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  1. David Hingtgen
    Awesome, the Gripen will get kills before the Raptor or Typhoon!
  2. David Hingtgen
    Gundam.
  3. David Hingtgen
    My Miria's for sale.
  4. David Hingtgen
    "Scale" is irrelevant, TF's pretty much only exist in size. Leader/MP Starscream (any of them) is really only scale to RPM Optimus...
  5. David Hingtgen
    IIRC, that pilot is famous for showing off and eventually getting his crew killed: http://en.wikipedia....Base_B-52_crash http://youtu.be/sjFIB1L3BPU BTW---due to a B-52's high amount of incidence, they can fly level or even climb while nose-down. Yes, you can even see them go nose-down immediately after takeoff for initial climb-out... So many low passes look more dramatic than they are because it looks like the plane's descending when it's not.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Pretty sure that's it. Maybe we can get the current skin to use 128x128 again.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Looks exactly like mine. And I'd sell for a lot less than that. ::edit:: Actually, I'm betting that pic actually is of the late 90's set.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Mine's for sale, especially if they're going for beaucoup bucks...
  9. David Hingtgen
    You should above all else, watch and listen to every second of "the conversation with Sovereign" and then "the conversation with Vigil" in ME1. IMHO that is the core of all of ME's mythology, really. Plus it's the whole reasoning/warning/prelude of what the reapers are, what they did in the past, how they do it, etc. Both events happen near the end of the first game though, and are massive spoilers if you ever want to play the first game. Of course, they're basically massive spoilers for the entire series... And frankly---ME2 is a side-story. A really good one. But it has little to do with the overall plot. ME3 is really more of a direct sequel to ME1 than ME2 was. ME2 is basically "hey, Cerberus is evil and run by this guy". You could have gotten that from the books/comics. ME3 has more "call outs to previous events" than anything I've ever encountered. Be it book, movie, or game, nothing has more in-jokes/references. A thousand little things. Many are just a single line, but you won't "get it" without having played the earlier ones. Personally, I find ME2 to be the low point of the series.
  10. David Hingtgen
    I posted this a while back, but here it is again: Look up inside the nose gear bay. In the very center of the "roof" of the gear bay you can see a little rectangular tab--that's the canopy's lock tab. Push it with a toothpick, and the cockpit opens right up. Much easier/safer than trying to pry the canopy open from above.
  11. David Hingtgen
    It's got the USS Iowa? That automatically makes it better IMHO.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Yup, I've hoped that Bandai would release just a new hip section to "retrofit" existing VF-27's. But that'll never happen.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Who wants the front 1/3 of a Tornado ADV? http://www.ebay.co.u...id=324156485475
  14. David Hingtgen
    Watch the paint on top of the nosecone when transforming!
  15. David Hingtgen
    Blatantly copy-pasting from Neogaf, but have you seen the music composers list for Kid Icarus: Uprising? Motoi Sakuraba: Tales of, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Baten Kaitos, Dark Souls, Golden Sun Yuzo Koshiro: Streets of Rage, ActRaiser, Shinobi, Etrian Odyssey Masafumi Takada: Killer7, No More Heroes, God Hand Noriyuki Iwadare: Lunar, Grandia, Radiata Stories Yasunori Mitsuda: Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenogears, Shadow Hearts Mitsuda alone would make it incredible, but adding in the composers of Grandia, ActRaiser, and Valkyrie Profile?
  16. David Hingtgen
    Personally, I will only buy one if it has FB2012-ish colors. I absolutely demand a tan nosecone, for starters. I'm not too enthused about the red wrapping around the shins/calves, but I must have a tan nosecone. (ironically, the VFX VF-11 is known for its tan nosecone) What do the tailfins look like in the VFX version? They appear mostly dark, but is it exactly like the FB2012 version, with the small red stripes?
  17. David Hingtgen
    That must be fun. Let me guess, "Rick Hunter" is from an American show, so there shouldn't be any issues, right?
  18. David Hingtgen
    I put multiple smilies in my previous post, I can't indicate humor/sarcarsm any more than that...
  19. David Hingtgen
    No one's commented on the best adverb ever? Or am I the only one who listens to the "Blasto" ads on the Citadel?
  20. David Hingtgen
    Sell? It's DLC, bits floating around the world-wide-web. You can buy a license for it, but can't really own it.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, THIS is Japan-exclusive, yet all the Idolmaster crap was available in the US. Talk about mis-reading your market...
  22. David Hingtgen
    Well, if nothing else, having the legs split in two and hiding the wheels would make it far more screen-accurate than the original toy.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Pretty much---either flaps up and wings in, or flaps down and wings out. Now, as you noticed, there is a possible compromise---build them flaps up, and cut one of the pins to get it out of the way, and be sure to install the "wings back" version of the inflatable bag seal to provide room. It is then possible to put the wings in either position--you can't actually sweep them, you have to pull the wings out and re-insert them at the other angle every time you change, and you can't do any intermediate position. But you can change between full-forward and full-back. Don't rely on round pins at all, as they will not rotate no matter what you do (without destroying the integrity of the fuselage). But do use the longer oval/rectangle pins to "align" the wings. PS---the 1/48 has legendary fit issues with the intakes and gear wells, so don't feel too "slighted".
  24. David Hingtgen
    Sunstreaker unlikely IMHO. Famous, but transforms and looks so different in bot mode you might as well ask for MP Tracks from the mold. Breakdown however, is possible if they either rotate the whole torso or flip the hood over the other way somehow. (Red Alert is of course a given, being little more than a seeker-style color-swap). I'd love G1 Breakdown, but there's no way I'd buy him over Sideswipe.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Kicking off a new thread with awesome pics: http://defensetech.org/2012/03/10/awesome-new-pics-of-chinas-stealth-fighter/
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