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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'd be surprised to see any other HiRM from G-Gundam. I think something like an HGBF Rain is more likely. (Honestly I'm surprised they haven't done Rain--she's got to be a more popular character than most of the ones they HAVE done as kits)
  2. David Hingtgen
    It'll become "the best Trek of all" by the end. Keep watching, if at all possible.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Yup, decal decal decal. Panel lines are sparse, and deep. Fit's not too bad, *by AMT standards*. (this is going by the previous 3-packs, not the newer 7-pack). They'd probably actually look better with the panel lines etc puttied in. Just dunk the whole ship in Mr Surfacer, sand smooth, spray light grey (some more bluish, some more greenish), then decal away.
  4. David Hingtgen
    The Deagostini "Build the X-Wing" is going on right now. At least a year to go, it's still fairly early on.
  5. David Hingtgen
    I didn't know Deagostini was re-releasing the Falcon. Wonder if it'll have different (read:more) paint----the original is un-weathered, and looks very bland as-is. You usually only see pics of built-up ones that have had countless hours of additional painting/weathering done, not often do you see "out of the box" builds. One of the big things they changed/promoted for their X-Wing, is that the X-Wing is pre-weathered. (the X-Wing is gorgeous, asides from a fatal flaw---the wings have 2 pivots, a left and a right, at the sides of the fuselage---they do not properly "cross in the middle" and this affects their positioning/angles.
  6. David Hingtgen
    It's bugged me to this day, that they rearranged the decals to make "NCC-1017" instead of "NCC-1710", which screwed up the whole registry number system, when there was a super-easy blatantly obvious alternative staring them in the face... (or, if the budget allowed---buy TWO kits, then you could make 1707, 1711, 1717, etc)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Pretty much---I read some more on that story this morning, and it seems they "went all serious" to the point of making the script robotic and lifeless. So yeah---uber-serious now, to the point of sounding odd, stilted, and "not the way real people talk". As in, sounds like a bad translation, due to how "awkward and literal" everything is now. Even if, technically, it's a "very accurate translation". It simply "doesn't work/flow at all well in English any more". PS---and yeah, apparently people liked the previous dub when it premiered. How dare people have fun and enjoy an OVA on the big screen, and not "be all serious all the time about a serious film". I wonder if people weren't supposed to cheer during EoE, when it's Asuka vs the mass production units? "Sorry, that's not supposed to be exciting, it's supposed to be a visual representation of the futility of life, against such severe odds---be meloncholy and morose, please, while viewing".
  8. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn, maybe I should just do my re-watch in raw Japanese, no subs, and just "try to remember what the original VHS subs said". (yes, I last watched it on tape)
  9. David Hingtgen
    It's just a (very good-looking) siege titan-class figure.
  10. David Hingtgen
    See, that's the only reason I'd buy it---but will wait until it's actually released to decide/confirmed. Violet/lavender+black=awesome scheme on any robot. But Bandai seems to abhor true purple, even when that's the suit's color---they always switch to "purple-ish blue" at the last second, on WAY too many releases. They'll SHOW purple, but almost never actually mold it...
  11. David Hingtgen
    Us airliner fans have already BEEN saying that. Twin-engine widebody? Twin-engine narrowbody? T-tailed regional jet? There's 100% of the current production. (asides from the last few 747-8 and A380's to trickle out...)
  12. David Hingtgen
    Basically---a ton of minifigs and "misc" parts are made in China. But the core plates/bricks/slopes/cones/tiles, all the "normal" LEGO pieces, are not made in China----there's many other factories (Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, etc) that do that----LEGO keeps most of the essential bits "close to home".
  13. David Hingtgen
    Should have gone with the Star Trek: Excelsior series back when it had a decent chance of happening. (hey, they got the whole ST6 cast back for VOY...)
  14. David Hingtgen
    LEGO has reissued like 0.001% of their sets. And that's not one of them. There are no "factory extras" from LEGO. As for quality--varies. Some are awful, some are 90-95% as good as the originals. None are equal to the real thing. Check out the many "Lepin" reviews on Youtube, for some comparisons. (They are/were the main direct KO of Lego sets--assume that a lot of the sets on ebay are from them, even if not named as such). For that price/seller rating, I'd be concerned that it's not even a KO, but more likely to get "beads in an envelope" when/if your package arrives. Bootleg sets are cheaper than the real thing's MSRP, but not THAT cheap.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Decaling 101: Do not apply a decal over a matte surface.
  16. David Hingtgen
    The latest pics I saw (looked like actual test-shot, not painted sample) of HG Sandrock looked REALLY blue. Terrible, IMHO. I'd have accepted most anything from "Deathscythe navy" to "Tallgeese dark grey" (though would of course prefer pure black, but Bandai pretty much doesn't ever mold true black)----but it looked almost purple-indigo to me. Will have to paint the whole thing if that's the actual molded color.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Takara is ALL ABOUT TINY FOOT-WHEELS lately.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Huh. I think I liked it more than the last one.
  19. 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!
  20. 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.
  21. David Hingtgen
    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.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Nope, they're gonna keep doing skinny-bodied Harriers.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Really, human-form Mystique on the poster?
  24. 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).
  25. 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.
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