David Hingtgen

If you're interested, my Alt Jazz and Grimlock are for sale.

Definitely better than the last, but I still haven't seen anything better than the 360 from them in years.

Seconded. Remember, this is "the MMORPG for people who don't play/like MMORPG's". It should be about as NOT like WoW, Everquest, FFXI, PSO, or SW Galaxies as it can be.

Well yeah---nothing better on an F-15 than their actual shade of gray... Anyways---I like that one both for being the right shade of grey, as well as a perfect mix of realism and color---it's clearly G1 SS colors, but it's also pretty plausible for a real F-15. I especially like the red on the h.stabs, and have been considering something similar for my Thundercracker. (actually, I've been leaning towards black wingtips---have to go check and see exactly where the stripes lay again--I don't want the black too close to the stripes. (It it impossible to do either totally G1 toy or G1 toon colors on an MP---too many physical differences, especially when you get to the smaller details--so why not do something subtly different but cool?)

Question: of all the many MP Starscream repaints, has anyone repainted it to resemble what it was apparently supposed to---a dark grey F-15E? And here's just a quick link to what's probably my fave repaint---it's painted to match what IMHO the G1 toy itself was trying to be--36375 grey. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...rscream-g1.html

No, my only Frontier valk so far is a half-built 1/72 kit. I may get an armored 1/60 some day, depends on how the final tweaked Ozma looks. I mainly hope the 1/100 line does some of the less-famous stuff we've wanted for a while--VF-4, VF-5000, VF-11MAXL... *Another* VF-1 is really pointless IMHO. Give us new valks, not new scales of the same valks we already have!

::looks carefully at pic again:: Yeesh, I figured pics of a new 1/100 VF-1 could only be "the" 1/100 VF-1... Talk about over-saturation.

No one's posted the VF-1 yet? (saw it a couple hours ago, but couldn't get into MW at the time)

V.4 Kos-Mos sucks. It's all they ever make merchandise of now, but it's the worst design, and the only version I won't buy at all.

Couldn't get in the past couple hours.

MP SW is $60.

Ok, so if you don't realize the parallels, does it still count? If you eliminate the "morality/preaching" aspects---is it not just a story? (that goes for the bible itself, too)

I disagree with that, too. My fave book of them is "A Horse and his boy". Pure story IMHO. "The Final Battle" is my least-liked. Most preachy.

Narnia=best books I've ever read. My all-time favorite series. So I strongly disagree with myk.

Wipeout HD?

Answering my own question: Another coat did repeat the last one---shiny spots in the same areas. I wonder if the plastic is "different" on that piece---it sliced off VERY easily with an Xacto. Almost peeled off. So I sliced/sanded off most of it. Will let it dry/harden (lacquer and enamels soften the plastic a bit) then do a final sanding and spray again tomorrow.

Ok, I was specifically thinking 500 years prior to the game.

Nah, a Xenogears prequel would be much better.

I wasn't at all impressed with their Lion Voltron. It's the same toy we've had for 20 years, with new joints. If they'd actually done something like improving the basic sculpt of the lions, then it'd have been worth it. Some day, someone will make a red and green lion that don't suck. And a skinnier black lion. It's not that hard, you just have to mold the things out of more than 5 pieces, and utilize a transformation more complex than a gobot. A few folding panels on the flanks would work wonders for green and red lion, to hide where the legs retract into. And have Voltron's shoulders recess into black lion's. It's clear their goal was a "tweaked version of the original" and not an attempt at a truly new, awesome, ultimate edition of the character. It was kind of like Takara's Encore series---the original toy, slightly improved.

I've been heating up my spray can more and the results have been more consistent, so I'm happy. However, the last part I sprayed came out funny on one side (I knew it was going to be the last bit of paint that can had--shouldn't have risked it---I put on too much/too wet as I had to get in real close for the last pass or two). Small areas dried super-duper glossy as a result. It literally looks wet. I waited 6 hours and used a hair-dryer on it for a while, and it still looks like it was sprayed 30 secs ago. But I risked touching it--it's dry there. So---should I just add another thin coat on top, or sand it down first? In my experience, gloss paint is even more dependent upon the previous layers than other paints---so if I add another coat, won't the new coat also look "glossier" in those same spots, due to having such a smooth underlying coat? Or, since the new coat will be less glossy inherently, will it kind of flatten everything out? I'll have to wait a while before I can sand---gloss paint takes a while to REALLY dry, and it just gunks up if you try to sand it before it's REALLY dry. Again--my goal is not to achieve a certain level of gloss, just that everything looks even. (I don't have much experience with gloss---military ships and planes pretty much only ever call for lots of shades of dull grey)

New Blu-Ray this week: Galactica, entire series including Razor Galactica Season 4.5 Dollhouse, Season 1 The entire Fast and the Furious series 12 Monkeys Green Lantern: First Flight Dragonball: Evolution

Umm, that actually does appear to be another difference between the Hasbro and Takara versions---Hasbro uses bright orange-red plastic and too-light blue plastic. Takara's version is much darker, glossier, and metallic--quite possibly painted. The doors certainly are.

DOA XBV2 is much worse, if you can believe it. That's quite high on my list of "I want those minutes of my life back".

That model is incorrect for *any* Jolly Rogers scheme. Though which scheme could determine "totally wrong" vs "slightly wrong". (For $230, I'd demand either "perfect" or "only very, very, slightly wrong")

Last of the Mohicans?