David Hingtgen

Regular.  But I have Anasazi37's decals.  

Going rate for a renewal Alto VF-25's Super Pack?   I plan to buy the WWM bundle, so now's the time to sell I think.   

1.5 years after I originally posted in this thread saying I'd wait for a sale---turns out it never really did go on sale, but the yen fell pretty hard against the dollar since then.  So I just finally ordered a VF-4.    

Were any of the hollow spring-pins replaced with regular pins, in the anniversary one?  It'll suck if these new ones start splitting their hinges apart after a few years like the originals.   (mainly the ones around the waist/crotch area, but the nosecone one also seems a bit iffy)   

Not so well----leaving it in until midnight did nothing, so I let it sit overnight----still nothing this morning.  Added a bit more oxi-clean and checked it around lunch-----no change to yellowing, but all the metallic grey paint around the underside of the backplate had dissolved away, leaving pure black paint.  (apparently it's painted in two layers).  So now I have a white+black Alto, instead of white+gunmetal.   Going to sell it for parts I guess----it's still good for many parts, and some parts are still perfectly pristine white.    All the black and red striping etc is still perfect, but the gunmetal grey they use for the "internal bits" mostly exposed in GERWALK mode is apparently far "weaker" paint than the rest.      

Most of what I want lately is P-Bandai, so it's expensive and/or sells out instantly, so I have bought very few kits the past couple years. 

"Yeah, I'd happily pay 15-30 for it, but not 50-80 just because it's "exclusive".  

It's getting ridiculous, that if I drew up a list of like my top 15 suits I'd like a new HG/RG kit of, nearly every single one has been made fairly recently, but only as P-Bandai....    So I just go without, rather than spending $$$$$ on small kits.   

On 9/2/2022 at 4:04 PM, Scyla said:

I have visited an air show in Styria today. Took some pictures of European fighter jets:

 

Jealous because I've never seen any of those.  (And I'm a big Gripen and Tornado fan).  

Memepost? Memepost:

Well, with the announcement of the reissue of Alto's -25, I just tossed my Alto into a vat of warm oxi-clean.  (it worked very well on Legos, but have never tried it on a valk).  Disassembled as much as I could, but impossible to remove all the metal bits, since some pins are insanely tight and some bits are super-glued together.  Will see how it works---I do the "warm water with some oxi-clean in it, for a long time" method, vs a "zapping with UV/sunlight or using high-concentration creams" method.   My Lego parts suffered no damage at all, so I'm hoping the same thing will be effective on my valk, and also not harm the paint or metal bits.   

My Alto's yellowing is very mild compared to what's usually posted here, but I can see it, and it'll only get worse over time---better to "bite the bullet now"----it'll either be restored nicely, or be ruined-----but I want to know before the pre-order window closes...

Curious if the exploding waist assembly has been fixed.  Mine spent most of its time in fighter mode with no packs, yet still broke.   

I think I prefer the first movie to the show, but prefer the show to the second movie.  But they're all fairly even, not a very big preference for any comparison.  

This year, the F-35 demo team has a really neat coin, way better than any of the 22/35 teams of the previous couple years:

Nice patch, too:

I fairly freely spray-paint silver pieces, because frankly Lego themselves aren't all that good/consistent at it.  No two silver-sprayed pieces are alike, and are often splotchy on the sides etc, with incomplete coverage. 

My silver-sprayed wheels etc are practically indistinguishable from LEGO's, except for often having more consistent coverage...   (Tamiya TS-30 is a great match, for sheen/color)

(buying 4 "real" silver wheels for $10 each vs buying white ones for $0.25 and spraying...).   And if you like semi trucks like I do...

Cameo spoiler:

And non-spoiler tip:  The mid-credit scene is short but not super-critical IMHO (its not like, the mid-credit scene from Capt America or anything).  The post-credits scene is a one-line throwaway joke from a very minor character that has zero impact on the MCU, and is VERY skippable if you just want to leave the theater.   

I'm curious about the gold on Heavyarms----multiple layers/colors, or just a really nice single-stage gold paint?

We've seen April in ST:TAS.  The encyclopedia uses a pic of Roddenberry as a sort of placeholder.  

Speaking as a mod here, despite being a huge Trekkie:

Just stop.  Capt Pike said "no one" and that's how it's gonna be.  End of discussion.  

Lego's site has always had weird "routing" issues, even when I don't sign out.  It'll just randomly send me to the UK, Canada, Hungary, etc.  

Go into the actual URL, and just change "en-uk" or whatever to "en-us".   

I'd like a 0D done in the right base colors, without needling a $200 factory weathering job to look right. 

Slate blue upper, very pale grey lower. Simple.  

Like Yamato's sample showed oh so many years ago, before they completely changed it at the last minute for the actual release.  

On 4/7/2022 at 5:17 PM, Raikkonen said:

Apologies for sounding like a utter Noob-bot. But recently started to rekindle Macross after a 10 MIA, and catching up with this Delta saga.

Question, is there something that I missed between Frontier and Delta? Frontier feels like a homage of the original Macross on new territory, but Delta... is like completely aimed at a whole different fanbase of anime.

Nope, Delta is just that different from Frontier, story/theme-wise.  It LOOKS similar, animation-wise, but that's about all they have in common, IMHO.   

If I didn't already have Ozma's, this'd be the one I'd buy.   

Is anyone else less "concerned" about 2024 having drone-based force-fields, and more by the fact that it was turned off about 5 secs after she was injected?   Genetic lung/skin defects cured before a single cell had time to replicate?  Heck of a stress-test too.  Instead of being in a dark room with filtered air, and slowly seeing how she reacts to increasing exposure----just throw everything at her at once, and hope she lives!

I genuinely liked the first season of Build Fighters.  But it went down hill and the sequels were mostly utter trash. 

Oh, I guess we were supposed to pay close attention to her rapid-fire turn-down-the-guy-at-the-bar spiel, because it quickly explained how she got away with murder. 🙄

I'm 3 episodes in, and are they really just not going to mention at all that Dr Jurati murdered her mentor last season?  Everyone on the Stargazer was just cool with her hanging out on the bridge?

XL Stargazer looks good----but samples often do...