Graham

I think it took about 2 weeks to get mine, but I don't remember exactly as my year was the first year to get called up, so it's almost a year and a half ago that I got mine. Anyway, check out the HK Immigration Department Smart ID website, I'm sure they have the info there. Graham

I'll get this added to the custom toy gallery pronto. Graham

Don't you think you better give it back to him then? Graham

Pretty much every modern day jet fighter has a HUD to display aiming data and other vital information such as airspeed, altitude etc. I can't think of a modern fighter that doesn't have a HUD these days. In a combat situation a pilot does not want to have to keep constantly looking down at cockpit instruments and thus loose situational awareness. Some of the newer HUDs like on the F22 and Eurofighter are quite wide angle and large. Scroll down this page. Looks like the F22 and Eurofighter actually use the same HUD. That I did not know. Even in WWII most fighters had gunsights mounted in the pilots line of sight. Having to look downwards at a monitor like in original BSG and SW to see your aiming cross hair is pretty silly and impractical. You can see that if the Vipers in BSG had a HUD like the Eurofighter HUD (pic below), it would not really block the actors face much. A developing real world trend seems to be to have helmet-mounted sights, with aiming info and other data displayed on a monacle or the visor. Perhaps the pilot helmets in the new BSG have this feature. Possibly the aiming recticle is even beamed directly onto the pilots retina? Graham

Hmm....definitely no HUD then. So I guess that either there is no aiming recticle or it appears on that screen below the front canopy glass, which is not good as it forces the pilot to look down and take their eyes off the target. The X-Wing (in fact I think all SW figters) also suffer from lack of HUDs). Graham

So? I think we all know that it has some graphic moments. Graham

I got that one in the photo as a free gift. It's not too bad, but I wouldn't pay to buy one as I don't like the over-stylized sculpt. Graham

Ah I see. I hadn't seen that pic before. Graham

So possibly the MK II & MK VII don't even have look down gun sights!? Wonder how they aim their guns? Graham

Naruto has older fans? Graham

Pah...just beacuse you have a thousand dollars doesn't mean you can get your hands on a Liquid Stone YF-19. Trust me I know, I've tried and failed 3 times Only 10 of the multi-colored, preassembled versions were made (not to be confused with the older IHP build-it-yourself kit version) and only 2 of the Liquid Stone YF-19's have appeared for auction. The first went for more than 900 bucks and the second sold for just over 1000 bucks. Graham

Just wondering, do the MK.II and MK.VII Vipers in the new series use a HUD or helmet mounted sight, or are they still very low-tech like in the original series, with look-down targetting scopes? Graham

You're interested in one piece of what? Cheese, cake, pizza? Ya gotta specify man or we have no idea what you are talking about. . . . . Just joking Graham

Where did you hear that price? I haven't seen any price mentioned in relation to the 1/48 GBP yet. Graham

Done. Graham

More like Graham's number didn't get drawn to buy one of the 10pcs at Wonder Fest and then I lost not one, but two auctions to buy one.....sigh Graham

We already have a thread where this auction is mentioned in the models section. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...pic=14183&st=40 This is not the recent preassembled color Liquid Stone Wonder Fest kit, but an earlier version by IHP that you have to build and paint yourself. And yes, I am bidding on it! Graham

Yeah, we've gone from Shawn asking where to visit in NY to pictures of Agent One's naked back all in the space of 4 pages I think it's time for this thread to go bye bye. Graham

That cosplayer can eat my hot chili pepper any day Graham

I did exactly the same thing . Graham

I already have 2 of the 1/48 Hikaru VF-1J, so I don't really need or want another one. I'd prefer to buy the GBP armor by itself, not bundled together with a Valk. Of course, if Yamato release the armor together with a never before released 1/48 variant, for example a VF-1A Cannon Fodder, then I would buy it. Graham

To the two people, whomever you are that voted: - Go watch Macross Plus again, then go study the YF-19 lineart in detail and then compare the Yamato toy to both the anime and the lineart. If you still think the Yamato toy looks nice, may I respectfully suggest getting your eyesight tested To Ido, who created the poll and added this choice: - Please note that there is no such thing as a 'VF-19C'. Basara's Valkyrie is called either VF-19 Custom, VF-19 Kai or VF-19 Fire Valkyrie. The only other officially recognized variants of the 19 are: YF-19, VF-19A, VF-19F, VF-19S & VF-19P. Graham

I'd hardly call a 53 page thread plus numerous other shorter threads 'getting no love' Yamato has released exactly one version of the VB-6 so there is only so much we can talk about, where as they released multiple 1/60, 1/72 & 1/48 VF toys, giving us much more to discuss. Plus fighters are always more popular than Destroids/big chunky shuttle craft. Graham

Who knows? Hopefully we will eventually get a Macross Zero book. Graham

That may be the most outragous thing ever said in the history of MW. Do the mods know about this!?! This guy must be French or something... (no disrespect to the French intended ) And we wonder why so much of the world hates us... You mean the French or the Americans? Graham