Mr March

Good work. Can't wait to see it all colored up.

Thanks chillyche. Your vehicle is look great. That seems somewhat similar to what I do, although I don't often use "darken". I set a line art layer to multiply and then add color layers in a top-to-bottom layout (highlight layers on top of shadow layers on top of primary colors, etc). What exactly does the "darken" option do? I'd actually like to know how to do gradients in the fashion that you've done on the Max piece. Filling a square picture with a gradient is easy enough, but how do you build the ones in your picture?

Wow. It's getting better and better. The software you're using may not be all you hope it could be, but it's hard to argue with the results you're able to achieve with your skills. I can't wait to see more. Never thought I'd be this interested in seeing a 3D render of that obscure little moon rover Sonofabitch. You're putting my best work to shame. Way to make me feel like an amateur. And here I was so proud of the unreleased stuff I was working on. Thought I was gonna blow everyone away, then I see that. Well, now that I'm done whining, you must tell me how the hell you did that Max and VF-1 Super Valkyrie. I want to do that for at least one VF-1 on my site, probably the J. I guess I'll add a wholly inadequate preview image of the some material that will be in the next update. I was so proud...so proud until today... LOL

Well, this is certainly unique. You can probably safely say no one else has ever modeled this thing. Good work so far. I love that toon shading. Looks amazing.

Brilliant. Many thanks. And again, Bravo on your fine work.

I adore the mecha designs of FSS. Nagano's work in FSS is likely the closest Japanese mecha design will ever come to high art. That sucks. They better not drop this figure. I've been waiting years the the release of a proper FSS figure and this Wave figure was doing everything right so far. It has to be released. It just must be

Interesting. I'm not all caught up with FSS anyway, since the English stuff was never released in full. I know people have mentioned fan translations of the last FSS Japanese issues, but I could never be bothered to find them since Nagano has left the series dormant for so long anyway. But at least something is happening now. That has to be good. Though to be honest, I'm much more curious when that damned Wave model of the SR-4 Last Junchoon is going to be released. If I remember correctly, they had released production pictures of that thing more than a year ago. I'm dying to own a good FSS toy.

I asked if you had this picture in a resolution LARGER than 1920

Finally got around to getting the Revoltech Alien and it is everything I hoped it would be. An incredible figure. I also have to repeat praise for the paint work on these Revoltech figures, at least the movie ones. This Alien figure has an astounding paint job, all metallic and shiny, just like the slimy original. It even has a transparent skull. That Iron Man Revoltech is a sure bet if ever there was one. Talk about a license to print money

Incredible work once again. I love it.

Simply astounding. Welcome to the forums and bravo on your picture. Your sure know how to make an entrance! Do you have any higher resolution versions of this picture that are larger than 1980 x 1080? When a picture is this good, I always want something I can continue to enjoy as monitor resolutions continue to grow

Any chance of a 2D version? Looks really cool by the way. Now I have a reason to steal a pair of those glasses from the theatre

Looks good so far. Can't wait for more.

Wow, it doesn't even show your lasts posts. That's a long time you've been gone

Guess that makes it somewhat official. Thanks Graham

That Tunny looks funny

Wow. Been away from this thread far too long. This is some great stuff.

WOw, you all have been very busy. Making all kinds of line art goodness. Well done to you all. This is some great stuff. I especially like the new VF-1 scheme. Very cool.

Even published Macross trivia must bow to the anime. That means the Chronicle, the Master Guides and any other published trivia cited when the anime shows something for which they do not account. We've never known the Valkyrie's armor composition until ECA came along, with the exception of the VF-0's composite armor and the never-defined "space metal frame". Neither of those account for the durability displayed by the outer "armor" of a Valkyrie as shown on screen. As far as what is verifiable, supposing the ECA is active in fighter mode is no more a stretch than some arbitrary fan-invented armor that "everyone" supposedly knows about but doesn't actually exist. I will say this: I don't consider it taboo that ECA functions in fighter mode if it can account for the few onscreen examples where "some" explanation is required. The VF-0's mighty wing capacitor and the VF-27's Mach 9 mode are known exceptions to the no-ECA-in-fighter-mode "rule" (*chortle*), which already opens the door for just such an interpretation. As I've stated many, many a time before, that is unifying known trivia without inventing facts not stated on screen or in any book. But as I said to anime52k, I'm not speaking to that point one way or the other, so go with whatever Macross anime you prefer

Who's to say it doesn't? I'm not speaking to such a point. Besides, given what the Macross fighters have been shown surviving on screen, it's clear some kind of super armor/super structure is at work to make the durability they've displayed at all possible. You fly a titanium/carbon composite fighter into the ground or through a bridge and the vehicle literally disintegrates. So obviously for a Valkyrie to survive such feats with little more than a few scratches, SOMETHING must be protecting it no matter what the trivia says. What I am saying is MAXIMUM attainable output is so vastly different between the modes that such disparity can explain why the Battroid mode would have surplus power. That concept is likely why Kawamori and Co. chose to describe the power system of a Valkyrie as such. It also explains why the Valkyrie engines produce such a ridiculous amount of power (650 MW per engine for the VF-1 alone) for such a small vehicle.

If anyone can pull off Dredd, it'll be Karl Urban. And there's really no place to go with another Dredd movie but up.

One might ask the same, you troublemaker

LOL Some of these are rather clever. Nice work.

I don't know if the movie will be any good and the premise is a little lame, but that trailer is easily one of the best trailers to come out in a long time. Wow!

True, but you have to think of operating the Valkyrie in terms of maximum possible performance within each mode. Then the idea of surplus power in GERWALK and Battroid mode makes sense. For example, the Battroid mode is limited to a maximum possible performance of 160 km/h. Obviously, an aerodynamic plane flying at 160 km/h would take a helluva lot less power than a giant humanoid robot at the same speed. However, because the Valkyrie is more than just a giant robot, the other modes operate at levels far beyond 160 km/h. A Valkyrie in Fighter mode can attain upwards of Mach 5 in the atmosphere (approx 6,150 km/h) to Mach 25+ in a vacuum (approx 30,740 km/h). At those speeds, there comes a point where even a power-efficient mode like the fighter mode would require vast amounts of power to attain such performance. Such power requirements would be FAR greater than even a power-inefficient Battroid running at 160 km/h. Hence, the Battroid mode would have lots of surplus power because it cannot hope to operate at the same levels as the fighter mode. All that surplus power can go towards the Energy Conversion Armor. Mystery solved