David Hingtgen

Never saw Wheelie, but saw a few Cosmos and Warpath at the "non-Super WalMart that usually gets nothing and/or is last". Same store that got the black Leader Ani Megs repaint----they may ship together or something.

Pigma Micron pens can be found at most any craft store. Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Ben Franklin. Also, college/university bookstores will usually have them in the art supplies section.

Darn it, just got majorly spoiled for TF:A season 3. And it's mostly my fault. (I thought it was the spoiler I already knew, but it was a different, maybe even bigger one).

It's the obvious choice----as famous and popular as a character gets, after Prime and Megs. Also---nearly impossible to screw up the paint scheme! No "too light" or "too dark" complaints here----he's metallic. Almost any shade in any combination will work well, from silver-white to gunmetal. Pale gold to dark bronze.

Dang, we might need to sticky a warning. "Don't use name-brand Gundam Markers on a v2 VF-1".

Nail polish remover is certainly "stronger", but I don't think it'd be as effective as rubbing alcohol on Gundam Marker. Kind of like using lacquer thinner with acrylic paint---they just aren't designed to do anything to each other. I'm betting rubbing alcohol would have worked much better, without doing a thing to the plastic. Question---did you let the gundam marker dry before you tried to remove it? If so, that'd explain a lot. It removes easily when "wet", harder when dry. (and sometimes it'll never totally dry---I recently removed 8-year-old ink from my PG Wing Zero with just spit, and you'd never know I'd applied any) Note: GM02 does seem "tougher" than any other thing I use, and it tends to "soak in more" to anything even SLIGHTLY porous. I personally rarely use name-brand Gundam Markers, preferring Sakura brand Pigma Micron pens. (they are much more forgiving, and cheap/easy to find in the US) I haven't tried inking a V2.0 VF-1. Maybe the plastic changed, and it reacts differently than other Yamato/Bandai plastics?

Could you be more specific, EXACTLY what did you buy? Also---rubbing alcohol affects few plastics---I've soaked many pieces for days with no effect. (black plastic gets a sort of haze sometimes, but that's about it) I'm surprised by everything you wrote.

Chun-Li's trials suck. I think her 2nd hard one is considered one of the toughest in the game. (annoying since apparently the 3rd one's pretty easy). I pretty much just looked at her 2nd hard and said "yeah, that's never going to happen". Easiest trials I found so far are Bison (Dictator). Took like 5 mins for all the normals. (I haven't gotten 2nd hard trial on anyone, just a couple 1st hard so far) Re-rant: Trials are pointless. They don't teach/help at all. All the combos are complicated, difficult, and frankly useless due to how rarely an opponent will be set up properly to get them off. Why do a nigh-impossible 5-hitter, when I can do MP-HP-special for greater damage? It's purely to show what CAN be done, and not what'll actually be useful/helpful. If they had made some trials that actually show useful, "not insanely picking about just-frame timing with FA dash-cancel" combos that do decent damage, that'd be useful, THEN I'd spend a lot of time trying them out and learning them---then use them against people. As it is----it's just a waste of time. 20 mins in practice or arcade mode "teaches" me far better.

IIRC the F-15 failures were due to being manufactured incorrectly, with undersize stringers. Every one that was built correctly is fine. It had nothing to do with "not fully understanding the nature of the materials used".

And presumably saved hundreds (or even thousands, depending on how often they reused that same exploding VF-11 footage) of M7 pilot's lives.

It briefly hit 6%, but seems to be holding at 5%.

New 1/60 VF-11 pics, showing how heatshield works etc: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=724406

Heatshield's kinda like I thought it'd have to be, didn't think of the Z-fold hinge though. Interesting. Still haven't seen any pics of the back of battroid mode. (the one we've seen has the boosters on it, which hide what I want to see)

You know that you're required to post pics now.

Countach?!?!? (still my all-time fave car appearance-wise, no car will ever look as cool)

Honestly---took a long time to really get going (really just the last 2 issues), so that there wasn't much left to see after the characters/motives were established. All character, no plot.

::gasp:: You're saying people judge cars by appearance and sound, not quality and performance? (though if the real DeLorean actually sounded like it did onscreen, it'd have helped a little)

Figured people might want to know, I just finished reading the book. Will see movie soon.

I recognized the term from one of azrael's episode polls.

There's no way it actually lights up THAT bright. (if it did, I'd buy it) Based on their description, it sounds like there's other versions, but the BTTF2 version is the exclusive. So who's got the one from the first movie?

Composites have one huge disadvantage----when you have to repair them.

"Hana Gittelman".

Cool "super gauge". (I'm real sick of retro black and white simple ones---what I really want are mid-80's digital dashes, but this'll do)

I'm going to have to airbrush some SP scarlet I think---I am so not using stickers for the missile hatches. (SP scarlet seems to be the closest match to the kit decals)

Dang, no posts for 2 weeks? Last week was much better than most. (More HRG=better ep). Anyone else get weird audio for first half of this week's ep? Couldn't hear dialogue over music.