David Hingtgen

Was Phoenix ever declared the "official" name before this? I still like the idea that it's actually named "Zero" like the A6M... (and AFAIK, canonically, the VF-25 is still just *nicknamed* Messiah) This is all one giant "A-10: Warthog vs Thunderbolt" question.

Cameras----rather than raw megapixels, compare "how many megapixels vs size of the actual sensor". In the quest to get "the biggest number in the ads" many companies are actually squeezing too many megapixels out of sensors that can't handle it. Sometimes, less is better. It's roughly akin to JPEG compression---sure, you can reduce the file size, but at what point does image quality suffer? Same for megapixels--sure, you can get more pixels--but if the extra pixels are little more than noise, chroma-errors, and dust specks? I'd rather have a bit smaller, but better, pics. The real short, simple way to pick a camera---glass/lens. Bigger is better. Period. Buy the camera with the biggest lens you can afford and that you're willing to lug around. Cameras, like eyes, rely on light above all else. The fanciest electronics and sensors in the world can't compensate for lack of light. Even on a sunny day, a bigger, higher-quality lens lets in more light, and thus, better pics. This also why binoculars rock at night---they have a bigger lens than your own eye, and can "see in the dark" better. Most insanely in-depth camera site: http://dpreview.com/ More "grounded" camera reviews: http://www.imaging-resource.com/DIGCAM01.HTM

Depends on which Super Flanker version you're talking about, and whether you mean the "old" Su-35 designation or the "new" Su-35 designation. (Sukhoi is worse than MiG nowadays when it comes to re-using/re-assigning things----there were always a ton of Flankers, but at least they all had their own designation)

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/tutorials-ho...ins-rivets.html Just a note--some pins are just going to be inaccessible, too "stuck", or "the parts around them are too fragile." Also, BM toys seem to all have very "stuck" pins--I have yet to be able to get a pin out of any of them. I use an actual nail punch, similar to but not identical to the one in the video. (I'd like one like that, but can't find it--that one has a constant-diameter shaft so you can go in deeper) I currently use a balsa-wood block, but am going to get a chunk of basswood soon--balsa collapses too much for many pins. (but by being so soft, the pins go right into it, and the paint/plastic don't get damaged)

Quick poll: Should I keep the blue striping on my MP TC's chest? Or just go all-silver like G1 and the US MP SW?

I assume one did the music, and one did the lyrics. Or something like that.

My TRU had like a dozen figs---the same dozen they had 2 weeks ago.

That's way better than my Decepticon cake...

Oh, you gotta read the whole thread. It means little taken out of context. (I still like my vaseline suggestion--same effect, but far less nasty)

Yeah, that's like the version of Boom Boom Rocket that you're forced to play in Hell..

Hmmmn. I'm decent at shooters, but suck at any rythym/music game...

I bet China can build a LOT of J-10s in the next 20 years, to sell to many countries... (the J-10 looks better every time there's an update---I don't know if it'll eat F-35s for breakfast yet, but it's developing into a serious threat)

I don't believe either, really. In short, IMHO: The F-22 is everything it's supposed to be, and all around truly kicks ass. Expensive? Yes, but you get what you pay for, and its costs are now fixed. If you buy one now, you know exactly what you're getting and know exactly how much it'll cost. F-35? Doesn't seem to be nearly as good as it was supposed to be, and is costing a whole lost more that it was supposed to. And the price will only go up. Buy one now, and you can only HOPE it can do what you need it to, and you HOPE you will be able to afford the final price. And you're still paying almost as much as if you'd just bought a Raptor. (and a whole lot more than if you'd bought a late-model anything else) Stealth? Its internal carriage is piddly, so you're going to have to have external weaps most of the time anyways. So why pay for something you'll rarely be able to use? Buy 2 Block 60 Vipers instead. "F-35 will be weaponless and stealthy for first-day ops, then unstealthy when the skies are safe". Yeah? How do you plan on making the skies safe? Better have a bunch of F-22s to clear out the Super Flankers and J-10s. Then you could just send in masses of cheap F-16s... That brings up a point---SEAD. There's a huge need to take out the SAM sites early on in a war, but we really don't have any steathy SEAD platforms AFAIK---the HARM is too big to be carried internally. We need a smaller HARM that an F-22/35 can carry internally, to approach SAM sites undetected.

