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  1. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, that color is kinda "gross". It's a sickly white. It's not even cream or ivory, it's like "nicotine-stained" or something.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Green lion looks awfully boxy and similar to red lion, and that instantly sets off the Voltron fan in me. Blue and yellow lions are quite similar, but red and green should be quite different. Red is a couple cubes stuck together, green is a couple spheres, basically.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Having the sides of the truck white, and the front of the truck silver, is probably the biggest WTF from Takara I've seen in many years.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Personally I've never been fond of excessive use of layers of plates. Eventually you'll end up at the "typical style of very large official Lego creations" where it's just a zillion stacked directly from bottom to top, with no "techniques" or ingenuity to get the desired shapes, beyond occasionally moving one stud over as you go up.
  5. David Hingtgen
    They actually painted it----and it still doesn't match the real thing's color at all...
  6. David Hingtgen
    Yup, NO STICKERS. All printed. See the first close-up pic of the large wing-tile. Stickers would be cheaper, but I'm not cheaping out on a $200 set, and wouldn't be much of an improvement over Lego's own. But printing that's 99% the same as the official? Oh yes... I got them from here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/millionprintsdesign/ Someone ordered enough printed parts to make a 200X Atlantis, with the meatball logos: (and again----printed, not stickers) Just a pair of printed-name-cockpit-wedges will make the biggest difference in looks IMHO, the rest are just "nice little upgrades".
  7. David Hingtgen
    Unlike a certain set of stickers, Discovery most certainly does not suck. That said, it's simply not *quite* as cool as Atlantis...
  8. David Hingtgen
    O Canada(rm!) Meh vs yeah! Stickers suck! Crooked stickers suck even more. But perfectly-aligned stickers that still end up looking crooked suck the most! All together: (aka my shuttle is better than your shuttle)
  9. David Hingtgen
    Shuttle upgrade phase 2 sneak peek:
  10. David Hingtgen
    Probably not. When it comes to Joes, I'd say the majority of stories I see are along the lines of "I bought a premium membership just to get this figure, and it still sold out in 4 secs". Honestly a better use of the funds is to pay a scalper---at least then you'll actually get the figure...
  11. David Hingtgen
    It no longer works, at all. I think even previously-favorited Vipers just disappeared from lists.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Are they actually making a silver Storm, or are those customs? (they look to have awfully detailed paint, so...)
  13. David Hingtgen
    Yet I have heard first-hand stories from manufacturers of model planes, how Boeing would reject a model airliner because of "black vs very dark grey" being used for the windows... I think they seem to only "care" about things they themselves designed, license-wise. (As in, they'll demand payment regardless, but if it's from Long Beach or St Louis, their accuracy standards to get that license are non-existent)
  14. David Hingtgen
    As always, their thought process is "can we make the robot mode 1% more toon-accurate, even if it'll make alt-mode 35% worse? Yes, yes we can..." And thus, a whole 'nother cockpit/upper forward fuselage, that's fake, just for robot mode, that makes up the bottom half of alt-mode and doesn't really hide anywhere... Same as Prime's two completely separate sets of "big square windows". (and yet neither one is alt-mode accurate!)
  15. David Hingtgen
    Shuttle upgrade, phase 1 complete! All credit to Cameron from "Bricks in Space" for the "flush hinges" mod----https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10100172786209769&set=pcb.1010098302728754
  16. David Hingtgen
    When the IJN Mushashi had a dark deck, it was literally just soot gathered from the exhaust stack, rubbed into the deck's planking to darken it. So an exact match is pretty much impossible, and any variation/unevenness would be accurate. So long as it's "dark", you're good with any attempt to match it.
  17. David Hingtgen
    I was hoping for something more like "remove hidden screw cover, then remove screw". I've had some bad experiences with glued-in-pegs, where the part itself rips apart before the peg lets go.
  18. David Hingtgen
    How much effort to remove the lower engineering hull?
  19. David Hingtgen
    Is the dish easily removable? Could either frost the backside, or paint it silver.
  20. David Hingtgen
    How's the XL Ent-C? Looks better than most, and I realized that if I reject everything based on "window printing doesn't line up" I'll never have anything. The Ent-C's window mis-alignment doesn't seem egregious, among the line-up.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Yes, but that particular location (base of the tailfin) is always the valk's home base. A VF-31C/F/J etc says Siegfried elsewhere, but Aether on the tailfin. Does the -31A say Kairos on it? I know they say Hemera on the tailfin.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Are we sure about Chuck's new *valk* type being named Parmenides? Because the new Arad valk says Parmenides on the tailfin exactly the same way the regular Delta valks say "Aether" (and much like how VF-1's say Prometheus/ARMD). So I'd suspect that Parmenides is the name of a new carrier etc, and not the name of the new VF-31 variant.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Did the Smithsonian actually 3D scan Discovery? https://massive.sketchfab.com/3d-models/orbiter-space-shuttle-ce086ea2bd4c49d2a3ed3c9bee60ddd4/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1blvTfnD3uAm-7tXdn67EjVleXRx3l_AZ_w98qNe5D6CYSjlweieNmiRs
  24. David Hingtgen
    It is the AOE truck, and not the BB/G1 truck. They simply don't care, or don't even realize, that it's a different brand/model of semi. They are making whole new sculpts, off of the wrong reference material---how hard is it to "watch the movie" and maybe google "what type of truck was Optimus in the Bumblebee movie? And that's not even accounting for them likely having access to official movie production material etc. And at this point, they certainly don't have the "have to work off of early concept art, and get it on the shelves by the time the movie comes out" excuse. They've had YEARS.
  25. David Hingtgen
    A good "cheap" spray paint is the the Krylon "chalky" line. Ignore the name, it just means "nicely matte" in my experience, there is no additive/special effect like many other sub-lines have. They have several nice greys that are good for either primer or base coat. I'll vouch for "misty grey" and "paver grey". (cool and warm, respectively). IMHO misty grey is a very good SW Imperial grey, with paver grey a good Rebel Alliance color.
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