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  1. David Hingtgen
    So far---kinda floppy. Nothing pegs, it's all friction. And not much friction at that. It's one of those "backwards" joint setups---the minor joints are super-tight (like the finger tips and "cockpit"), the bigger joints (wings/canards/engine pods) are loose. Way too many parts seem held in place by gravity and little else. Biggest annoyances: The lights are either inserted/on, or sitting in the box. You cannot install them and turn them off. They are spring-loaded on-off switches, with "on" being achieved by inserting them into their designated location. They cannot be "attached to Trypticon, but not lit". Also, the hands can NOT fold up like the instructions/renders show. Something was changed. For the worse. This makes the "engine pods" in Nemesis mode "half split-open". I now have a less-than-pristine-condition right hand due to spending hours trying to make it do what the instructions show it doing...
  2. David Hingtgen
    Behold.......Sesquipticon?
  3. David Hingtgen
    They're a copy of the Fujimi F-14D prototype kit---which doesn't actually match the F-14D prototype or anything else.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I have seen some people totally repaint Rewind green for this, but this plastic doesn't take paint well. Plus---scraping. Also---vending machines are mostly black. Only the "ad space on the front" is colored. So I just added a bit of green on shoulders and treads to remove some red and make it more Dew-colored. Head needed a lot though, to not look like Rewind. Carved off his little head-camera, too
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    I don't think so---I believe those Top Gun ones were the only use of that mold, and is an F-14A mold. Those Macross ones are, um, erm----F-14D prototypes? They don't match any standard type, from what I can see. But definitely not A's at all.
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    Behold, Dispensor: (Yes, it's laundry day)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Working on a Dispensor:
  8. David Hingtgen
    Specifically, a very Su-24-ish vibe IMHO: And hey look, it can pretend it's an Sv-262 as well:
  9. David Hingtgen
    If Nora's ends up hot pink with orange stripes, I won't be surprised...
  10. David Hingtgen
    That's some serious light piping (and the blinds are closed).
  11. David Hingtgen
    Speaking as a HUGE Trypticon fan---it's just the G1 toy with more panel lines. I'm not seeing a whole lot of improvements.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Either/both would be must-buys.
  13. David Hingtgen
    When did Gunpla instructions start having English translations in them?
  14. David Hingtgen
    WWI through present, best to use a "standard" iron cross:
  15. David Hingtgen
    All done: (Camera phone on kitchen table---will do better/proper pics later) Edit---probably better if I use an angle that actually shows the hollowed-out antenna:
  16. David Hingtgen
    Doing the same. In-progress pic: Edit:. Think that's about as good as it'll get:
  17. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. I just barely started scoring, after thinking about the drill method. Abandoned it, but may re-try, now that I hear drilling works.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Me too. Presumably it was green-lighted due to Delta making a lot of money. Which means the big-wigs probably looked and saw "more idols than ever=bigger sales=make the next series even LESS about pilots/valks/space exploration"
  19. David Hingtgen
    Swirly plastic, is, as a rule, not heating it hot enough, and/or not enough pressure to truly mix it while liquid and injecting from multiple points into the cavity. The technical term is "flow marks". But it seems to have affected J4ZZ's feet pretty bad. I don't know many companies that can do metallic silver plastic without getting noticeable flow marks---even Bandai gets it wrong sometimes.
  20. David Hingtgen
    1. Mirage 2. Battroid mode 3. A new super pack, or at least a new weapons pod to replace the standard "gun+transmitter" combo.
  21. David Hingtgen

    Macross figures

    David Hingtgen replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Yup, about 48 hours after my private warehouse shipment deadline passes, Mirage is released. Sigh.
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    And I think it'll achieve that by having a lot more parts-forming and combiner-only kibble.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Well, I'll give you points for "pilot". (I like trains almost as much as I like planes, and many years I'll have spent more on trains than on TF's) Also, I've never been able to pinpoint what exactly, but something about that toy's eccentric rod has always bugged the heck out of me. (Besides the entire motion being flat/printed/cartoony). ::edit::. Think I got it. It's actually the main rod/piston. It's WAY above the drive axles. It couldn't actually drive the wheels, it'd have severely asymmetric thrusts.
  25. David Hingtgen
    That is not technically a train as there is no rolling stock. That's not a train car, it's the locomotive's tender. A locomotive by itself (the tender is considered part of it), is not a train.
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