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Ok thanks!

I actually like the display bases, but the valks themselves are just underwhelming.

Pass--- there is too much going on now in 1/60 and 1/72 (esp 1/72 VF-27, hallelujah!) for me to buy this. I hope that they would just release the RVF-25 so I can complete my All that VF Frontier version diorama

VF11 Fire!

Nice.. it just needs a pink colouring

I think that the chance of having a DX VF-27 and Q-Rea is higher now that they are coming out with the kits! OTOH, I guess since they are delaying the Armoured DX by 2 months to August, that any new DX toys will be similarly delayed? Maybe Bandai is delaying the DX releases in light of the economic situation? Model kits are much cheaper than toys, afterall.

The text behind is the introduction of the VF-27. Piloted by Ranka's brother, better than the VF-25, the engines are inherited from VF-22, blah blah blah.

Thanks for the translation! I don't really understand the engine part though-- from M3, the VF-27 uses the Shinchuushuu/P&W/RR/MG FF-3011/C Stage II thermonuclear reaction turbine engines while the VF-22 uses the Shinnakasu Industry/P&W/Roice FF-2450B thermonuclear engines which has about half the thrust (which means that the VF-27 has eight times the thrust of the VF-22!!).

Either way, this is amazing! I hope the 1/48 VF-25 will be PG though i.e. more details/movable parts than the 1/72 kit, and not a simple up-sizing like how their 1/100 non scale gundam kits are really just upscaled 1/144 HG kits.

Thanks alot!

I used the decals of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat 1/48 VF-84 " Jolly Rogers "

Nice.. thanks alot! Are you planning on transforming this? Please tell us if the decals are damaged or anything!

Air combat isn't anime...any one good pilot can beat any other good pilot, regardless of aircraft. Any number of tactical factors go into deciding an air combat that cannot be manufactured.

Of course, the F-22 gives its pilot some huge advantages, but it's obviously not unimaginable that one would get shot down by a "lesser" aircraft.

I agree-- my point is that the consensus (from actual combat pilots on other message boards like F-16.net), is that the F-22 is basically being used as target practice by the T-38 (i.e. courtesy kill), and not truly engaged in ACM.

Anyway, here's a nice picture of Prandtl-Glauert singularity on the B-2 bomber

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...nd-barrier.html

IIRC, early texts describe the SP-55X as "conventional ammunition". It was only later that they gave this "conventional ammunition" a designation, namely "SP-55X". And those text (one of the early issues of the Chronicle) describes the sniper rifle as a gun that uses gunpowder/propellant and electromagnetic rails to accelerate the round/bullet/projectile. So it sounded more like a hybrid weapon than a "true" rail gun. Later texts haven't bothered to repeat the wording. Now the Chronicle's VF-25G article may clear it up but until then:

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=737188

Edit: Correction, they have repeated it in the 1/72 kit manual. It describes the SP-55X using gunpowder/propellant and then gets a boost from the rails.

And everything I've seen calls it a "SSL-9B Dragunov Anti-Armor Sniper Rifle", not "SSL-9B Dragunov Electromagnetic Rail Anti-Armor Sniper Rifle".

That would certainly make sense. IIRC EM/solid projectile weapons in the real world have a big problem with the initial acceleration of the projectile and one of the proposed solutions was using conventional gunpowder/explosives to get the projectile up to speed before the rail gun portion took over. Thanks for the clarification Azrael!

Uh... You do realise that is the REVOLTECH yf-19 being shown above right? The GNU YF-19's gunpod size is a little larger than the revoltech. One of the differences though is in how the Revoltech's is fatter but shorter, where as the GNU is longer but thinner.

Yea I did. Oops. I was looking at the VF-11 when typing that, and my brain got mixed up

Just notice that the dimension of the box would be 300mm×360mm×100mm

Comparison:

1/48 box: :H360xW370xD140 (mm)

1/60 v.2: H325×W280×D105 (mm)

Bandi DX(VF-25F): 36.0 x 22.0 x 7.0 cm

So Yamato begins to save space finally. The VF-22S has a thinner box than the 1/60 v.2; and in terms of volume, it is now 58% of the 1/48 box (or the 1/60 YF-21 for that matter)!

