David Hingtgen

Every valk ever has been designed that way---it just took until recently for a toy company to engineer them to match the line-art. (and quite few real fighters do it too) As for VG wings---it's part of the transformation, it kind of HAS to have them.

Just FYI, the VF-11 does have short rear landing gear, as valks go. As for bay/gear size---I'd assume it's the same reason as the last toy--the tailfin gets in the way in battroid mode. The bay is twice as long as the gear---but note that the half of the bay where the gear isn't, is half as deep--presumably to allow the tailfin to fold in closer there or something. The front half of the bay only exists to have an anime-accurate forward door there, not to allow for larger gear. The bay would have to be deepened there to fit a longer gear strut, and then the tailfins wouldn't fit inside. (they don't fit as it is---they only fold like 95% away, leaving a bit hanging outside--but it's obviously worth it as it lets them be like 2mm bigger)

I haven't see the new movie one. If the actual movie prop/render/whatever has those same proportions/shape---then whoever designed it is obviously not an aviation enthusiast.

Pointless update IMHO---so similar to the original, yet worse in every way. If you're going to go through the time/expense of an all-new mold that close to the original---just re-make the original! It was perfect. Now it just looks "toy-istic". The original was far more realistic, and that's what made it cool. Plus the original was HUGE. This looks Rattler/Conquest sized. GI Joe vehicles (IMHO) all about "plausible realism"---like, 'what we could have in 10-20 years'--or even what we could have now, had things gone differently. It's half-way to being a chibi/SD Night Raven.

Best (IMHO) Frontier music tribute so far: ::edited for better link:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAmXWljWTU&fmt=18

F-22 intake separation line---never easy to see, but look here: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1423535/L/ http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1384596/L/ http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1313059/L/ Look at the bottom corner, easier to see. It's pretty deep in. Also, I think the separation line is angled to match the intake lip. ::edit:: Ooh, this is probably the best shot: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1327080/L/

F-22 intakes are like the F-15, in that they're grey for the first couple of feet, then go to white. Walk-around (useful for everything but the intake interiors) http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/michae...k/f-22a_04-066/ More 747 stuff to celebrate its birthday-----something never before photographed, and rarely even seen----a 747's bow-wave: http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6472254 PS--787 and A380 are nothing compared to the A400M. THAT is a screwed-up program. It will set the record for longest gap between initial construction/roll-out/first flight/service entry.

Today's the 40th anniversary of the 747's first flight.

The F-14 is notable for having its first kill be itself: "The day I shot myself down": http://www.ejectionsite.com/F-14%20SHOOTDOWN.pdf

Tease!

Seconded---when they spend 30 secs arguing about how critical it is to be fast and accurate in this situation--she holds her guns gangsta-style and crossed-over? Ghost Train--you didn't miss anything. As for the engine room---I'm annoyed that I of all people didn't understand what it was until I came here. I thought they looked more like leaks or something--so "dark and streaky". Honestly at very first I thought there were more "relics of the past etched on the wall" for Tyrol, like on Earth. (hey, that'd be a twist, he used to serve on a previous Galactica...)

Googling around, the more I find, the more it seems the *PS3* is amazingly universal/tolerant---to the point that its internal power supply is actually a converter--if you can physically give it electricity, it'll do what it needs to do. HDMI seems to be the best bet for connecting, it seems to "not care" about ATSC, PAL, etc. I'd say you have good odds of being able to play games and watch Blu-Rays from a US PS3 on a euro HDTV.

HDTV universal---nope, instead of NTSC and PAL etc, now you have ATSC and DVB.

That's a boring Scarlett fig. Hopefully there'll be the 'armor' one later.

Can you move and merge as a single action? (merging is hard enough, as it's backwards IMHO---Thread A + Thread B means new thread has name of Thread B)

That sounds like a way better movie. Be sure to get Frank Welker to do the voice.

I moved this over here, though really it should probably be merged with the Transformers thread.

You mean there's a ranking?

A few planes have shot themselves down, but it generally requires a ballistic-trajectory dive immediately after firing to intercept their bullets---it's never because they were shot AS they fired.

Oh, it's BOOBY trap, not BOBBY trap. I was expecting something totally different. You gotta admit, the typo would probably be the funnier shirt.

It's just that they came so close yet so far to being "perfect right out of the box". MP TC doesn't have ANY black when he should have lots. Navy blue has never been a TC color. (I'm going to experiment some with paint stripping today and see what I can do) (since I'm doing the big hip-kibble mod, that actually affects things paint-wise, as the paint on the booms now lines up with the lower leg paint---looks weird in most cases, so it has to either be all gone or all the same color)

That's because those are the only things worth discussing in that approaching train-wreck.

Trying to think of how to paint my TC yet again. (you know, if they'd simply painted the accents BLACK to start with, he'd be done now) I mean, Skywarp's primary accent is purple, that never changes. TC's primary accent color is black, yet both Hasbro and Takara like to seem to **** around with that a lot, and often give us gunmetal or grey. Those aren't black. And this time they gave us navy blue. Also not BLACK. Repainting *everything* is impossible, mainly due to the forearms/fists. Luckily, those are the dullest and least-blue parts of him, and look OK as-is. I've thought about painting only the nosecone and tailfins black, so that he'd look right in jetmode--the nose and fins are mostly hidden in bot-mode, so he'd simply "change colors" when transforming. But then his bot-mode would still be mostly wrong, in being two-tone blue, instead of blue and black. Repainting almost everything would be a lot of work and chances for screwing up, and repainting dark dark blue into black almost seems a waste. Especially when even after all that the fists etc still wouldn't be right nor match. But G1 toon TC's fists didn't match the rest of him either. Then again, every other incarnation of TC has "matching" fists. Won't even get into lower rear fuselage/leg painting...

They may be a bit cliche and over the top, but I always felt the comics that made the most direct "CC to Hitler" comparisons were the best portrayal of CC and how he keeps himself in power and gathers followers.