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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'm guessing part of it is due to the desire to have a single tailfin design for all 737NG variants. The -600 would be the only variant that really NEEDS that big of a fin (for sufficient rudder effectiveness on the shorter moment arm), but due to how unpopular the -600 became, it's kind of a waste for the -700 and longer variants to "carry around" a fin that large when such a small percentage of the fleet needs it. Had Boeing known the -600's eventual (lack of)production, they probably would have made a smaller basic fin size optimized for the -700/800, and made the -600 use an extension/fillet etc. ::googles:: Dang, it's worse than I thought---the -600 is barely 1% of the production run, and no longer in the catalog---with thousands more of the other variants to be built. Yeah, the -600 probably wasn't worth the effort/cost to design it---not so much in and of itself, but of its effects on the other family members needing to compromise their designs to maintain compatibility.
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    I believe that is just a newer/refined version of the previous fan-drawing of that. All Takara has shown is an utter black silhouette. Everything else is fan speculation, no matter how nicely it may fit/be drawn.
  3. David Hingtgen
    There is no lock for any position in any mode.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Why would Bandai want money? That seems to be against their current M.O.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yup. Mentioned it the first day I had it that I doubt anyone will have a mint YF-19 in that area after long. I don't. Yup. Seems to be truly pointless to add a gimmick to allow it to fit the shield 1mm closer, instead of making it so it looks decent in fighter mode.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Build Fighters was overall more entertaining and fun than M7 was, IMHO. M7 does have better music of course, but music was a key point they were going for.
  7. David Hingtgen
    It works because "black ice" is totally a thing.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Yup. It's why I refuse to use those stickers. I think Hasegawa got it wrong too.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Iran's really going all-out with their fake carrier: Jolly Rogers and I think the Diamondbacks.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Hasegawa kits count as canon now? That's the only reference I know of for the 0B.
  11. David Hingtgen
    After the Iranian A300 incident, I assume nothing short of being fired upon would have actually gotten a response from a US destroyer.
  12. David Hingtgen
    There's also the 0D CF, which use medium-dark grey in place of the blue of Shin's.
  13. David Hingtgen
    As I had no Emmet, and no Wyldstyle, I figured it was worth it to get them+Unikitty. Plus I'm a sucker for new/rare colors. There were TWO different greens I'd never owned before. (3, if you count the light aqua as green)
  14. David Hingtgen
    For the first time since the movie premiered, I saw Cloud Cuckoo Palace on the shelf. And bought it of course. I think I counted 25 different colors used. (and that's not including the minifigs, which'd bring it up to like 30 colors)
  15. David Hingtgen
    Idolo is the best orbital frame, and the only one I'd buy a kit of. (gotta be mass-production though, a garage/resin kit of something with those shapes/bits seems terrifying)
  16. David Hingtgen
    Dang it, means I can't/won't watch it. Thanks very much for the spoiler warning.
  17. David Hingtgen
    In short---exactly. I think it had more to do with case assortments for stores. All the boxes will be the same size to fill up the shipping box. So that assortment may have two 1/41 scale, two 1/33 scale, and two 1/55 scale planes to fill up the "carton of six". This has pretty much gone by the wayside now due to consumer demand for standardized scale/accuracy (leading to the "standard" 1:32/48/72/144 scales), but it was VERY common in the 50's and 60's. And AMT/ERTL. Another issue to watch for is "metric" scale. Mainly Japanese kits---I know Fujimi did it, I bet Hasegawa did too. Certainly through the 70's and early 80's. Basically---they didn't care about the whole "12 inches to the foot" thing that lead to 1:48 and 1:72 scale. Many kits marketed in English-speaking countries as 1:48 and 1:72 were actually 1:50 and 1:70. And you can bet 1/96 and 1/144 were really 1:100 and 1:150. Usually subtle, but it could make a difference. Especially if you try to kitbash or swap weapons.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Some planes have very low-drag doors and re-close all the ones they can after extension. Some have huge ones and leave them all hanging out. Wanna see a bad example? Check out the F-111's main gear bay door during gear extension/retraction. No, that's not the airbrake. Don't expect much acceleration during gear retraction after takeoff. And expect to slow down a lot when extending them for landing...
  19. David Hingtgen
    Wouldn't buy a straight reissue, would love FB 2012. Or Milia's or something.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Ah, box scale! You'll probably be able to find 1/58, 1/59, 1/61 if you look hard enough. But it'll be random scales of random planes. Box scale almost defeats the point of a scale model collection, IMHO. Dark days back then.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Very true. The F-14/15 are huge in 1/48, but 1/72 can be a little small. 1/60 is still plenty big for the -15.
  22. David Hingtgen
    The YF-21 is inspired from the YF-23, not the YF-22. Sure, a little of both---but it's much more -23ish than -22ish. She is, Basara's just a much louder and thus more noticeable character.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Yup. It was known years ago that the next two molds Yamato was going to do, was a new YF-19 and a VF-0D.(though the VF-4 seemed to have snuck in there somehow first) Somewhere, someone probably already knows the next 2... (though I'd be happy with a VF-11 re-release, in VFX-2 or Milia colors)
  24. David Hingtgen
    BTW, the rudders are painted entirely red, with black paint on top to create the pattern. All on top of a black base layer of paint. On black plastic. That's why they rub so much--there's like a millimeter of paint on them. I've been sanding down through layers of paint on the bottom edges, to try to lessen how much red paint rubs on the back of the calves. And so they're not so stiff when trying to line up the rudders with the fins in fighter mode. I would have just left the black plastic bare, and painted red as needed.
  25. David Hingtgen
    My YF-19 has 3 distinct positions for the knee (battroid/collapsed, extended/fighter, and midway). Or do you want a fourth one, that's just "slightly extended from battroid"? Swing the legs 90 degrees, should give you enough room to get your fingertip in enough to press it with your nail. Works for me in both transformation directions.
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