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  2. Mommar
    My two Heat Bous Donnie and 40th Leo arrived yesterday... those dust guards are really doing overtime right now. m
  3. tekering
    Max and Kakizaki join the 1:72 cast. 😊
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  5. 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.
  6. Sokeijon
    Yeah, buying Acardia pre-owned can be cheaper than DX + sound booster.
  7. Thom
    It's like watching reactions to Airplane. The younger audiences don't get the 'deeper' jokes.😁
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Papa Rat
    Absolutely!
  11. Thom
    Happy Father's day! That is nice way to wake up!
  12. 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. ♥️
  13. Thom
  14. M'Kyuun
    Got his good side.😁
  15. Olwenon
    Olwenon joined the community
  16. 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....)
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
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  22. Chronocidal
    I have no idea if they'd go this far into a tribute, but...
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 505thAirborne
  26. Big s
    I get the feeling that C-3PO got around.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
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