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Sundowners!
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Lego's anyone? Someone try this please!!!!!
David Hingtgen replied to Excillon's topic in The Workshop!
Personally, I like the fact that Kawamori seems to design mainly with LEGOs nowadays---it means his designs are very feasible in real life, with little to no "anime magic" used. And thus---much easier to make good-looking toys from. Though you have to wonder, what would the YF-19 and -21 have looked like, if he designed them from LEGOs? -
Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Sunstreaker IS backwards. He's a repaint of Sideswipe, with the torso turned around to look different. It sometimes happens that the repaint comes out before the original. Sideswipe will be how the mold is "supposed" to look and was originally designed, with the hood for the chest, etc. Look closely at the fists, wrists, and forearm kibble--it can all be flipped 180 to make the arms look right if you turn the whole torso around at the waist joint. Sunstreaker is the "torso turned around to look different" version of Sideswipe. He's just coming out first for some reason. -
Here's the real F-15 scheme in blue, if you'd like a reference: (if you'd like a little something extra---paint the wheels black. Early F-15s had black wheels, not white---why not do the same for the YF-19?)
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High Definition Media & Technology Thread
David Hingtgen replied to JsARCLIGHT's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I hate edge enhancement NOW with DVD on a CRT. Nearly every movie has it done when transferred to DVD, some just do it more than others. -
High Definition Media & Technology Thread
David Hingtgen replied to JsARCLIGHT's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Part of it is "raw size of the pixel itself" at this point. The PC monitor you're viewing on probably has a FAR greater pixels-per-inch count than even the best HDTV. Anyone here viewing the comparison pic using an HDTV as a monitor, instead of a "real PC monitor"? -
Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Slightly OT----How did Northrop get the rights to the A-10? Fairchild just kind of went away, no one bought them out AFAIK. -
****! The new cobalt blue DS Lite isn't blue! It's "blue" in the same way the crimson one is "red". It's exactly the same as a crimson one, just with blue. 90% black, with blue paint on top. C'mon, at least give us colored BUTTONS or something so that when you actually open it up to play it, it doesn't look IDENTICAL to a pure black one....
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Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
And we still don't have a triple-changer that's good in all three modes. G1 Astrotrain's still the best of all, compromise-wise, followed by G1 Blitzwing. I'll put the new Octane/Tankor 3rd. His plane mode is just so incredibly disproportionate, regardless of having not much kibble besides around the rear stabs. He's got itty-bitty tailfins, itty-bitt engines, and HUGE nose and forward fuselage. It's like they took a 1/48 C-130, but used 1/72 wings and tail, and a 1/32 nose... Of course, the original was a 2-engined 747, and without the chrome tanker and stickers, few would have called truck mode a truck... (I'm a big Octane fan, one of the very few airliner TF's---and he's a truck, too!) -
High Definition Media & Technology Thread
David Hingtgen replied to JsARCLIGHT's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
This would be a great time to post a pic I found, comparing different resolutions. Everything is re-scaled to match each other, so it's as if you saw each format on the same size TV. It's from "I, Robot" if you've never seen the movie. Slight issue though---it appears to be a PAL DVD, not NTSC. So DVDs in the USA and Japan look even worse, as NTSC DVD is encoded at only 480p instead of 576p. Anyone know of a similar pic that shows 480 vs 720 vs 1080? Or is the "Xvid1" at top basically 480? -
High Definition Media & Technology Thread
David Hingtgen replied to JsARCLIGHT's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Couldn't find anything about Paramount, but I did find proof that Sony in Germany is giving you 150 Euros off a BluRay player, if you bring in your HD-DVD for trade. And they may expand that deal to the UK. -
Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
How will Starscream be made to look "good"? I mean, he already has "Autobot red and blue" as his main accent colors. -
That reminds me, I have to go download some more novels (I only check like once a month when the show's not airing)
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It's both! Cavemen in Egypt!
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Wow, the number of video game links of the cast is insane. Rhona Mitra is one of the many former Lara Croft models.
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The Xbox 360 Thread Elite Edition
David Hingtgen replied to Apollo Leader's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Exactly. ONCE? That's like saying you played Halo once. It's all about replay... -
Lots of neat Raptor pics: http://www.airshowbuzz.com/photos/browse.php?category=4
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I have the same issue with one hand, never figured out why though---I constantly compared to make sure they both had the fingers the exact same way, but one never wanted to stay in place. Except once. Don't know how, but I got it in place. For a while at least.
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LAFtoys.com is getting in Rei within the next 72 hours or so.
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Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Well that's exactly it--Beast Wars is a great SHOW. Many of the toys leave something to be desired. The TM1 and TM2 sub-lines had some very nice, G1-esque toys. But a lot of the rest were from "meh" to "that's just plain lazy design". Dragon Megatron is still one of the coolest TF toys ever IMHO. So cool I bought the repaint as well. (I do plan on selling a lot of my BW toys though, gotta fund the valk collection---everything that came with a box still has the box---I just don't want to do it on ebay) -
Official 1/60 YF-21 News & Picture Thread (ver.2)
David Hingtgen replied to Graham's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I would say they're not vernier nor would they be called slats. Slats in the aviation sense means a track-mounted flap on the leading edge. They're vectoring louvers. It may even be a vectoring louver *cascade*. louver: movable slat (slat in the non-aviation sense--like a window blind) cascade: an assembly to re-direct airflow vane: fixed slat, or with a quite narrow range of movement (vane cascades are mostly seen on the thrust reversers of large airliner engines) Thus, a vane cascade has a fixed flow direction, while a louver cascade is adjustable. -
Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Alt Grimlock is probably the most annoying to transform TF ever. He's just needlessly finicky and complicated. So many little black hinges that seem pointless but are in fact needed if you ever want to get things lined up. "This one up and this one down and these two in and the last one back" is the only way the chest will lock together, or it'll forever be 3mm too far to connect. Or is it "up down in back in"? IMHO, Smokescreen's the best Alt. It was all downhill from there. Tracks is neat, but mainly because of the awesome alt mode. If he didn't have the giant leg kibble and shoulder-launchers he'd be amazing. Sideswipe is pretty disappointing, I should have waited for the Sunstreaker repaint/remold--it looks twice as good. Hound's pretty good. I pretty much stopped buying after that though. -
Transformer Super Thread 6
David Hingtgen replied to Dangard Ace's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
My point was that if the car modes looked like Classic Hot Rod etc, they would be free from licensing restrictions, thus (due to the size/complexity/price of Alts) they could then have an alt-style complex transformation, yet actually do something DIFFERENT. Classics have common/simple TF car transformations due to size/price limits. Alts have common TF transformations due to licensing restrictions affecting panel/part break up. Alts with Classic-like car modes would have no restrictions, and the engineers could do whatever they wanted, with a higher budget/complexity than any car TF has seen before. (Ultimate BB doesn't count, 90% of his budget went into electronics) Personally, I like complex transformations more than anything else. The Alts however were needlessly finicky, due to the many small joints in a single area, due to not being allowed to split up the body panels. If they had smaller kibble pieces, it'd be a lot easier to transform them, and Grimlock (for example) wouldn't have 2mm z-fold hinges all over just to give you that 3mm extra space needed for one sequence to clear the doors... MP Prime is nice and complex, but he's not finicky. Alternators may have 100 joints, but most don't really "do" anything other than slightly move parts to clear each other. The basic transformation is simple, there's just a bunch of little "adjusting" steps in each main step to make room for GM-approved seamless kibble to swing around.