David Hingtgen

First of all, the ones in Frontier are Queadluun-Rea, not Rau. Second---have you checked Mr March's site? http://www.new-un-spacy.com/macrossf/queadluun-rea.htm There's also the official site, with a slightly larger version: http://macrossf.com/mechanic/mecha10.html Though if you want cannon references, it might be best to just screen-cap. Episode 4 has very unique angles for both Q-R's and VF-25's that haven't shown up in any artwork.

Gah, this came up like 1 page ago. IGNORE HLJ, HLJ IS VERY OFTEN WRONG. It is snap together like every other Bandai mecha kit ever. I'm wondering what shipping will be---I currently have SAL selected from HLJ, but lately it seems that it's been taking a really long time. But I also don't want to spend 50%+ of the cost of the kit on EMS...

Anyways... Shin---we need pics, and a more descriptive method of shoulder armor removal. Sorry, but you're going to have to define "side" and which direction to pull it off, etc.

If they were cheap enough, I'd buy a bunch. Moving swing-wings please. No need for working canopies IMHO---what could you see?

Anyone tried parts-swapping? Can you mix parts between GN-U and Revoltech? (not just Revoltech valks, but ANY Revoltech figure?)

Macross Design Works book has a final(?) version drawing of battroid dated March 1995, that has a head exactly like the "finless" SHE one. I honestly don't know where the finned one comes from. Somewhat annoyingly, none of the drawings in the Design Works specify a variant (G, etc)---they are simply "VF-4". The "finned" SD one seems to match a very early concept sketch head. The SD is dated 1990.

Eh, give my a GN-U Mylene's valk---my Bandai battroid kit just doesn't cut it any more.

Semi-random question: While rifling through the Titanium ships looking for BSG ones, I noticed all the recent ones seem to have what looks like "Aayla Secura in form-fitting Storm Trooper armor" on the borders of their artwork. Is that just outright fan service or what? Googling didn't bring up anything.

If we're doing Super Robot Wars, M+ is the best IMHO: This guy has a ton of SRW stuff: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ShinigamiDuo

If the back of the shield is a body flap, then it should work like the space shuttle's----the entire assembly moves up and down, just like an elevator. (A lot of people don't know that part of the shuttle is movable).

Anime magic. The VF-11 is one of the most "realistic" valks, especially for a non-CG one. Except for the tailfins---they just can't be anywhere near as big as they are drawn, yet fit in the legs.

The new Yamato VF-11 will be a lot better... But anyways, the heatshield/canopy cover is split in two when retracted. Half comes from above, half from below. (or if you're going by fighter mode, half comes from the front/nosecone, half from the rear)

VF-11 has a cover for the head on the underside, a lot like the YF-19's. It ends up behind/below the neck in battroid. It's the piece with the small slots behind the "shoulderblade" parts. It LOOKS like it's attached to/between them, but it's not. I'm very curious how the new Yamato will do it, as it frankly sucked on the old one. As for the tailfins--they rotate forwards, sliding INTO the legs. They are actually barely visible in the lineart when retracted, if you know what you're looking for.

I've gotta go to Ohio now: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheet...a.asp?fsID=7152 YF-23 #1 fully restored and put on display this week. 18 years old now, and still looks like "the next generation" of fighter jet.

I'm surprised (and disappointed) we haven't seen a bunch of new Grace fanart lately--we had more when she was all covered up!

See, I pose it rarely, so if I let it happen "naturally" it'll take years. (Of course, it's a catch 22---the reason I don't post it often is because I'm so afraid of breaking something, and I have to hold the hinges and re-position the chest plate every time I move it)

It was easier just to post my own copy than to find the original: Can anyone translate to see if it says anything other than "this opens up to allow the ventral fin to fold in".

I've seriously considered that. And VF5SS---that's extremely trollish behaviour.

You know, I've wondered since we first saw the schematics of how the leg-side-doors open up to allow the ventral fins to fold, if they could be used as airbrakes. Huge ones for sure, but they could do it F-15-style and open only a few degrees, with their large surface being averaged out by the small amount of deployment. It does seem to be a needlessly huge part for just the ventral fins to fold. Do they have some other function? They open "the wrong way" for a missile compartment and there's no evidence at all of there being any there. Also---have we ever actually seen those doors open up? I've never noticed it animated, the ventral fins always seem to magically/instantly be in their folded position. Then again, I've never freeze-framed a transformation.

Well, it's a lot easier to scream a vowel than a consonant. Rankaaaaaaaaaa works much better than Sheryllllllllllllll.

Zoids were advertised in the US as "action figure model kits".

No matter how good The Secret of Nimh is, the book is better. Different name though, you need to find "Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH".

Wow, I've never seen an F-16 kit that had the stiffeners molded on. Reminds me of the Tamiya 1/32 F-14 and F-15 kits--they copied a real one so closely, they even included that specific plane's patches/repairs---which just means you have to sand them off.

Every report I've seen on MW of using mkv2vob has resulted in no subs, but xvid4psp seems to work fine. I'd try xvid4psp---it's what I use for my 360.

I believe the latest batch to Los was held up in customs at the last minute. Lots of stuff from Japan seems to have been delayed lately.