And they already posted the response claiming the Post's numbers are BS last week: http://www.f-16.net/news_article3622.html

Got my MP TC even more apart than it already is---I got the "boobs" off! Now I can not only swap them left/right, but repaint them--as removing their pin actually makes that entire area come apart--so I can paint the parts individually, and not gum up all the joints. So my current plan is now to paint all the "gunmetal" areas silver. Not sure if I'm going to keep the blue stripes on the "boobs"---I could mask them off fairly easily, but it would leave a paint line/ridge due to build-up, and I was never very fond of them anyways. Tried again (and again) but still can't get the intakes off. I got the pin to move, but it's "center-knurled" I think, and it'd probably destroy the cockpit to get the pin all the way out. I'm just going to have to mask and pray when I paint them. I found a crack in the left shoulder joint when I got the chest apart---it's either a factory crack, or a crack from transformation stresses (the few times I've done it). MP seekers always have 'issues' with their arms aligning in jet mode--I figure it might have been from forcing the arm to align or something----the crack's along a DIFFERENT pin-hole, not the one I removed. Did get a little crack in the hinged cod-piece, think that one IS my fault from removing the pin though...

And for all that, it's really not very good. Graham reviewed it.

Couldn't connect for hours, then my connection went out, and the moment it was back up I tied MW--and it worked! Annoyingly, the traces from when I couldn't connect and when it was back are identical--and they match the first "working" one I posted. This time though, I got "couldn't connect" messages instead of simply "icon spins forever".

The door knob incident should have its own thread. That was legendary.

US Cyclonus may have been acceptable, if he'd been SILVER instead of tan. The G1 toy was purple and silver, not purple and tan with silvery-beige accents.

I paid extra to get a JP Cyclonus (since the colors are COMPLETELY different), but no others.

Japanese versions of Universe Ratchet and Universe Ironhide have paint that more closely resembles the G1 'toon appearance. (often denoted as Henkei Ratchet and Henkei Ironhide).

Found this from a PS3 power supply thread: "Hi I am an Amercian living in the UK. I have a PS3 though I have it plugged straight into the UK mains, which is 240v. Even though both the Japanese and US PS3 have 100v on the sticker on the bottom the Power supply inside is universal inside. I have buddies who running both Japanese and US PS3's here in the UK. One of my buddies was brave enough to remove the case on his US PS3 and look at the power supply which clearly had 1 100v-240v. In the same way as the PSP charger is universal."

For me, I almost always get a "browser icon turning for minutes on end". It is very rare for me to actually get some sort of message/error. (I'm talking about MW over the past decade or so)

Failures from a few hours ago: 1 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 3 35 ms 23 ms 14 ms 4 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 5 14 ms 13 ms 17 ms 6 12 ms 13 ms 14 ms 12.122.86.41 7 16 ms 12 ms 23 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 39 ms 40 ms 40 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10 40 ms 41 ms 52 ms dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.30] 11 41 ms 40 ms 41 ms er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.204.145] 12 46 ms 40 ms 50 ms te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [208.175.175.10] 13 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms po2.dar01.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.205] 14 38 ms 50 ms 50 ms po1.fcr02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.178] 15 40 ms 42 ms 41 ms macrossworld.com [74.86.23.244] 1 5 ms 5 ms 6 ms 2 5 ms 6 ms 7 ms 3 13 ms 16 ms 13 ms 4 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 5 14 ms 23 ms 13 ms 6 16 ms 12 ms 15 ms 7 14 ms 13 ms 15 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 13 ms 15 ms 14 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 41 ms 41 ms 40 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10 39 ms 42 ms 40 ms dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.30] 11 56 ms 210 ms 207 ms er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.204.145] 12 39 ms 41 ms 38 ms te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [208.175.175.10] 13 39 ms 51 ms 39 ms po2.dar01.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.205] 14 39 ms 41 ms 40 ms po1.fcr02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.178] 15 42 ms 40 ms 39 ms macrossworld.com [74.86.23.244] Current working one: 1 19 ms 5 ms 17 ms 2 6 ms 5 ms 10 ms 3 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms 4 14 ms 13 ms 25 ms 5 12 ms 14 ms 21 ms 6 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 7 14 ms 13 ms 15 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 12 ms 19 ms 26 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 48 ms 39 ms 40 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.30] 11 38 ms 39 ms 42 ms er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.204.145] 12 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [208.175.175.10] 13 39 ms 200 ms 203 ms po2.dar01.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.205] 14 40 ms 39 ms 43 ms po1.fcr02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.178] 15 40 ms 39 ms 41 ms macrossworld.com [74.86.23.244]

A Scheherazade would be cool... (I think I spelled it right)