David Hingtgen

A bit OT but cool: Papa John found his original Camaro. http://www.papasroadtrip.com/ (if you eat their pizza, you know the story from the box) In appreciation, if you showed up in a Camaro, you got a free pizza: http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=164162

Ironically, I just started modding my Lego X-Wing into Red 2. (It comes with Wedge, but markings for Red 3...)

Sounds like a giant bubble bubbling up.

Basically---yes. Everyone's been talking about them in this thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...&start=1025

Actually, Hasegawa decals usually like HOT water, not merely warm/tepid.

This is a "Final Countdown" plane: http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-photo-vf084-01xl.jpg Note the "cut off" black area at the nosecone, the grey stabs, and grey flaps. But still has a white belly.

Most of my pics of that era are in books or "a website that's currently down". But here's what I can show: Key notes: First pic---see the separation between white and grey on the nacelles? It's very wavy, not straight. Second pic---see the stabilators and flaps? They're white. The above 2 notes are true for all the early high-vis Tomcats, it is the factory/delivery scheme for them all. But as the Jolly Rogers moved into low-vis, they "straightened out" (and lowered slightly) the grey/white separation line, painted the stabs grey, the flaps grey, the wing undersides grey, and finally the entire belly grey---in approximately that order. But any plane could be at any stage of repainting, and sometimes went "out of order". You'll often find that the nosecone is missing the black area at the top, abruptly "cutting off" the glareshield painted ahead of the canopy. Century Wing's well-regarded Jolly Rogers models actually don't exactly match any scheme---they're mostly delivery, yet they have the "straightened" white separation line. Never happened from what I can tell--stabs always went grey first. Their AJ201 release fixed that though, it has a wavy line. (I don't really know any other squadron that did the "straight line" thing---every other squadron went directly from wavy white to pure grey bellies) The "wavy white line with white stabs" is THE standard F-14 scheme and it had no variations, from the very first plane of VF-1, to just before VF-111. (The Sundowners were the first squadron to be delivered in low-vis camo) There was no interim scheme---some just ended up that way due to being at sea at the change---including VF-84 and VF-41. The short version is that any scheme variation that is not pure delivery or pure low-vis camo, is a temporary hybrid scheme that was not "intended" but merely how they "ended up for a short time while awaiting full repainting". (I hate hybrid schemes of all sorts on all planes)

Pics of what?

I've got "lack of Grace art" withdrawal.

How exactly are the new Camaro and Challenger heavily influenced by Japanese cars? (since we're talking fast/showy cars) There's plenty of "new American rice", but they are intentionally targeting the rice crowd---the G6 GXP is about the best example I can think of.(though that's almost a dub/rice hybrid) Many of the smaller Chevys to a lesser degree. For "big American cars" (which is about half of all American cars) they are about as un-Japanese as can be I think.

Yeah, Russia's now #1 in "making new CGI fighter planes".

Oh, a hybrid transitionary scheme while they were doing partial repaints at sea, on the wrong mold. Even better. (if you look close, you'll note that almost no two planes in that movie are painted the same--because they were changing over from high-vis to low-vis while it was being filmed, so nearly every plane is a Frankenstein of parts/schemes, with some variations never seen before nor since) That's the basic problem with using that movie as a reference---it's NOT the high-vis scheme. It's "bits of high-vis leftover since they didn't finish getting them into low-vis yet". I would bet they actually paint it how they looked "the year before", when they were fully painted in a proper scheme, and NOT specifically how they looked in The Final Countdown.

All to make room for my own...

Yes, but at that point, you should have more money than you could ever need, and you can always just keep playing the game to max out stats/levels----for free.

Scary. Banned/deleted, but scary.

I believe it's basically a 2-hour arena fight. The reward is gear you probably already have. I read several comments that the voice acting sucks---so I'm guessing they didn't get the original cast back or something?

That's just a sticker from CobraStickers, applied very well. http://www.cobrastickers.com/index.php?mai...p;products_id=8

General consensus is that it sucks. Not surprising, reading further---it's not really Bioware's. Demiurge Studios made it, with "input" from Bioware. Demiurge is also the place that ported ME to the PC---and you know how well that went.

Standing comment: I generally agree with everything myk says when it comes to cars.

I've got most of the parts to do a very similar Baroness---haven't done it yet though. (after seeing how poor the official one is, this is about your only option) If anyone wants to know EXACTLY what's on that figure, I can tell you)

Just need to rant a bit: MSIE 8 sucks. Back to 7 now. It's all the little annoying things that add up.

Yup, it seems to track with IP in my experience. Also--do try erasing your cookies. This board is unique in my experience, with regards to log-in persistence and cookies. (and also in my experience, it uses multiple cookies---deleting the www.macrossworld.com one and the macrossworld.com ones aren't enough ---you pretty much have to delete ALL your cookies to catch them all for MW)

If they had that, they should have had the Force Trainer thingy. (it's hard to describe, but it uses brainwaves)

I'm thinking of passing on it too. 2-3 hours of pure combat? Kind of the antithesis of the game...

New DLC is out, as well as avatar clothing.