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  1. David Hingtgen
    Just imagine if someone KO'd the super parts, but altered/improved the hip-armor to clip in using the intake cover slots...
  2. David Hingtgen
    Really basic: 1. Load brush only half-way with paint. (as in, you should have the space between the middle of the bristles and the handle still bare) 2. Single stroke per coat wherever possible. "going back over" while starting to dry is often the worst possible thing. Acrylics are the least forgiving in this regard, enamel/lacquer actually gives you more than a 5-second window. 3. Retarder! Load up on the stuff. (again, more critical for acrylics) 4. Thin coats do self-level better.
  3. David Hingtgen
    I have, but haven't tried them yet. Printing is CRISP though! Better even than actual G1.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I wish the windscreen was easily removed (the main canopy is)----then maybe I could trade my clear Ozma canopy for a 30th's purplish one. (surely someone would like a totally clear one with the 30th ann scheme) But as it is, the non-removable windscreen makes it very hard to alter---was hard enough to make clear because of that, would be much harder to try to re-color. (and is the main reason I've never tried to re-color my Ozma's canopy to either a subtle blue or purple color)
  5. David Hingtgen
    I found them to be quite poor, honestly. Poor adhesion, transparent ink. I'd use them as literal stickers, like on a 3rd-grader's paper instead of a gold star, but little more.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I need a LEGO adapter too! (Prefer black though)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Is it Non-Spec Sea Blue? (if so, we need to mail a bottle to Arcadia...)
  8. David Hingtgen
    Why not buy 2 then wait for the grey CF version to get 2 more?
  9. David Hingtgen
    Lower price points? That is totally not how 3P works.
  10. David Hingtgen
    In the previous pics we saw bottles of blue paint and a paintbrush in his hand. I think it's more than "a chance" that it was hand-painted.
  11. David Hingtgen
    BTW, from reviews online----the SDCC Unikitty faces have much more opaque white printing. (the standard release really is more like a light pink face, as it's so thin and transparent). Hopefully future Unikittys will have this improved printing. (LEGO does seem aware of her popularity, and plan even more releases) I was actually hoping for improved printing on the "second batch" of first-wave movie sets, as it was apparent from the very earliest ones that the face was more pink than white, but it didn't happen. (as I have a "2nd batch" Cloud Cuckoo Palace)
  12. David Hingtgen
    I'm one of the people who bought a full set of super parts and armor parts when they came out, despite not having the valk they went with. Took like 2 years to get everything, (until the re-issue) but I think that was the smart way to go. (also, I figured Alto armor would be "rare" in the future, as many people saw no need to get it at the time, not vs the iconic Ozma armor) Even if one paid over MSRP for the valk itself, it could still be cheaper than paying over MSRP for both the super parts AND the armor parts.
  13. David Hingtgen
    I had very few Targetmasters back in the day, not all that many Headmasters---but nearly all the Powermasters. That said, I haven't bought any reissues or even old originals---none were THAT good IMHO. But I am planning on a few 3P versions. (hoping for a 3P Triggerhappy some day)
  14. David Hingtgen
    I think it is more the difference between "image" vs "design", rather than the difference between ripoff/KO/counterfeit. Infringment upon a image/character, sure, that's almost for certain. But infringement of a design---if they created the mold from scratch, it's very much in the 'grey' area. Legally, I don't know if it makes a difference, but for "fans of robots"----myself and many others consider a "true" KO/counterfeit to be copying/reusing an existing product and do not support that (I refuse to buy Igear's coneheads, for example). Otherwise it is "merely" unlicensed---but their own effort/sculpt/engineering.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I very much agree with this. The 3P TF stuff is because of China primarily. North America is a side-market for most of the companies. Everything I've read is saying "Chinese TF fans are funding/supporting it"---they got the series later, grew up with it, and with more and more Chinese getting richer and starting businesses etc---they're now making the TF figures that they always wanted. Macross, in China, doesn't have even 1/10 that fanbase AFAIK. A 1/60 3P valk seems a long way off, if ever.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Regardless of name change, it's still not a KO. If you take a Nike shoe, change the name or make a slight color/detail change, but is otherwise 99% identical to SOMETHING THAT ALREADY EXISTS AS A PRODUCT, then it's a counterfeit----but if you make your own design from scratch, then it's not copying an existing product. You may not have the rights to that "look"---but it is your own design. It'd be like sculpting a statue of Darth Vader from scratch----it may not be allowed for legal sale (certainly not under that name), but you're not making a counterfeit of an existing Vader statue. It won't be confused for a particular Vader product. Customs can't say "this is a clone of Brand X's model 1345B Vader statue". There is no other SD SDF-1 out there---it's not a copy, knockoff, or counterfeit, becuase it's the first and original. Looking like a DYRL-style Macross is a separate matter from being its own sculpt/mold.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Well, there'd be thousands of Transformers fans in jail if that was the case. And there likely wouldn't be any Europe-based stores selling stuff like that. (and there are!) Again, big difference between counterfeit/KO and unlicensed. A counterfeit is like a purse or shoe that looks EXACTLY like the real thing, and even has the real thing's logo, and is trying to pass itself off as that thing. Or the infamous cheap Rolex watches. Or a figure like this: THAT is a counterfeit. Says Hasbro. Says Transformers with the proper logo and even has a little ® on it. But it's not! Not Hasbro's, not official. A VERY exact copy trying to pass itself off as an actual Hasbro Transformer. THAT is a counterfeit. But for the "Makuros"---there is no other SD Macross-class ship figure that looks exactly like this, nor is it claiming to be a "Macross" nor does it have UN Spacy logos on it. It's not copying an existing figure. It is the original of itself.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Green canopy had orange-yellow stripes. Purple canopy has bright yellow stripes.
  19. David Hingtgen
    No. That was a change, but Bandai released many new official pictures showing all the changes--they wanted people to know.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Bandai is first party when it comes to Frontier, or nearly so.
  21. David Hingtgen
    My head-canon is that while the VF-0D may have been built with overtech, it still got repainted on-board a carrier that was still stocked with typical paint, and thus weathered the same from salty sea-spray as any F-14 would. (And wasn't bright blue to start with, but probably standard mil-spec "intermediate blue" or something similar)
  22. David Hingtgen
    For Transformers etc, that's all there was for a while, and how most of the now-established 3P companies started. New guns, new head-sculpts, replacements for commonly-broken parts, etc. Whole figures came later.
  23. David Hingtgen
    That's exactly why we need it. Because they're never going to do anything but Sheryl/Ranka/Klan. They've had more than enough time---if it was gonna happen, it'd have happened by now. Movies have come and gone, and "Movie-style" is all they're making now. And there's no pilot-Grace in the movies. Same thing for valks. VF-9 is NEVER going to come from Bandai/Arcadia. It's WAY down the list. But I'd buy it in an instant.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Nah, you gotta use one that actually looks like chalk-writing:
  25. David Hingtgen
    Peaugh said he wants to do it, I just sent him a message to hopefully make sure he knows you know and you know he knows or whatever.
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