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  1. David Hingtgen
    Exactly.
  2. David Hingtgen
    32,000 bucks? That's nothing, when someone else just spent 26,000 ON A SINGLE COMBINER TEAM.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Anyone else having issues with ep 10? Netflix on PS3, specifically. Every time I start it, I get different yet similar errors. Namely: Can't change from CC to sub. Can't change audio. On-screen menu overlay never disappears(this almost always happens, in addition to one other error from the list) Timing counter appears then gets stuck. Etc. The actual episode will PLAY, but there'll always be some big issue that makes it unwatchable. It's almost all related to the "controls menu overlay". And it's also a big enough issue that you can't reset from the menu etc, have to do a "go over and hold down the button" reboot. Completely removing and reinstalling Netflix has done nothing but waste time.
  4. David Hingtgen
    'tis the intensity of the blue, more than anything else. Greyish/slate blue, not "blue-blue-blue". (and the tweeted pics are still too purplish)
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yes, but they're (almost?)all fan drawings made after the fact. And considering how rare "official" un-altered pics of the CGI model is, I'd vote most get the blue wrong. (that, and few people consider intensity/saturation when picking colors---value and hue/chroma always get WAY more attention---most people will ignore saturation--but it's critica for Shin's 0D) If anything, the scan is too dark. But the hue and saturation should be correct. Value is least important, mainly due to the "scale effect".
  6. David Hingtgen
    Bandai had some nice renders on their site years ago, in "neutral" lighting---the ones of the Sv-51's were sent to Yamato as color references----and you'll note how perfectly Nora's turned out. However, *Shin's* VF-0D wasn't available at the site IIRC (as I don't have them, and I spent a while scouring the site for pics)---but wherever this scan is from, it's got the exact same pose/angles as the CF VF-0D from that site---so I believe these renders were done for the same purpose at the same time--as in, they are "neutral lighting/untinted" pics intended to be "official references" for how the valks look. (as they are often tinted blue/orange/pink in the anime, depending on lighting---a lot of the fighting takes place underwater, at sunset, etc) So this should be how Shin's "really" looks AFAIK: It's blue, but it's more of a slate blue-grey, rather than *BLUE*. Really, the pics being tweeted lately, look closest to Max's VF-22S, more than anything. I always thought Shin's looked kind of like "oceanic camo"----it blends in well with the water, and isn't far off from the colors used by Japan's Maritime Defense F-2's. Of course, this is just a scan, and not the original---but it shouldnt' be too far off--nothing in that pic seems "oddly colored". And of course, it does match how it looks in the anime. (at least, my copy of the anime---which I actually got via Graham some years back) Is there like a newer blu-ray version of M0 out there, remastered with "corrected color" or something? Maybe it does look much more cobalt/periwinkle in HD remasters or something...
  7. David Hingtgen
    VF 0DscanF

    From the album: Reference

  8. David Hingtgen
    So can someone tweet to Mr K. something like "That doesn't look anything like the color it was in the anime" ???
  9. David Hingtgen
    If no one says anything until after release, there's zero chance of fixing it. Mentioning things now means corrective action can be taken. Fixing things afterwards is expensive----doing it right in the first place is a lot easier.
  10. David Hingtgen
    I thought it looked like a Camaro even after reading what it was supposed to be first.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Let me ask you this---are you the type of person that can see the blue, in red? Specifically, the blue in "Milia red"? The 1/48 Milia is a very blueish red, as reds go. It's what separates "Milia red" from say "Alto/Hikaru red".
  12. David Hingtgen
    Agreed---purplish-blue, close to periwinkle.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Just gotta go by presence or lack of white striping, to know if it's the "proper" Shin release.
  14. David Hingtgen
    I actually think that's really good lighting----based on the background etc, that looks like a standard Yamarcadia "grey background drape" photo-shoot. And they just intentionally blurred it out. (or altered depth of field etc so it was inherently blurry) My vote is that this is from a dedicated photo-shoot, and not some quick "iphone at a desk" pic. At least a semi-official teaser, with a modicum of effort put into taking a decent photo.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Well, I see it as fairly similar to Macross---you can cling to and revel in the original series and accept *nothing* else, or you can enjoy DYRL's "revisionist history" and designs and everything that has come out since. And all that's ever going to come out in the future, is going to be based off the newer stuff/sequels. You can "expand" your hobby/franchise, or you can cling to the small initial offering and never allow anything more.
  16. David Hingtgen
    I've never known blurriness to affect the perceived color of something.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Frankly, without them, you're missing out on a big chunk of "G1 history that most of the fandom knows and references". Those games are considered "the new canon" for the whole "united franchise theory" Hasbro's been doing the past couple years. Plus the story is GOOD, and gives far better/more detailed backstory for a lot of what happened, vs the G1 toon.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Gah, that color is wrong in every possible way---hue, saturation, and value! Yeesh. If the final is anywhere near that, I WILL not buy it solely for that. That's more like periwinkle than anything else.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Should have molded the case out of transparent blue. Even better, one that had like a gradient from clear-white to clear-blue. (hey, if Lego can afford to do it on a tiny little 10-cent piece, it can be done on a PS4) The only system I ever did any visual mods to was my PSX---and it was a clear colored case. And it looked neat.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Well, due to his numerous lines/scenes in WFC and "extended cameo" in FOC, that is darn-near the default iteration of the character now. Because he was FRIGGIN AWESOME in it, and not a dumb grunting godzilla ripoff. I do believe WFC Trypticon has far more "screen time" than the G1 version. Kind of like how animated Blitzwing was a much more important/defined character than the G1 version-----when a different, more recent version of a character ends up with 10x as many lines as the original---it often sorta "overshadows" the original, or at least how people expect that character to be now. Classics Blitzwing clearly has several elements of Animated Blitzwing, due to how "influential" his later version is now----he's not a pure G1 homage.
  21. David Hingtgen
    I clearly stated *WFC* Trypticon. Not G1.
  22. David Hingtgen
    I just keep thinking--that Scorponok has the build/propotions/styling of WFC Trypticon---it's like they tried as hard as they could to make a WFC Trypticon to go with their Metroplex---without actually making Trypticon.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I'd love a stand like that! Simple, effective, not a ugly pile of heavy black plastic...
  24. David Hingtgen
    That's my guess---somebody somehow needs/wants a mask at some point, and it'll be a big enough plot-point for the trilogy that they hired the original Vader-mask-designer to do a new one.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Well, Lockdown has his hood badge and tail lights visible, that's about all I could find. Drift has a bit more.
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