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  1. David Hingtgen
    I expect May 4th for next teaser.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Huh, I never noticed before that Ivanov appears to have darker drop tanks than Nora.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Seconded---I kept turning up the volume after like each scene and still couldn't hear a lot of dialogue.
  4. 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.
  5. 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)
  6. David Hingtgen
    People always make the horns too curved, instead of angular.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Let me know when they make MG Delta 2.0
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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)...
  13. 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)
  14. David Hingtgen
    They have US stock numbers already, so they're basically guaranteed. Only question is---TRU exclusives, or mass-market?
  15. David Hingtgen
    Mid-air collision, landed safely: 138FW, Tulsa ANG.
  16. David Hingtgen
    That's what I said in the YF-29B thread.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, good luck identifying a MiG-31 when it's at 50,000ft...
  18. David Hingtgen
    What's that a photo of? It looks nothing like this toy.
  19. David Hingtgen
    YA-10B exists in the real world. I assume because it was enough of a change that it still counted as experimental/prototype. (Though even larger changes from the original, like the F-18E from the C, had no "YF" version)
  20. David Hingtgen
    Sharpest two valks I know of: Head-spike on a Sv-51 (has drawn blood!) Forward-pointing spike on spine-covering of VF-25 super-pack.
  21. David Hingtgen
    This thing is gorgeous---if I didn't have an Ozma, I'd be all over it. (almost tempted to sell my Ozma...) Ironically, the lighter blue wouldn't be a bad choice for a VF-0D... (better than what Arcadia went with, for sure)
  22. David Hingtgen
    That's been my #1 thing since I was like 6. I want a Voltron where the lions don't suck. Having necks is a big part of that. (and being able to sit). Because THIS is the most iconic look for the lions: No previous toy has come anywhere NEAR being able to capture that look.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I believe some TV Roys are slightly pinkish. (Don't own one myself though)
  24. David Hingtgen
    The overspray on the wavy edges is so consistent (and the stripes so crisp) I think it's intentional----it's called a feathered edge and is how camouflage is usually applied on real planes (and models of real planes). You don't want a hard crisp edge most of the time. Many techniques have been developed to get the effect.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Hmmmn. Check this out: Compared to the VF-1, the 0D's accent color looks quite grey. Maybe it only looks pure white when the camera has no pure white reference? (and/or the guy at Arcadia is just hitting "auto-white-balance" prior to uploading) Blue looks darn dark and intense regardless though. Anways---shouldn't we have a full reveal of exactly what we're getting in the box by now? Like just how many of each type of missile, etc?
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