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23 hours ago, kajnrig said:
Shoji Kawamori himself is holding it close to the chest until his video message at the Dec. 14 Macross Plus showing, at which time he'll tell us all to look under our seats and - GASP! - it'll be waiting there for us, special commemorative toys with individually signed boxes!
And then on Xmas he’ll show up at each one of our houses and replace all our furniture with YF-21 boxes
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I’m excited to get a new -29 with all the structural improvements to the toy.
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I’m not keen on the non-in-universe logo but a reissue set would be nice! I’d love a -25s, I missed out the first time.
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56 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:
Okay... let me see what I can do...
Thanks pengbuzz 😊
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Yeah it’s stuck in there pretty good, I don’t think I can remove it without damaging it. ☹️
Maybe the other piece was missing out of the box and I just didn’t notice until now…
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2 hours ago, pengbuzz said:
Let me take a look and see if I can do anything....
If possible, could you photograph the other leg cover detached, so I could get the tolerances on it?
I will try, it might be glued 😬
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Can anyone build for me that small grey cover? It doesn’t even need surface detail. Just to cover that gap behind the right leg. I will pay $50.
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5 hours ago, twich said:
Is that part of the slider mechanism? Is it possibly in the leg in the drone storage bay? Seems weird that it would just vanish….maybe it is part of the fold drive and vanished like on the SDF-1!!
Twich
Not slider, not in the drone bay
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Man I must be the king of parts disappearing from my expensive toys without noticing. 😑
Anybody have this happen to their -31 legs? Grey piece from the back of the leg missing? Any suggestions? ☹️☹️☹️
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You color freaks. I’m painting my copy green and brown.
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57 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:
You are so weird 😝
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On 10/13/2021 at 3:55 PM, pengbuzz said:
Or Tone-Loc
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First time I’ve heard this name mentioned in years 😝😝
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24 minutes ago, charles88 said:
Man its really hard to topple YF-29 Durandal as most powerful VF. Even Sv-303 couldnt beat it. I wonder what Kawamori gonna take to make VF that surpass YF-29
A VF-1 with a gun that shoots swords
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Spoiler
I really hate this forced Megaroad-1 connection.
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Cool, thanks.
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7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
My apologes for the confusion caused by my grammatical ambiguity.
No no it’s fine, thanks as always for sharing your knowledge.
A question in a similar vein, do you think the VF-19F/S listed in Macross Mecha Manual Mac7 page are export monkey models? They still seem superior to the YF-19 prototype.
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I’m digging the Arad model.
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49 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Unfortunately, it failed to answer my main question with respect to the railguns used by the VF-31 and Sv-262.
Specifically: are the railguns "true" railguns that use purely electromagnetic force to launch projectiles or are these like the VF-25's "railgun" where there's an electromagnetic assist to a chemically-propelled conventional bullet.
The YF-29, not the YF-24.
It's not entirely clear what the Macross Frontier Fleet Arsenal and local branches of Shinsei Industry and Legodt & Angeloni Industries had in mind for future applications when the YF-29 Durandal's development kicked off. Maybe it was originally intended to be a Special Forces fighter like the VF-19EF Caliburn or VF-22S Sturmvogel II. Either way, the frankly impractical amount of ultra-high purity fold quartz needed to manufacture the all-important Fold Wave System that made the YF-29's incredible performance possible also left the fighter impossible to mass produce due to its scarcity.
There are several interesting notes in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-31 Siegfried about the Fold Wave System.
It's indicated that the originator of the theory behind the Fold Wave System was none other than Lt. Col. Gadget M. Chiba of the Macross 7 fleet. It was supposedly an outgrowth of his Sound Energy hypothesis that joined it up to unified fold theory involving using dimensionally-resonant crystals (fold quartz) to amplify fold waves.
Some guidance is also offered with respect to the claim made in the extra features of the Macross Delta blu-rays that asserts the VF-31 Custom "Siegfried" is considered to be a Generation 5.5 Variable Fighter. Master File's assertion is that the YF-29 and its completed Fold Wave System constitute a 6th Generation VF. The 5th Generation VF-31 Kairos's retrofits to include that system in the Siegfried type supposedly made it Gen 5.5.
Also of interest is a note that the VF-31 Custom's Fold Wave System is said to be of a somewhat different design than the YF-29's. It's said that the design of the Siegfried's Fold Wave System requires less of the ultra-high purity fold quartz needed to make a fold wave system, theoretically without sacrificing the system's performance but at the cost of it being less practical because the system cannot activate and maintain operation without an external fold wave oscillator (aka a suitably powerful biological fold wave source). It would appear that this is the reason the VF-31 Custom Siegfried type uses its fold wave system so sparingly in the series. The YF-29 is said to be able to "brute force" activate it without an external fold wave source.
It's Earth's 5th Generation Main Variable Fighter, their replacement for the VF-171 Nightmare Plus.
Your summation is quite correct. I just want to add one tiny note to that last sentence.
Macross Galaxy began development of the YF-27 based on the YF-24 spec, but completed the project using development data from Frontier's YF-29 leaked to them by LAI.
Unlikely, IMO... but I'm waiting to see actual specs rather than vague claims in potentally unreliable spoilers.
