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    It looks even more like a YF-23 in motion than it does in static pics. Head-on, you could be fooled. It's gorgeous in-flight.
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    I've found that FS35183 is a dang close match to Bandai Ep VII X-W blue decals, but only comes in enamel. Currently leaning towards using Tamiya X-14+flat base+white+something intensely electric blue. (I hate mixing, but since the blue wing hashes literally touch the other blue areas, it's gotta be a perfect match) (I'm not painting the whole kit, doing it Gunpla-style---only paint what's not already molded the right color). Plus lots of weathering.
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    My main feeling is----they're TV-style J-types. Zero remolding costs, when the first release is apparently a TV Hikaru. That's my main justification for hoping they'll do M&M. I can see them skipping TV A-type or even DYRL-A. But if there's just two variants to make, it'd be TV-J and DYRL-S.
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    This looks more like an Alto-type, than Alto's does.
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    Got my Bandai ep VII X-Wing today. $23 shipped.
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    Have you tried sliding it back? It helps a little. Funky hinge. Also---check the silver engine detail bits. Those were the main source of mine's hood non-flushness. Combined with the the 180 rotating shin panels. Get all the engine and shin bits etc pushed down, and you should be able to get a flush hood. Mine was like yours out of the box, but it's fine now. (It was the passenger side engine detail that was the #1 offender)
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    At this point, I plan to wait for Bandai to do these in 1/35. Probably be cheaper.
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    I still want a 3P WFC-styled Trypticon above all else. That design just rocks, and has replaced G1 as the "iconic" version of the character, in my mind. *I still want a city mode, however. I basically want a G1 city that turns into the WFC dino. Because turning into the Nemesis simply can't happen in the real world, not well at least. And we never even really got to see satellite mode, plus it'd be really boring. But you could certainly get a good city mode out of the WFC dino.
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    He walks, much like any 2-legged Zoid. In non-dino modes, the mechanism causes the radars and gun turrets to rotate. His main cannon/tower lights up, too. (though that light is very flakey--I think mine lasted a year, when I got the original) You'll see more "still walks!" used Trypticons than "still lights up!" used Trypticons.
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    Trypticon is the best city-former due to having the best city mode. Metroplex has the better battle-mode, but they're known as cities, not battlestation-formers. Scorponok is the only city-former with a good third mode.
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    I didn't like the -29 at all when Alto's was the only one. Now it's one of my faves due to all the others looking neat. But the original one? It's neither an attractive scheme nor does it seem "Alto". Whereas his -171EX was still clearly his.
  13. David Hingtgen
    So where/how is everyone watching IBO? (As in, US fans) Heck, same question for the origin.
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    It's close, but that's not what shade of blue Vortex was. Surprising that they got the others so close, but pretty off for that one. Vortex was more like smoke-periwinkle blue. Not bright electric sky blue. It's much closer than CW G2 Superion was---that one they only got in "spirit", with Air Raid being most wrong. (I owned all the G2 combiners for many years, they were a core chunk of my TF collection for a long while--I know EXACTLY what they looked like)
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    I was considering a decal stripe like this under the cockpit, and was worried about it being scratched off:
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    Been thinking about possible schemes. Need some info; 1. Source of black/clear or black/white UNS kite logos? Not low-vis grey, need BLACK. 2. Are the ventral fins easily removable? Both to paint them, and the rear leg stripes they cover. Similar question for tailfins and canards. 3. Are the fuselage sides prone to being scratched? The under-cockpit area, etc.
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    You can tell a Tu-22M even in the dark----world's blue-est afterburners.
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    1/72 what?(I'm guessing an F-14, but just in case...)
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    Would love a 0D if they tweaked both the hips AND the color...
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    Could someone who has one, measure the tailfins? I'd like to know exactly how big they are, for planning decals etc to use. 1/72 F-14 vs 1/48 F-18 markings, etc. Would like to know height, front-to back at both top and bottom, and front-to-leading-edge-of rudder at top and bottom.
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    Anyone debating on whether to order MP-28 HotRod, may want to check the Third Party thread... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36937&p=1237459
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    I've found my "MP Hot Rod". And it isn't MP-28!
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    So, what's the easiest way to weather an X-wing kit? I don't plan to ink in every line individually like with a Gundam, there's WAY too many greeblies for that. I'm thinking almost something along the lines of MacFarlane-Toys-style "dunk it in a bucket of diluted ink". I tried this a while ago: http://www.florymodels.co.uk/washes/ Didn't work at all in my experience---even with extreme stirring, you just ended up with little clumps of pigment floating in water, and when it dried--you just got specks deposited. And the pigment certainly didn't flow into panel lines.
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    The YF-19's gear bays are pink as heck. It's not just a VF-1 issue. I'd rather have yellowish than pinkish. Airliners often have very slightly intentionally yellow "white" paint. (Go look at Delta's previous scheme, and BA until very recently).
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    Those are all possible, plus 24, 51, and 211. Probably not 154, due to "recent overexposure" IMHO. 142 maybe, as I love the VFX-2 VF-11 that's like theirs. Though that'd both require more work and look rather Roy-esque. 143 could work, they're even already blue.
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