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  2. Papa Rat
    Absolutely!
  3. Thom
    Happy Father's day! That is nice way to wake up!
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  5. 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. ♥️
  6. Thom
  7. M'Kyuun
    Got his good side.😁
  8. Olwenon
    Olwenon joined the community
  9. 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....)
  10. JB0
    I'd be okay with a 4:3 presentation. My concern is actually that it might not be. Scrolling shooters adapt uniquely poorly to changes in aspect ratio, in my opinion, and I'd rather it be framed than cropped or stretched.
  11. pengbuzz
    Kindly... don't complain about someone's opinion when you ask for it: My comment of "I don't see how a desaturated paint job makes much difference, other than that several years later, someone forgot to repaint the ships." is my reply to your question of "how far off do you think I'd be with this interpretation of Battle 7?" I simply do not see a desaturated paint job as making any remarkable difference in the interpretation. You threw a pic of your work up without much context other than asking "how far off" would it be; that invites people to tell you what they think of it in those terms. I decided it didn't make much difference in my opinion and replied as such. Maybe if you had included the other photos with the same explanation you included in your rebuttal to me, it would have given me more info to consider while deciding what I thought of it. Instead, it came across as "I gotcha!! Now stop picking on me!!", and I find that intellectually dishonest.
  12. PointBlankSniper
    I think Kycilia's scheme is irrelevant until our MC trio finishes their tour on the other side and sends a paradigm shift back to change everything on this side near the end of my assumed second cour. The scheme is probably just an excuse for someone to build our kiddies a portal and give them a reason to fight over it until they both get sucked in.
  13. Black Valkyrie
  14. Black Valkyrie
  15. Chronocidal
    I have no idea if they'd go this far into a tribute, but...
  16. Big s
    I’ve got the Berserk kit for guts waiting to be built. Heard some pretty good stuff about it and was checking Tag hobby and got excited about another release for the Plamatea character kitsdefinitely gonna have to pick this one up. I think it will be pretty fun to make him a bit on the dirty side with some weathering. I bet someone will put an led set for the eyes
  17. Big s
    I think her plan is probably pretty basic and just thinks the threat of using the yo mama beam as deterrent or the possibility of trying to open up another dimension, but I’m pretty sure it’s just as a deterrent. She probably thinks earth will stay out of things after she Yo Mama’d A Baoa Qu
  18. 505thAirborne
  19. Big s
    I get the feeling that C-3PO got around.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Not sure why y'all seem so certain that Kycilia kneecapping the Principality of Zeon's armed forces isn't 100% her plan. There's no way she did not know exactly what she was doing in destroying Gihren's personal fleet and A Baoa Qu. What her endgame is isn't clear, but it's a very safe bet that her use of the Yomagn'tho to destroy A Baoa Qu is Just As Planned.
  21. davidwhangchoi
    i hope the HD update turns out ok, it looks there's some widescreen implementation. But not clear if it's 4:3 ration with some side bar effects.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    C-3PO always introduces himself with "human-cyborg relations"... Did Anakin use the brain from a mechanical gigolo?
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Should the second Battle 7 ever put in an appearance in a future animated Macross story, I kind of suspect they will reuse the Battle Frontier CG model for it the same way that they reused Battle Galaxy for the Battle Astraea but keep the more vibrant color scheme used in a lot of the line art. It would be nice if they went back and made an accurate-to-the-90's-animation Battle 7 model, but that's probably more effort than they'd be willing to put in for what would surely be a cameo appearance at most. The Macross 7 fleet has put in a minor cameo before, but only in the novelization of Macross Frontier.
  24. SebastianP
    Um.... In episode 1 of Macross 7, our first look at the exterior of Battle 7 looks like this: Notice that the ship is gray, with pale yellow cheek pads, There's two or three different angles of this area, from when Diamond Force is launching. All of them show this muted palette. So, when I was making a "realistic", more warship-like palette for Battle 7, I picked my colors right out of these scenes with a color picker tool. And then I noticed something strange as I was frame-by-framing my way through Zettai Live: the Gigasion had this exact color palette. Light gray, slightly desaturated reds and blues, and a quite pale yellow, even in the brightest lit scenes. So, kindly don't complain about the *colors*. What I was asking was, do you think they'd retcon the Battle 7 to be the same overall design as Battle Frontier? Or would they try to make an anime-accurate 3D model of the old ship instead? Edit: I'm noticing now that this shot is strange, because it implies the bridge block of the Battle 7 has been slid all the way back down the leg of the ship in order for the end of the angled flight deck to be in the foreground with the bridge block behind it. "An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." — Iain M. Banks, Excession The Zentraedi were an Outside Context Problem for the Earths governments. It just so happened that Minmei turned out to be an Outside Context Problem for the Zentraedi.
  25. JB0
    More to the point, they assumed that any possible war would be over territory and resources. These unknown aliens had no beef with humanity, they would be coming to reclaim their missing starship or to lay claim to the Solar System's resources. This makes sense if you are not specifically aware that the zentradi fleets are roving around looking for "the enemy" with no real strategic goals, like the planet eater in that one Star Trek episode. No one expected "you are an existential threat that must be erased from existence", because there was no reason to expect it. And it should be noted that for a time, an alliance seemed viable. The zentradi were very surprised by the capabilities demonstrated by people who very much weren't the enemy they were hunting. They wanted to get busted hardware fixed and replaced, and a new supply of reaction weapons. Humans could do both of those things. The humans, meanwhile, wanted to not be exterminated like space roaches. It seems like a small ask in exchange. ... And then the culture virus hit the zentradi ranks, causing a rapid and near-total collapse of discipline, the chain of command, and essentially destruction of zentradi society. NOW humanity is not a potential ally, they're the most dangerous thing the zentradi have seen in several millennia.
  26. Big s
    Looks pretty wild
  27. Big s
    I don’t know, those were those legs were rather wide apart
  28. Thom
    Seen on Pinterest.
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