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  1. David Hingtgen
    What's the latest word on release date? My HLJ pile has 20 days until it has to ship...
  2. David Hingtgen
    I want MG Burning with orange flickering "fire effect" LED's inside.
  3. David Hingtgen
    The Insecticons are easy to do because their robot modes inherently have tons of alt-mode kibble, and their insect modes were always "bug-styled robot machines" and not *insects*.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I used nail polish on mine.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yup. You can have 4 Aerialbots NOW if you buy a helicopter. Otherwise, you'll have to wait a while, until the very tail end of the line, to get the 'real' team. Same for Wildrider/Stunticons.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I still want an MG Burning with orange LED's. Try Burning would be even better.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Yet Paddington Bear, which looks awful/stupid from the trailers, still holding at 98%: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paddington_2014/
  8. David Hingtgen
    The circle is now complete---US TRU listings for Combiner Wars Slingshot and Wildrider.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Threads merged.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Not even slightly surprised, as that mold was always Slingshot's alt-mode to begin with. It's like 90% Sea Harrier, 10% (if that) F-4.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Can I post those pics in a few threads over at TFW?
  12. David Hingtgen
    I gotta wonder if the prop has a smaller diameter now, having gotten the tips shorn off... (a blade on the down-swing would have been the lowest point of the plane)
  13. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, and you shouldn't need a massive correction kit for such a basic thing, that no other kit ever got wrong before. The biggest/newest/most expensive kit shouldn't be the least-accurate in overall cross-section.
  14. David Hingtgen
    I think licensing plays a big part in what MP's get made nowadays. And Chevy+Transformers=easy license.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I wonder if wearing The One Ring would help you click F5 faster...
  16. David Hingtgen
    Based on the YF-19's color changes/issues, and their utter inability to get anywhere near the proper VF-0D color, I'd say yes.
  17. David Hingtgen
    First thing I ever noticed when I saw the first dry-fit test of that kit. "OMG, it looks like a MiG-25 from head-on". IMHO, it's one of the biggest errors I've seen in many years. Unforgiveable considering how many pics exist of the F-14 on the web.
  18. David Hingtgen
    More like G-enogears.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Sigh----I think it's clear they don't understand tone vs shade. It's not too dark. It's too saturated. If they lighten it from the T-3, then they'll be back to the "VF-22 Max" color again from a while ago. It needs to be greyer, not lighter.
  20. David Hingtgen
    I sure hope that's not final, because it's the worst of all (not only is the blue way off, it looks white instead of light grey) Yet, this pic is at the top of the post: That's perfect---but again, what Arcadia knows it should be, and what the factory guys in China can actually do (or care to try hard enough to get "close enough") are two different things.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Sorry, it's Trumpeter, not Academy. (I always get them confused--but I'm not the only one!) The "centered" head-on pic they show has the intakes look much more vertical. More importantly---Tamiya only ever made the F-14A. The only 1/32 F-14D is Trumpeter's. If they copied the Tamiya---they'd have to make a lot of "D" parts themselves. (and it'd look better, if they copied the Tamiya)
  22. David Hingtgen
    I see some issues (both general shape, and "what specifically makes an F-14D, a D") Biggest issue though---intakes are all wrong, they're mounted like an F-15's. That's going to screw up the gloves, too. Head-on, the intakes are not straight up and down---they slope outwards from top to bottom. Compare to the model's "vertical" intakes: I'm thinking they copied the Academy kit, because that's the Academy kit's biggest flaw---having "flat/straight" intakes like an F-15/MiG-25, not the F-14's sloped ones that are angled with the upper glove. Also---better scheme needed. I know the Tomcatters have some fans, but compared to Jolly Rogers/Black Knights/Sundowners?
  23. David Hingtgen
    And because they look cool/unique. (you'll never confuse a Draken for anything else)
  24. David Hingtgen
    Just from the prototypes, engineering-wise, MMC's version impresses me much more. Much more "solid" in robot mode.
  25. David Hingtgen
    We never saw pics of a production Yamato 1/60 YF-19, only a not-totally-transformed painted resin proto. The real thing has a few small differences. But the color's pretty close at least.
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