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David Hingtgen

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  1. The gun isn't needed to fill the forearm. It just seems that like 90% of people don't close the arm back up if they remove the gun parts. See here: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/27417960d1391975406-fansproject-stunticons-menasor-aka-m3-intimidator-img_0542.jpg That is how the forearm is supposed to look. PS----read this and do this: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/tutorials-how-tos/1003017-fansproject-diesel-tight-waist-area-fix.html On mine, I didn't remove anything, but I did sand down the ratchets. I also sanded the skirt/armor vs simply scraping away the seam lines. Trust me, it makes transforming Diesel way easier.
  2. Sv-51 has separate bay/strut main gear doors, too.
  3. I generally use the same rule for valks as for airliners---if you CAN close a door after the gear is down---do so. (I imagine that the actuators etc for valk gear doors can be super-tiny due to overtech, and so have plenty of room to do so---vs being moved by the actual gear itself like in smaller planes)
  4. Oh yeah, I forgot about the Zeta 3 being pink. Man, I wanted that one most of all. (If if was properly purple).
  5. If that new Lightning Zeta is actually molded in PURPLE, I might get it. But every single "Amuro's purple-accent scheme" Gundam kit ever, always turns out to have blue plastic. (but all the painted promo shots always have purple).
  6. There's a difference between "silly and fun" and "just plain stupid/unbelievable".
  7. UW Computron's colors are much better than I thought they'd be. I almost think they went semi-toy-inspired for the colors, but the pattern is animation. No idea where red Afterburner came from though, he's pure orange in both toy and toon form.
  8. Nah, Zero has way more "magic" as in different types from different sources. (Always totally unexplained) This became apparent in later viewings. M7 just has "anima spiritia". Seto--/those are valid points, I'll have to research/think more about valks and G's.
  9. Whoa whoa whoa/---an entire episode of Macross 7 Plus was focused on Gamlin's G-training and how strenuous it was----and that was in a VF-11. And I'm pretty sure I recall Alto getting thrown around in the cockpit during hard maneuvers in his -25. So I doubt that the -31 could just magically completely eliminate G-forces. Especially for people outside the cockpit.
  10. I believe it's all white paint everywhere. Body, headlights, wheels.
  11. And raw amount of merchandise----Mirage wouldn't have her own figure etc coming already if she was "just" a pilot. She's got more stuff than most of the idols.
  12. Erm, they all came molded in multiple colors. Sure, you needed paint/decals/stickers to finish them, but Michael's was blue and Luca's was green and they all had grey "internal" bits and a few colored accent bits.
  13. You have noticed Leozack is hanging around with Tarn in the last few issues, right? I don't know the other team members well enough to notice if any IDW versions of them have shown up as well.
  14. Then all you need to do is wait, as Ryu-Oh looks pretty good---I just have zero interest in that version, and didn't like Monstructor enough to pay $$$$ for a 3P version.
  15. Monstructor is effectively like 80% done already. FP is almost done with Dinoking, who was just a repaint of Monstructor with a new head. They just did the repaint first as its more popular in Japan. Note that the pretender shells are utterly insanely expensive and separate. Odds are good they won't even make the shells for the Monstructor version.
  16. Quantron has a sucky torso-bot (in all modes) which basically kills the team for me. But Warbotron's is worse in almost every way. I plan to just wait for a better one.
  17. That does look like an awfully small tab for that critical an area, with that much weight. Considering the audience and design goals, it's even more baffling.
  18. I certainly hope/believe that that is of course, literal "placeholder stick-gear". But I will not be shocked if the final mold looks like that. As for practicality---I do wonder about the gear bay doors being that large and that close to the fuselage---they certainly couldn't do a carrier landing, the gear struts only seem to have about 1" of movement to be able to compress, before the gear door/kneecap would slam up into the shin. Plus, retracting the gear--would pull the gear doors into "massive airbrake position" right when you're trying to accelerate. Now, that's not unprecedented---the F-111 does it, as does, erm, uh, some Russian plane I can't think of right now... But I've never thought it was a smart way to do gear doors.
  19. I just realized what the main gear reminds me of---the YF-23's. Just the "bent backwards" shape etc. And the YF-23's gear is itself, modified F-18 gear. (basically removing the largest secondary strut). (yes, this is a real YF-23, it just looks "fakey" because this pic was taken just after refurbishment---fresh paint on the stealthiest fighter airframe ever made means it's SMOOOOTH)
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