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  1. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, but the Su-33 is an *awesome* variant. And heck, for a Flanker---30 units is a ton! Half the Flankers out there are 1 or 2 of a kind...
  2. David Hingtgen
    I figured you'd be the one to buy my Springer off me...
  3. David Hingtgen
    This is what Grace's suit actually looks like in normal lighting etc: Roy and I are really trying to make this a reality/contacting various sources. Gotta figure out what it'd cost, who'd be willing/able to do it, and of course, getting enough money to actually do it.
  4. David Hingtgen
    That's my work (merging the screencaps)--thanks for finding/posting it---both her hand position and the lighting changed as the camera pans---that was the best I could do. What I'll send tonight is the correct colors and full-body (though unofficial---but a lot of research went into it to try to make it accurate)
  5. David Hingtgen
    I've got a great reference (the full pic of my avatar), but I'll have to wait until tonight to post it---it's only in my PC. Please PM me your current email so I can send you the large version. And if someone could post the infamous screen cap in the mean time...
  6. David Hingtgen
    Sorry, was thinking of Armada Thrust. As for the movie JSF---my god that thing is hideous. Are you serious about that being a good example of a jetformer? Because like the F-14 and MiG-29 it has a huge belly tunnel between the nacelles, and is paper-thin there. It's where Kawamori usually puts the arms. But no matter how you do it, you can't just leave empty space there. The F-14 is so thin threre it is literally see-through when the air brakes are extended. Really, it all comes down to one thing---"flat belly". Little else matters.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, they made it quasi-workable by making it into a twin-engine version and hanging both engines under the tailplanes as kibble...
  8. David Hingtgen
    I'm sure some would vote to literally paint the suit on, but I'd MUCH rather it be an actual bodysuit etc. Could probably use bodypaint for the jaw/neck thing though.
  9. David Hingtgen
    IMHO, for Superion to be "done well" (read: acceptable amounts of kibble in jet mode, and not having horribly deformed versions of the jets to start with) he simply cannot retain his G1 alt-modes. Or at least, not all of them. F-16 and Harrier---just no. Not EVER going to get a decent jet-mode out of them, not while transforming into a robot. Note that even Kawamori, master of transforming aircraft, avoids single-engine jets. And while the VF-4 is sorta SR-71-ish, it also has the least-Transformer™-ish battroid mode. So even if you went with that type of transformation, it simply wouldn't look like Silverbolt, nor make a torso mode. Reasons for making Silverbolt an XB-70 have been discussed ad nauseum, so I'll just leave it at that. But for the 4 limb bots---- My suggestions are a Tornado, MiG-31, Su-24, and Super Hornet. Because the first 3 are "boxes with wings". Despite their popularity/coolness, the MiG-29, Su-27, or most any Eurocanard are NOT an option (especially not the Rafale, god no). The bellies are just all wrong for what the goal is. The Super Hornet, while not a "box", is my best attempt at a "modern, recognizable plane that most fans will accept as an update and think looks cool"---it is "boxy enough", and I think it could work. Keeping Air Raid and Fireflight as their original alt-modes certainly works, there's almost no plane better than the F-15 for turning into a robot--it's why it keeps getting done and re-done--it's BOXY. The F-4 is also pretty good---it's even flatter than the F-15 on the bottom, and has so much fuselage volume above the wing you can tuck in almost anything you need. But I think it'd be odd to keep 2 members the same and change the other 3, so my vote is to change them all. The F-22 is of course the "logical update" to the F-15, but it's over-done and is now Starscream, as much as the SR-71 is now Jetfire. While the YF-23 is awesome and a personal fave and equally good option as an F-15 replacement---it'd be hard to get a good robot and limb out of it--certainly possible though, but not as easily as the -22 IMHO. As for who gets what new alt-mode----basically, do you go for comparable looks, or comparable role? The Tornado has a single big tailfin, so could work for Skydive, or maybe Fireflight. The MiG-31 is insanely fast/powerful---Air Raid? Super Hornet is multi-role, carrier-based----Slingshot? Su-24---I got nothing, it's totally unlike anybody really----if anything, a mud-mover like the Phantom in Vietnam---Fireflight again.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Ok, what about basic spandex for her flightsuit like most superhero cosplayers wear? Shiny spandex is almost as good. And you can probably find a lot more people familiar with making full-body suits from it. (And frankly, I don't think we can really tell what her suit is made of from the little we've seen of it---and Brera's didn't seem that shiny, and hers is likely similar to his) (I am totally willing to spend money on this)
  11. David Hingtgen
    "Rule of cool" explains a lot of the feelings------it simply "doesn't look that cool" as VF-1 interpretations go. The Hasegawa valks may take some liberties--but they look awesome, so it's forgiven. But taking liberties to make it look LESS cool than the existing references? Not cool.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Yup, all the time, even when shut off. It explicitly listens for "XBox: On" and similar phrases so it can start-up whenever it's asked to.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Goes great with the "always watching and listening" Kinect...
