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I'll see what I can do later tonight. A Zaku IIF with twin 90mm looks... good.

Hah, figured HLJ would be that smart. They had problems with leechers like myself. I'll edit the post above to remove it. Yes, I have the product. The promo pics are pretty accurate, but what they don't tell you is that they broke the weapons down into individual parts which you have to assemble. Not very hard, but some pieces are small and can disappear.

If you guys can get it, go for the UC Arms Galley #1. These weapons are quite detailed, and are to scale with the 1/144, especially eMSiA. The Zaku II 120mm cannon is more detailed than those which comes with the eMSiA Zaku II. The gems here are the 90mm, the 175mm cannons, and the Kampfer shotguns. I think the distribution per box is fixed though, as I got exactly 2 of each for my single box. That meant 120mm cannons.. which I have absolutely no idea what to do with. Anyone wants to trade for shotguns and 90mm? EDIT: Removed pic because HLJ blocked leechers like me.

Hey. Rebellion wasn't *that* bad. Sure, it tried to take on more than it can chew, but that didn't make it a bad game. 362682[/snapback] Hmm, I happened to have been playing Rebellion a few weeks ago. What exactly is wrong with it? I quite enjoyed it, though crushing the Rebellion, even on a small map, took a hideous amount of time.

I think you need to send your Valk to the car wash... (or Valk Wash as it is...) Hey, I didn't know printers nowadays comes with a steam catapult.

EXO, if your dreams are about Sylia and Linna (and Priss and Nene).. I think you need to get out more. It's not that bad. My Linna figure came fine -- aside from a loose right hand. Sylia is quite bad but not unfixable.. I agree I shouldn't have to fix it and Yamato (or whoever it was) QA should have stopped the shipment, but it's still a good toy once you fix it.

Just a quick warning to you guys. I got my Sylia figure this morning, almost straight out-of-box (after some "exercising") the right arm and leg fell apart. Seems to be the polycap and/ or the plastic socket is so badly worn out that the normal push-in method no longer works.. I superglued the parts together and managed to retain the joint articulations. Not only that, Kotetsu came floppy. Very floppy. Shoulder covers also tend to fall off. The stand also gave problems, as in the fit is a lot rougher than it was with my Linna figure. Overall, especially when compared to my Linna figure, the quality of my Sylia figure seems to have dropped badly. It's still a neat toy, but needs a bit of patching to get it to work right (i.e. fundamentals are there but need a bit of tweaking to bring out the best). Now, my Linna, she's good. Aside from a loose Cat's Paw, she's pretty much as per designed. I don't quite like the way the ribbons are attached or the way the arms cannot stretch horizontally, but those are design issues, not QA. I'm not getting Priss or Nene, so that's going to be the sum of my experience.

Man, they sure are getting progressive nowadays.. Hmm, So is there a place I go to bang Mary?

How bad? A pic would help. As it is, I kept looking up the Shadow Alpha on eBay, but I can't really justify to myself the price tag. That's normally a good sign that I consider the product sub-par...

My wingpair of CFs came yesterday, and when I open the first box, I saw a loose circle-bar vernier (what Kensei was mentioning) loose in the box.. not a good omen. But thankfully, nothing else missing or wrong, other than a miscast flap on one.

Guys, I'm not a US citizen and have never stepped into the US, but these past few days the stories out of NO sounds pretty bad to me. Not so much the natural calamity part -- that's kind of unavoidable at times -- but the human stories that pops up after Katrina had passed Normally, you hear of courageous stories in such times that restore the faith in the goodness inherent in humanity. For example, this officer sacrificed himself to save trapped/ injured civilians, or XYZ group got together to bring relief to victims, or some such. This time though, the majority of the reports coming out of NO are pretty bad. Looting and pillaging -- not of necessities, but of luxury items and weapons. Shooting at rescue helos and firemen. Lack of police presence -- apparently a breakdown in police command and control too. Lack of aid from authorities, rapes and murders in refugee zones. Granted, there are stories of other cities offering their resources to help NO, but it is saddening that the stories of human cruelties seem to outpace these positive aspects. Just a comment from an outsider. Good luck to all affected. Link to Blogger still in NO.

Shin, if you can motion blur this pic, we'll have a winner!

Option 2 is a simplification that can work if your story is not heavily into the economic aspects of an empire, but honestly I think Option 3 gives you more depth in your universe if developed properly, and can give your characters more facets if you do it right. Even if it's not the main crux of the story, it gives more credibility when your characters discuss it in passing, thus establishing that there is much more going on in your universe than just what happens to the characters.

Nice pics, but can someone tell him it's a 1A and not a 1S? I hate to think if he bought it thinking it's a 1S...

