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  1. David Hingtgen
    Well, more like the super-wide body makes the legs very far apart. He's like as wide as he is long (ignoring neck and tail---just the body). Looks odd to me. I mean, all Sludges look like that to some degree, but this is too much.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Have seen many say it's the 3P figure of the year/ever. If I wasn't so picky about Dinobot dino-modes, I'd have picked it up already. (Too wide).
  3. David Hingtgen
    Did the neck-replacement mod on TFC not-Snaptrap. Not as bad as I feared getting it in, but removing the old one was a pain. A minor difference, but every millimeter helps. Wish the new neck-hinge wasn't light pink though, makes the "floating head" effect stand out more---the original was solid green. Deep pink or dark grey would have been best--darker and blend in.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I think Graham is a fan of the EE Lightning, so here's a neat pic of one:
  5. David Hingtgen
    I've always thought a Tornado with a zillion Brimstones looked really neat.
  6. David Hingtgen
    eBay flash sale made it quite a bit cheaper---very impressed, nice figure. Best of Poseidon so far. Tried my new "hollow" insignia.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Would buy almost any of those 31A's. And why oh why did we never see any of those missile pod options? I like the one with the larger hatches, less of a -30 clone. As for the technical aspects---hmmn. "VFC". Compared to the known Active Flow Control of the -19-----I'm thinking either vernier flow control or vortex flow control. The diagrams seem equally appropriate for both. I almost want to say "vernier, used to control the vortex". With the explanation of the 31A having larger canards than the FSW versions to balance out the center of lift (thus making them lifting canards and not so much vortex-generators) I get the impression Kawamori is kind of on a canard "kick" at the moment, and their aerodynamic effects.
  8. 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...
  9. David Hingtgen
    Behold.......Sesquipticon?
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. David Hingtgen
    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.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Behold, Dispensor: (Yes, it's laundry day)
  14. David Hingtgen
    Working on a Dispensor:
  15. David Hingtgen
    Specifically, a very Su-24-ish vibe IMHO: And hey look, it can pretend it's an Sv-262 as well:
  16. David Hingtgen
    If Nora's ends up hot pink with orange stripes, I won't be surprised...
  17. David Hingtgen
    That's some serious light piping (and the blinds are closed).
  18. 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.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Either/both would be must-buys.
  20. David Hingtgen
    When did Gunpla instructions start having English translations in them?
  21. David Hingtgen
    WWI through present, best to use a "standard" iron cross:
  22. 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:
  23. David Hingtgen
    Doing the same. In-progress pic: Edit:. Think that's about as good as it'll get:
  24. 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.
  25. 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"
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