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  1. David Hingtgen
    Ha, 3P BB has clear taillights, most recent MP's don't.
  2. David Hingtgen
    I think Menasor fought with his sword more than any other weapon, and used it more than any other combiner for sure. Ironically, it was against Devastator and FakeMenasor... Predaking and Piranacon are pretty well known for having swords---but how often did you actually see them use them? (I haven't finished Masterforce yet, so Piranacon may actually win out here eventually) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, so, is Galvatron supposed to be glossy or matte? And should his cannon's clear parts have a deep dark tint, or be colored with a more subtle transparency? Off to the -19 thread I go...
  3. David Hingtgen
    I've been planning on putting my copy in a pose like this since the beginning---so it's nice to see that it can actually be done:
  4. David Hingtgen
    Heh heh, figured that was coming. Thing is---big difference between it being a limited-run variation available to those who want that version, and being the ONLY version. That isn't MP G1 Grimlock. That's MP comicbook Grimlock. And as was mentioned---for Grimlock, the difference is less than it is for many characters, and half of it is due to "how comics show black". Navy instead of black----same category as "Superman's blue hair streaks". And heck, based on that----MP-08X is wrong too for what it's trying to be. The comic seems to be a much darker silver-grey, whereas the MP-08X is lighter than the main MP-08.
  5. David Hingtgen
    True, but if they want to sell their wares to a lot of people, making something look "off" or "exactly like the least-well-known, least-liked version" isn't the best move. How many people truly prefer the comic versions of anybody for colors? I mean, really, how well would MP-13 have sold looking like this?
  6. David Hingtgen
    Thank you. Boy, I almost think the Yammie has better wings. Both still have the inner trailing edge shape quite off though and very similar to each other----maybe it's an impossibility to match the line-art while having it actually swing around into the glove for transformation?
  7. David Hingtgen
    The small size could be useful. I often don't use my dremel on some areas for fear of it being too heavy/hard to control.
  8. David Hingtgen
    My idea (as the whole cannon assembly seems to be molded in one piece) was to paint the whole thing silver. Then the clear orange parts attached over that would look much nicer/deeper than putting them over off-white. (same reason car taillights are colored lenses over silver chrome, and not over plain white plastic) Then, paint clear orange (or candy metallic clear orange etc) over the remaining "exposed" silver areas. That would look very cool, and still have some "contrast" and truly clear-orange bits. All without requiring re-molds or modified materials etc. Just gotta paint it "not off-white" to start with.
  9. David Hingtgen
    No YF-19 toy has had the wings big enough, or swept forward enough. Better every time, but never there yet. Any directly overhead view of the new -19 out there?
  10. David Hingtgen
    In the end, I spent probably $50 on various paints and inks trying to make a good clear purple for my 1/72 Alto kit. I don't even remember what the final solution was, but I still wasn't happy with it. (might have been purple "candy" paint, thinned a lot and sprayed lightly) Tried everything from food coloring to "stained glass" stains... As you've found out---mixing clear red and blue doesn't make clear purple (but brown instead), and many clear "things" that are purple don't mix with Future or thin very well... (sorry to be negative, but man did I waste a lot of time/money/effort trying to make a nice-looking clear purple canopy)
  11. David Hingtgen
    Not-screwed-up screencap: (but seriously---you'll find super-oversaturated copies of TF:TM where HotRod is like burgundy, and Arcee is a deep magenta----I think the pic you posted is from one of them)
  12. David Hingtgen