Back in the Macross Delta TV series, it was noted on several occasions that the modifications Xaos made to the trial production VF-31's in Delta Flight's care were already pushing the limits of the airframe's durability. Expert handling was able to mitigate that issue, but Hayate's rougher style resulted in his VF-31 Custom Siegfried sustaining damage just by how he was flying it. Though there is some evident frame reinforcement on the Kairos Plus around the wings, I doubt that the stock VF-31 airframe could actually reach the YF-29 performance-wise without suffering a fair amount of damage from stresses beyond the design limit.
There's also been a fair amount said about differences in Fold Wave System design that make the YF-29 superior as well, and the claim made in the Macross Delta series material that the YF-29 is a generation ahead of the Siegfried series and others.
ヴィヴァスヴァト would be read Vi-Va-Su-Va-To (ヴィ - ヴァ - ス - ヴァ - ト), so Vivasvat should be the correct transliteration, I'd assume.
My grasp of Hindu mythology is unfortunately quite sparse. This is, I think, the fourth Hindu mythology reference in Macross's technical setting. The first was ANGIRAS, the name of the original generation of airframe control AIs used in VFs. Then there was the Vajra, Surya Aerospace (makers of the VF-31), and now Vivasvat.
The Sv-303 Vivasvat is manufactured by the Epsilon Foundation subsidiary Dian Cecht, who also manufacture the Sv-262 Draken III for Windermere IV's Aerial Knights. Unmanned and remotely controlled by the DE-124 SIREN DELTA SYSTEM, a "Quantum AI" that seems to just by Sharon Apple 2.0. The TRON lines are a new kind of fold wave-based energy conversion armor, and there's a fourth mode meant for high mobility space dogfighting.
Feels like the Macross II references are coming to a head... the Metal Siren in that OVA also had a fourth mode that deployed all of its engines for high-mobility space dogfighting.
We already had the Star Singer who is basically just an Emulator, and Var syndrome which works almost exactly like the Song of Death from Macross II.
My burning question is where the hell the Battle Astraea came from... because, as others have noted, that's clearly a Battle-class under all that garbage and it appears to be what remains of the Battle Galaxy.
My bad, I just misunderstood which fighter you were referring to in your second paragraph here, and was puzzled:
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You mentioned in another thread the YF-24 is still not in production by Delta time because it's too expensive? So is it a failure as far as it becoming the next mass produced NUNS fighter? Is the "main" NUNS fighter still VF-171? If the Macross Mecha Manual specs are to go buy, the VF-171 has less performance than pretty much every custom emigrant fleet fighter we've seen so far. I thought the Feds were trying to work on a clear performance advantage over the emigrant fleets, on the median.
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4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
So... since we're in a bit of a Delta frenzy today anyway with last night's theatrical debut of Macross Delta: Absolute Live!!!!!!, I decided to go and tackle a few of the questionable areas in the Variable Fighter Master File: VF-31 Siegfried to satisfy my curiosity.
The first one is a remark in the VF-31 development history section that mentions an aircraft we've never seen or heard before: the YF-30B Chronos.
In an interesting contrast to Macross 30's YF-29B Perceval, the YF-30B is a reduced-capability version of the YF-30 instead of an enhancement. The YF-30B removed the FF-3001/FC2 Stage II thermonuclear reaction turbine engines and the proprietary and poorly-understood Fold Dimensional Resonance System. Several units were produced for testing via SMS or other affiliated security services and performed well enough that Shinsei pinned its hopes on the YF-30B as a contender for an inexpensive, but highly versatile, mass produced main Variable Fighter for emigrant governments. (Apparently being able to put the arms outside the engine nacelles instead of between them was a real watershed moment for durability in Battroid mode.)
Perhaps my happiest find is an explanation for the inexplicable color-changing paint used on the Siegfrieds and Draken IIIs.
Where the VF-25 (and VF-171EX) used an ablative anti-beam coating that doubled as radar-absorbent material for passive stealthiness, the VF-31 is described as using a separate anti-beam coating that comes in an adhesive sheet form that's bonded to the airframe. The sheeting is a smart material that can also function as a display surface for still images and also video, allowing it to function as a kind of optical camouflage.
Apparently the reason both the VF-31 and Sv-262 adopted medium-bore railguns in place of beam machine guns as their primary fighter-mode gun is in response to the increasing efficacy of ablative anti-beam coatings, which are able to dampen 30-40% of a typical beam machine gun's fire.
No useful info on the function of the LU-18A beam gunpod, but there is oddly a mention of a conventional rotary cannon option not depicted which is considered useful for cases involving things like combat with Zentradi.
Not gonna talk about the plot but these bits of mech info are cool. I like the railgun development.
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17 minutes ago, azrael said:
+1
Surprisingly, lawsuits are how a lot of things are get done/enforced in the world. We just don’t hear about all of them. And even fewer actually go to trial. Most are resolved in mediation/out-of-court.
Yep, 100% concur. Business as usual.
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The movie was fine, not especially better or worse than the median Marvel offering. Florence Pugh was funny. Widow herself was pretty meh.
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So with this bumping into Zentradi fleets, where is the (non-Varauta non-Mac7) Supervision Army? Weren't they the main enemies of the Zentradi and stands to reason there is still a significant number of them out there in a non-trivial proportion to the Zentradi fleet? No fleets ran into them?
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Part needed - VF-31 dx chogokin
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