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But..But.. the 23 is so pretty! It'll look good and be worth the money even when its sitting in the hanger!

I always thought that the 4 x 2 turret design is inferior to the 3 x 3 designs. 4 turrets give you 1 less gun. And its easier to knock out 1 turret if u have 4. Lose one turret and either way you have 6 barrels left working. Might as well save the weight and go 3 x 3.

Its surprising how many people out there think that battleships are actually armoured all over. e.g. they think that stuff like Harpoons and Exocets and Silkworms would bounce off the Iowas no matter where it hits. In reality, only the most important areas (magazines, machinery etc) are covered. To cover the whole ship would make the armour so thin that smaller ships stand a chance of punching thru the armour. Look at the Bismarck. She didn't sink even when pumped full of 15inch hits since the armour at the vitals held up very well in most instances. But the rest of the ship was so wrecked that she was out of combat and service way before she sank.

Just about every large cargo ship has them nowadays. It was a novel idea back in the Yamato's time (1937) but pretty standard now.

I witnessed an r/c jet engine before. The owner had it strapped to a test bench for testing. It was LOUD! And it really gave a sense of power. The owner said the thrust was about 40 lbs. No way you can mistake a jet sound for a prop, the sound was pretty incredible.

Counter-balanced by that crate of Tofu in the boot...

Yeah, they look way too 'square'at the prow compared to the one Britai was using. But that could be just due to animation variations rather then intent.

The 1/144 Yamato won't fit into my bathtub!

Hase has a VF-0B kit shown on the hlj page (hobby show pics). Was this seen in the M0 shows? Don't remember 2 seaters except for Shin's D. The decal says space proving wing. Thought they cant go into space... Colours look nice. Very NASA.

I see, thanks. I've never seen a pic of a missile launch showing a small flame or whatever around the pylon representing the pyrotechnic charge. Is it visible?

He is still around. His shop shifted to Excelsior Hotel.

IIRC, one of the prototype F-14s got hit by its own Sparrow which nosed up because the cartridge wasn't strong enough to push it far enough. How does the plunger work? Is it an explosive cartridge or compressed air or just some hydraulics?

There's also a small airliner made by Fokker (is it 2 Ks or a C for the company?)that has the engines over the wings. Or is that the plane your talking about? That's this Macross bird (the cargo jet) with the engines over the wings too. IIRC, just about every early multiengined seaplane has the engines over the wings.

I for one liked the way they left out the Gods and Achilles being invulnerable. Basically view the movie as how a real world Troy legend would have happened before 2 millenia of poets soup up the characters to invulnerable legends.

P-61! 4 x 20mm and 4 x 12.7mm. P-39s' had 5 guns too. IIRC the B-25 takes up to 8 in the nose and 4 more in sidepacks. Excluding the turrets. And that funny JV-44 Me-262 1a-U1 with the 2 x MG151, 2 x Mk108 and 2 x Mk103. Wierd combination if u ask me. But hits harder then anything else in the sky at that time. 6 x MG151 or 4 x Mk103 would have made more sense if that was possible.

Add Boldoza to the list. He is the tallest being in the universe I think.

They got the CFT pylons spot on this time round?

I suspect that the flight helmets have a built in 'Perm' function.

They got rid of the Karaoke bit where they sing that parody of California Dreaming? That was the funniest part in the whole movie. Maybe not so funny if you can't understand mandarin/cantonese. I watched the film in chinese. Its the funniest Stephen Chow movie ever.

Well, the $120 price is due to the RRP Yen price set by Yamato. So they have a hand in these prices.

Where's my Sazabi dammit!

Download Zoomplayer. Ends all problems. Don't use crappy windows media player (if u are using it).

Looks like the Pope in power armour.

You mean we don't already have enough reason to since 1991?

How about we each send a C&D letter to HG as well huh.