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Ah okay that’s reasonable.

Were Supervision Army/Meltrandi gun destroyers relatively common? It seems a little odd to have a capital ship design that can instantly obliterate dozens of enemy capital ships. I would have thought the battle doctrine would then have shifted away from big huge expensive ships, since they can't be defended anyway.

Yeah it definitely doesn’t fit in with SDFM or DYRL, but weren’t we saying canon is fuzzy? Just look at it like another alt universe.

I know this is an extreme long shot, but what can I do.

The black piece on the cheek of my Yamato VF-19F 1/60 (circled) has fallen off and disappeared into the void. If someone has a spare for some odd reason, or more likely if someone has the skill set to re-create a similar piece from plastic that I can glue on, I will pay $50 USD +s/h.

UGH!! One of the black plastic rectangular pieces on the right side of my VF-19F "cheek" had fallen off and now is lost... I'm so annoyed. Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't even know where to begin other than sell this thing at a loss.

I’d like to acquire a YF-29 Ozma, complete. New or used as long as it is in good shape.

Found one, thanks for looking.

I’ve been inspired with so many questions.

What used to be in the giant leg cavities in SDF-1 where Macross city ended up? I assumed they would have been filled with rather necessary engine parts and not just an empty space ready for an ad hoc city. Where did those parts go?

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They can, as @sketchley noted, use their high-thrust verniers to "hop" high enough into the air to facilitate switching to GERWALK mode if the situation calls for it.  Hikaru does this in his VT-1 Super Ostrich in Macross: Do You Remember Love? during the escape from Vrlitwhai's ship (~43:35).

Ahh I just watched that scene again, such a cool scene from a mecha trivia perspective. Weird things excite us I guess.

Are valks in fighter mode able to do VTOL? If not, would they need to take off on a conventional runway before being able to change to gerwalk in the air? I.e., if they landed on a surface in fighter mode that doesn’t have sufficient runway space, are they sort of “stuck” there, or are the verniers powerful enough for a short vertical lift/hop enough to switch to gerwalk mode?

3 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Just the one (So far..). Though we are expecting to see variants on the other Delta VF's..

That looks a lot like Vampire, doesn’t it

Another question, the thing on the forearms of yf-29 are thrusters? Not guns?

There was a new mecha teased to be in Delta movie 2, right? Was it just one?

Is there a picture of this camel mech? Or was it just text descriptions.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Macross Delta seems to have been done on the cheap, likely due to the cost of the music production, so they don't seem to have bothered making a different ordnance container CG model for the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Flight VF-31s.

At least one of the model kits I've seen for the VF-31 does give the military spec VF-31 a different ordnance container that contains micro-missiles and what looks like some kind of a camera system?  

Oh that's interesting, this model has the same size/shape of canards and fold crystal housing as the Siegfried rather than stock Kairos, I'm sure it was just an oversight but still neat.

1 hour ago, jeniusornome said:

I F-35 money pit, etc. 

Haha, now I'm demanding that the next VF be made of gold and called the Money Pit.

Do you think it’s possible that the drone charger housing on VF-31 can contain ECM or sensor module or something instead of a drone charger? It would nicely explain why so many 31s are flying around with what look like chargers and not carrying drones or hang around Walkure.

Thank you borgified.

Cool, thank you.

1) Is there any explanation in-universe for why they fire huge swarms of missiles? Is it because of shitty guidance systems or amazing missile countermeasures or both?

2) In a related vein to our discussion above, is there an in-universe explanation for why the base model VF-11 was so minimally armed vs. some of the others with more comprehensive weapons packages built in?

I don’t suppose anyone knows a good way to stiffen up the ball joint ankles?

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Those missiles appear to be coming from the ordnance container.

In GERWALK mode, if the ordnance container isn't deployed the launchers are facing left and right, parallel to the wing surface.  That looks like missiles firing from the container on a trajectory to ensure they clear the wing and limbs.

I think you're right, I compared the game footage of GERWALK firing with the containers up, and container down, and both seem to be depleting from the same "gauge".

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I'm not sure a toy is a good representative sample?  Sadly, there isn't much art of the YF-30 Chronos to get a proper look at the underside of the CG model's wings.

Sure, but it doesn't really conclusively support your assertion either that the thing is comparatively lightly armed.

And wherever the information from Macross Mecha Manual came from, also says there are hardpoints.

I really appreciate your knowledge (I always look forward to reading your responses!) but sometimes I think you make some definitive statements based on suggestive evidence when the conclusions allow for a fair bit more leeway. 

So in Macross 30 the YF-30 sometimes appears to shoot missiles from around its legs(?) without deploying its container, and they seem a different type ( https://youtu.be/yUiwsQrb-Vk 5:00 as an example). Does it have another missile bay, or is it just video game artistic license?

On 4/11/2020 at 1:06 AM, jenius said:

I want to see the mechs again more than the people. Is that odd? Maybe a story of the second MegaRoad or something along those lines where the VF-1 is the primary fighter, the destroids are present, and there's some VF-11 precursor (or SV-51 follow-up) as a special ops vehicle. Maybe sprinkle in some VF-4s. Heck, the bad guys can even be Zentraedi or "supervision army". If they want to have a tagalong from the original show, I wouldn't be against that shoehorn. Admiral Claudia? I also wouldn't be opposed to them getting pretty much wiped out halfway through the show, then teaming up with an alien civilization to create some really alien looking mecha, to finally overcome the baddies. I'm thinking like transformable Gradius fighters. 

I'm with Jenius, I definitely think the Minmei et al. stories are nicely finished, but I'd love to see another fleet from that era, classic mecha with modern CGI. VF-1's of course but I'd love a more star treatment of VF-4's and VF-5000's.

Ahh, I picked mine up after about 3 years of standing still in battroid mode, and its legs are like noodles, haha. The ball joints in the feet are quite bad. Surprisingly the nose still doesn't droop at all without a bracket.

On 4/10/2020 at 10:31 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

I'd look at it more in terms of the difference between the firepower the heavy quantum beam rifle or heavy quantum beam cannon turret container put out vs. the firepower of the eight or so thermonuclear reaction warheads the VF-25 can carry.

Actually looking at my YF-30 toy it seems like it has the hard points to carry those missiles just as easily...