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  1. David Hingtgen
    I was ok with the GERWALK-mode brace, as it seemed to be necessary ONLY WHEN USING THE WAIST JOINT with "unlocked" intakes---and that a "traditional" GERWALK mode didn't need it. But it looks like it ALWAYS needs the brace in battroid mode just to stay together---and that's basically a deal-killer for me. I mean, if the brace folded away or could store inside the leg or something it'd be better. But that's in the "box of parts in a drawer" category. Something easily lost with nowhere to go, that is critical for the basic transformation itself. Seriously, they couldn't have designed a click-hinge/ratchet for the nosecone/spine? Another peg/tab somewhere? I'd take a small "not in the lineart" protrusion somewhere, to eliminate that big ugly muscle-belt wrapped around the waist.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Wanted to show a GERWALK-mode pic with "everything opened up/fully loaded"---and right when I finally started getting a couple decent pics with my camera settings---the battery died. So this is the best I got---I really wanted more of an elevated view but the camera died before I could get a makeshift tripod to elevate it. (I mainly wanted an elevated view to show the corrected black striping and lightened fold-crystal color--but the stripped canopy is still readily visible) And of course, only after posting do I realize the gunpod's "hanging low".
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    From the album: Reference

  4. David Hingtgen
    NobelGoufDelta! (with hyper-mega-ribbon-hawk!)
  5. David Hingtgen
    I'm just waiting for the TallZero-Hell custom.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Do you want a list of all of them, or the ones worth watching? The GREAT ones are: Beast Wars (best TF series ever, story/plot-wise) Yes, it's one of the earlier CG 'toons out there, but it noticeably improves every season---get through season 1's visuals, and you'll be rewarded with an AMAZING story that ties together the entire franchise like no other. TF:Animated (best TF series ever, homage/humor-wise) The GOOD ones are: Robots in Disguise (mainly for the humor---no, I'm not a fan of "bumbling Decepticons" but there are just some great lines/gags in there---and a pissed-off loner Magnus who's jealous of Prime getting the matrix is an interesting take) TF:Prime (barely) Everything else is junk. IMHO.
  7. David Hingtgen
    MMC's Talon (not-Divebomb) is out---at least a couple people have received shipping notices from HK-based retailers, and Peaugh just got his (shipped straight from MMC). So that's 4/5 of the team, with the final one still on-track for next month. Quite possible Feral Rex will be finished before TFC even reveals their not-Divebomb.
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    Ok, because honestly the weapon/pose was what was really screaming "Shenlong" to me the most---I knew there was a dragon-themed Gundam in G-Gundam, but didn't recall such a "Wu Fei" fighting style.
  9. David Hingtgen
    My only complaint is--why did they make him LOSE? Should have had him win, if he's the featured character.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Like most Bandai DX valks?
  11. David Hingtgen
    They all vary, there is no consistency. Trust me, I've looked at about every pic ever posted of that mold. Original Takara, Takara-Korea, early KO's, the revised KO's with better printing (namebadge, logo), re-release Takara, etc. And some are good, and some are bad. Most are "mediocre-poor". But you will find all "paint-quality levels" on all releases, in approximately equal numbers. Buying an original can get you a great one or a terrible one. Same for the KO's.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Ok, is that a Shenlong/Altron modified, or some other draconic Gundam? I wanna say the shoulder armor and waist armor are very Shenlong-ish. With "double" dragons from Altron.
  13. David Hingtgen
    In short, super is better than armor. But if you've got Ozma, get armor for him.
  14. David Hingtgen
    It's akin to automatically including GBP armor with every VF-1. Not everyone's going to want it, and it's not "free"---you're definitely going to be paying a lot more for it than the VF-1 alone would be. All those external missiles aren't even really canon to a lot of people, including me. Retconning an established design based on an old drawing in some book, and then bumping up the price a bunch to include it---not happy. Big ugly external hardpoints on the YF-19's otherwise clean wings. Recesses, holes, AND posts added to the wings to mount the missiles? Yeesh, talk about an inelegant design-solution. The original 1/60 had much nicer-looking wings. If it was like 5-10 bucks, then yes, it'd be pointless to comment on. But all those missiles plus the FAST packs? That is a good chunk of money compared to what a "bare" YF-10 would cost. AND THE FAST PACKS WERE OPTIONAL BEFORE. People who didn't want them, didn't have to buy them. And I never did.
  15. David Hingtgen
    But that's pretty much what the fandom wants at this point. They want a spot-on plastic figure of the *TV show* Skyfire. Not Jetfire, not a VF-1, not a "classics Skyfire". There's already plenty of those out there. They want THIS: And that's what it is. So those who want it, are probably happy with it.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Yeah---I've been UN-panel-lining my -19, as the lines are just too shallow-----thin crisp lines look nice when inked, "blurry-shallow" ones just look like a mess. And I'm not going to rescribe the whole thing to make the ink settle properly. It's just going to be pretty much "out of the box" and bland-looking, due to the how non-existent the panel lines are.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Arcadia did everything backwards---everyone gets the FAST packs and non-screen-accurate missiles, and many didn't want it/didn't want to pay extra for it. I would have MUCH rather had a $100 cheaper "bare" YF-19. It's got about the lamest FAST packs of any valk, and the missiles---were only ever seen in a book I don't own. Every time I look at that huge YF-19 box, I think what a waste half the contents of that box are---stuff I'll never use and never wanted, but I paid for and paid to ship over here. But tons of people want the VF-25 boosters---and few will be able to acquire them! I'd like them---but not nearly enough to go through the hoops required.
  18. David Hingtgen
    And Welker voiced Megatron in the 07' etc movie-based videogames, too. So movie-movie Galvatron sounds a lot like game-movie Megatron.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Mainly---the plastic cement is to literally weld the parts back together. The superglue should be used as an external support/bandage for the area. If you're going to fully sand and repaint--then yes, put superglue on the visible areas too. (I only did it on the internal/backside of the thigh-piece, as my crack was quite "clean" and hard to see when glued back together) My crack was at the "bottom" of the opening, yours is at the top. Mine was more of a "top/bottom split" whereas yours is almost like "exploded outwards from within".
  20. David Hingtgen
    Plastruct plastic weld works pretty well on Yamato ABS plastic. A true cement/solvent, as opposed to superglue. Use Plastruct to weld the parts together, then reinforce externally with superglue. It's what I did on my cracked thigh.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Nope! They don't fix 16000Y valks, they sure dont care about 3900Y figures.
  22. David Hingtgen
    ROTF Dirge is the best deluxe jet in a while. And yes, the best thing to do is use blocky alt-modes! X1000! The F-15 works for a reason. The F-16 doesn't...
  23. David Hingtgen
    Wait wait---you're saying Bumblebee CAN'T do a back-slide on his doors, then transform into a car with perfectly intact side-windows?
  24. David Hingtgen
    MP Magnus vs Citizen Stack---hard to have a debate about the two in a single area. No different over at TFW. The Citizen Stack thread can be mainly about Magnus at times, and vice-versa. Doubt it. *Snarl* had a finished engineering design ready to go from the MP team? He's not even one of the original Dinobots. (see: first appearance) There's a lot more "top tier" characters to do in the MP line before him. It's a whole lot more likely that Gigapower (that's who made that proto) simply copied elements of MP Grimlock.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Theft of a concept and theft of a physical entity are quite different things. If I sit here and hum a tune I just made up, and you "steal" it---vs grabbing food off my table---they aren't the same. (both wrong, yes, but very different degrees/damages)
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