Ooo! OOo! A 77-D Guncannon in GFF! I want!

A guess (and a guess only!) is that if they had came down North to South, it would be difficult to have a contingency airfield of sufficient size to accomodate the Shuttle. Flying southwards would mean a big turnaround at low (relatively - I'm thinking after reentry) altitudes should anything forces the airfield to be closed. The Shuttle may not have the luxury of making a big detour. Flying South to North though, gives more options; First, less of a detour to another field. Second, overshooting US would be less of a concern, because the track would be more towards Canada and Europe -- countries traditionally friendly to US. Not to mention, more land under the orbital track.. otherwise, the Shuttle will be over water for quite a while. EDIT: After reading David's post, I would like to clarify I'm thinking more of the flight between "after reentry" and "getting feet on the deck". Shuttle ain't powered, they can glide for a long way but there's essentially only that much they can do, so setting up a path that gives the most options makes sense to me.

Ordered, it's out but I also order Sylia, which is not out yet. Patience, young padawan. Oooo, box pic and description! (courtesy of HLJ) Beautiful action figure featuring Linna Yamazaki in her "new" Hardsuit; a spare head (without helmet) and a spare laser-gun gauntlet (with the "fingers" open) are included to allow you to customise the figure. A custom base is included to allow you to display her. EDIT: Formatting, credit.

Well, yeah, but it requires you be gutsy enough to drill two holes in your $80 Masterpiece Alpha, and use superglue or worse, plastic glue on the hatches, and of course to marr the finish with a pair of bent paperclips.... No guts, no galaxy, they say.

There's this teeny weeny little latch you can grab hold of.. quite teeny weeny though. Be careful of the rear landing gear -- if the foot is sagging down (due to diecast weight) it would prevent the gear from coming down fully.

Hmm. Looks like they come with optional parts to build the 2nd Gen Hardsuits from the original series.

See my last post. Eventually I believe is less then 90 minutes. They aren't going to starve or freeze in that time. Carl 316939[/snapback] That's the darnest thing about atmospheric/ space boundaries. Not everything is understood. The behaviour of a Shuttle skipping off the atmosphere is, to the best of my knowledge, not entirely predictable. And I doubt anyone is exactly eager to find out. Granted, it's an absolute worst-case scenario, but saying it will come back in around 90 mins.. I'm simply not sure. A tamer but still bad version is probably this: Skipped off the atmosphere after a 2 week mission with a large crew, airfame damaged and injuries sustained to crewmembers. Trajectory altered by the skip into an unfavourable vector, and not enough reaction fuel to go up to the ISS (not that the Shuttle could do it normally, but this is an abnormal situation) OR to shoot for a decent reentry profile.

You have a point.. the Shuttle is likely to have lost energy overall. The problem is, it's decelerating.. in the wrong direction. To get the Shuttle back on track will need energy to redirect the vector back towards something that's approaching reasonable, and while I'm sure NASA plans for contingency, I'm not sure how much of a reserve the Shuttle typically carries on board.

Sucks to be me. I was talking a little loosely. Yes, if the Shuttle skip off the atmosphere, the odds are good that it would come back... eventually. How eventually, is IMO a matter of luck; deltaV on departure, whichever celestial body which happens to be in the vicinity, etc. Heck, on a bad day the Shuttle may end up visiting Planet X. The end result, given that the Shuttle don't carry that much fuel, is a short period of time to enact a rescue before the power and heating dies out. Once that's gone, it's a cold cold fate for the crew.. not too much difference from going into the Big Black, as far as the crew is concerned. Sorry man, missed it in the shuffle. You're probably right. Truth to be told, I'm sympathetic towards NASA. A lot of the problems they face has no precessor to guide them to good solutions, so they end up trying things, and in effect putting the crew's lives at stake with educated guesses. And regardless of how we feel about beancounters, it's an unavoidable facet of this. Throw too much money into solving the problems, and you don't have assets to launch the darn thing. Put too much into theortical research, and you don't have enough to launch the darn thing. So they do the best they can, and they do darn well, considering how aimless the space program has been for the last few decades. Perhaps their level of "acceptable risk" is a bit too high for the general public, but I do understand where the sentiment comes from.

Well, can't say I didn't try...

Sure, if you can convert a thermouclear reaction into sustained thrust (such as the Orion engine posted earlier), then effectively you have a large amount of energy to play with, yeah, you can de-orbit a lander straight down -- because you got so much thrust, you basically ignore the gravitational pull, earth's rotation, etc. etc. If you can have a system to do that, then, hey, we don't need to work so hard -- we got sustained energy out our backsides, so we simply don't care about "natural" laws. Only issue here is that we don't have such a system at the moment, and, AFAIK, nothing even remotely like it in the near future.