Stamen0083

No mention of the VF-0 Battroids here either?

Isn't Hasegawa making VF-0 Battroid kits? EDIT:

It's missing a bunch of files. There should be a /data/sys/ directory, and in it should be pcm.pak, pcm2.pak, pcm3.pak, pcm4.pak, and data.pak. The directory isn't included in the zip. I suspect that this was an upgrade pack of some sort.

Modern Revell kits aren't bad at all. Of course, it's nothing compared to Tamiya, but details-wise, Revell kits are better than even standard Fujimi. Here's an unmodified Revell Integra underbody: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~stamen0083/progs...ntegra%2004.jpg Revell has a Tuners RSX kit coming out. Their Ferrari 612 Scaglietti kit is getting rave reviews.

Hrm. Where do I post for car model news? Anyway, it looks like Fujimi is releasing Ferrari F430 kits. What does this mean for Tamiya? I'm uncertain. Do Japanese companies release kits of the same subject at the same time? I feel that chances of Tamiya making the F430 kits are getting slimmer and slimmer all the time. What is certain is that Fujimi's kit will probably be lacking in details, the kit will be curbside, and it'll be ridiculously expensive for what we get. In other news, Fujimi is releasing the Murcielago Roadster and Tamiya is releasing the Ferrari F40GT. I wonder if the new F40 kit will have all new tooling or will it recycle the old F40 kit, which isn't really bad to begin with?

Watching it as we speak. Too bad John Doe was canned. I liked that show a lot. The cliffhanger at the end of the first season was not something that should have been left unresolved. Doe's origins and story as well.

I don't think you're supposed to get Kill Bill so much as you're supposed to get Tarantino. Kill Bill's story is straight forward: Bride hunts down people who ruined her life and kill Bill. It's Tarantino's quirks that makes the story more interesting.

Fiber optics route light. You need a light source to "power" it. Like a light bulb or an LED, and they in turn need batteries or another form of electrical power. Different colors need differently colored light sources.

What was that now? What happened to your Bandai boycott? Didn't you have to clear your PG Zakus out once upon a time?

Was the Super Hornet a Boeing project or MDD? I wonder why the engineers didn't design the Super Hornet for bigger engines? The thing is practically all new anyway, might as well. Why did the pylons have to be angled out again?

Revell has 1/25th scale kits of the USDM Integra Type R, Civic Si, and various others. There's an RSX kit coming sometime soon. Fujimi makes 1/24th JDM Integra Type R (recycled mercilessly), and the latest gen JDM Integra, of course, also mercilessly recycled. What I want is a kit of the last gen Honda Prelude, but no one's even considered it.

I think it's still OK to post models of Japanese cars in this thread, even though it's taken a decidedly American direction. And... Still in progress, but still... And no, not die casts. Questions, comments, flames? Please ask.

Where is this Google search bar? All I have at the upper right hand corner is a standard IPB search box.

Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Quigon Jinn is very cool. Darth Maul is much cooler. And the live action Initial D movie.

I enjoyed it. It's a guilty pleasure, really.

The Zaku IS popular, but this is one of the earliest PG kits, and its technology is hopelessly dated. Besides, American kids are more in love with pretty feathered mechs than a pig, no matter how fat and pig-like the feathered mech is. I'm waiting for a sale on the PG Mk-II and PG Strike.

Ban him.

I have a partially snapped PG W0C that I got from the Amazon sale. Got an arm and a leg together and I can't bear to go on, since, goddamn, that is one shitty kit. Anyone want to trade something for it? I want either the MG Freedom Gundam or Tamiya's 1/24 Calsonic Z.

Darth Vader's memoirs is such a rip off. It ends right where it sounds most interesting, and it looks like he hasn't updated it in ages! I hope he didn't die or anything...

During what time is this movie supposed to take place?

4200 yen is the price with tax. HLJ's MSRP is 3800 yen. 1000 yen more than the first Mk-II.

I think the most likely scenario once the shuttle touches the atmosphere is that it slows down and converts its energy into heat, not bounce around. Skipping across the surface of the atmosphere will have to be a deliberate action, not unintentional. Afterall, skipping stones across the water isn't particularly easy. Skipping ships across the atmosphere can't be that easy either.

I agree, actually. The starting points of the trajectories should have been at the orbit, not the upper edge of the atmosphere. It's not flying anymore, so no, it's not current. I think he means back into another orbit. He is probably referring to the gravitational slingshot effect, but on a much smaller scale. The craft won't have any fuel left to maneuver itself into position for another reentry and thus is stuck out there in a possibly decaying orbit. Or not. Explained above. Everytime the shuttle hits the atmosphere, it would heat up a little bit. Per the figure, the shuttle would hit the atmosphere quite many times before actually attempting to land, and every such time, it seems like the shuttle picks up speed to rise away from the atmosphere. :shrug: Stop talking crazyland theory. Like I said earlier, if we have unlimited power, nothing would be a problem.

Somehow, I don't think people are reading my posts. Not at all... Also posted earlier, this link details reentry: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0218.shtml

Hah. I said exactly that in an earlier post, only not in so many words. As for the rotating tiles idea, it's not that the tiles can't take it. Quite the contrary, the ceramic tiles are used precisely because it can handle lots of heat. The problem is that the damn things won't stay stuck to the shuttle long enough, and what the tiles are stuck to aren't strong enough to survive an impact from something the size and mass of a loaf of bread travelling at 500+ mph. EDIT: Tiles are ceramic, not carbon. >_<