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  1. David Hingtgen
    Testors isn't that good in my experience (and it yellows, my Trek ships can attest to that), and I was thinking even cheaper---like one of the "craft-y" versions that Rustoleum/Krylon make, that you'll find at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. They're 2-3x the size of a Tamiya/Testors can. There's just SO many "clear acrylic matte sprays" etc out there, that it'd cost even more just to try them all...
  2. David Hingtgen
    ACDeeSee primary, IrFanView secondary. Even Win7's (which is much better than 10's) is far inferior/slower.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Eh, it seems to me like sometimes they just flat-out ignored how the toys transformed. Like, you can clearly see elements of the toys, which means they had good pics, yet the transformation is just SO different. Tantrum (Predacon) comes to mind. "The beast legs just grow out of his chest, and are not connected to the shoulders/haunches". Even without knowing how it works, the lower legs SHOULD be connected to the upper legs, ya know?
  4. David Hingtgen
    1. Fuel tanks. 2. Nope. Nitro Zeus is a faked-up F-5/F-20. Blitzwing is an F-18/F-16 hybrid. (the tailplanes are pure F-16, the tailfins are pure F-18, the spine and nose are F-16). Nitro Zeus has the front half of an F-5 down to the retractable gun-vent-ports. 3. Fuel tanks.
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    Common question, but will ask again since availability/production of what's out there changes so frequently: Suggestions for a cheap spray-can flat-coat? My best model ever was my MG Wing, but as I obsessively made it DEAD flat in every nook and cranny, that meant I did a full 3D-spraying of each piece of armor separately. And heavily. That was like, 3 cans of Tamiya TS-80. I don't want to spend/waste that much ever again, and I think Epyon would require even more spraying due to so many angles/separate pieces. (mist coats of TS-80 behave very differently than heavy coats, I found--heavy ones actually have a much more even, and flatter, final dried finish) So, I'm looking for a "cheaper" way to get a dead-flat finish on MG Epyon (and my next Zaku). And I am leaning a bit towards spraying sub-assemblies, rather than every piece separately this time.
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    No, I think the arms are fine. They're just in car-mode, not robot mode. The one elbow's bent a bit, and it's bending "backwards"---but that's his "canon, but generally not replicated" transformation: "Do like he does in the movie" and everything's perfect. PS---never mind every other transformation in the movie. I think I read that it was done different every time, maybe intentionally. But IMHO this is "the best one we see" and looks like what they're going with for this figure.
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    I'm pretty sure I pinpointed it to a "program that Win10 no longer likes due to Win10's last update". Uninstalled it, will re-install fresh and see if it behaves any better. If not, I found an alternative, but I was very used to/fond of the one I had been using. (my main photo viewer---I have thousands of pics of planes, trains, etc, and reference/load them CONSTANTLY for model references etc, so having a super-fast photo viewer is key---and Windows' sucks!)
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    Issue just started cropping up, and Google is no help due to SO many possibilities: Win10 frequently freezes, while "browsing folders", opening small files, for like 3-5 secs. Just gives the little spinning blue circle. Seems random, but NEVER did it before, now does it like every other minute. Have changed nothing for a long time, other than Win10's own updates. Will occasionally get an actual "explorer.exe has stopped responding" error/crash. But usually it just recovers, for a few mins, then freezes again. Have messed with paging/virtual memory etc, was most common thing I found mentioned, but made no difference. SSD is quite full, but it's been that full for like a year, no issues before, but the freezing mainly (on;y?) happens when browsing non-SSD folders. Maybe HDD is going out?
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    I had no idea it was going to be life-sized. (yes, I somehow missed the thread title, I just saw "paper craft", clicked, and started scrolling (I just decided to try to get back into papercraft models after a LOOOONG absence, and am starting with a very small one I found to get back into things)
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    I think he's referring to PM's----there's currently no easy way to add a pic to a PM, unless it's linked to an external host.
  11. David Hingtgen
    As I've mentioned before in the LEGO thread---LEGO has made many models the past couple years, that are of Boeing aircraft. (licensed/branded ones, not just "resembling") Just none that were military-based. So the argument that it's "because Boeing is an arms manufacturer" doesn't really work, because LEGO's been paying Boeing fees for years, for non-military sets. (I'll be annoyed if the Ideas 737 set fails to get approval, because it's Boeing-----heck, all airliners would be off the board, as every civil company makes military planes too, nowadays, even Embraer)
  12. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, at those prices, think I'll probably keep my 1080 for a while longer. 3060 should be roughly equivalent to 1080 I think?
  13. David Hingtgen
    Pitot missing, or just not installed?
  14. David Hingtgen
    That---is a very good point, and I should have caught that YEARS ago. (I saved that gif a long time ago). Hmmmn. It's got the -37's camo. I know the -37 was reverted back to basically -35 config, only flew with TVC for a little while. Then crashed. Did they remove the canards, too?
  15. David Hingtgen
    "Northrom" came true. (Northrop-Grumman) (at least, that's what I always assumed Northrom implied)
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    Considering that the "main coloring" is nigh-identical to many other low-vis Tomcats, and only minor artwork changes would be needed for multiple releases, I'd very much like to see some other (real US Navy) squadrons done with this finish/weathering. Grim Reaper's airshow demo plane please, F-14D AD167: (hundreds of thousands of people would have seen this plane fly)
  17. David Hingtgen
    Su-37 still the master: ::edit:: That's odd, it plays faster in the post, than the "raw" gif...
  18. David Hingtgen
    I think the regular Snake-Eyes is overall better. Sure, I'd rather have the other guns, but not for $40, and certainly not for $100. Also, IMHO, they "went too far", color-wise, on the deluxe---it's too "brown-grey-green" in too many areas. Should have been some accents, and subtle, not "I'm wearing grey dockers!"
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    My theory is that first batch produced is blue, then corrected to brown. (maybe it was still set for Duke?)
  20. David Hingtgen
    I managed to get BH from Target.com---but it's the blue-eye variant. Anyone have a brown-eye one and willing to swap?
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    Simple Green has a LINGERING smell. Like, even after thoroughly soap/water scrubbed, and an alcohol bath, and scrubbed again, then painted, then you wait a year----you might STILL get a little whiff of that distinctive odor coming off the parts. I refuse to use it any more for that reason.
  22. David Hingtgen
    5-stud dishes exist, just very rare. I own two! https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=6942#T=S&O={"ss":"US","rpp":"50","iconly":0} It is "deep" though, and might not work well as a "cover" for an AT-AT joint.
  23. David Hingtgen
    New AT-AT doesn't have printed leg dishes? That seems almost like "thumbing their noses" at consumers, when the print already exists, and we've seen them use some prints for like 20-30 years straight. It's not some cheap set where printed parts would be a "luxury", they're expected for that much $, especially when they have the print in their "catalog" already.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Bought a wolf:
  25. David Hingtgen
    What shade of red is that? I'm very picky about her shade of red, and I like that one. (Or at least, how it looks on my PC monitor...)
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