  14. David Hingtgen
    How much for a purple wig, rimless glasses, and an aqua/teal latex flightsuit?
  15. David Hingtgen
    JET7---What exact color/brand did you use for the gold? I've wanted that color/effect for a long time, but never found a spray that matched, always had to do a two-step process by hand that never came out very smooth.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Well, I just partly transformed mine to photograph the "black triangle intake piece" in both positions to prove that it can still be transformed/rotated without coming apart---it's just no longer "locked" into place around the pin---it's now merely a friction fit, like the fists or fist covers. It's gone through about 3-4 rotations now (between fighter and battroid positions) and it hasn't popped out yet. I think that's pretty good. Sadly I've had NO offers for it after the little black piece broke. Also--Negotiator's broke rather differently than mine, and worse. His seems to have crumbled apart, mine basically just had the 'ring' that goes around the pin split.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Did I mention it's for sale?
  18. David Hingtgen
    Just remembered something: They broke a trope, and portrayed something much more realistically than most movies/anime/etc IMHO-----combat drones. Unlike most movies, where a human can easily dodge the fire of "stupid mass-produced drone-bots" and take down a dozen easily by himself by shooting out their eye/brain with his sci-fi-revolver, in this movie, they show what facing a combat drone alone would probably really be like-----deadly. Rapid-fire guns aimed by an unflinching machine with sights and sensors across multiple spectrums that can probably calculate air pressure and humidity and deflection angles 100 times per second----could probably kill a lot of flesh-bags very quickly.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Ok, took some pics. Painted wipers, side mirrors, headlight surrounds, visor, and marker lights silver on truck cab. Red and silver for tail lights. Painted shins red in bot mode as well as two small areas on the chest-plate. Painted center of head-crest silver. Tried to paint head antennas silver, but they're molded of a rubber that won't take any paint I could find---tried several times, let some paints dry for literally YEARS and it still wiped right off. So just left them white. Here's someone's stock Magnus for comparison:
  20. David Hingtgen
    Was that article machine-translated from another language? It hurt my brain trying to actually read it. "The Extremis uses, also at this stage, all the nutrients and body mass to reshape the existing body, creating new agencies stronger, powerful and resilient" "Once the modification is made Cerebral closed, this same body system evaluates the entire human body as erroneous and injured, then sending the information to the brain that all the body, externally and internally, is wrong, completely transforming it into a wound open to be healed and changed the standards that the Extremis recently rewritten" Yeah, everything makes way more sense now...
  21. David Hingtgen
    Interesting---it seems to open the missile bay doors to act like a Harrier's strakes. I don't recall that on the X-35.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Hey, that last sentence----they could meet Basara!
  23. David Hingtgen
    Well, that sucks. The little rotating black triangle piece under the intake everyone breaks? Mine just did when putting it back into fighter mode to box up and sell. Guess I can't ask as much money for it any more. That piece lasted only 1.5 transformations, and I was being insanely slow and careful each time due to knowing that piece was fragile... So, from out of the box, it went from fighter, to GERWALK, to battroid, to deciding to sell it, and about 2/3 of the way back to fighter mode, before that piece snapped off. And yeesh, that piece wasn't even stressed or anything---I think I may have lightly brushed it with my pinky while slowly moving the shoulder pads into place. Geez Bandai, couldn't you have thought up a more fragile design that's more precariously placed/moved?
  24. David Hingtgen
    Back to real planes, and visible science! Please let me know if this is a red x. And I never noticed it before, but DANG if those tail planes aren't straight from an airliner. Makes me wonder if they aren't actually re-used from an A330...
  25. David Hingtgen
    Even their "fixed with stolen designs" 1/32 Flanker has issues after revising, I can't imagine they did that well on their 1/72. Trumpeter is the king of "totally awful intake and canopy shapes despite copious reference". Their 1/32 F-14 is the worst F-14 money can buy, despite being the newest/biggest one around. It looks like a swing-wing F-15...
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