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  1. David Hingtgen
    The fiber-optic D? Yeah. To this day I'm annoyed they molded the saucer impulse engines in blue. I don't recall ever seeing replacements for them. (There's a lot of resin bits out there for the D, but those 2 pieces are an exception IIRC) Also, I know I've seen replacement brass "pylon skins". Find them, buy them. They didn't exist when I did mine, but I know they'd answer a lot of prayers. ::edit:: These: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/dons-light-and-magic-dlm-42-galaxy-class-photoetch-trench-covers--1259076 I see Green Strawberry makes them too, but only as part of a larger set.
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    The yellow plastic is insanely inconsistent with spraying it gold. The first few pieces (toes etc) turned out great, and I thought I could get all the painting done in a single afternoon. That was days ago. Neck, less great, but ok. Chest pieces? TERRIBLE. I have stripped and repainted the chest so many times, I'm suspecting the plastic is contaminated or something. Same issues in the same pattern in the same spots. Weird, since they're all from the same sprue. But the plastic had visible "flecks" of filler plastic in it, and I suspect it may be "randomly distributed around the sprue". I gave a few pieces my "last attempt at gold" tonight, will see how they look in the morning. If not ok---probably strip ALL the parts, and paint pearl deep yellow instead of gold. (Since pearls are far less "flaw-showing" than metallics). It was supposed to be a minimal-effort fun little kit. 5 mins spraying silver, 10 mins spraying gold. But turned out to be 5 mins silver, 5 days gold...
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    I was always surprised at the level at which AMT kits fit (read: don't fit). It's like---molds decades older, from other companies, have issues, but only AMT seemed able to design brand-new molds in the 80's and 90's, with worse fit than the worst Aurora stuff from the 50's and 60's. It's like, they didn't even CONSIDER how things might meet at an angle, or that slots and tabs should be perpendicular to the PART, and not perpendicular to the bottom of the mold, etc. Plus the raw "well, sprue A is 1/500 scale, sprue B is 1/490 scale, sprue C is 1/510 scale---close enough" that seems to happen. Even simple shapes often don't fit. "Perfectly square piece in a perfectly square hole?" Not really, more like 11x11.5x10x10.25 trapezoid in a 11x11x10x10.5 hole... They're "almost" squares... All kits have fit issues. But AMT is a whole 'nother level most of the time.
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    Hmmn---the Cobra Trooper looks good, but ironically---TOO good? As in, if he's got that many pads, and a silver mask----what will they do for the Viper? (as in, I always feel that Vipers should look noticeably cooler and better-protected than the trooper, the trooper should be rather "simple" in design IMHO) And, well, guess my question about vehicles got answered. Question for the weapon people---I know guns are often painted/camo'd, and I feel the crossbow is OK that way too---but is a solid green knife realistic? I've seen colored blades before, but don't recall "camo green on stuff that's actually used in combat/heavy-duty purposes". ::edit:: Yeesh, the Baroness' weapons suck. Sniper rifle or semi-auto rifle. Might have to just steal all the trooper's weapons...
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    I meant update as in "all new mold". Not a "tweaked" existing mold. There was a TON of stuff from ROC etc, that "closely resembled old stuff, and had a very similar or same name, but just wasn't as good".
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    I've never seen an updated Joe vehicle I liked as much as the original. HISS 2/3/4/5 anyone? Just look at the new Night Raven....
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    Renegades is also on Tubi. Resolute wasn't easy to find when it was new, almost impossible nowadays AFAIK. :edit: Oh hey, Tubi has Resolute, too, I haven't seen it in years, will definitely watch tonight. I see Sigma 6 and looks like the DiC series, too. I think they have EVERYTHING but the 86 movie...
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    So, just some thoughts/questions for the group: I've come close to selling off all my Joe stuff (which is 90% 25th/30th) several times----but now that there's new 50th stuff, and the fact that "there's plenty of characters they'll likely never get around to in 6in scale" I might as well keep it for now. I did give away my vehicles to younger cousins etc. (reissue Rattler and HISS). That said-- Anyone have good guesses for future vehicle reissues? Or will the HISS likely be a one-off? While I'd love a Moray or Water Moccasin, I consider them unlikely. (Night Raven even more so, on both counts---though from what I can find online, Hasbro did say the Night Raven mold still exists). Another Rattler? Skystriker? Or just keep things small? (I dislike most smaller vehicles----twice as big is thrice as neat) Chance of vehicles for 6in? Almost nil IMHO, and the largest possible thing even if done would be a HISS, and even that is likely too large. And nobody wants a 6in scale trouble bubble IMHO.
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    The good one.
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    The Tubi app has EVERY episode, BTW. (All of TF G1, too!)
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    pengbuzz----Yup! I think it's a simplified miniaturized KO of a third-party KO of a voyager Grim... (hard to track these things sometimes) peter---oh wow, I think mine was the ST:VI boxing, too. As I recall, the only method I could get to work for the nacelles, was to tape them in place to mom's flower vase and let it sit in the kitchen table like that for a few weeks until the copious amounts of glue dried rock-hard. (the flower vase was the exact size needed to fit between the nacelles and behind the shuttlebay!)
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    Based purely on your post, I ordered one the next day, just got it yesterday, and started working on it today. I'm painting a few bits on mine, so it won't be done today by any means.
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    I want one without the junk on the wings, but using the Advance feet. (I watched the OVA again, and got out the design works again--I don't know what they were smoking when they thought the new heels looked MORE accurate to the original YF-19--they're LESS accurate---they're just fugly-ridiculous now)
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    Seconded---give us the Night Raven, cowards! Or the Moray---pound-for-pound, the Moray is the best Cobra vehicle. It's not THAT big, but it's top-tier stuff. The Mamba is a pipe-dream, AFAIK never had a re-release after the original, even the Night Raven got a recolor/reissue. But a new Mamba---I'd clear a shelf for it...
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    It dropped to "only 3 left" between replies. I assume zero when you clicked.
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    Ahsoka works now, could add to cart
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    mike---are you sure Magnum isn't a Ferrari 288? 4 big lights up front,"gill slits" at the rear, and a swept-up spoiler: (and those distinctive side-mirrors that everyone at TFW seem obsessed over...) G1 Wildrider (the toy at least, who knows what the animation model was Frankensteined from), is a 308 GTB QV as best I can tell.
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    Which one's that? So there are three? ( light blue, dark blue w/gold, and another dark blue?) ::edit:: Yup, looks like three-----light blue with gold, dark blue with gold, dark blue with black/silver.
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    Brazilian Gripen camo:
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    Ok, so is this "regal variant" exclusive/rare, or are they just calling it that to distinguish it from the much lighter colored one? I.E, will normal stores carry this one as a normal release? Or will there be yet a third variant, that is to be the "mass-market" version?
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    Seriously, I'd watch TNG all over again if we could get all the alternate versions:
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    Are you sure you're not confusing wanting/hoping, with expecting? I HOPE for and WANT new core movie/season 2 characters, but I EXPECT to see Sideswipe 2.0 and Soundwave 2.0 first... :P
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    So I can order something from N-Y, choose something fairly cheap/fast like Eco-post, knowing full well they can't ship it that way because of JP-US shipping issues---and they'll just let it sit around in their warehouse, sold but unshipped, and they're ok with that? (as in, I'm ok with that idea---I just want to order something now, because I'm pretty sure it'll sell out before normal shipping resumes---I don't care about getting it late, I just care about purchasing one before they sell out)
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    KARR works even better, he's voiced by Peter Cullen, and has a laser.
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