't even in the ballpark.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Chronocidal----so you've actually flattened/expanded the rivet, and it worked?
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