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  1. David Hingtgen
    Takara is ALL ABOUT TINY FOOT-WHEELS lately.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Huh. I think I liked it more than the last one.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Hoping VF-22 shows up in Delta again, maybe a DX -21/22.... Or heck, just give us more VF-31A's. Any scheme, with or without FAST packs. Just more 31A's!
  4. David Hingtgen
    Yeah---make all the missile hatches a generic grey, and leave the OTHER colored bits as the "color-matching accent". But having every single missile-hatch be color-coordinated to the pilot, is just overkill. Even Max and Milia 1J's, who STARTED the color-coded-to-the-pilot thing, didn't go that overboard.
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    Compared to the Yamato version, the Bandai fold booster is a much more vivid green---I'd look at "general/gaming/railroad" colors, not military/camo colors.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Nope, they're gonna keep doing skinny-bodied Harriers.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Really, human-form Mystique on the poster?
  8. David Hingtgen
    I believe it's true, based on the few number of B/D Tomcats I've been able to get close enough to, to inspect the vane area, to try to confirm it. Most museums have A's, and the few D's on display tend to be 'roped off'. I don't know of any B's around nowadays. As for roll control: Tomcats mainly use their tailplanes to roll. The spoilers are only supplemental, and only when the wings are out. When the wings are back, the spoilers never raise, it's purely tailplane movement. WAY too many F-14 sims/games, use only spoilers, all the time, or use spoilers+tailplanes, all the time. It really should be tailplanes all the time, and sometimes add in spoilers. Nozzles: this goes for all jets that can adjust it: Open at idle. As throttle increases, the nozzle tightens closed, up to "full military (non-burner) power". Then, once you go into afterburner, it starts to open up again. So basically the opposite of how a lot of games do it. Open "at the extremes" (idle, and full burner) and closed "near the mid-point" (full throttle but no burner).
  9. David Hingtgen
    Glove vanes are nice (still present in 7 IIRC), but getting the primary roll controls and nozzle movements wrong more than counters that little detail.
  10. David Hingtgen
    That "turned me off" from their channel for a long time--but once I finally clicked on one, I found that "despite their stupid bug-eye stills", I do like much of what they put out.
  11. David Hingtgen
    I think AC5 peaked in several categories. I think it was the only one to truly do the F-14's flight controls right, and how nozzles work. (sad that things have regressed---it's obvious some of the more plane-minded people on the team are gone now)
  12. David Hingtgen
    Very curious to see how that works/holds up. Gonna chrome the rear bumper, too?
  13. David Hingtgen

    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I didn't make the connection until you pointed it out---but very much so. Probably because I haven't actually looked at the scheme in years, but have liked it since the moment I first saw it. A (rare) great update/improvement to the original.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Are they intentionally omitting Sharon or what?
  15. David Hingtgen
    You know, nukes get SMALLER as they become more advanced/powerful... (just like most tech)
  16. David Hingtgen
    I'm just waiting to buy a kit of DSC 1701, or light-up-toy DSC 1701, or whatever. (the Eaglemoss diecast one just doesn't do it for me---looks more like primer grey-ish, and not the awesome quasi-gunmetal NX-01-homage coloring it seems to have on the show) Not sure what Picard could do, license-wise, asides from, well, a newer(older) Picard figure...
  17. David Hingtgen
    First Contact is at least FUN. Insurrection is bad AND boring.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I'm gonna bet this is unlicensed:
  19. David Hingtgen
    Huh. I could have sworn I'd seen them on the inner bay doors. Anyways, supposedly taken near Edwards:
  20. David Hingtgen
    I'm curious if the F-35's extra AMRAAM, means it has to get rid of the AIM-9 in there... If so, maybe try a 5/1 split vs the present 4/2? (6/0 would be a poor choice I think, nobody ever goes AIM-9less)
  21. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, it makes zero sense to have movie vs OVA versions of the Plus valks---it's just splitting the votes for identical valks. It'd be like having "Focker's VF-0 in Ep 1 vs Focker's VF-0 in Ep 2" as different categories... I mean, Isamu wins anyways (as he should), but it should be even more commanding... At least TV vs DYRL have differences.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Of course, I would argue that the Air Force getting "control" over space early on wasn't "right" in the first place, with them being a relatively new branch, while the Navy had been flying planes LONG before the Air Force even existed... Thus, "space forces" in Macross/Trek/Wars being under the jurisdiction of the Navy seems to be "correcting an error" if anything.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I've considered a Lepin pirate ship or two, just to take the sails and "toss out all the cheap plastic/give to goodwill"---Lego has made extremely few sails in the last decade, and many have more "kiddified" designs than earlier ones. And the prices for authentic sails are so insane, and the difficulty in printing fabric yourself---if it's a non-plastic part, that Lego themselves probably contracted out to a third party due to how rarely they use them (unless there's a Lego sail-weaving factory I'm unaware of), it's possible that you might even be getting "authentic" parts from the same factory that made the originals for Lego. (some people have reported that the KO sails are ridiculously similar to the originals) Also, I just want to point out, that a large chunk (majority?) of the larger Lepin sets, are sets from 5-10 (or even 15-20) years ago, that are still insanely desired by fans, that are impossible to buy now, or even bricklink. Lego has only ever re-released like 0.5% of the highly-desired sets. There's a ton of old sets I'd buy, if I could. "Lego Legends" needs to be greatly expanded. Give people another chance. When a single piece commands $25+ on Bricklink, Lego is just losing money by not reissuing the set that piece came in. Want to preserve the "collectibility" of a set? Fine, change a color or two, or a piece or two. Make "an extremely similar set" that will allow people to still "get that set" in a way. If you buy a Lepin set, of a set that Lego hasn't produced since 2005 or something, and Lego hasn't produced anything very similar since--Lego isn't losing any money/sales because of the KO of their old set---it's their own lack of "making sets of that category" that is preventing a sale, not a "competitor/KO". When the KO is the only option that exists, that's just Lego willingly abandoning that market segment. Buying the KO of a new set, just to save money? Yeah, that's very much an issue--buy the real thing whenever it's available. Same goes for when Lepin takes people's MOCs, and then sells it themselves. (that's even worse!). But buying the only version of a set that's been actively produced in the past 15 years, that only one company is currently making? That's just Lego letting people eat into their market share, by abandoning a market segment for a decade. If you literally cannot buy the original because it's been off the market for years and years, and Lego refuses to re-release even though they have the molds for all the parts still... I am still a "Lego purist" and have no Kreo, Megablock, or Lepin at all. But man do I get tempted when I see "set XYZZ now reissued, after 15 years off the market, but by Lepin"...
  24. David Hingtgen
    Plus a new Willow series with Warwick Davis! (Maybe we'll get a sequel to the Ewoks movie too).
  25. David Hingtgen
    Wow, F-6 footage! Also, I've never seen that "orange lightning bolt" scheme for the Marines F-8, and I thought I knew them all...
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