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  1. David Hingtgen
    And a less sickly-green hue to the too-pale tan... And white gear and bays, not pink.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Ditch half the missiles, and use that money for the printing/paint...
  3. David Hingtgen
    I'd say having a lion AND a tiger is a bit redundant, but then I remembered I'm a huge Predacons/Predaking fan...
  4. David Hingtgen
    Still missing the grey intake stripes. (yeesh, they're MOLDED in, just paint them!)
  5. David Hingtgen
    Just passed that part in the podcast---in addition to what's in the post above, they mention it used a kind of ray to do what it does, and that it is swappable. I expect/hope that some packs are more directly combat-oriented. My guess is that each(or at least some) VF-31's will have a "signature" pod that is usually installed. They can all likely use all of them, but maybe each pilot will have a preferred couple ones to use.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I may have asked this before but a search didn't bring anything up: Are there any cool schemes in the Master File book? Either -0D or -0C? I know of a low-vis grey one, but that's it. Are there more? (thinking about a potential future repaint or remold release)
  7. David Hingtgen
    I was far more enthused at the first glimpse of Frontier.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Hmmm---Guld was both pilot and designer. Wonder If there's a link.
  9. David Hingtgen
    I would argue that the most famous "Johnson" in aviation is Amy Johnson.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Wonder if Arad comes from Arado.
  11. David Hingtgen
    70? Better have working landing gear bays/doors for that much. Could be worth it, but unlikely. I haven't seen decent Hotwheels diecast since their Ferrari 360.
  12. David Hingtgen
    So, what are the best blue-squadron X-Wings out there? (Don't want Poe's). Do ANY of the smaller ones not have crooked laser cannons? I generally like diecast models a ton, but skinny bits like that are always plastic which just ruins the look. Saw the worst one ever today, it was bent like 70 degrees, surprised it was still intact. Any new/neat X-Wing stuff coming from Hasbro? (I figure a new UCS from Lego is a shoe-in, just maybe not this year).
  13. David Hingtgen
    Or they could be doing like Voltron/GoLion, with minimal color-matching. Keith/Blue/Red lion Sven/Black/Blue lion Lance/Red/Black lion And I'd even argue: Hunk/Orange/Yellow lion.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yes, the Tamiya kit is still one of the best F-14 kits ever.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Max could so pull it off though, the designs we've seen so far are not THAT far a stretch from his M7 captain's uniform. I mean, he's already got his fringed cape....
  16. David Hingtgen
    And they got the color wrong this time around.
  17. David Hingtgen
    From looking closely at the real ones---I believe the A's and B's had them removed and sealed over. The D's simply never had them. How to tell? A's and B's have a bunch of putty/bondo covering where they were/should be---the D's have nice sheet metal with no evidence of a moving panel etc. Unless there's a new version with massive corrections, the Trumpeter kit is the least-accurate Tomcat model for overall shape, etc. They missed a key point, and it looks like a MiG-25 or F-15 from head-on for it: They made the intakes straight up and down, tight to the fuselage. Which goes against the splayed gull-winged effect the entire F-14 airframe has. Real F-14: Trumpeter F-14: I don't know how the rest of the kit even "works", with an overall shape that wrong--it must mean the gear bays and wing gloves are wrong too, if they "fit" with vertical intakes.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Having just seen it, unless he saw a very different film than I, I think he's trolling us. So don't worry about spoilers.
  19. David Hingtgen
    This was Harrison Ford's best acting in years, amazed and glad it happened in this. Boyega and Ridley did great. Isaac did too, but if you've seen him in anything else before you already know he's really good. There is one problem with so much realism (sets, ships, etc)-----the CGI *really* stands out against it. Like "the big aliens" and pretty much any alien with a speaking role. Would have rather seen good prosthetics or puppets. ESB Yoda is still the most real-looking alien in the series. (Excluding Chewie of course). Due to demand, my theater expanded showings to use 11 of the 20 screens tonight simultaneously.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Never saw the first and likely never will---but this has me hopeful the second one could be decent.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Well, the MD-95's whole factory is gone, so it's a lost cause. 757 however, shares a decent amount of tooling with the 737 and some parts with the 767...
  22. David Hingtgen
    Waiting for a Mairgret Loughead...
  23. David Hingtgen
    Meanwhile, the 757 is in such high demand I believe there are zero for sale or lease right now, and 717's go to the highest bidder, and even major flagship carriers are fighting amongst themselves to grab every one that pops up. But Boeing thought that new 737 variants could replace everything (especially a Douglas design) and cancelled both too early. My god, the sales a re-engined 757MAX would get right now... The A321 is selling like bonkers the last few years not because it's a great plane, but because it's the closest thing to a 757 you can get. AA and DL would buy a bunch of new 757's if they could, but they can't. A321=the inferior 757 rival. Well, now it has no rival, so it's the best-in-class.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Freyja is almost certainly named for the Norse goddess, since that's where the term Valkyrie comes from.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Xenosaga's problem wasn't that it was cut down, it's that they chose to focus on the least-important least-interesting aspects in the space they had left. Heck, Kos-Mos was basically an extended cameo in Episode 2. "let's have the entire game be about Jr and his clones". Ziggy's cell-phone game backstory seemed more interesting than XS Ep 2.
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