David Hingtgen

wm cheng---as of today Anasazi's decals are back. If you haven't been following the thread, another member (Night Stalker) has started printing them (with Anasazi's permission/artwork). See here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=462925 Also---are the red "remove before flight" markings simply a red rectangle with white lettering? If that's the case, then they are literally remove before flight tags, and really shouldn't be decalled onto a model at all.

Posting it here in case people don't check the customs forums, but decals are available again, and there's already new ones for the YF-19! (and by decals I mean decals, not stickers) http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=462925

Friday's ep was new, and had the F-15...

If anyone has any of Osprey's books, they're basically the animated version of that. I enjoy it immensely---seeing it is quite different than reading about it.

Am I the only one who watches "Dogfights" on The History Channel? It's been like 2 months and I haven't seen anything about it. Best show on TV, if you like planes... (I pretty much watch that and "Heroes" nowadays)

He's asking why did Sony stop Lik-Sang.

Part of the problem is that Prime has "super single" wheels and tires, which are a new thing for semis. They look weird in real life, and I'm 99% sure they were specifically chosen for Movie Prime due to the fact that it means there's 4 less wheels to deal with. PS--anyone know of good pics of Movie Prime in truck mode? Something besides the first "running through the desert with bushes in the foreground" pic?

Something I wondered about but never posted: Am I the only one who thought "flashback" Sylar was supposed to give us a Clark Kent vibe?

I need to think up a GamerTag at some point (my 360 is still totally offline). Something aviation related probably, but still pretty anonymous. Was considering "Sundowner" if it was available, and could get a good avatar.

Those of us who like F-4's, really ABHOR calling anything else a Rhino though. And we Tomcat fans are still unhappy. Thus, "Super Bug". Or Shornet. coota0--- The SLAM-ER *is* a land-attack missile. But the Slammer is the AIM-120. It's the same as F-4D vs F4D. Both fighter jets, but totally different planes. Just a hyphen can make all the difference. For most anything aviation-related, "ER" means "extended range" and is pronounced "ee are", not "er" to avoid confusion. Thus SLAM-ER and Slammer sound quite different. And a 747-400ERF is not an "urf".

I didn't download them, but the preview pics/descriptions of the YF-23 videos seemed to me to be nothing more than the "YF-23 revealed" DVD uploaded. Which I have a copy of. It's much better to watch the YF-23 on a big screen.

ARKARY made the point I was going to--the heatshield is black, the rest of the plane is lighter. Thus, the plane isn't black. Also, the black-grey mentioned in the Hasegawa instructions isn't a generic color, they specify RLM66, which is a Luftwaffe color that literally translates to "BlackGrey". The RLM wasn't very inventive with color names, as opposed to the US's FS595 system, which has a name for almost every shade. RLM66 is considered to match FS36081, "Euro 1 Grey". Though personally for painting Ivanov's I would go with the next darker shade, 36076 (which is the darkest grey in the FS system). 36081 IMHO is distinctly "dark grey" while 36076 is *very* close to black. Anyways--we always want bigger tailfins because Yamato keeps making them too small. Well, on the Sv-51 they're too big, so this time we want them smaller. All we want is to make it match the lineart/anime. PS---Nora's has a distinctly gold canopy. Check it out: (this is also a good angle for comparison, this is the CG model from Bandai's site) ::edit:: More pics---here's the CG model for the CF Sv-51---I still think it looks kinda golden. ALso, Nora's in gerwalk.

"Meteor-like" is the last I heard about the long-range AMRAAM too. Hadn't heard about the AIM-120D designation though, is that official/likely? I figured it might get a whole new number, or at least skip a few letters. AIM-154 would be nice and appropriate.

Weight and size is rarely an issue--a filled drop tank weighs more and is larger than any bomb or missile by far. Radar issues are the main thing---if it wasn't DESIGNED to guide the Phoenix missile, it's not going to be able to. Physically, the F-15 is using its own center pylon, and a very thin and small adapter, then an F-14 wing-mounted Phoenix pylon. I'm betting the Phoenix will be dumb-fired by the F-15 with no guidance/signal at all, and will just head on out until it falls into the ocean. They're using it as a readily-available high-speed rocket, nothing more. A giant, very fast bullet would serve just as well if there were any. As for the Super Hornet and Phoenix replacement---haven't heard anything for a while, I think they're still going for a "Super AMRAAM"---may simply be bigger for a larger motor, or may be a 2-stage boosted model.

Interesting, I thought they were ALL white, the same shade--because my Milia came with a "valk off-white" instead of a matching "Milia/Max pure white" piece. Kinda annoyed me, it doesn't quite match, even though every other white piece of the valk matches, and doesn't use any Roy or Hikaru off-white pieces.

That was the VF-11.

Phoenix on an F-15: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/researc...nixmissile.html Because it's the cheapest way to go Mach 5.

Do we know the Sv-51 is supposed to be BLACK? I've always thought Ivanov's was very dark grey. Very dark grey is a lot more common on planes that pure black.

I don't think that kit can transform, so it can have the wing slice right through the legs and head.

Flankers and Hornets have long noses, and are the inspiration. If you want a short-nose plane, get an F-8.

Generally, I'm pleasantly surprised by Yamato's work. It's better than I had hoped. Anyways--T.V. already covered AA-9 missiles, and about the canards--- Here at MW we had already discussed that basically there's no point to a forward-swept canard, and there's little to go by in real life for how they behave. If not mass balancers, then I vote for purely stylistic to make it "look Russian". Look at any older MiG or Sukhoi---they are just covered with mass balancers all over. Especially look at the MiG-21's h.stabs-----the SV-51's canards are clearly based on them IMHO. IMHO the Sv-51 is basically a "Soviet Hornet". I see little Flanker influence, but a lot of simply "Russian" details.

My current theory (and the only one I've really come up with--I tend to try NOT to analyze and predict everything about a show) is that Linderman is somehow "behind it all". Too many connections. Maybe he's Mr Bennet's boss, or is the guy who found Claire for Mr Bennet, and it's not sheer chance that of all the things he collects, he likes Isaac's paintings and the exact sword that Hiro needs.

Compression alone isn't the issue, it's the program. I use 3 main programs for Jpeg, and they all vary in quality/size for the same "compression". One of them often triples the size of the file when going DOWN to 90% quality! (but I use it just for viewing, as it loads SO fast). And ironically, the best compromise between file size and quality, is the freebie that came with my scanner. For the same pic, at say 85% quality---some programs will make that 30K, some 50K, and another 100K. And they will all look visibly different, and image quality and file size will NOT correlate. With a different program, I bet BBTS could have better pics that actually take less disk space.

The spikes on the tailfins I'd vote for being radar warning receivers (RWR) (especially considering their similarity to the VF-0's), but the ones on the canards I think are more likely mass-balancers. Same as you see on the top of an F-15's fins.

Graham---Oh, my YF-19 is quite easy to transform *now*--with the sanded down tabs it takes less time than a 1/60 or 1/48 VF-1. It's that FIRST time that was hell and it exploded into pieces. Why don't you send me one of yours instead? If I have problems, then obviously I'm doing something wrong and my valk was fine to start with. But if I can get the neck of yours tranformed in 2 secs, obviously it's my valk that was the problem (pre-tab-sanding), not my technique.