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  1. David Hingtgen
    My PG Wing Zero just keeps looking worse over time. Sigh, think I'll have to get both the High-Res and the GFF... (never did buy the MG, and the RG is basically lacking the multi-tone coloring that defines RG to me)
  2. David Hingtgen
    eBay flashsale, same as usual: PREMEMDAY15. Go snag something! I just got "CG-04", which I was unaware existed until I was browsing Bababobo's store---apparently it just released this week. It's pretty much what I've been wanting for years---the MP-11 seeker mold, in Thundercracker's deep G1 toy blue. They put the MP-07 scheme on the MP-11 mold. Not perfectly G1, but "the best combo of mold/paint yet" for me, as a G1 TC toy fan. Will take some repainting to make it "more G1", but I've done it before to an MP seeker, I'll do it again. Just really hope Reprolabels will up-size their sticker sheets for these guys. It should be REALLY simple for them to do.
  3. David Hingtgen
    With how Hollywood is now--probably some home-grown Chinese plane, which'll defeat everything and anything it comes across, up until the very last fight, where Maverick BARELY beats it... *this film co-produced by the People's Shen-Jian Aircraft Factory #4
  4. David Hingtgen
    That's true of most tampo---I've had parts soaked in alcohol for days, to the point that the plastic started getting brittle--paint long gone, but the tampo printing--still factory fresh...
  5. David Hingtgen
    He is, like Inferno (though not as badly)---uber toon-accurate. To the point of looking like a "toy" Countach. (you know what I mean!). Sideswipe is far more realistically colored/painted---vents, intakes, framing, etc. They may share alt-modes (more so than they should, really), but they're in two different "levels of realism".
  6. David Hingtgen
    That looks right---but Bandai production never matches Bandai prototype/samples. (and man, I'm getting worried---Mirage's seems to have had the fewest re-openings of any of the -31's---I've not even had the slightest chance to snag a pre-order)
  7. David Hingtgen
    I think they're more like Nintendo---it sold out, but they won't make more. Their F-22 releases are all like that.
  8. David Hingtgen
    So like a year after getting my Bandai TFA X-Wing, I had a mini-revelation while staring at the sticker sheet---the "unused" portion of the sticker sheet, in the canopy area---would basically be pre-cut masks for the framing. So I tried it. And it worked well: It still sucks that they give that stupid "framing with no glass" option, but at least I now have a good way to paint other ones like that. (God, I hope they don't make a B-Wing canopy like that though, it'd be masking a bulbous cone...)
  9. David Hingtgen
    That would be *the* flyable Sea Harrier.
  10. David Hingtgen
    I believe that at least of few of the releases, have the nosecone molded in blue, but painted over in grey.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Need a Milia pilot sculpt, and cast it in red plastic---then I'll buy.
  12. David Hingtgen
    That sounds more like the LED's burning out in a matter of seconds. There's no way 6 LED's would drain it that fast. Maybe 600...
  13. David Hingtgen
    Different head. Two lasers instead of one.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Interesting that they built it with a crystal-clear canopy, no tint at all. And yeah, I can paint very small things---but not eyebrows on a 1/72 Hayate.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Chogokin ISD? Either not much metal, or will weigh a ton. I actually hope it DOESN'T have much metal---can't sculpt that fine in diecast. I want 50,000 little details in fine plastic...
  16. David Hingtgen
    But, I mean--every pic we've ever seen of a model of Mirage's valk (Tomy 1/144, Bandai 1/72 kit, etc),---has been taken with a camera. Yet they always look purple, or at least magenta/fuschia--never red like the latest DX pics. It's not "just how cameras see Mirage's color".
  17. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. So are they saying the actual release will probably be more purple, or that only the proto was purple and the final release will be reddish like we've seen? Also, I've not seen a Mirage proto with a type-J head (unless they mean someone besides Hayate is the main character)
  18. David Hingtgen
    Exactly. It's pink, but not the right pink at all. Just like how Max's VF-22 is blue, but if it was painted like his VF-1J it'd be totally wrong--even though they're both blue.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Despite being the closest one by far, I rarely get Chicago customs. Usually SFO or NYC. And NYC almost always takes longer.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Thanks for sending me to check my paypal "conversion option"---I know I've changed it before---but it was back at "use paypal's awful rate". So, changed it back to "use CC's rate" yet again, hope it sticks around until it's time to actually pay. Pre-ordered Milia with N-Y.
  21. David Hingtgen
    My bank ALWAYS blocks HLJ. Have to call every time lately. Even though I've had them note it to allow HLJ, and Japan. Still gets blocked. It's not the credit card company, it's not HLJ, it's not PayPal. It's the bank that issued the credit card.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Googling that lead me to this: Now THAT's a helicopter!
  23. David Hingtgen
    More identification chart fun: (Falcon's tailplanes are wrong though)
  24. David Hingtgen
    Edited title. They look close to the F-14B/D hybrid that Shin flew. But definitely not an F-14A.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Just give me Thundercracker in his G1 toy colors. That's all I want. None of this half-assed "in-between toy and toon" blue.
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