David Hingtgen

??? It's the 11th. All 3 local Wal-Marts have no figs or vehicles. Also, Target/TRU have not restocked since the 4th. Did find an "exclusive"??? Firefly at TRU. Had a "Heroes" something sticker on it. Doesn't use the Beachhead mold, I recognized the arms as being those from the upcoming Target lavender-green AVAC (the ones with the shoulder armor, not the bicep patch). Neon green goggles. Pretty neat, and I still don't have a Firefly at all, but I've just never been a big fan of the character. ::edit:: Here it is: http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gallery...exc/firefly.jpg What mold are the lower legs from? Reminds me of WWI US doughboy look. Found this Barbecue too: http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gallery...xc/barbecue.jpg

Hmmn. Debating buying one of those TRU F-22s for my Strato-Viper, or acquiring an original Night Raven. The F-22 is cool, and it's already black--but it doesn't really DO anything, while the Night Raven had more moving parts than just about any other Joe toy. I've bid on a few Night Ravens over the years, but never won one. What's the current price for a mint, complete Night Raven? (sticker condition doesn't matter, I'd re-do them regardless). It's hard to check since 90% of the "complete" ones on Ebay seem to be missing a half-dozen parts. People have a strange definition of "complete" sometimes...

Gah, he was my last choice of the 3.

Yup.

RAAF Super Hornet time-lapse construction video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1247196550 They sure seem to attach and re-attach the canopy a lot.

Just assume they're twins, separated at birth (thus the different last names), who both went into the military.

Ok, the line's effectively over now (or, for at least a while), with the Cobra Island sets soon to be released. That said----what do you still want that wasn't made? So that we don't have giant long lists, please just list ONE from each category: A. Character that wasn't made at all. B. Character was made, but not the way you wanted---the wrong version, wrong color, or just done poorly. For me: A. Techno-Viper. B. Dress blues Gung-Ho.

My copy of Avast! has been going nuts with various pages lately... (though 1 was legit for sure)

I'd love a new Nitro/Moto-Viper, but I see little/no homage to the original in the new one. Silver visor? Pads? Two-tone blue? From pics I've seen, the 2 shades of blue are so close I don't even see it as intentional---I have Cobra troopers with more variation in shades of blue just between their arms and torso. The originals really had kind of a "Motorcycle driver" thing going on---these look much more like lackey troopers.

I thought only Aussie ones had problems with non-existant, and were retrofitted to non-functional. AFAIK Spanish etc ones still have none.

Land--yeah. Catapult off of--maybe. Launch-bars are a weird issue with the Hornet--there's "working, non-working, and non-existant" options.

Yeah, but the scrim itself looks really fake... Anyways---I hope Australia does a more interesting paint job than this when it's actually on their soil: (I hate to link off someone else's photobucket, but Boeing recently changed things and made it impossible to link and hard to download media pics)

E-hobby is apparently reporting that Buster Prime will have chrome. Don't know how much, but hopefully a lot.

If they REALLY wanted to hide the shape, they'd have built some "misleading shapes" with plywood and cardboard around the edges, THEN draped it. This was done for the F-117 during moves IIRC.

I saw my previous car (not mine, but similar make/model/year) very riced out last week. When you're ricing out an American 4-door sedan...

Ice-Viper so should have come with a snowboard. I've re-named him Boarder-Viper for his pants alone.

If they don't even know what the overall configuration is, then it's a LONG way from flying. It'll be another MiG 1.44......

We must set up a fund to pay that guy to go to AgentOne's house...

Yup, saw the Peterbilt on Ebay last night. Blue's a bit too dark and it's missing the tool boxes, but it's very nice. (tool boxes could be added fairly easily--I'd swap out to smooth-sided battery boxes, too)

The new figs do have Joe and Cobra-specific stands (look underneath). While it's nice Cobra finally got a 2-peg stand, it's almost useless---the pegs are quite far apart.

People should have voted what they really thought, and not try to out-think the "it's too obvious" factor. Then we'd probably have like a 95/5 split...

First Australian Super Hornet to be handed over Jul 8 in St Louis. Not sure when it'll actually be delivered to Australia (or even how)----it's quite possible it'll be disassembled and flown over in a C-17 or something.

cent---spray can, don't remember the number. It's not X-22. (and X-22 isn't flat) wm---I never skrimp on modeling materials--quite the opposite. It's just that Future self-levels better than anything on the planet, and people are always talking about using flattened Future as a final coat, so I figured I'd try it. So---what's the best ready-made rattle-can flat coat money can buy? (that won't eat decals).

FrenzyRumble can be found at TFW2005, and FrenzyRumble.com. And that Jetfire is actually one of his less-impressive customs---there are some AMAZING things he's done. Namely Leader Prime--repainted ALL of it. Even the flames, from scratch, to be more accurate. And chromed it. Also be sure to see his custom Menasor--yes, it combines, yes each one still has a robot and car mode. I think he's "beyond backlogged" with commissions---best bet is to watch ebay---he ebays a lot of his work. :;edit:: Here's Menasor: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...word-added.html http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...-wildrider.html http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...ler-9-11-a.html And here's Defensor: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...part-6-6-a.html http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-cus...obot-group.html

I've been trying to remove the big "JTFR" markings, but I can only "severely fade them". Any more chemicals/rubbing applied will end up having discoloration/hazing/gloss on the plastic itself. The final effect works pretty well---looks like they were painted on 50 years ago, and they've worn away to almost nothing. (I'd still prefer them totally gone though). I may intentionally do the same thing to the Decep logos on the wings, to go along with the "scratched-out" motif they have.