Nice... what was the original size of the YF-21 box? I thought they would've just re-used the same box but apparently not?

Yeah it's been really quiet. All we have next in the VF100s line is the VF-19 custom.

Yea. I wish they'd announce the VF-171 or VF-27 or something.

***EDIT***

The wings are straighter on my re-issue VF-25F compared to my VF-25G.

Thanks alot!

I'm actually glad that they pushed the release to August, at least now there's only the VF-22S for my wallet to cope with in June . My next few months are all full up! YF-19 recolour in May, VF-22S in June, VT-1 in July and Armoured VF-25S in August. I've just gotta fit a YF-21 and a VF-11B in there somewhere

Nice work! Without a top coat, would the weathering smudge or stick to your fingers during transformation?

Im not Rabidweezil, but I've used that wash on my models and DX toys, and it does rub off if the weathering is particularly heavy and you don't clearcoat it. But if you are using the wash to panel-line, i.e. wiping off all the wash that are on the flat surfaces etc, then those that are already inside the panel lines wont rub off, even without the clearcoat.

Thanks!

Still snug as a rug. LOL.

The mod doesn't affect the part falling off at all. Aside the part being a pretty good fit from the beginning prior to the mod.

Nice... I will try it when I have access to my Super parts then. Thanks!

thanks bro

man i am dying for that armored ozma right now

Just one more month!

Wow thats fast! And amazing! May I ask if you got your decals from any particular model kit?

Hmm the use of plasma would present tonnes of difficulties-- and if plasma was the intended use in the first place, there are better materials to use than tungsten--which is a dense metal and would require more energy to accelerate, ionise etc. Also, plasma has the irritating tendency to dissipate, making it a poor choice for a penetrating weapon. For some things, good old DU is still the best

Again, the whole wording for the SP-55X 55mm ammunition description is quite dubious, IMO. A cartridge doesn't follow the bullet downrange-- it stays in the chamber and I assume is ejected when the VF cycles the weapon-- so I don't get the point of it being covered in a super hard metal, nor the use of gold.

Now, if the cartridge was a sabot instead, or maybe a throwback to the olden days of muskets, just a bullet, then possibly the gold was there for its electrical properties (and/or magnetic properties in the case of nanogold) and the hard metal covering would be there to prevent degradation of the round due to friction while being accelerated, and to improve penetration.

P.S. I know my firearms just fine, thank you. I was pointing out whether we could really determine the firepower of those beam guns from the name, and no proof shown in the anime, since Mr March himself pointed out that "the VF-22 Sturmvogel II has a "fixed high-powered converging energy cannon"" which was no more than just the head laser.

Could some kind soul seed Thora subs ep 19 and 20 on a torrent please?

Interesting video of an instructor in a T-38 getting a kill on his student who's flying an F-22.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmDj3mFrXQ

Haha there's been much angst on the aviation message boards about this video. I think the general conclusion is that it was a courtesy kill and the F-22 wasn't trying to maneuver too hard.

Yeah, but if that MONSTER was a 1/60, its would tower over those Tomahawks!!!

And every other valk as well Maybe if the 1/2000 SDF-1 sells well, Yamato will be convinced that there is a market for ginormous Macross toys and finally make that 1/60 Monster

Yep.. I do hope they make more announcements of new designs soon though rather than going through the whole VF-25 Armoured/Super pack lineup.

after the VF-11B- they should just make an announcement for what's next. This waiting and speculating is killing the fanbase.

Heh they haven't even announced if they have got the MD7 license as well as any other M7 related licenses yet... so either they are building up to a grand announcement, or they just wanna make us squirm

The reactive armour version would probably come with a new Version 3.0(?) VF-0A/ VF-0S, since the current toys have no way to attach the parts. I guess it could be their 'Revival of Zero' release They could do it in 2012, for the 10th Anniversary of Macross Zero! (Yes I know that's 2 years away, but that just gives Yamato time to make that, and the VF-0D, and the Octos, and the Destroid Cheyenne, and the Monster MkI--- wishful thinking, I know )