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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'd like a 0D done in the right base colors, without needling a $200 factory weathering job to look right. Slate blue upper, very pale grey lower. Simple. Like Yamato's sample showed oh so many years ago, before they completely changed it at the last minute for the actual release.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Nope, Delta is just that different from Frontier, story/theme-wise. It LOOKS similar, animation-wise, but that's about all they have in common, IMHO.
  3. David Hingtgen
    If I didn't already have Ozma's, this'd be the one I'd buy.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Is anyone else less "concerned" about 2024 having drone-based force-fields, and more by the fact that it was turned off about 5 secs after she was injected? Genetic lung/skin defects cured before a single cell had time to replicate? Heck of a stress-test too. Instead of being in a dark room with filtered air, and slowly seeing how she reacts to increasing exposure----just throw everything at her at once, and hope she lives!
  5. David Hingtgen
    I genuinely liked the first season of Build Fighters. But it went down hill and the sequels were mostly utter trash.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Oh, I guess we were supposed to pay close attention to her rapid-fire turn-down-the-guy-at-the-bar spiel, because it quickly explained how she got away with murder. 🙄
  7. David Hingtgen
    I'm 3 episodes in, and are they really just not going to mention at all that Dr Jurati murdered her mentor last season? Everyone on the Stargazer was just cool with her hanging out on the bridge?
  8. David Hingtgen
    XL Stargazer looks good----but samples often do...
  9. David Hingtgen
    I somehow missed the necropost! But hey, I'm here now! It's been a dozen years so now I can't remember what the ones I was originally thinking of looked like any more---these may or may not be it!
  10. David Hingtgen
    I'd be more excited if they cast someone as Capt April...
  11. David Hingtgen
    One tip for Bricklink etc: Dont forget to check Lego themselves. 32 axles? I bought several for $2 each, when they were far more expensive anywhere on bricklink. Rare inverted slopes in orange? Bought dozens cheap from Lego.com, when there was literally only a single seller at Bricklink wanting several dollars EACH. If it's a cheap common piece (black 1x1) Lego themselves will never be a good option---they rarely go below .11 for a piece, and never below .08 IIRC. Buy a hundred for .03 each from a big seller. But anything that's .50 or more on bricklink----see what Lego wants. Lego has a narrow range that they sell parts for---never super-cheap, but also never ridiculously expensive.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Even more complicated than that: Go about 5:30 in for a look at them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Ynh_6tA9s
  13. David Hingtgen
    Give me a light-up Discovery Enterprise... (and maybe Capt Pike)
  14. David Hingtgen
    Made by Tomy, so official? But the insignias are 3P, so... I'm now up to 2/3 of my "MP action-master" Team Bullet Train! (Rapid Run is used and missing an antenna, but I got him really cheap, and I should be able to get a replacement with my pending shipment to get parts to build Midnight Express) (I'm not buying entire trainsets brand-new only for one car!) It would be neat to have them run together, but it's basically impossible due to the real things being unable to couple together, and unable to run without the rest of their cars----and the models reflect those aspects accurately. (they do light up though, if powered on)
  15. David Hingtgen
    Classified recolors---now they're *too* toony IMHO. Reminds me of MP TF's-----"let's make them look as smooth and bland as possible, to get that cheap animation look". Like, I want my Gung-ho wearing blue as much as the next guy----just not bright neon blue and a giant 'stache. And making EVERY strap the exact same blue? Yeah, that was to simplify the animation and the original toy paint apps. Don't do that nowadays I want SOME realism in my classified figs. Use the toon and original figs for the colors, but not EXACTLY. Don't color them so boldly and simply that now you're hiding all the details.
  16. David Hingtgen
    And it's here. 5 days door to door, that's pretty good for EMS from Japan.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Now? When was it ever not?
  18. David Hingtgen
    Package left Chicago this morning----and just arrived back in Chicago tonight. Exact same building. I'm not sure if it's actually gone through USPS customs or not.
  19. David Hingtgen
    I just recently shipped a package from Yahoo auctions Japan (via proxy) and it was about 50 for EMS, 70 for FedEx or DHL. Went EMS. Got to Chicago one day after shipping from Japan. Will see how long customs etc take.
  20. David Hingtgen
    If you're gonna do it, go all out----THIS is the all-time best bare metal scheme:
  21. David Hingtgen
    I assume you know more, but can't say more?
  22. David Hingtgen
    I'm a big Pipes fan, but I think the new mold isn't very good for his character. I mean, his name is PIPES. His original toy was notable for having BIG CHROME PIPES. And here we have white plastic arms in truck mode, that really don't look very exhaust pipe-ish. And his skinny guns stick on his big white deck-plate-feet? Eh. But I couldn't really find a good 3P version either It's amazing that he seems so hard to do well. So many go to ludicrous backpacks (worse than G1 sometimes!) and also, like Hasbro, seem to miss the point, and not give him big chrome PIPES. Everyone's trying too hard to base him off the toon, when the toon itself kinda missed the point, and gave him white arms that aren't made from his PIPES. White thighs are fine, but he really needs to have silver/chrome arms so that truck mode is right. Or transform such that he has big silver pipes as a truck while retaining white arms as a bot, if you want it as toon-based as possible.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Well THAT's interesting: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43228/f-22-raptor-covered-in-mirror-like-coating-photographed-flying-out-of-nellis-afb
  24. David Hingtgen
    Because it's MP-44, that's why. The mold that epitomizes "toon accuracy over common sense, aesthetics, and alt-mode". An utterly ridiculous transformation, all to still end up with a huge backpack in robot mode and an inaccurate alt mode full of seams. Also, it still has "stripes in bot mode yet no stripes in truck mode". And they're not silver, either.
  25. David Hingtgen
    They should paint Karen green and Bautista blue and Pom gold, just to mess with people...
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