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  1. David Hingtgen
    If any valk ever deserved a functional airbrake, it's the Zero.
  2. David Hingtgen
    That's good, as I was hoping they didn't change it just for a difference that subtle when it needed to be completely different.
  3. David Hingtgen
    They did what I expected them too----they made it darker, instead of less saturated. I think this affected the YF-19 too. Whoever is in charge of colors at Yamato, doesn't seen to realize there are three aspects to color, not just brightness and hue. It's a bit better, but still not right. And no amount of lighter/darker will fix a tonality issue.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Which as 3P has shown, tends to only introduce compromises. The only real attempt was FP's Intimidator/M3, which lead to "not really forming the legs at all" and "not really transforming from alt-mode when used as legs", and was much derised because of it. (to the point that some people rejected the whole team mainly because of that aspect). "Dedicated" arms and legs work so much better, engineering-wise. It's not G1 nowadays---"an unarticulated rectangle with a multi-purpose fist/foot-hole" will NOT cut it as a limb. Not when people complain about "visible elbow gaps" and "only 60 degrees of elbow flex". There's no way* you can design a figure that is a GOOD articulated quad-changer gestalt member (alt, bot, arm, leg). Triple-changers are hard enough. *ok, I'm sure someone *could*. But assuming a budget/timeline of less than a $300 limb within the next 5 years, pretty much "no".
  5. David Hingtgen
    Well, that does go with Takara's obsession with wasting resources to include one-time-only accessories/features on MP figures, instead of including commonly-seen aspects...
  6. David Hingtgen
    Fenders. On a semi, those are the fenders.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Now we just need a new Arcadia YF-21 to go with the new -19...
  8. David Hingtgen
    I've been thinking that too, honestly. Every Jp hobby magazine has scans out there pretty quickly--surely someone else would have found/seen them?
  9. David Hingtgen
    I very much agree with the point that the MP cars were compromised to fit in Prime's trailer---THAT seems like a pointless thing. He NEVER carried cars, only Roller. Roller's the only thing that needs to fit inside. Plus, asides from Knight Rider, cars don't normally fit in regular trailers. (car-delivery trailers are not standard dry-vans like Prime has). Magnus needs to carry cars, but he has open sides and front, etc. A lot easier to make work. (plus his trailer isn't straight-sided nor standard width anyways, another factor that makes it easier). They could easily have made Sideswipe and Prowl a bit bigger, and still fit inside a Magnus trailer----there's little need/desire for them to fit in Prime's trailer.
  10. David Hingtgen
    You've got a Y-shaped adapter? Or arms mounted both in front of and behind the base? Either way, this is pretty much what I've been trying to achieve (but need a 3rd arm for enough height in most cases). So many more optional parts that could be made that I'd buy to "expand" the basic system---extra-long arms for more height, "Y" adapters, etc.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Or just send them to a mod, and we can make a news post etc.
  12. David Hingtgen
    I see MP UM as having an awful truck mode, greatly inferior to Citizen Stack's. Better ramps would have lead to more angled shins, which'd look better and be more G1 accurate (both toon and toy) AND eliminate the infamous "gap" there. Just one of many things that could have been done different. G1 Ultra Magnus IS A CAR CARRIER. Thus, he must carry cars. It's the entire reason and primary design constraint of the original G1 toy. It's absolutely utterly inherent to his design. You can't ignore that aspect. May as well make a Blast-Off that doesn't combine with 4 other guys...
  13. David Hingtgen
    I recently saw a great comment along those lines----at this rate, if they'd asked Lockheed to make a new fighter to tackle the Me262 in 1944, it'd have been ready for the Vietnam war...
  14. David Hingtgen
    Understandable---but so many people want that look, yet also utterly refuse to accept "non-transforming" figures that would be just like that. TF's have even more anime magic than valks do, you simply can't have a tansforming figure that has screen-accurate robot modes. A lot of people want the utter impossibility of "perfectly screen-accurate---while also transforming". That will never, ever, happen. And since one MUST compromise robot mode looks to enable transformation at all, period---might as well try to do the best job possible in balancing the two forms, because transforming yet looking awful in alt-mode is pointless---then you've got nothing, might as well have just skipped transforming. You can either have perfect-looking robots, or good-looking transformers. Not both. And sacrificing all of vehicle mode's looks for the robot mode is kinda pointless--because at that point it'll look so bad that no one will want to transform it---and you should have just made a non-transforming robot that looks really, really good to start with.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Of course---it all happened before, and it'll all happen again.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Trying out some battroid poses----Nora sniping from below, Isamu dashing to the rescue. And yes, Nora is very stable like that. Even if you tip it over intentionally like 20 degrees, it'll right itself:
  17. David Hingtgen
    Considering how many people ask for hyper-articulated figures that compromise EVERYTHING for the looks of robot-mode, that's not far off from what some people want. They're all "Ultra Magnus doesn't even really need a trailer, much less a working one---he's just going to be in robot mode all the time anyways".
  18. David Hingtgen
    I used Beacon 527, so far so good. It's similar (but not nearly as fume-y) to E6000. A little spot that managed to spend more than 10 secs oozed out before wiping off the excess did slightly etch the base---but I see that as a good thing, as it means it acted as a solvent and not just "sticky". Bonus is you can find it cheap at any local hobby/craft/fabric store. (At least around here) Note that I let mine dry for 2.5 days, just to be safe.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Fact: red-green bi-color LED's have been around for decades. It's VERY easy to do. A simple three-way switch is all it'd take. Off-red-green. Though it would require "clear" psycoframe, and thus would look pretty bland when "off". (vs, un-lit clear-red plastic, etc)
  20. David Hingtgen
    PG Unicorn has a whole lot of unknowns right now. Basically, I want everything---transformable, internal lighting, still posable with wiring installed, etc. That's a heck of an engineering feat, and it may not be possible---or, Bandai's had years to figure it out, and has done it. But I won't buy it unless it's got all of that. No transfomation? Pass. No true* internal lighting? Pass. Can't move if wired up? Pass. *I want something like fiberoptics, to truly light up channels/pathways. Not just a bunch of LED's making "dots" of color here and there. I want every square mm evenly lit. For how much they're asking, it better be a whole lot more than 2 dozen red LED's...
  21. David Hingtgen
    RG Tallgeese *I*.
  22. David Hingtgen
    I think due to its raw size and skinny proportions, the -51 can show off the stand's capabilities best. It's just a monster of a valk.
  23. David Hingtgen
    F-16's doing night-time mid-air refueling on their way to strik ISIS, have a look at their load-outs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ahLNOzFVsHk French MOD posted a neat video of their efforts: Neat fact: A-10C combat debut soon, sending over the Blacksnakes: Artist gets big points for how he did the tongue--that's brilliant use of the airframe. Sad fact: they may very well be going up against M1 Abrams.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Pretty sure it's the exact same one from a while ago, probably the exact same photo shoot even---just now those particular pics are past the embargo date and can be published. Remember, we NEVER saw the previous YF-19's shoulder armor hinge, nor final colors. The final, final, final official pics---were a hand-painted resin protoype with the shoulders collapsed. Not actual color-molded plastic. We what actually got was very close, but not quite what was shown. We won't know the 0D's actual production color until Mr K. tweets a shot from the factory showing sprues popping out of the mold.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Yup! I was thinking about doing a vertical tube-launch pose (wings folded etc) , but the stand may not go high enough. The -51 is BIG.
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