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  1. David Hingtgen
    Lack of painted "lights" is really starting to irk me on MP's. Sideswipe is missing 6 of his---molded but unpainted. (And two are basically impossible to access to paint yourself) Prowl/Streak missing the front fender ones---molded but unpainted. Tracks is missing 4, all the corner ones--again, molded but unpainted. Sure, ALL BLUE is toon-accurate, but they don't seem to have a problem giving Prime lights that were never visible on-screen. (Also annoyed that Reprolabels' set for Tracks has none of the missing lights----their taillight etc stickers are often a main reason I buy the set----their tail lights for Bluestreak look SO much better than the matte pastel paint Takara used)
  2. David Hingtgen
    I like the eyes/visor of Delta 2. Have since the preview episode. It's the neatest head design IMHO, but I know from posts here that some think it's the worst of them. Delta 4's is kinda VF-1J/S-ish. Nothing really unique, but certainly not bad. Just looks like you'd expect a valk head to look like.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Go look at Takara's UW Dragstrip. Takara does not care about "looks/style" when it comes to coloring. They are purely toon-accurate nowadays, no matter how bad it looks in real-life/plastic. That means PURE YELLOW Dragstrip, no stripes on Deadend, cream-yellow thighs on Silverbolt, and clown-lips-red bumper on Magnus.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Hmmmn. The only name that immediately strikes me as an obvious aviation-themed homage is Heinz, almost certainly after Heinz Bär. Herman, if we add another N, could be Göring. But I don't think anybody would want to name a character after him, regardless of his piloting skills.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Am I nuts or does Delta 2 have way thicker/wider forearms than Delta 5? I don't think it's just the angle/lighting. ::edit:: OK, it's Delta 5 that's the weird one---it has skinny forearms, compared to all the other VF-31's.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Aircraft means means nothing, it's the seats/airline. Comfiest flight ever? Delta 767. Worst seats ever? United 767.
  7. David Hingtgen
    That was my guess, but there's always a few who want the original version of something.
  8. David Hingtgen
    I'm curious what FF Tactics goes for these days.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Sorry, totally forgot to do it this weekend. Will try to work on it later this week.
  10. David Hingtgen
    That was my guess. I like those versions more, they seem less derivative of "everything else".
  11. David Hingtgen
    My fave is Blue lion. When you get around to it, would you be willing to post step-by-step pics? I may be able to "follow along" with my parts. Though I'll need more silver-grey "tooth" parts for the claws for sure. Any "rare/uncommon" parts that are needed? I see a lot of tiles I think.
  12. David Hingtgen
    That's REALLY good. Do you have a parts list/instructions? LDD file?
  13. David Hingtgen
    Is that the one and only flyable Fw190-A?
  14. David Hingtgen
    Is the only reason the USN wants C's, is to have a stealth fighter? Because with all the gadgets the Super Hornet keeps getting, I wonder why they couldn't just get more of those. The F-35 is slower, more expensive, SINGLE-ENGINED and I think has a smaller payload. Probably better range though, as that's always been a Hornet issue.
  15. David Hingtgen
    PS----when I say mint, I mean MINT. And 95% of my stuff is MINT.
  16. David Hingtgen
    It'll take me a bit to make a list, I'll try to do it this weekend.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Are there any games/consoles you're looking for? I've been planning to sell of most of what I have, and it goes from SNES/Genesis through PS3/360. Lots of import Saturn/Dreamcast.
  18. David Hingtgen
    You can just leave off the last two words.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Re: point 2. Look at the F-18A+. It's better than the F-18C now, because it didn't have all the goodies from the start. It had space and weighed less. Then, years later, it gets all the C's goodies, and then some. But tech advances so quickly, all those goodies are now miniaturized compared to the C's, so the A still weighs less the C and has more room for even more future goodies. While most C's are stuffed to the gills with older heavier equipment which they've had from the start. (Except, ironically, the one thing that was supposed to truly make the C, a C, its DECM equipment).
  20. David Hingtgen
    Yup. First real "new design" to the lions I've seen since the original, but no way is it worth that much. It's not a 3P combiner....
  21. David Hingtgen
    Aren't all of those still multi-piece parts, just "molded very closely together" like the PG fingers are? (I must admit I don't know how the Astrays are at all, only ever looked at the box). There's a big difference between molded colors "very close together" like the multi-color sprues, and having an actual single piece being multiple colors (like a mid-90's blue/yellow/red chest-plate). (though actually, LEGO just started doing this, and pretty evenly--not perfectly crisp, but pretty good)
  22. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn, RAF Super Hornets.... (Too late now, but was a Naval Tornado ever considered? Swing-wings on carriers rock)
  23. David Hingtgen
    I haven't seen Bandai do that in YEARS, and the failure rate was high. I figure if they've improved on it, we'd have seen it by now. Even the higher-end MG's don't have it. (PG fingers are kinda like that, but that's really more like "2 same plastics enveloping each other")
  24. David Hingtgen
    Hey, they just said today they dropped their first actual training bombs at Hill, vs their previous simulated training bombs.
  25. David Hingtgen
    The turbofan to turbojet "mode conversion" was THE key design feature of the YF120. Still nothing like it now AFAIK. (And is why it's so remarkably superior to the F119 in supercruise).
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