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  1. For panel lining, the way i do it is that i apply the acrylic coat 1st, then another clear coat of acrylic on top. After which i use Tamiya enamel paint thinned down (black or dark gray)

    Tamiya ENAMEL paint??? This is a shock, I've been using Tamiya colors for almost 20 years and this is the first time I've heard of this!

    Are they sprays?

  2. Image Anime is a nice store, especially given that it's in NYC.

    Their $2 Tamiya paints are the MINIS however. They are about half the amount of paint you get out of a regular $3.50 Tamiya paint bottle.

    $3 for the micro-fine Gundam pens - is that a good price?

  3. I like the fact that they're getting creative with the design of the thing. Sure, it's nice to get an accurate toy rendition, but we're talking about armor (and mecha in general) of a 20 year old design.

    It's time to innovate baby!

    I'd much, MUCH rather see a 1/48th Zero (armor and otherwise) than silly VF-1xxx re-issues in different colors...

    Since that won't be happening for a while, a few new shapes to drool over will be welcome too!

  4. YF-23 is one of the two planes that inspired Macross Plus.

    It was a prototype by Gurman delivered to the airforce to compete against the Lockheed/Martin YF-22 Raptor.

    The two planes duked it out see which should replace the F-15. The YF-22 won the competition and will be going into service some decade soon!

    While the YF-23 did not feature mind-control, space-fold capability, or transformation, it does have vectored thrust and the same 4-wing design of the Mac YF-21. A gorgeous gorgeous plane!

  5. Heh, I set up the same sorts of comparisons at home with my 1/72nd's.

    It's amazing how huge the F-117 stealth is. It's as long as an F-14, but the lifting body looks far more massive. The valkryies absolutely tiny compared to both of them!

  6. I got mine from Ebay. I'm no great pheonix when it comes to bidding, so I just took one of the over-priced Buy-It-Nows.

    The way I see it, I only over paided by a couple of vokda-tonics, so I'll drink a few beers to make up the difference!

    Really, it was worth it, the thing looks SO MUCH more imposing with the packs on.

  7. The inflight fueling probe!

    Wow, you really know your Airwolf trivia, armentage.

    Ahh, who could forget that edge-of-your-seat scene where it's Stringfellow standing on foot in front of Airworlf, and he takes aim with a simple hand gun to blow up to multi-million dollar armor attack copter!

    It was the coolest thing I had EVER scene as a 8 year old!

  8. Let's see how good you guys are with Airwolf trivia:

    On the pilot episode, Moffet tells the Libyan major that Airwolf is bulletproof all around except for one place. Where is Airwolf's weak spot?

    The inflight fueling probe!

  9. I've a 3rd edition VF-1S Roy, and I just got my grubby paws on a FAST/Strike pack...

    Anyway, everything goes on well and attaches properly, except I can't figure out how to keep the backpack from falling backwards in batroid form due to the weight of the giant thursters.

    There's that white pieces that is supposed to go in there (to add support? To fill in the gap?) but I can't figure out how it's supposed to work - it's hooks are too small to fit over the back piece that hooks to the backpack.

    Actually I've always had trouble keeping the backpack area in the proper position in Battroid form... anyone have ideas/suggestions/pictures that might help? I'm sure I must be missing something...

  10. I played LOTS of EQ. Over about 4 years I managed to accumlate 300 days played on a Bard, another 300 on a Druid, and still had time ot get a 3rd Wizard to lv 65. I was crazy!

    Then it was FFXI for about a year. Beautiful anime graphics and fantastic music was the big draw, and the whole cutesy Japanese feeling of the whole thing. It was great at first, but as the game ground, you began to see how primative the gaming engine was. Light years behind EQ in terms of abilities and the sophistication of the end-game encounters. Well, not light-years, just 5 years (EQ has been around since 1999)

    Now a days its WOW. Great game... FANTASTIC graphics. "Cartoony" but extremely detailed. The amount of work they put into the world & terrain is just astonishing and will impress anyone if they look past any issues they have with the artistic style. Game play is nice too, and you really rewarded for putting time into the game. Runs great on any PC hardware too (big difference from EQ1 & 2)

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