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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'd probably buy it, but I don't expect it to be made.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Yup. Kinda glad I never switched from original to (semi)renewal---they never did end up making super parts for it. (Sure, not on-screen canon, but when has that ever stopped someone from releasing valk accessory packs?) I'm still kinda torn----the renewal is physically better in some ways, slightly worse in others. Colors---stripes and feet etc are clearly better (grey vs lavender) but the main color is just so, so very wrong. Bright Xmas green compared to olive drab---heck, even the original may be too green, they're nearly brown at times in the show. If I ever find a broken one, I may swap some parts...
  3. David Hingtgen
    Re: Your last sentence: yup.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Pretty sure he's wearing a VX-31 patch: ::edit:: Hmmn, Maverick's new ride looks like it'd fit in pretty well with their own Super Hornets: Blue instead of red, and more black, but overall similar theme of "black tail, straight bold stripes on fins".
  5. David Hingtgen
    The launch code for nukes for many years, in the early days, was "000000". One guy's job was basically to check every base/weapon, and make sure that it was. Goal/thinking was "if we ever actually have to launch, we want to be absolutely sure that we get it right, the first time, without delay, as every second could be another city lost". Preventing accidents seemed to be a "distant second", concern-wise.
  6. David Hingtgen
    So, just to double-check------this: Has nothing of Onslaught? Head to thighs is pure "pants-forming"?
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Well, I'll be doing like I often do---bookmarking the VF-4 page of the main sites, trying to stay logged in 24/7 to all of them, and checking for orders being reopened for just a minute: When I wake up. When I leave for work. At lunch. On break. Walking to the car. When I get home. Before I go to bed. When I wake up in the night. It sometimes works, it's how I've gotten at least 2 valks. But it shouldn't be that hard...
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    I came THIS close to achieving it---there was one VERY tough pin preventing me from doing so, but I got 95% of the way there. Should have taken a picture. Honestly, should have just forced it, accepting it if it broke, just to show how utterly separate the two modes were. To this day I complain about how phoned-in it was---the few spots that DID offer some "internal volume to hide robot parts", were ignored and left hollow. They didn't even seem to try. "Let's just put 100% of the robot underneath" "But what about the big empty engin----" "No, I said 100% of the robot underneath!" Yeesh, he's got 2 big empty engine housings, and his engine-thighs are completely separate parts, hanging down below...
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    HLJ's site MIGHT load and finish logging me in by then...
  10. David Hingtgen
    Hope they fix the engine paint before actual release---bright BLUE exhaust on the Executor?
  11. David Hingtgen
    I'm curious what the combat radius is, for F-35 vs A-6, both carrying 18K loads. And considering the Marines used both, I wonder what max payload for a still-VSTOL-capable F-35B is.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, you'd think that with the F-22 being the star of the series, the country that actually has them, might be a decent market for the game...
  13. David Hingtgen
    Infinity did have a tier system, but it was far too simple---medium and god-like were in the same tier.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Why stop there? Heavyarms Supernova has twice the gatling guns:
  15. David Hingtgen
    Eh, not quite IMHO. The F-35 is supposed to be a cut-down F-22 ('90% as good for half the cost'----only the final result was backwards), and/or a "jack of all trades" replacement for everything from the F-117 to the A-10. The P-38, was designed to be the fastest, ultimate interceptor of its day. No compromises, no other mission. The P-38 is more comparable to the F-22 in that regard. Really dedicated to a single specific role, to do it extremely well. Vs "well, what's the best we can do across A, B, and C, for X dollars?"
  16. David Hingtgen
    Don't know why 3P companies use "Hasbro awful milky-grey-plastic", when "deeper metallic silver" plastic is very much a thing. Airfix and Revell model kits have had nice metallic silver for decades, and Lego pumps out "metallic pearl silver" parts every day. No, they're not as good as actual silver paint, but they are 10x "deeper" and more metallic-looking than the awful stuff Hasbro (and UT apparently) use. There is NO reason to ever use that awful stuff unless you're either trying to save money, or you don't know "the magic formula" to actually make sturdy, injection-molded silver plastic.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Ukraine has always had "bold blue" camo on their Flankers, this is the 3rd major version I know of. Original: Splinter: Digital:
  18. David Hingtgen
    The new Ukrainian blue splinter camo? Do want.
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Pretty much. 2-digit "abbreviated" modex numbers on the flaps and rudders are fairly common and lasted at least until the end of the Tomcat era, so several decades.
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    They really, really should have called it "Lightning Strike" instead, precedence/naming conventions be damned.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Yet the final answer was what we all thought from the very first pics of Mirage's---"way too red, compared to the actual on-screen animation and official artwork". So I won't be at all surprised if the final color for Arad's armor is "way too much like the fruit, and not the more rusty-color"
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    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'll take all those in HMR or DX. And a MAXL.
  23. David Hingtgen

    Hi-Metal R

    David Hingtgen replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Yup. For a game that had many awesome schemes (VF-11 especially), they sure did an awful job on the VF-4.
  24. David Hingtgen
    LEGO has the best customer service, period. Email or call, you'll definitely get your missing piece. I've seen them airmail a single 5-cent part from Denmark, to make things right.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Nobody's posted this yet? I think it's the best-painted thing EVER, I'd buy a car with this finish:
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