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  1. David Hingtgen
    Cancelled. There's "off" and then there's WAY off. These colors are the latter. Sigh, hope for re-release someday. (I've wanted a VF-0D more than any other valk the past decade----but it looks like a KO to me being so totally wrong)
  2. David Hingtgen
    ::finger hovering over order-cancel button::
  3. David Hingtgen
    Dang it, they still show this pic: Got my hopes up for a second...
  4. David Hingtgen
    I just hope the Denial Gundam parts are actually PURPLE and like trans-lavender. Not "blue and pink" like how Bandai usually screws up "supposed to be purple" MS parts...
  5. David Hingtgen
    Certainly crossed my mind, but against giving up the sales of a new Frozen DVD/BR?
  6. David Hingtgen
    So, has anyone successfully tightened the "middle" hinge in the wing swing-bar? That's the most important one, and the loosest one. It can make the wings swing out even when the wings are in the full-back high-speed position. (and of course, allows the wings to fall back from full-forward if a moth flies by it...) I just added some more clear nail polish to mine again, but the actual pivot is inaccessible, I can only add layers where the two bars "overlap" which has little effect. I've considered clamping down hard on the rivet with pliers, as that should tighten the joint by expanding the rivet's bottom end--but I don't really want to badly mar the metal. (moderate pressure leaves some small marks, and accomplished nothing---but you can't see it anyways, in either position)
  7. David Hingtgen
    I thought they were making like a 30-minute direct-to-video short? Or is this something different? Surely they wouldn't put 30 minutes of new Frozen footage with a full-length movie, for free, when they could charge $24.99 for Blu-Rays and have it sell-out on day one...
  8. David Hingtgen
    Just got the RD Wing Gundam. (as in, TV, Season 1 Episode 1--you know, the REAL Wing Gundam). Very tempted to ink it up a bit---I generally don't ink in Gundam *figures* (as opposed to models), but this one really seems built for it. Of course, if I ink in this one, I'm going to have to ink in Epyon and W-Zero and Sandrock too...
  9. David Hingtgen
    Hercules totally has black tread forearms. Now, if you use the "Rage" add-on kit he no longer does, because it includes new forearms---but that's not the original design, and actually looks worse IMHO.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Toon Devy has black forearms. And "tread forearms" is a thing now. Plus, "realism". (though treads are often brightly colored on construction/farm equipment--they're not military tanks)
  11. David Hingtgen
    I expect May 4th for next teaser.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Huh, I never noticed before that Ivanov appears to have darker drop tanks than Nora.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Seconded---I kept turning up the volume after like each scene and still couldn't hear a lot of dialogue.
  14. David Hingtgen
    I'm not sure about an F-8 *landing* with the wings folded. Every time they've taken off like that (twice?), they've always successfully unfolded them in-flight prior to touch down. IIRC.
  15. David Hingtgen
    No, it's rather complicated--if it was that easy, EVERY model would look like that. Never done it myself, just aware of the technique. It still requires/involves all the "typical" pre-shading, intentionally overspraying, erasing-with-thinner, etc, weathering techniques too. The salt just gives the "perfect pattern" to the weathering process. Again, the salt (dissolved away with warm water) acts as a sort of "mask" for the later weathering techniques. (idea is to not rinse very thoroughly---just enough to dissolve away most of it, so that some remains on a nigh-microscopic level--very similar to actual sea-spray leaving behind deposits)
  16. David Hingtgen
    People always make the horns too curved, instead of angular.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Let me know when they make MG Delta 2.0
  18. David Hingtgen
    No, because everyone will point out that the F-15 lost the vast majority of its wing, vs "a chunk of it". Anyways---IIRC, an F-18 was tested with a "battle damage" program that allowed control to be transferred to other control surfaces. As in, if an aileron was damaged, the tailplanes would have augmented differential to compensate, and try to retain as normal-feeling flying characteristics as possible to the pilot. I think it even allowed for loss of tailplane pitch control, by using symmetrical aileron movement, to alter the center of lift of the wing. Did anything ever come of this, in common use/frontline fighters? Seems a waste for a successful program not to be implemented.
  19. David Hingtgen
    It's quite possible--the current technique is to use actual salt (then rinse it off), as a sort of "mask" prior to applying traditional weathering techniques. Real salt: Result: Might help the blue a lot, but isn't going to turn the white parts grey.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Salt-water weathering from being on a carrier at sea. It's exactly how real F-14's look after they've been deployed a while.
  21. David Hingtgen
    It's clear though, what the color usually/should be. And it's not "dark and intense blue" as occasionally seen at night and in canyon-shadows. It's the brightly-lit daytime shots, both in the air and on the ground. A dull grey-blue. I mean, Ranka has purple hair in some dimly-lit scenes, and Grace conversely has green. Doesn't mean you can point to an individual frame and say "see, that's what color it is!" No, that's just momentary color-lighting-effects.
  22. David Hingtgen
    That is how Hasbro always is. They do not replace or repair anything. You will get a toy "of equal or greater value". Be glad you didn't get an AOE shelf-warmer from them. (IIRC, for like an entire year straight, any replacement toy was almost guaranteed to be ROTF Wheelie) I think that even for like Voyagers and Leaders, they'd just ship you multiple Wheelies (and probably throw in a Mudflap or two)...
  23. David Hingtgen
    As in, they are planned for production. Not EVERY figure that gets a number/description like that gets produced, but like 98% do. They COULD be cancelled for some reason, and it has happened before--but not often. I've seen Silverbolt once, and the wave 1 limbs once. But not even remnants of the wave for Arcee, Brainstorm, etc. Probably because 3 of the 5 columns of pegs for TF's at the local Wal-Mart are dedicated to: Whatever the $12.99 or so AOE Hound figure is. The non-transforming one. 2 solid peg-columns of him, the rest being non-transforming Strafe and non-transforming Drift. Yeesh, nobody wants that crap, yet it's still full price and not moving at all. Meanwhile, Combiner Wars stuff sells out in a day... Hasbro clearly over-compensated for the "too hard" earlier movie transformation complains from parents/kids. "Too difficult" transformations are a minor problem, compared to not transforming at all! (and even a 6-year-old can see that most 1-steps are crap, and are just a car flipping up with a robot sculpted on it)
  24. David Hingtgen
    They have US stock numbers already, so they're basically guaranteed. Only question is---TRU exclusives, or mass-market?
  25. David Hingtgen
    Mid-air collision, landed safely: 138FW, Tulsa ANG.
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