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  1. David Hingtgen
    I still haven't seen the remake, I'm waiting until it's finished. (I've waited this long, I can keep going). (the odd naming convention doesn't help with keeping track while trying to avoid spoilers/summaries---so "3.0+1.0" is truly #4 and all-new, and not literally "3.0 and 1.0" as some sorta dual-feature re-cut?) That said---I'm not liking the hip joints on the RG---looks ok when "in a pose", but a neutral stance really highlights the "bare ball joint" look. Kaiyodo still does the best overall sculpts of the franchise IMHO, for both pilots and Evas.
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    Regardless of what ship, you're not going to have multiple planes on board with the same modex number---that defeats the whole point of having modex numbers! They're to differentiate among different planes on the ship, without having to get up close and reference a long serial number... (so you just paint big numbers in easily-visible places---like the nose, ventral fins, and flaps, so that ground crew can easily identify from most angles at a fair distance)
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    Every "highly detailed Japanese release" I've seen, have marked Max and Milia's as being from the Prometheus.
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    *101* modex numbers on both? Fail, deal-killer. Max is 202, she's 303. Plus we all know that 101 is another, very famous VF-1J pilot... They're also labeled SDF-1, instead of Prometheus. So really, these are just Hikaru's 1J, with the colors swapped. The details are all his, not theirs.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Oh man, I'm so used to Bandai DX's now, that I was shocked at seeing white landing gear...
  6. David Hingtgen
    I can't believe that the VF-0 was "weathered" from the intense cobalt blue and pure snow white of the original release, to what was seen on the show, short of it sitting in the desert for a decade or two. I will however, totally believe that it could weather from the colors we were originally shown: (Slate blue-grey, pale grey undersides)----into the anime colors: Absolute perfect match? No, but still far closer than ANYTHING Arcadia's ever actually released. (yes, I still want these colors---non-premium, just "the right base colors that make sense")
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    The master file M&M VF-4's are the best I've seen, but I've still yet to see a truly good M&M VF-4 scheme. (the problem with the master file, is that the weapons are used as a main accent color---if it fires all the conformal missiles, then there's almost no white left to break up the red/blue, and it's as bland as the M3 scheme, from above or from the sides) (M3 has amazing schemes for most of them, but they really dropped the ball on the 4 and 5000)
  8. David Hingtgen
    Does Arcadia realize that putting pics of the CG model right next to it, only highlights how they still don't have the right color? Grey-blue, not faded blue.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Well, I mean, Tigatron himself is an oversized knockoff of Cheetor...
  10. David Hingtgen
    I think you may be on to something there---Takara's does have odd-looking feet...
  11. David Hingtgen
    Partly answering my own question: color-injected horn: (bottom right)
  12. David Hingtgen
    I think she'll be able to do like movie Jetfire, in that you can separate the figure into a robot, and a vehicle, bar 1 piece that is shared. (in this case, the lower half of her chest)
  13. David Hingtgen
    I just had a look at the near/clear/big pics out there----her lower torso is still 100x more human than it should be. Ironically, the newly-produced art right by the figure, is spot-on. Both body and face. Why couldn't Takara match that? :;fake edit:: I just figured out what bugs me---with the neck/collar/chest how it is, and the waist how it is----it looks like a woman cosplaying as Arcee, and not Arcee. Face-shape is totally wrong, chest looks "like a piece of cardboard taped on", and the waist is clearly human.
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    Well, at least the gold looks metallic---that's been my #1 fear for a while, that it'd be "yellow", due to how hers is sometimes presented. Not sold on the overall color, but this is likely/hopefully "washed out from a camera flash".
  15. David Hingtgen
    It can work if they don't literally mean refitted into looking EXACTLY like 1966-prise. Something like this is at least plausible, for a "refit into Kirk's":
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    I honestly think they may be going for something other than toon-accuracy. They've really gone for a "skimpy underwear" look for the sculpt, and I'm thinking that may be more like "some manga I'll never read"-accurate.... Arcee's lower torso is NOT that curved/human. She's a pile of rectangles and trapezoids. I've watched the '86 movie enough times to know exactly how she looks, "and that ain't it". (Those are also some funky thighs) Either way, I find several 3P's to be much better. Takara can, and should, do better.
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    Eh, the 1/1000 kit has always looked to me to be a nightmare to paint/decal properly, due to how many clear parts are molded (and how they've done so). Basically, the entire front end-cap and aft end-cap are clear. But it's not "just the parts that glow" that are clear, it's the whole area---any strut, cover, mount, housing, grille, etc, that's right next to the actual glowing part--is also part of the clear part. Basically, it's the reverse of how "modern kits" (like an RG Gundam) are molded---it's like "less color-separation than normal". I've seen skilled modelers struggle with getting the nacelles to look right on a non-lit Discoprise kit, due to the this. I can't imagine the light-leak-nightmare actually lighting those parts up with create. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but the build-reviews I've seen on YouTube have pretty much turned me off from the 1/1000 kit. And just makes me wish Bandai could do some more Trek kits----just a little bit of color/parts separation in the nacelle pieces, on the order of what Bandai was doing a decade ago, would make for an easy-to-do-perfectly appearance.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Glad I waited, I came *this* close to buying RG Tallgeese so many times. Being "TV series Wing", I assume Bluefin will bring it to the US?
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    Hmmmn. I don't have ANY Eva units any more, but could go for a new Unit 01. Not a big fan of the current figures/statues (price and/or style reasons), but that Koto 01 reissue and the coming RG look nice----how's the color-separation on the Koto? 01's colors are very hard to match, so I'd only be up for a pure straight build, asides from small details/inking. Or does everyone just assume the RG 01 will blow Koto's out of the water in every way?
  20. David Hingtgen
    They've got a high bar to set with an MP Arcee, considering the 3P options that already exist.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Wow, not the answer I expected---there ARE two nigh-identical versions out there, like 1 inch different... I was kinda hoping the later release would be "tweaked" a bit. (more metallic/darker paint, and true red bussards)
  22. David Hingtgen
    Question that google couldn't answer: Has Eaglemoss done two different Discovery Enterprises? One XL, and another non-XL that is bigger than most non-XL? I keep finding "Discoprises" that are "issue #1" and "issue #12", and listed at either 8.5in, or 10in long. That seems odd. They also seem to be consistently priced differently, but like the sizes, it's not as big a difference as regular and XL should have.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Oh s***, what are we gonna do now?
  24. David Hingtgen
    Bar of soap. One that just smells "clean" like basic white Dial, etc. Put the valk and the bar of soap in a bag. When the valk smells like soap (instead of smoke), "air out the valk". Then it'll smell like nothing. I've never done it with a valk, but have for several different types of plastics/toys. Note, that this can take weeks, but will not harm the valk in any way, and is permanent once done.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I'm still waiting for that SH Figurarts Rain Mikamura...
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