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There was never any mention of heat and shields in the SW universe that I knew of*. And would the Hoth base have a reactor bigger and more powerful than the honking huge Executor? *Don't see the shield causing heat problems in Endor either and the DS2 was like a gazillion times bigger than an SSD. OK ok, this is a non-debate in the sense that SW tech doesn't make sense. As I said, I gave up trying to rationalise it from the start. LeChuck : Galaxy is nice but I think in many angles, the Sovereign Class looks better. More of a sleek aggressive muscle look.

Well, you guys know that Legendary Pictures is rebooting Godzilla in 2012 right?

I know I know. Too small to hit, no one will get thru yadda yadda. Look its still dumb! Real world designs had to trade off weight and performance. A 99 gajillion ton Death Star doesn't have to worry about 100 tons more armour. BTW, did you know that for the Battleship Yamato, they were paranoid enough to have an armoured grate inside the funnel? They didn't want a 'Star Wars' type lucky bomb/shell flying into the machinery spaces thru the exhaust gap so they put an 8 inch+++ thick grate over the opening.

I just ignore the SW 'canon' when it comes to Imperial military tech and capabilities. Was the Hoth base that much bigger than an Executor? Why can't the Executor have an 'energy shield' too that can stop all bombardments? Why can't they 'energy shield' that small vent on the 1st Death Star? Or have multiple grates with openings smaller than the smallest missile in the exhaust vent (or even a bit more kinks and angles)?

What are the 2 'air-intake' like apertures at the front base of the vertical stabs for? Reminds me of the YF-21's cannon muzzles in a way.

Part of the Empire wanting to visually impress and scare everyone into submission as part of the "Tarkin Doctrine'. But after that bit of reasoning, Lucas was too busy selling Ewok dolls to worry about why such a big ship should not have pounded the puny rebel cruisers into scrap within 1 minute and why they don't have redundant bridge controls and shield generators. The original stats on the Executor was pitifully laughable too. 144 fighters and something like 150 Turbolasers!!!!! WTF!??! (I mean, even the regular mile long ISD was credited with only 72 fighters... bah!)

Yes, this thread does not have enough Executor love. I am still hoping for Fine Molds to make one. For the Starcraft Terran Battlecruiser, the SC2 ones are better rendered but I prefer the slightly more vanilla design from SC1. Nobody mentioned LOGH/Heldensagan von Komsnosinsal (sp?) yet? Some of their ship designs were pretty cool (not Brunhilde, I prefer the more blocky ones). I paid through my butt for a few boxes of those completed and painted ships from Wave. And anyone remembered FASA's Renegade Legion? I had the starship technical readout for it. Some of the ships designs were pretty nice. TOG battleship Shiva class, Commonwealth Battlecruiser Repulse and some of the Heavy Cruisers and stuff. The 'Fluttering Petal' heavy fighter was quite cool too. I can't find a good site on the net for Renegade Legion artwork. Did I mention the Executor yet?

Heh, I was hoping for $300 usd or less but if the details are nice enough, I guess 400+shipping will have to do. Dammnit! Thats a lot of money for this hunk-a-plastic.

Not just the Enterprise, I think there were a couple of episodes where they beamed aboard some old derelict and the artificial gravity on space junk still works 100%.They need to get the person/contractor who worked on the artificial gravity to also work on the exploding consoles and 'frequent ejection' warp core.

Its one of the Golden Rules of Sci-Fi (SW/ST esp). All systems, shields, weapons, lights etc etc can fail, shipboard computers can go rogue and try to kill the crew, but the inertial dampers and artificial gravity NEVER fails, get switched off by the rogue computer or falls below 100% efficiency.

For me, the #1 Starship design has always been the Executor class from TSEB. It has got such a unique sleekness to it. I guess its partly because it was shot with a honking big real life scale model with 5000+ lights so it had that extra ommph which CGI only models can't yet replicate. Don't like all the Expanded Universe ships from SW though (in fact, I hate most of the SW ship designs).

Nice!

Well, you lose supercruise ability if you do that.

While searching for more info on Mega-Shark Vs Crocosaurus I ran into this... Fwaaah! How do I get a copy of this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragon_Lives_Again

Wasn't it supposed to be a < 1G planet? Not .999G but a bit more significantly less? I don't think that was emulated/simulated in the way stuff dropped or humans walked.

That might give Bay some ideas since he has already done the 'peeing robot' already.

Nuh? You have not watched Ong Bak (1)? Its worth a watch. Forget everything else, all crap. Just looking at the pic of the movie poster (1st post) makes me decide that its crap.

As least for the Italeri kit, I don't think the plastic is thick enough for you to sand away the nacelles. You are going to sand thru it (although I am not sure just how much slimmer the theoretical F-23A would have been.)

Ditti. I am no firearms expert but supposed 'professionals' in a firefight standing outside cover and shooting from the chest (you know, that fave movie position where its not hip level but definitely low enough that you know he aint using the sights unless he got eyes on his nipples or neck) and bunching together etc etc. It really irks me. And after all these years, directors still love the '600 round SMG magazine' and the 24 round revolver.. Twin pistols flying through the air doesn't irk me half as much as the Standard Round HK restaurant table being able to stop bullets once it is overturned!

I always thought that Gunship Grey is the best and most fitting colour for the YF-23. I painted my Italeri 1/72 that way, it was a no-contest decision. I am still hoping fop Yamato to release a YF-21 in Gunship Grey and without the stripes.

IIRC, the Tamiya and the Dragon is the same? The Italeri and the Testors are the same. AFAIK, the Italeri has the closest overall shape so I settled for that.

On that subject, I can't think of any aircraft with underbody intakes and shock cones. All seem to be side or pylon/wing mounts.

Bah, action figures.... Wake me up when Fine Molds decides to do an ISD or SSD (I'd take it in 1:35000 thank you!).

Shock cones? Does that mean it was meant to go much faster? Oh, and Uxi, I got the Italeri 1/72 YF-23. I bought two when I saw it in the shop years ago, thinking that noone would make em again.