pengbuzz

*Takes notes* Thank you gentlemen; this really helps!

Okay; I had thought Infrared came under "active" for some odd reason (was under the impression "active stealth" was more broad=based than it is). I was also thinking that since Infrared exists as part of the spectrum (I know infrared and heat energy are related but not the same), that perhaps it could be bent or diffracted. *alternately, just stick yer plane in the fridge, pengbuzz*

And now Nexflix has proof that if they don't want their adaptions to suck...

Yeah, I wanted to do that Cy-Kill kit, but never had the money/ opportunity. Were I to do it now, the rider figure would be replaced with a pre-made scale retail one. I would also replace the kit joints with ones from regular transformers toys; both of these, since I have an inherent distrust of joints made from styrene. Also someday: would love another shot at a Gobots Leader-1/ Mospeada Leigoss. Last oen I built was when I was a wee little pengbuzz...

Hey, it's not what you think!!! I was eating potato chips and got crumbs on my shirt!!!

Ah; I wasn't aware of that. And reducing the Brain systems to support rather than primary makes a lot of sense. Yeah; I was asking more of a general question unrelated to the YF-21, but I definitely appreciate the info! I ask because on a certain project I'm constantly working on, I'm constantly refining it and have several issues that need answers. Understood; I wonder then about the VF-17 Nightmare? I also wonder if "active stealth" has the capability to scatter or in some other way mitigate IR signatures/ emissions? Point taken; autism would explain a lot.

Well, admittedly with #2, trying to find a way for stealth to actually work without being pointless due to waste heat. Not familiar though with the ISC, I'll have to look that up. Thanks for the info, and yeah: guess Basara's ego is really too powerful! lol

Those restraints must've royally sucked if they needed to revert to manual controls for any reason. It also sounds like the craft was so twitchy that anything that disturbed the pilot's trance like state or rocked the delicate tolerances of the craft would essentially cripple it. Talk about a "glass cannon"! On a couple of unrelated side notes: 1) I wonder if a craft could directly draw upon heavy quanta to power itself without the need for its' own power source and fuel for thrust (such as nuclear fusion)? 2) Could said craft also dump its' waste heat into Fold Space to avoid detection? 3) Could Basara dump his ego into fold space?

Right? Just leave the rotors off and borrow a pair of VTOL engines from a 1/72 Osprey kit and you'd have a sci-fi craft!

May as well be kids flying them. oh wait....

No: you just heat the soda bottle plastic over an over burner until it's soft, then using oven mitts, pull it down over the wooden buck. Once cool, cut it to shape and glue using super glue or Aileen's tacky glue. The only "vacuforming" I've ever done is when the nozzle on my wife's vacuum got stuck onto my tummy (don't ask!) and it left a mark on me! O.o

Whoever's working on these "very short treks" needs to lay off the LSD!!!

BTW: on this one, you may want to use the kit canopy to make a wooden buck and mold your own from soda bottle plastic; I've found at this scale, the kit canopies are waaaaaayyy too thick.

I'm 955 away from my 5,000; hoping to get there sometime in the next decade. 😜

I think that was the intended effect: that even if he thinks the Federations "back is turned", they'll still see everything he does. It's pretty disconcerting when your enemy doesn't even have to be looking at you to know what you're up to!

When Picard drops a line like that an then turns his back on you, you know you done screwed up.

Yeah; that could also help as well, if there's enough room in the cockpit to do so.

Right? It's good to see Macross continue on; we'll have to wait and see what they do in this newest version.

The seat might be too shallow; try grinding a couple of mm out of it with a dremel bit.

Wheee! Plane go whooosh!!! Sorry...what were we talking about again? O.o

Right; that does no good either. It's lazy at best and downright criminal at worst, substituting style for substance. It's like twinkies: it may taste like a genuine snack dessert, but there's really nothing there. The origin of the Borg best exemplify the phrase "Some mysteries were never meant to be solved". Like replacing the engine of a Ferrari F-40 with one from a smart car and then wondering why it runs like $#!t. Yup; voted in 3189 as "Crew Most Likely To Strangle One Another."

If you remove what makes it Star Trek, then it isn't Star Trek. You're missing the whole point here. Even if you give it "lots of years", once you bring it back without what made it great, it's still just a dead corpse. As Seto stated earlier: it's the optimism, the belief in the human spirit to become greater than what it began as and to look for the best and the unknown in the universe that attracts fans to it. If you start focusing on "aliens", then it simply becomes alien and unrecognizable. You start putting fans into places where they cannot see the human adventure, the human spirit, and they're going to be heading for the door just like they did during DIS and PIC S1&2. If you include the "lore and facts" for the Borg. you finish killing the Borg. The Borg worked because they were an unknown versus our human/ humanlike crew. Their power was how unhuman they were: the Federation's best weaponry and tactics only worked once, maybe twice. And the fact that they were cybernetically altered into half-humanoid /half machine beings in of itself was pretty unnerving. They didn't need "kings and queens", which once introduced, gave them a human quality and began to reduce their horror. Once you give them a relatable past and relatable traits, they are not a threat, and villain decay has already reduced them to a largely pathetic joke. Sisko: he ran his story arc, and he's done now. He's with the Prophets, and is not coming back. That ship sailed some time ago. Wesley: Let's just pretend you never brought him up. No, the real trouble with Star Trek is that everyone wants to do their take on it by yanking out what made it work and thinking "I can just 'borrow the frame' and put my own engine in, and it'll be like Star Trek but with MY personal spin on it!!!" And it doesn't work that way. Star Trek works best when things are seen through our eyes (the eyes of the Federation, the stand-in for the audience), and issues that are common, universal and apply to everyone are examined by these various races in their own contexts. The "alienism" here works because it removes the familiar from the social issue or situation we are familiar with, and presents the situation in a way where the alien value allows the core(s)of the issue to be seen clearly. In other words: those cultures provide a "litmus" if you will, letting us see the scenarios with fresh eyes and from perspectives we would normally not have considered. And the best episodes were not the ones that gave "pat answers" to a problem, but left them to be dealt with (rarely "solved") by those involved. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was a good example in my opinion, because through an almost silly extremely hyperbolic example, racism was examined via Belle and Loki. The final resolution of that episode was both of them in a foot chase on their home world of Charon, now blasted to rubble and devoid of all life. Even if Belle caught Loki, what would he do with him? everyone that mattered, including their judges, were NOW DEAD. And that's the point. By removing the issue of race as we know it here in our day and age, and instead examining it in an alien context, we begin to see the issues with it., We also see where for Charon, it ultimately led to annihilation and a pointless extinction of their peoples. And the optimism here is: we don't have to follow that example. We can BE BETTER THAN THAT. Once you take out the ability to look towards a better future, see things through human eyes in non-human cultures, and the spirit of human exploration and courage... ...all you have is a bunch of nasty people without any human grace, who would just as soon kill one another as look at each other.

(Yes, this is a necropost) If you think about it though: it would certainly save wear on the canon mount motors to simply let the guns hang down rather than constantly trying to fight Earth's gravity,

You mean this one? Yeah, but it can be modded to look much better: