David Hingtgen

F-22 intake separation line---never easy to see, but look here: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1423535/L/ http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1384596/L/ http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1313059/L/ Look at the bottom corner, easier to see. It's pretty deep in. Also, I think the separation line is angled to match the intake lip. ::edit:: Ooh, this is probably the best shot: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/L...-22A/1327080/L/

F-22 intakes are like the F-15, in that they're grey for the first couple of feet, then go to white. Walk-around (useful for everything but the intake interiors) http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/michae...k/f-22a_04-066/ More 747 stuff to celebrate its birthday-----something never before photographed, and rarely even seen----a 747's bow-wave: http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6472254 PS--787 and A380 are nothing compared to the A400M. THAT is a screwed-up program. It will set the record for longest gap between initial construction/roll-out/first flight/service entry.

Today's the 40th anniversary of the 747's first flight.

The F-14 is notable for having its first kill be itself: "The day I shot myself down": http://www.ejectionsite.com/F-14%20SHOOTDOWN.pdf

Tease!

Seconded---when they spend 30 secs arguing about how critical it is to be fast and accurate in this situation--she holds her guns gangsta-style and crossed-over? Ghost Train--you didn't miss anything. As for the engine room---I'm annoyed that I of all people didn't understand what it was until I came here. I thought they looked more like leaks or something--so "dark and streaky". Honestly at very first I thought there were more "relics of the past etched on the wall" for Tyrol, like on Earth. (hey, that'd be a twist, he used to serve on a previous Galactica...)

Googling around, the more I find, the more it seems the *PS3* is amazingly universal/tolerant---to the point that its internal power supply is actually a converter--if you can physically give it electricity, it'll do what it needs to do. HDMI seems to be the best bet for connecting, it seems to "not care" about ATSC, PAL, etc. I'd say you have good odds of being able to play games and watch Blu-Rays from a US PS3 on a euro HDTV.

HDTV universal---nope, instead of NTSC and PAL etc, now you have ATSC and DVB.

That's a boring Scarlett fig. Hopefully there'll be the 'armor' one later.

Can you move and merge as a single action? (merging is hard enough, as it's backwards IMHO---Thread A + Thread B means new thread has name of Thread B)

That sounds like a way better movie. Be sure to get Frank Welker to do the voice.

I moved this over here, though really it should probably be merged with the Transformers thread.

You mean there's a ranking?

A few planes have shot themselves down, but it generally requires a ballistic-trajectory dive immediately after firing to intercept their bullets---it's never because they were shot AS they fired.

Oh, it's BOOBY trap, not BOBBY trap. I was expecting something totally different. You gotta admit, the typo would probably be the funnier shirt.

It's just that they came so close yet so far to being "perfect right out of the box". MP TC doesn't have ANY black when he should have lots. Navy blue has never been a TC color. (I'm going to experiment some with paint stripping today and see what I can do) (since I'm doing the big hip-kibble mod, that actually affects things paint-wise, as the paint on the booms now lines up with the lower leg paint---looks weird in most cases, so it has to either be all gone or all the same color)

That's because those are the only things worth discussing in that approaching train-wreck.

Trying to think of how to paint my TC yet again. (you know, if they'd simply painted the accents BLACK to start with, he'd be done now) I mean, Skywarp's primary accent is purple, that never changes. TC's primary accent color is black, yet both Hasbro and Takara like to seem to **** around with that a lot, and often give us gunmetal or grey. Those aren't black. And this time they gave us navy blue. Also not BLACK. Repainting *everything* is impossible, mainly due to the forearms/fists. Luckily, those are the dullest and least-blue parts of him, and look OK as-is. I've thought about painting only the nosecone and tailfins black, so that he'd look right in jetmode--the nose and fins are mostly hidden in bot-mode, so he'd simply "change colors" when transforming. But then his bot-mode would still be mostly wrong, in being two-tone blue, instead of blue and black. Repainting almost everything would be a lot of work and chances for screwing up, and repainting dark dark blue into black almost seems a waste. Especially when even after all that the fists etc still wouldn't be right nor match. But G1 toon TC's fists didn't match the rest of him either. Then again, every other incarnation of TC has "matching" fists. Won't even get into lower rear fuselage/leg painting...

They may be a bit cliche and over the top, but I always felt the comics that made the most direct "CC to Hitler" comparisons were the best portrayal of CC and how he keeps himself in power and gathers followers.

Just a note---F-2s have always looked a little "bluer" to me than Intermediate Blue. I'd start with Intermediate Blue, and add a few drops of a pure, bright blue. (same with the other blue--none of the 3 blues I listed are an exact match IMHO) Kind of ironic that a Japanese company making a model of a Japanese plane is trying to match to US paints... (but the basic fact that the US makes most fighter jets nowadays means they have US paint and that's what the model paint companies make---the F-2 is kind of an oddity in having Japanese paint and construction---though I am surprised Gunze seems to have never made a dedicated "F-2 blues" set of colors---there's many aircraft-specific paints out there----and a zillion sets just for specific Gundams)

Plot convenience. She also unmasked them in the order she needed. Just as conveniently, HRG is now a (co)pilot, and on THAT plane! And I must say I thought it ironic (and disappointing) that we saw Sylar only 5-10 mins into the show, and I immediately thought back to what DA wrote.

Which greyish blue? Anyways, the lighter one (accoding to Hasegawa) is Intermediate Blue (ofter mis-translated, especially on Gundams, as Medium Blue---Medium and Intermediate have totally different meanings when it comes to American paint colors). FS 35164. The darker blue--well, that comes out as "Navy" blue. However that's not a standard FS color, and they should mean an FS color based on where that is in Gunze's charts. It's either 35042 sea blue, or 35044 insignia blue. However, just looking at it--I think it looks more like actual non-FS Navy blue. Which is 5-N. Harder to find, but it exists---check ship colors. Real actual Navy blue (as used by the Navy) is not the color found in clothing. It's less blue, less intense.

At least they recognize it for what it is---in the UK, a batt'leth is a truly feared and dangerous weapon, and should be banned:

Like any 80's show--there's "stupid, throw-away, toy-selling eps" and ones that really do tell a good story. This is one of the latter. (pretty much--it's not the best, but it's definitely above average)