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Seeing that makes we want to call up my old airsoft buddies and saddle up the Rat Patrol. Couldn't you just see it four guys with military training cut a swathe through the geeks in their jeep, Doolittle in drivers seat, weaving between them getting off quick accurate burst with his M4. Grunt in the shotgun seat calling out shots to us and blasting away any geek stupid enough to insult his heritage or the marine corps. Me, good old Link up on the rail with my G3-SG-1 cutting a swathe through the nerds, while 'Tano on the tail gunning position mops up anything we missed. Good God that would be glorious, lol.

Bittorrent man, bittorrent, just download it.

That is sweet, I can't wait to see it with engines, heck I would take the glider.

You're in it Graham, cool. Actually this looks like a heck of a good and fun movie, looks a lot better then that Johnny Depp POS movie about the drug runner.

Who knows, maybe they had a falling out or something, or something just happened and he got distracted, either way I would still be pissed at him if I were her.

Oh man I would be too, I guess he doesn't consider her a major enough character, too bad. IT's also too bad she just got married, another hot little red head off the market, darn. LOL

thanks for the pic, I may have to see this thing in person but I doubt I will buy it, after all there is Joe scale and then this thing, it looks like something for playschool, at least your typical joe scale aircraft tends to have the general proportions more correct.

The trailer was cool, one complain not enough Kaylee was shown.

The Venture Star was another nice single stage to orbit concept that never went very far, too bad too as it as one of the few that seemed like it would really work.

I wasn't refering the ISS, that comprimise didn't occur until the early nineties. Prior to that, during the cold war, there was the old Space Station Freedom concept, parts of which were actually built, I've laid eyes on the modules. The shuttle was intended to be a jack of all trades spacecraft, but only until the Space Station was built, after that its primary utility would have been fulfilled. When it comes to replacements, man there have been several that have made it to prototype construction only to be cancelled while they were being built. One notable one was being built specifically for the old Space Station Freedom, it was a small delta designed lifting body intended to carry a seven man crew. It was similar in configuration to the hermes concept and would be carried to orbit on top of a rocket or in the space shuttle cargo bay, but then its wings would have be removed. The ship would then have been left attached to the space station as an emergency escape craft. Back in '91 I actually saw the prototype, it was 75% complete when I walked into the hanger that was holding it, they had started dismantling it the week before. It was a beautiful little craft and a friend of mine who works at NASA is currently working on a similar project to be used strictly as an escape vehicle for the ISS. She has a piece of that old prototype sitting on her desk, I damn near cried when she sent me the picture of her desk and I recognized what it was, she didn't know what it was until I told her. Burt Rutan worked on several single stage to orbit concepts for NASA in mid nineties to early 2000s. After the Delta-Clipperdebacle he got so sick of the NASA politics that he signed on with the Anasazi X-Prize and we all know what he did with that. The Delta Clipper could have made the first true single stage to orbit space craft had NASA and Congress not lost their nerve after a single test accident with the scaled prototype.

Hold on a second, there is an A-10 TOY out right now, where man? I need it. Also does anyone have any extra sparrows off the BBI F-16, I would like to mod my BBI F/A-18 and hang them off the sparrow mounts.

One of the things you have to realize is that the shuttle was never intended to be operating this long. When it was originally developed the shuttle was slated for one purpose, to build the space station, which was suppossed to be completed by 1995! NASA has never stopped looking for shuttle replacements, even after the first few launches proposals started coming out for much smaller crew only launch vehicles. Politics and money kept any of these from seeing life, as is usually the case. That is one of the reasons why the Anasazi Z-Prize came into being, too many people were frustrated with NASAs lack of progress and unwillingness to develop a shuttle replacement. As for the foam issue. The External tank has always lost foam from day one, as DH said they did used to have nets to catch it, but back then it came off in much smaller/lighter pieces. THere was a foam change in the early/mid nineties because of environmental concerns, the stuff is highly toxic and the application method was pure 70's environmental disaster. The major result of which to the shuttle is that the foam does not flake off as easily, but when it does it comes off in large chunks. NASA has always known about it, but prior to columbia none of it ever hit the shuttle, or if it did it was always small. Also, the shuttle has always lost tiles during launch, but it has never lost those critical leading edge wing tiles before. My personnal opnion as a fan and believer in the space program is that the shuttle should be grounded permanently. It should have been grounded years ago. It should be replaced as soon as possible with a smaller crew only vehicle, with only minimal cargo capacity. Launching cargo into space and or large space station modules should be done by heavy lift rockets. We should also put more R&D back into the single stage to orbit space-planes/space-craft. Basically in other words we need seperate launch vehicles for personnel and cargo until such time as we have the technoonology to allow for safely doing both again.

THey use either a Gloster Meteor or an F-4 Phantom, I don't remember which.

Ok now show us some pictures

Interesting, who is the girl in the latest one?

very nice, hikaru looks spot on with his appearance in the early series, but roy for some reason looks too young to me.

So Exo are you going to recast this or just amke the one?

oops double post

Well Hurin if your GF thought some of us were cute maybe she can send some of her single friends our ways, lol. I had a great time too, too bad I had to bug out before Tommy Yune showed up, I would have liked to have seen that collection. It was really good to see everyone again and I'm glad that my work schedule allowed me to even attend. If I make it next year I promise I will bring my repainted helmet, now I just need to find time to repaint it, lol. Like many people found out the MWers are for the most part a fairly normal and not totally obsessed lot. No one showed up in costume, thank god, or was overly pushy, really they were there to meet each other and have a good time. Having Mari there was the the icing on the cake, though I have to admit it was pretty funny to see Egan just disappear when Mari showed up. If work and life allows I will definitely make it again next year.

A friend of mine sent me the following link, very interesting: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=673262005

And the mk-3, i really like how this one came out.

Deep space version

second of this set

Sorry for the lack of updates, but here are a few pics to sate you all.

When i get back from my trip I will scan in pictures of it from the manga, that sound ok?