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  2. pengbuzz
    Because it reeks of Hanlon's Razor, that's why.
  3. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  4. sh9000
    By Will Pen.
  5. sh9000
    https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/macross-7-vf19-custom-excalibur-basara-nekki-special-dx-chogokin-action-figure/blfbas67626
  6. sh9000
    Happy Father's Day from Lt. K. Warmaker.
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  8. Scyla
    Brickvault released a new UCCS Imperial Shuttle instructions. I’m very tempted to buy the instructions and source the pieces via Bricklink especially since an UCS Imperial Shuttle is the last piece for my Lego Star Wars spaceship collection. Especially since this way I could try to switch all the white pieces to light bluish gray (since this is the color the shuttle should be in). Does anyone know how much effort it is to go through the part list they published and check if all the white pieces are available in gray and create my own list to source all the pieces? I also probably would change the tan highlights to dark bluish gray and introduce some trans-light blue pieces for the thrusters.
  9. Chronocidal
    Part of the issue is also that those movies were pastiches of even older movies, to when you go watch them, you really don't have a built-in cultural reference for why they're supposed to be funny. It helps that I grew up watching a lot of that stuff, but at the same time I can honestly say I remember Scary Movie 3 far better than any of the movies it actually makes fun of.
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  11. sh9000
    Daphne Zuniga will also be returning.
  12. sh9000
    Happy Father's Day.
  13. sh9000
    NECA TMNT Foot Soldier x3.
  14. Mommar
    My two Heat Bous Donnie and 40th Leo arrived yesterday... those dust guards are really doing overtime right now. m
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  16. tekering
    Max and Kakizaki join the 1:72 cast. 😊
  17. Seto Kaiba
    I'd suspect they went with the more subdued palette for the Macross Gigasion because she's supposed to be a newer ship. After all, when they reference older eras in Macross media they often keep the original paint jobs or reference them directly. Such as the bright red VF-1X++ Ranka uses for her performance of "Love is a Dogfight" that hearkens back to Basara's Fire Valkyrie, or the fairly bright blue Max uses for his YF-29. Macross the Ride is practically a master class when it comes to "how bright can we go?". Macross 30, of course, faithfully preserves a lot of the older paintjobs. Even Master File suggests that legacy units like Macross 7's Emerald Force faithfully preserved their brightly colored paintjobs into the 2060s. Bogue's bright red Sv-262 in the second Delta movie is arguably the most recent case. One important thing to remember is that the animators working on a Macross series are not going to go back and analyze old animation in minute detail the way you have. They're not going to bother with it at all, in all likelihood. Even if they did, they would almost certainly not care at all about the kind of minor inconsistencies you've been analyzing because those kinds of minor errors just the cost of doing business to them. Particularly back in the era of 100% hand-drawn animation. Deadlines are tight, budgets are tighter, and "looks good" is often "good enough". What they would do is go straight to the animation model reference sheets - the line art and color keys intended as guidance for the animation staff - and use those to draw/model and color the design. It's unlikely they would bother to consult any other source as those sheets are the primary guidance for animators. The 3D modeled Battle-class ships we see in more recent Macross stories like the Battle Frontier, Battle Galaxy, and Battle Astraea look different from the Battle 7 because they are part of a newer and more advanced generation of Battle-class ships. That idea wasn't dreamed up for Macross Frontier, either. That actually goes back to Macross VF-X2, around nine years before Macross Frontier came out. The Battle-class Macross 13 (Battle 13) that is Latence's final weapon is said to be the first of a new generation of Battle-class ships with more advanced technology than those before it. (This point is important enough that it's actually written directly on the line art itself as well as provided in-story.) The Battle Frontier, Battle Galaxy, and Battle Astraea are even newer models than that, and all three of those have been heavily remodeled to suit the needs of their respective forces as well.
  18. Sokeijon
    Yeah, buying Acardia pre-owned can be cheaper than DX + sound booster.
  19. Thom
    It's like watching reactions to Airplane. The younger audiences don't get the 'deeper' jokes.😁
  20. TangledThorns
    Just re-watched SPACEBALLS on MAX, still got some chuckles from it. My young children were casually watching it with me while on their tablets and were kinda confused by the film thinking it was a weird Star Wars film and had to explain to them it was a spoof, lol.
  21. UN Heffy
    Yeah, that was pretty much my experience as well. The back cannon mount part just would not stay attached. I think I fixed it pretty effectively with a few dots of nail polish on the pegs, however. Also, I cannot get the gun pod attachment thing to stay connected. It seems like the tabs are too short, but I may be doing something wrong.
  22. Papa Rat
    Absolutely!
  23. Thom
    Happy Father's day! That is nice way to wake up!
  24. Papa Rat
    Happy Father’s Day to all the papas! My amazing family surprised me with breakfast in bed and a kit I have been wanting for an awhile. This will be my next build while working in that old Monster kit. ♥️
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  26. M'Kyuun
    Got his good side.😁
  27. Olwenon
    Olwenon joined the community
  28. SebastianP
    I honestly didn't think I'd need to prove my *color selection*, given that this is the palette used on the Gigasion (which is basically a stand-in for Battle 7 given who's captaining it) so I didn't think to put in a comparison screenshot from the anime until you complained. I wasn't planning on a gotcha. (honestly the full saturation/brightness color scheme looks weird and cartoony on big ships in 3D when put next to the more muted "realistic" colors of the ships in Frontier/Delta, so to me it was just obvious to use the more muted colors.) But I guess what I was supposed to read out of that is that other than the color scheme, you think they would go for making the Battle 7 the same design as Battle Frontier? As mentioned, the more vibrant colors from SDF-1 TV and Battle 7 look *strange* next to the more faded, muted ships of Frontier, Delta, and even DYRL. They're almost eye-searingly bright in a lineup. Which is why I think they went with the colors they did for Gigasion, to be honest. There's something about the shading style used in the 3D macross shows that does not particularly work well with large white objects that aren't meant to be the instant focus of the scene (like Alto's VF-25 or Delta squadron's VF-31s). I've been thinking about making actual model edits to make the ship more like the Battle 7 - removing the shoulder turrets is easy. Building a new bridge foundation with room for the Diamond Force launchers instead of the turrets is more difficult, but not as bad as trying to make those fit on the model I have of the Battle 7 that's based on the overall lineart. (Also, if you want to talk "animation errors", holy heck the Battle 7 is probably the least consistently drawn ship in the setting. Never mind parts of it constantly changing colors, the proportions are different from basically every angle... Which is, I think, one of the reasons why the Battle 25 model is so different despite being based on the same concept. They couldn't *make* an accurate Battle 7 because the references don't match....)
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