David Hingtgen

That explains it--that's cheating! I'll just live with the lesser angle. As for a pen--not a WHOLE pen-width, but the majority of the tip. Depends on how your pen tapers of course...

Thanks much for the pics--I'm still wondering if I transform it right. Namely: The "chest plate" and the nosecone--should there be a gap? (as in, the nose cone is BEHIND the chest--you can bascially fit a pen into the gap) It looks better (and more anime-accurate IIRC) if there isn't a gap, but it seems to hold the torso together better if there is--especially when the waist is unlocked. Is there a lock/click for the main neck plate? (the bigger, outer one) Or do you just do "as for back as it'll go"? If I fiddle with it enough, I can actually get the front "point" of the neck plate up out of the hole--but I figure that's too far. Renato---I notice you have the gap between the chest plate and the nosecone---but yours still seems to have more "pelvic thrust" than mine can achieve at all, much less while remaining upright. Is there a "torso lock" I'm missing somewhere? I can "pull" the torso together to that angle, but it always flops back that last 5 degrees or so. The tip of the nosecone of yours looks like it's darn near touching the groin piece---again, I can only get that if I hold the torso halves together.

The collection DX review mentions a hidden, unlockable waist joint--but doesn't say how. Does it have to be unlocked in GERWALK or something? Tugging and pulling in every direction I can think of doesn't do anything. Protected by Future:

Only because there never was a really high-quality miniature of it to film for stock footage/closeups, and the one that was built was too late for stock footage. (a LOT of the Excelsior class footage seen throughout TNG was filmed prior to season 1 airing--they pretty much filmed it once, then it got used for ST VI) The Ambassador is little-seen for production reasons, not "because it's rare". Sure it's gotta be less common than the Excelsior, but it should be a heck of a lot more common than the Galaxy, Sovereign, and Defiant combined.

Sorry, didn't play at all last night. I just snagged a few easy achievements a few mins ago--annoyingly, the "beat just the final stage" trick didn't work for the harder difficulties--took down Trypticon and got nothing. If you want to set up a time tonight, I'm all for it. I have to take the game back tomorrow.

I'm sure the Key Publishing forum members are busily whipping up some renders...

Noticeable lack of car-mode paint apps compared to 07.

I'd like to try MP campaign, as no one else online seems to want to do it.

Yeah, that may actually be my #1 complaint at the moment--the smooth shiny plastic. Yamato's "subtle texture" that makes their valks matte looks much more realistic IMHO. Shows every slight fingerprint, too. Ironically, the paint is very matte.

Apparently there's a per-post pic limit. And you can't post a new post until someone else posts! Anyways---is that supposed to be Nora's, or just one from the same squadron etc?

I've rented WFC for a few days for the 360, so if you see "Xenogears Id" go ahead and invite or join if you'd like.

Being a multi-platform title, it's mainly being discussed in the "all purpose games thread" and the Transformers thread.

Yet ironically, they said it was based on wheeljack's design. So, credit to the customizer, but not to Hasbro. PS---the final design being different may be understatement of the year. We'll see how well wheeljack's many hours of quality effort translate into semi-mass production by Chinese factory workers.

I'm pretty sure repainting everything would take far more time and effort than even a dozen attempts at mixing paint to match. ::edit:: To everyone---does the paint on the metal part of the shoulder hinge chip/flake? That's quite glossy paint, pure Future should match it pretty well---but is it needed at all?

Post away! PS---I've been trying to think of how to customize the pilot. The arms being "molded" to the sides makes it harder--nigh-impossible to narrow the waist because of that.

Futuring away... (yes, that's a verb on modeling forums---and "Futured" is an adjective). The stripes being metallic will make it harder to match, to paint the missing hip-gun-panel stripe.

Oh, it's true, she'll offer to take care of your fish. She just sucks at it, and they'll die quickly.

Got mine, won't be transforming it for a while though---the paint is much more matte than I suspected, so raw Future over it will be hyper-obvious, I'm going to have to mix up some flat-Future batches and see which one will dry to the right sheen. (I have planned for months that I would coat the nose and shoulders with Future BEFORE the first transformation---I'm not taking any chances on scraping paint). Anyways, having never owned a VF-27, a few things I've noticed and am wondering if Brera's is the same: Darkest stripes are metallic paint. Intake covers are metallic paint. Beam cannon is molded in metallic plastic. Lime green details (like the back of the hand stripe) are metallic paint.

Eriku--you didn't even want yours a week ago! (If only the mail would hurry and up deliver mine...)

Yup, and feeding CONSTANTLY---they still die. (I think that's considered over-feeding)

Well, I'd buy business suit Grace, but I figured flightsuit would sell a lot better... (and I'd prefer it anyways)

Strangely, I ended up with a "perfect" ending for my renegade run without even really trying---so my paragon run is going to be different on purpose.

The point remains--the other characters have NOTHING---not gashapon, not fig, not statue, not poster. I'm pretty sure Grace's screen time/importance far surpassed Klan's. (now, Nanase was asleep for like the last 1/3 of the series, so..) And of course I mean flightsuit Grace, not business suit Grace. We've got TWO flightsuit Klans now...

I just realized how awful his landing gear is.

They just ruined a P-38. A proper P-38 transforming like that could have been amazing. As it is, it's a steam-punk-nightmare P-38. (I want either REAL planes, or very fake planes--don't do "screwed up to avoid copyright laws or to look "kewl" versions of real planes). (IMHO ROTF Dirge is just enough to be "fake"--he's Harrier-esque, but so far off from the real one that I'm ok with it---plus he's sleek and not faux-steam-punk)