    Then why bring up an obscure piece of artwork that is very atypically colored as some sort of "proof" that "the coloring's fine" in response to comments on the colors? How many TF fans would be ok with the "Autobot red" insignia shown there and a ruby-red arm cannon? Just because "it happened once" doesn't mean it's seen as expected/desired/acceptable for what is essentially going to be "the definitive figure of the last 20 years" for Galvatron.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Overall color looks worse IMHO, almost looks "greenish" to me. Should have left it as it was a few months ago. Smaller things----canopy lighter but still ridiculously dark. Grey parts----a touch lighter than before? But still too blue. Despite the "19" being printed on the shoulders, upper intake striping still missing.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, and Ultra Magnus was mostly navy with deep red accents in some/early promo artwork, but the final character was swapped blue/red and used much lighter blue. Doesn't mean that's what people want/expect for a figure of him. I just finished watching Headmasters---Galvatron was colored just like he was in TF:TM and US Season 3. That artwork frankly just doesn't even count as a color reference. Both US and Japan saw the same-colored Galvatron, even though the shows were different.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Gah, WTF UT? That's FINAL COLORS. They just killed any good will they'd gotten from improving their not-Predacons. They said the earlier one wasn't final colors---this is even worse. Sadly, the box-art is spot-on------it's got "light grey and lavender" not "white and deep indigo": (and the cannon's, you know, mostly orange)
  16. David Hingtgen
    They have their YF-23 parked right under/in front of the XB-70. That's just an insane amount of awesomeness there. That spot alone is equal to most entire museum's worth of aviation coolness. I think the intake lips of that -23 kit are pretty off. The lower lip should be well aft of the upper edge. The outer edge should be well aft of the inner edge. And the whole lip should be more angular/crisp, not nearly as rounded/blended as they have it. It really should look like someone "hacked" it into shape, rather than "carving" it into shape, if that makes any sense. It's like they did a "subtle" version of the -23's intakes, minimising all the changes/differences from a "straight, basic, aligned" intake. Everything should be "more"----more angles, more changes, more slope.
  17. David Hingtgen
    The grey YF-23 is the exact same colors (and similar pattern) as your standard Ghost Grey 1980's F-15. FS36320 blotches over a FS36375 base. The Northrop-McDonnell YF-23 used F-15 cockpit, F-15 nose gear, F-18 main gear, and most of the basic internals (hydraulics, pneumatics) etc were fairly standard F-15/F-18 parts. It was basically a McDonnell plane in a Northrop shell. And also painted in the standard F-15/F-18 colors at the time.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Ah, nice touch using the totally fake "fallout map" that was debunked as fake minutes after it was first posted---over a year ago. PS---I've also got an old pic of Abe Lincoln killing a vampire, in the same folder on my PC.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Surprised at the side-mirrors, they look pretty weird/bad there, especially considering how many hinges went into hiding them on Prowl/Streak. As for the hollow/open lower inner legs----go look at MP Sideswipe. Same thing there, don't expect it to change.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, I wasn't a fan of MP Sideswipe's tail lights, but Prowl/Streak's REALLY bug me. I may very well put the Reprolabels over them. MP-10 has actual clear tail lights... (I put some clear red on mine, looks very nice)
  21. David Hingtgen
    Original Monorail beats all. Had it set up for years in the living room.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Make the FP boosters attach like they did on the 1/48. That was basically perfect and anime-accurate. Still don't know why they changed it. Really, the way it is on the v2.0 is almost as bad as the 1/55----a big huge piece that doesn't exist at all in the anime or line art that attaches to the backpack,
  23. David Hingtgen
    Oooooooh. Still, I think most every actual large Classic/Blacktron ship was better. Pure nostalgia speaking, or truth? Best Classic/Futuron starship ever: One of the few sets that was actually so much fun, it was more fun to play with than build. But still inferior to the awesomeness of Blacktron--even their smaller ships were great.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Milia's VF-4 is also pink instead of red. And doesn't even have stripes. It's the worst-looking of her valks, when it should be one of the coolest-looking. Fanon versions of her VF-4 look way better. I'd buy a VF-4 of hers in a second, but only if it was "traditional" red with white, and not the canon M3 version. I'd take any of the canon VF-5000 schemes, but would actually prefer the teal Zolan.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I would pre-order a VF-11MAXL sight unseen.
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