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I haen't left Diplomacy mode yet but so far liking that game. What sort of fleets do people have? Can't recon without leaving? I have about 20 fighter at each of my 4 colonies. Couple athena battleships and a handful of Apollo and Poseidons. Been loading up on ABM and just started interplanetary missiles at my two biggest planets.

I'll definitely get the Blazer valk, too.

Can you ask them about a future revision fixing the rear landing gear so that they can lock into place like the YF-19's?

Cardassians are on the other side of the wormhole? Did you mean Dominion, instead? Initial reviews seem to indicate it's very repetitive: go here, fight there, etc.

Heh, well most of us do. I put that in there to preclude the most obvious response of "anime magic."

IIRC, Gamlin was released in July or thereabouts?

I almost want to get another one. Only on sale, though. Still miffed I got it full price from HLJ and 2 days later they had their paypal sale.

Ugh. No reboot, please. Just give it a decade, at least, if you don't wanna keep going with Tobey, etc.

The price I'll happily pay as a hobbyist to get something authentic, instead of something done wrong. Realistically, we could live with a mis-colored pilot, and probably won't make any difference to their bottom line, but us fans can have our cake and eat it, to.

Should get him to post here (under an alias most likely).

They haven't done the pilot for the VF-11C yet? Or Graham trying to tell them they did it wrong with visual evidence?

I def light fighter the best, but also love the VF-22's Gerwalk. The Toy is one of Yamato's best renditions, as well. Most stable and what not, as well.

Here's some I just snapped from M7 Remastered (patched), Ep 8, with Gamlin in the VF-11C flight suit. Any particular angles you're looking for?

Damn, I was hoping for a mirrored canopy Low-Viz VF-22S. A shame the process isn't reliable. I was REALLY hoping for a green Q-rau. Seems like an easy repaint on an existing mold. Articulated pilot wasn't really realistic (unless they do a line of articulated Zents, which would tie into enemy mecha). Maybe I'll get a Max... What could they not like about the articulation? My biggest single desires are aforementioned LV VF-22S, a 1/60 low-viz VF-1A (just like the 1/48 v1), and LV VF-1J, Regult, Green Q-rau, Nos Ger, and a Metal Siren.

Got any in Gerwalk?

You can say that again. Good evidence being gathered. Hopefully Yamato does it right and takes care of it.

Can someone summarize or point me to a link with a Cliff's notes explanation of NUNS, SMS, etc and how they came about from "old" UN Spacy. I don't recall that being explained in Frontier... or do we just have conjecture it was based off VFX2, etc?

Well we know things like external hardpoints for fighters/bombers have limits other than the available surface area. The same concept would hold for micro-missiles, as well. Their mass and volume must be accounted for, but also the position on the airframe, as well as balancing the firing (don't want them to predominantly fire from one side or the valk would lose it's balance/center of gravity, etc). Other issues that would be prime on designers minds are effects of damage (if a hit could/would detonate a carried weapon, etc), what the secondary explosions, could would do, etc. To that end, having them in the cramped shoulders of the VF-17 makes a certain amount of sense, for example. If the micro-missiles, explode while carried, it takes the arm off with it, but don't lose the whole valk. Legs of the VF-19 are a bit more critical (since that's where the engines are), but it may have that they designed that external panel of the leg to blow out and reinforced the interior of the leg where it faces the ammunition magazine. VF-22 doesn't seem as good of a spot, but since it's a spec ops valk piloted by elite pilots, it may be discounted (and/or VF-22 could have special, more dense armor, use of the pinpoint barrier, etc). I'm discounting more anime magic because Kawamori designs these to be relatively workable. Sure, it's still anime, but SK's designs are usually well engineered conceptually, if you can accept the premises of overtechnology and what not, which most of us do.

You're gonna love em.

I'm gonna see if I can get a count of Max's missiles fired on Varauta.

What's this upgrade part set again?

I was just reading your review of the CMS Shadow Legioss and it looks better. What's wrong with it's fighter mode? Just read the review of your blue Legioss/Tread combo and particularly the comparo picture looks better wrt arched back in fighter but worse in the arms and color, as well as the complete lack of foresight in connection wrt Tread/Beta. Colors are brighter, mostly relevent for the non-Shadow/Dark... might the best solution be a Frankenstein of Masterpiece and CMS with a repaint? I really wish Toynami would revisit the Alpha. Seems like they're pretty close to getting it right if they can check the atrocious quality control. With lessons learned, it COULD be better, particularly if they designed it off the Beta.

Been browsing the thread, but could someone recap that the Shadow Alpha was defective? I transformed mine a few times, but it mostly stands transformed. My favorite Alpha easily but annoyed at the arched back thing in fighter, which would ordinarily be the favorite mode. Is the CM one better in that regard? I see several on evilbay for attractive prices... was there ever a Dark Tread by CM? Or a Shadow Beta by Toynami?

Got the Blu-ray back before Christmas and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Think the movie works alot better if you pretend Skynet did NOT figure out who Reese was (John would still know, of course, and still be motivated to go get him). "The Trap" angle still works if Connor is just some high profile target from their list based on the effectiveness in the field (as alluded by the leadership on the sub).

Still waiting for my VF-11B.