David Hingtgen

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

Reduced the kibble on my Jetfire a bit. Took off the belts, and the silvery-grey shoulder parts that really stick out in both jet and bot mode. Basically, all the "Prime-only" parts. Jetfire's pins come out pretty easily, so if you can do so, remove them. Only one spring flew out of his chest when I took it apart, so that's good. (the shoulders have some STIFF springs) Took a pic of the internals for reference just in case all the gears and springs decided to go flying off while I was working... When I got it all back together, the chest mechanism worked smoother---but that also tends to vary day-by-day anyways, so I'll see if it's a permanent bonus. Not sure what I'll do with the "openings" left by the removal of the silver shoulder bits. It's not very noticeable (since they were half-open anyways even with the kibble) but I would like to stick something in there. No good reference pics of that area yet AFAIK---he's always hunched over! Though comparing the few pics out there with the robot replicas version, I'm pretty sure those bits aren't "officially" there so their removal does improve both bot and jet accuracy. Jet mode pics tomorrow maybe. I've also (mostly) removed the "JTFR" lettering. It'd burnish the plastic to remove them 100%, so they're just "very faded" now.

That video is quite different from how I normally spray---many quick little bursts. Doesn't that lead to lots of dry overspray flecks on the "just painted" adjacent areas? So many starts and stops---seems it'd be hard to start and stop the spray entirely off the model, when the sprayed area of each burst is so small. This is Tamiya's video, one of the few others I've seen for gloss---and is pretty much how I do it. "Long strokes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1HdmTH_tkE

Why one coat? Because despite trying numerous times, I have never been successful at the "mist coat" thing. Mist coats are rough, and if I have a mist coat applied, the final coat never look good, due to the bumpiness/roughness of that first layer. I can do "mutiple non-opaque layers" when brush painting if I'm lucky and careful, but never spraying.

All 1/48 have that issue. You can glue magnets in to help. (I could swear I saved the thread about it, but can't find it now)

I was right--he did several for Nickelodeon, including Maya the Bee, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. The latter has a quasi-Macross connection, as the voice cast for that is pretty much the Robotech cast.

Apparently VO:OT for 360 got an update/patch, and most issues were fixed.

Got a partial-----didn't connect for 60 secs, then it did on the second try. But it may be useful: Good/working: 1 4 ms 6 ms 5 ms 2 8 ms 5 ms 5 ms 3 12 ms 14 ms 13 ms 4 13 ms 13 ms 17 ms 5 12 ms 13 ms 14 ms 6 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.122.86.41 7 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 38 ms 41 ms 43 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10 39 ms 70 ms 40 ms dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.30] 11 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.204.145] 12 39 ms 39 ms 40 ms te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [208.175.175.10] 13 38 ms 39 ms 40 ms po2.dar01.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.205] 14 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms po1.fcr02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.178] 15 40 ms 41 ms 40 ms macrossworld.com [74.86.23.244] Failed: 1 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 2 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 3 12 ms 12 ms 13 ms 4 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms 5 12 ms 13 ms 14 ms 6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.122.86.41 7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 13 ms 16 ms 13 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 41 ms 40 ms 39 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10

Wooo! Thanks a bunch! Though I'm not a "foot" guy, I think they're my fave part of the drawing. (really like the hands too)

My main concern is really "covering in one coat, without drips/runs". Black paint is in my experience, less opaque than you'd think.

A VF-19F/S/Kai with the intake/hip area done wrong, almost *has* to look wrong in fighter mode. Only a YF-19/19A can be done "incorrectly" and still look decent in fighter mode. The extended LERX on the F/S/Kai pretty much demands the hips/intakes be done as a separate piece from the LERX/aux intake.

Who knew the Draken could do a quasi-cobra?

Darn it, it was down but I forgot to do a trace...

Then you'll want the extended concert version of the intro: Thinking about it, I think I had more MASK stuff than anything but Transformers. (as a percentage of what all existed at least)

I'm surprised the battery boxes weren't painted---just like the Hasbro one, they're all-blue, with one face silver. I'm surprised Takara didn't make it all-silver, or at the very least, paint the steps.

The version up there of Jayce does seem longer to me. http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...0Warriors-1.mp3

...which is another theme Shuki Levy wrote. http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...-Man_Theme.html So many versions out there--this is like the 4th... However, for sheer "manliness" Iron Man season 2 is right up there with He-Man--he forges his own armor with hammer and molten metal.

Just check your browser cache for the MP3s.

I always knew Shuki Levy wrote quite a few cool theme songs, but never knew he wrote ALL of these: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...mpositions.html And he's got the FULL versions of the theme songs, and in way better quality than the standard "youtube ripped from VHS" ones you find. MASK: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Online/MASK_Theme.html Mysterious Cities of Gold: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...Gold_Theme.html Inspector Gadget: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...dget_Theme.html And a zillion others---pretty much everything but GI Joe and Transformers.

Hmmn. I like the "abuse of mod-status" option, but I think I like the last option even more.

Do you want multiple copies of good ones? I could run one every day or so. I've only had the one outage this week, so I can't provide a bad one yet.

I have a chrome 07. The grill, front bumper, air cleaners, visors, tanks, tool boxes, and battery boxes are chromed. There's not much that isn't chromed. (stacks, mufflers, rear bumper).

Hmmn. Stacks still look like bare plastic, and most of it is just silver paint--only the grill looks to be actual chrome. Honestly I was hoping they'd chrome EVERYTHING, like the 07 one. Still, the most important thing IMHO--they painted the doors! The Hasbro one looks so cheap there, with the door being 80% clear with a blue strip at the bottom. PS---look how dynamically-posed, and properly-transformed Takara's displays are: http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/img/rbw/d...2/takara_26.jpg

Gah---I have Season 1-3 on DVD, never bought 4.0, now 4.5's coming on Blu-Ray. Don't really want to plunk down 200+ for the whole set on Blu-Ray, but it'd almost seem pointless to pay half that much just for season 4...

Complete series on Blu-Ray: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=5280 Season 4.5: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=5309