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  1. David Hingtgen
    I gotta say, I think an upscaled/tweaked (with PAINT!!!!) Sentinel Prime could be amazing. It's so close, but still just looks "good" to me. "Everything is gunmetal grey" just takes so much away from it. It should have silver, grey, and black bits. And have the back end painted. And a few more bits fold away or fold out, etc. Hate to say it, but I'm waiting for the KO. (as in, assuming it gets heavily tweaked like a lot of Movie Primes are---bigger alone isn't nearly enough)
  2. David Hingtgen
    AGP! I had one of those! 7600GT I think...
  3. David Hingtgen
    How much is the parabolic 727? Probably too much, but I'd love one last 727 flight... May have to settle for driving a Lambo or something...
  4. David Hingtgen
    Interesting comparison---I didn't know Ozma's were a shade darker/bluer. Also, I suspected but wasn't sure until now that the CF ones had the same "inverted" color-pattern as Michael's. (really only noticeable on hip and chest pieces, but also present on the booster tips)
  5. David Hingtgen
    Do Luca's super parts come with two, for a spare?
  6. David Hingtgen
    I think it works super-well being the head-laser. I'd argue it's more kept ON its head, than in it. A VF-1J could dual-wield! A VF-1S would have 4, and maybe wield the extra pair tonfa-style like the Unicorn Gundam...
  7. David Hingtgen
    I especially like that the Arcadia and Yamato are docked to the Macross, instead of Daedalus and Prometheus. Now where I have heard of that combo (Yamato/Arcadia/Macross) before...?
  8. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, blue plastic yellows (greens!) quite a bit, it's among the worst colors after white. I don't think I've ever seen red turn orange, though.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Missiles aren't as cool as the Angel Birds' beamsaber: THAT is the add-on we need from Bandai for a 1/48 VF-1A...
  10. David Hingtgen
    I thought Luca only had the little probe-thingy on one of the boosters, not both?
  11. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, it seems odd that they went to the effort to even make them adjustable with click-hinges, but only let them move like 3 degrees in either direction...
  12. David Hingtgen
    Just make the show "Alice's Adventures in Gothamland". Might actually be more interesting...
  13. David Hingtgen
    I've never tried to polish a model's clear-coat actually, I usually just polish the raw gloss color-coat, for model cars etc.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Is this a factory gloss coat, like a HiRM Gundam? Or like from a spray-can? (the factory coatings are SUPER high glossy, whereas spray cans rarely are). Tamiya polishing is not a 'quick and easy' thing in my experience. It'll take a while. "If it doesn't strain your hand/arm muscles, then it's not really doing anything". You gotta press and rub, not just "wipe", even more so than "polishing a real car" IMHO. For "reviving raw plastic", I would much more recommend Novus #2. It is plastic polish, not paint polish, and is designed (and is quite good at) removing scratches from plastic bits. I've even used it on old Legos.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Tamiya polishing compound, even the "coarse" is intended mainly for model cars as a final/near-final step----it'll make the spot way too shiny. I'd go with "fine grit sandpaper" etc, to try to match the factory sheen.
  16. David Hingtgen
    I had to put tons of nail polish in the joints, but my -29 now has stiff wing-rotation even with super parts attached.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Watch Bandai make a whole new DX mold for it, then only ever release it in one scheme...
  18. David Hingtgen
    CDJ is doing 20%? HLJ is only offering 10%...
  19. David Hingtgen
    Nah, ignoring obvious repaints for existing molds seems like a very Bandai-thing to do lately. Still no white Sv-262, or standard super packs for Arad or -31A, among others.
  20. David Hingtgen
    It always struck me how the chest/shoulder armor bits of Alto and Ozma have "markings you can't really see"----the yellow bits on Ozma and the red bits on Alto. They should have switched the marking colors, or used white, etc. (they ARE printed "red on red" on Alto's). Kind of like the "white on white" YF-30 markings...
  21. David Hingtgen
    Wasn't expecting a new review, but we just got one today: (ironically, I just took OFF the super parts from my Ozma recently---I often like to do a "half" version, with the shield and boosters, but not the wing parts---still looks cool, but battroid poses a lot better without the weight of the wing parts)
  22. David Hingtgen
    Physically, the arm armor: A lot of the KO VF-1's lately seem to be putting DYRL-style arm armor on TV-only valks (Max and Milia, etc), they apparently don't know (or don't care) about the difference.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Sorry for not getting back to Shornet weapon discussion sooner: Basically---the Hasegawa kit is all sorts of wrong for what goes where. It provides you with lots of useful/correct parts, just don't believe the instructions in how to use them. In addition to "AMRAAMs on HARM rails", I think it has the outboard pylon rails vs wingtip rails switched. (also, early vs late wingtip rails are a plane-by-plane thing, check references). I believe only one type is ever used on the pylons, but can't remember which it is compared to wingtip ones. "A wingtip rail, mounted underneath the outboard pylon" is perfectly fine/accurate. The Super Hornet's wingtip rail IS an AMRAAM launcher, it just never ever carries AMRAAMs on the tips. AMRAAM rails mount to pylon via a "standard" sized adapter, there should be some divots etc that line up with the pylon/adapter bomb shackles. (a single AMRAAM on an AMRAAM rail, can mount pretty much directly to a pylon---it's when using dual AMRAAMs, or a single Sparrow, that you also need the jettision adapter) In short---look at the parts you have, then look at photos of the real thing. Compare the front and rear ends of the types of "skinny" missile rails you've got, put them on the model as matches photos, ignoring what the instructions say. HARM rails are very rectangular, Sparrow rails are much deeper (and Hase doesn't make them). Anything that "looks about right for an AMRAAM or Sidewinder on a Hornet", *is* a dual-purpose AMRAAM/Sidewinder rail. There's just a few variations of them. I want to say, for VFA-103---short ones on the wingtips, long ones under the pylons. (long and short being like 2 or 3mm diff in 1/72) Don't forget all the pylons are yawed leading-edge-outwards, and the outboard pylons are also canted bottom-side-outwards. Nothing's "straight and square to the wing", when it comes to Super Hornet weapon pylons. You WANT it to "look wrong". Also, if you do find some HARMs (very common in many Hase F-16 kits, even cheap $7 ones--I may even have some I can spare, will check this wknd), they're definitely correct for an all-missile Jolly Rogers load: (of course, the HARM is a ground-attack missile, or occasionally ship-attacks, so it's not a "fighter jet" missile) Jolly Rogers pure air-to-air:
  24. David Hingtgen
    I also just recently watched for the first time. Meh. Could have completely skipped the first half and not missed a thing. How is it still called "Delta" when the love triangle is gone? Mirage is basically a non-character now, zero growth/story, and certainly not anyone's love interest. She's now about as "deep" as Makina is---speaks one paragraph about her past, then is relegated to Freyja/Hataye back-up forevermore.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Protip: check the boosters for oil. Mine had leaked some onto the valk itself. Appears Bandai put a little bit into the sliding section to loosen things up? (not the little tab, the big part)
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