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  1. David Hingtgen
    GundamInfo just dropped all of Turn A, subbed, on their channel. Was this announced before and I missed it? I know what I'm doing this weekend...
  2. David Hingtgen
    I'm surprised the Thunder Machine even has the Pontiac logo molded in.
  3. David Hingtgen
    It's there, they just didn't paint it to match the molded-in detail. Look carefully at the blue plastic, right in front of the grey tip of the canopy...
  4. David Hingtgen
    The modex numbers on the ventral fins look backwards (again). They'd read "113" (or IIE, really) in fighter mode... Rather than fix it, Bandai will just issue "113" tailfins down the line... And it's not even a mirroring thing---it looks wrong on every side of every fin.
  5. David Hingtgen
    VF-25: Since the shoulder armor is so hard to remove, I just left the joint assembled, and poured nail polish inside as best I could. Several times, with the arm in different positions so it'd flow to different areas. Though if I were to do it again, I'd use Future. (nail polish is "hot" enough that it reacts with the plastic part of the ball-joint socket, and it dissolved a small amount of material at the edge).
  6. David Hingtgen
    I also notice that the Pontiac arrrowhead recess on the wheels is quite prominent, I think it should be toned down a lot.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Absolutely---that's why I'm keeping my retro one and (trying) to sell my SDCC one. The retro looks better IMHO. I painted a few small extra details on the retro and the details really pop. (like the flames on his boots, and studded belt)
  8. David Hingtgen
    Was the decision to have a Crossfield/Discovery-esque saucer-look an idea from higher-up, or were you guys given fairly free-rein? (it was mentioned in dialogue, so I wondered which was first)
  9. David Hingtgen
    The 1/12 KITT has the same problem every light-up car has nowadays: Cheap "white" LED's for the headlights, that give a cool-blue effect. Obviously wrong for any 70's/80's car. They need to use warm-white/golden-white LED's to mimic the incandescent/halogen look. There's tons of LEDs designed just for that purpose, but very few companies use them. They cost like, 3 cents more... Sure, older toys with small bulbs were dim, and burned out easily---but the color was right. And nowadays we do have readily-available LED's that are bright and long-lasting AND the right color---but it seems so few companies are aware or care about "the right look".
  10. David Hingtgen
    Is SDCC Zartan not actually in very much demand? His price is high on ebay, but nobody seems interested in mine. (and I'm not asking ebay prices for it!) Whereas my extra Eel was snapped up in an instant.
  11. David Hingtgen
    I'd like to request LESS articulation---no working doors on the "orange tiger" car please.
  12. David Hingtgen
    I have decided to "rearrange/reinstall" everything" and buy a new larger 970 EVO as my boot drive, and put like half my storage on it as well. (mobo can't do gen4 PCI so little point in a 980)
  13. David Hingtgen
    I have considered that----buying a new SATA drive to become my storage drive, and using my current storage drive (M.2 970) as OS. Hmmm. I'd probably be buying a 1 or 2 TB Sata 870 either way... (available locally) ::edit:: Hmmmn, PNY CS900 is also locally available and cheap. If only being used for storage...
  14. David Hingtgen
    Suggestions for a new SSD as my OS drive? Currently have a 960 EVO , 250GB. Definitely want 500, maybe 1TB if not too much more money. I see that Best Buy has 870's cheap, but "SSD specs" are hard to parse--is it an upgrade or a downgrade? 70 vs 60, vs 800/900, evo vs regular/pro... Vs a flagship 990 Pro or something ::edit:: Gah, mobo only has 1 M.2 slot and it's being used by the storage drive---I don't think there's a SATA version of the 990. So the question really is---for those of us stuck using SATA, best bang for the buck SSD?
  15. David Hingtgen
    Speaking of SDCC, anyone interested in my SDCC Zartan? I actually prefer the Walmart retro version, and I don't need two. (he's only been in the fridge like twice!---but that means I can confirm the color-change works)
  16. David Hingtgen
    And if they had fixed the backwards chest stripes.
  17. David Hingtgen
    It's a lot of money for the chest stripes to STILL be reversed.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I ended up buying a 3060 12GB, and have spent the past couple days trying/tweaking settings in programs to try to dial in "perfection". (I am pretty obsessive with getting my PC to run as best it possibly can). If anyone's interested a used but mint 1080 FTW2, let me know.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Decided it's definitely time to upgrade my GPU---anyone have one for sale? I currently have a pre-COVID 1080, so most anything would be an upgrade. Or I may just buy say a 3060 12gb new, locally, so I could enjoy it over the 3-day weekend...
  20. David Hingtgen
    Build Fighters actually was fun though. (early on when it was basically a ton of homages, the later iterations got worse)
  21. David Hingtgen
    Props for painting the chin grey. (and the white ankle-discs)
  22. David Hingtgen
    Even better than a -3000, a -3000B. Let's see an old relic still in use. If the USAF is going to use B-52's through 2040+ (When M+ happens!) then there should be at least a few big old bomber valks still around in the Frontier/Delta era.
  23. David Hingtgen
    No easy way to open the shoulder any meaningful amount, my suggestion is just to put lots of thickener/joint stiffener in during multiple sessions and try letting it sit in different positions while drying to wick/flow its way around inside. *don't use nail polish, the plastic tip on the ball reacts.
  24. David Hingtgen
    The stripes (and parts themselves) don't line up across the various panels as well as previous releases, (and one spot they actually made a change that is simply wrong) so I've been doing my best to try to improve the paint:
  25. David Hingtgen
    Thanks much.
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