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    God I wish I were fluent and literate in Japanese, my life would be so much easier... Well, second semester elementary Japanese and intermediate Japanese 1&2 are available to satisfy my Gen ed req's... Making it that much easier to get a Job with BanDai or Arcadia in their Macross divisions... (I am studying to be a Mechanical Engineer, I wonder how those companies feel about hiring foreign workers...). Before anyone goes mentioning it, I realize that 60 hour work weeks are commonplace, but I'd probably spend half my free time here in the states designing toys, so might as well get paid to do it...
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    Wow, so I should be able to do fine with my newer snapshot camera and a proper set up. Now, to get a proper set up. And some scenery to use for posing my valks...
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    Very cool, makes me want a couple for my 19's.
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    I do want an M&M set, though I think I'd want their VF-22s. I have only one VF-1 on display at the moment, and I'd like a few more, but a VF-1A and a VF-1J GBP are higher priority than the VF-1J M&M. I don't have a VF-22, and I do love the M7 valks.
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    Jeez, did he find the fountain of youth? Man hasn't aged a day in 19 years...
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    That's a good point you bring up, I hadn't thought about that. I'd probably replace that one with Chosin. My setting is a lot like frontier, except a bit more grown up. I have full size zentradi, many locations in the fleet for them to be full size (vast majority actually, the only place you have to be micloned is the main ship in the island cluster) and I'm trying to show some conflict between Humans and Zentradi, as I perceive that there is some between the traditions of the Zentradi and Humanity. I'm also going to keep with some of the typical themes of Macross, that song is the medium for love, and that love conquers all. I am still working on it, but the more I talk about it, the more it comes into shape. I just have so much on my plate that It's going to take some time, between school, finding work, writing, running a BattleTech RPG campaign, club activities and whatever else...
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    That F-104 looking VF looks like it has two really small engines in the legs that make up the main fuselage. Which, admittedly, is a pretty cool idea for a single-engine profile. Might have to think about that for low cost VF.
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    So what you're saying is that the OVA should have been 1-2 episodes longer and included everything... And been released in english to satisfy people like me, who don't always want to read their dialogue...
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    Guardian since you brought up gun pods, I thought this one was worth a mention (VF-17, and YF-21/VF-22 may have been inspired by this one). This is the semi-permanent installation of the GAU-4 (USAF designation for the self-powered version of the M61 Vulcan)(The M61 is pneumatically operated and electrically fired). Here's another view: The gun took the place of the AIR-2A genie, and the doors had to be modified to accommodate the pod. In case you were wondering the F-4 actually had two different pods, the SUU-16 which contained an M61, and the SUU-23 which may have had a GAU-4 (my source cannot remember). The F-106 was considered to be the better of the two arrangements, as it introduced less parallax to the gunsight, and was a generally more stable mount.
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    The toy even has the anime accurate 8 barrels. That might just be a continuity error.
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    You know, at first, I hated my DX VF-171, but It's kinda grown on me. THe transformation is a bit fiddly, but now that I've done it 2 or three times, it's not so bad. I do Believe that I have a DX renewal VF-25 waiting to be picked up at home. I'm at my parent's house for spring break... GAH, I can't wait.
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    Are there any fans of the V1 DX VF-25's? I have one, but there's so much hate for it, that I don't know if I can sell it (I'm thinking about it, but I want to get a decent price for it, I don't want to sell it if I'm only going to get $20 bucks).
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    These are some amazing pics. What kind of camera are you using Hal?
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    I appreciate the suggestions Saruta. I had toyed with Intrepid (A classic military name), and Defiant crossed my mind. But I wanted something that spoke to the idea of exploration and destinations. Frontier kinda evokes an image of the destination, Horizon kinda felt along the same lines. Starlight sounds like a good name for the fleet, especially since I was going to use the Military Names like Defiant, Intrepid, Fortitude for military ships in the fleet. Some of my other ships would be the Crimea, Kosovo, Bunker Hill, Belleau Wood, Tarawa, and Bataan. Those would all be military ships because the names all have military significance (all are sites of battles to be remembered, right along with the brave men and women involved), but the main ship in the fleet should be something that inspires hope. If you don't mind I'm going to use starlight.
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    So the VF-171 does everything the VF-19 set out to do, only not as good but cheaper?
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    I echo some of the other sentiments, I love my whole collection. I think I'd be hard pressed to choose a single example from my collection to save. Their's something to love about each example in my collection.
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    Nice shots hal.
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    I'll have to check it out...
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    Any Dune Fans out there... "Remember, it is the slow blade that pierces the shield..." I should ask this, does the VF-171 take advantage of AVF technologies? Can it transit Atmo? Does it utilize the Cockpit arrangement from the YF-19? Does it use the PPBS? If not, could it be made to? Is it not classified as an AVF because it's only using tech established from the 1st gen AVF's (Y/VF-19 and YF-21 & VF-22) and not the cutting edge stuff from the 2nd gen (YF-24, VF-25, VF-27, YF-29, YF-30)?
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    There is apparently some animation n the movie that isn't in the OVA, which bugs me, because Now I have to get the movie version, which I'm pretty sure is only in Japanese...
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    I like my new VF-171EX, the transformation is a bit fiddly, but that's ok, it's an exercise in patience, and I find that it keeps my mind occupied. I love the lines, and it's easy to play with like my VF-19F, so I'm really cool with it. Not my favorite, but I'll say second after my Y/VF-19's.
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    Holy Mother... Nice collection Benson.
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    Agreed, you can never have enough ammo...
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    Actually, corrective lenses don't stop you from being a fighter pilot. Just as long as your vision is correctable to 20/20. They'll usually try to get you PRK to get rid of the glasses or contacts, but not everyone can get PRK. My Dad has worn glasses for a long time, and he flew fighters with them. Glasses are actually preferrable to contacts, because glasses don't fall out or shift off the eye.
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    I hadn't noticed that. very cool.
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