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Old kits tend not to provide closed wheel-well doors. you'll have to cut the tabs off the provided 'open' ones and DIY it.
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Granted: at this point it's only creaking and moaning like some long-rusted behemoth threatening to move, but dead it won't seem to stay. and honestly, at this point, I'll take 2007!
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they said, as the current iteration of the project seems to lurch and creak ever-forward...
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Thanks no3ljm! Hopefully it's fairly comprehensive collection of the older design images.
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anyone know if the weapon bays are half-open for effect or necessity? if the latter, why? airflow funneling effect? hot/cold buffer zone?
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She's not mine, I just found this while looking for VF-0B schemes... thought everyone might like it as much as I do... Here's the website of the person responsible for this beauty
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No, I'm going to trickle-in the rest of the available Delta kits into my PW, then ship it all... a MINIMUM of 1 pay-cheque before my Local Comic-con at the end of October. but my wants rarely align with the universe's whims...
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I got my four in my PW right now... perhaps they sold out of their expected stock?
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Valkyries Third Sortie - and it's in English!
slide replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
I'm just hoping for a little more variation between Zentran fleets depending on where they get their kit... The Zentran suit in Mac+ is clearly a design iteration/derivative/blending of the Quadluun pattern and Nousjadeul pattern suits [at least when looking at the art, the artists themselves may have something else to say, but from an on-the-face design view: the similarities are more than significant], maybe they come from a Construction satellite that was built later, with a more streamlined/amalgamated/advanced models and makes of the standard Zentran arsenal. also, more Zentran takes on UN ships/designs would be welcome. I want some Northamptons, both the Human pattern and the Zentran pattern on my shelf... and my walls of nerd art... come on Mr. Tenjin! do some Capital ship works for us in the next book!!!! -
Time and budgetary constraints will tell on the B-21... but the B-2s and B-1s could do with a replacement.
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yea... but according to this image, it can only carry them externally, so they never would have AIM-9X on-board if there was as chance of enemy aircraft about; no stealth profile means 0 advantages for the F-35. so no, I would give a visual fight to the Flankers or Migs, not the Lightnings exactly. except I'm not confident in it's ability to actually defend itself from a capable threat [other than running to cover/protection]. And even if they did meet, unless the Russians won the fight, and caught it on their guncam, we civilians won't know any details for at least 25 years lol. That's what I meant: F-22 was supposed to be a purebred fighter, and the FB-22 was supposed to replace the F-117 and the F-111s. Or that was the plan, as I recall it... but then budgets got more cuts, and all of a sudden there was talk about the F-22 replacing the F-15 fleet [and the JSF replacing the F-16], so the '22 had to be able to at least truck some bombs... can't recall if all that happened before, or after the one crashed because of the Thrust vector nozzles... I think the plan is to have the '35s command drones carrying SDBs and JDAMs. And apparently, you can sling a $#!%-load of AMRAAMs under the proposed B-1R
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so are we comparing the "never-going-to-happen 1v1 with a full load of fuel and weapons"? because Real-world: the F-35 is going to cut and run the second it unloads its BVR missiles, and the Su-35 [or whatever] will never get the chance to gun-kill it. at least that had better be their plan, because it doesn't carry enough bang to fight off an equivalent number of Russians once they're close enough to see... and due to their nature, I'd expect the F-35 to be OUTnumbered most of the time. Yes she's heavy [compared to the last-gen equivalents], but her role is different: Not a defender on the battlements of the cold war, but a ninja in the digital age... whatever their rational, I still think the '35 is a mistake for all the countries who think it can be their 5th gen airforce all on it's own... I think the Raptor had to go through a bunch of BS so she could fill-in for an F-15E [she certainly got bigger between the YF-22 and the F-22A's that are in service]... but she's still a purebred fighter like the USAF had only dreamed of, and the F-35 is simply there to alleviate the "Mud-Mover" mission from the 22's profile... they only have <190 Raptors, and it doesn't look like there'll be any more.
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The top of my list just changed...
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
slide replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
the only real answer is make it less "exposition-y".... If one can figure out a way of even trying that and getting ~1/3 of the story, characters, details, world-building/history into the same amount of story-telling time... I wish them luck! -
a Su-35 can out-turn an F-16 at the merge [once ]... so there's how much "weight of fighter" matters nowadays...
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since the '25s and '31s are all optional 2-seaters, they can't really milk that angle. The VF-25A CF is just a VF-25G with a regular gun [same head unit, no external airframe differences afaik], so that's a probable. how about some Ghosts to go with my RVFs? and so I can modify some into Galaxy's cannon-armed version? doing a VF-171 would be a nose-section replacement from a VF-171 EX [maybe even just a Canopy-swap?], so again, 2 kits for essentially 1 set of molds. I suppose it depends on the details of their license...
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VF-4 [come on Hasegawa, you KNOW you want to!] VF-17 VF-171/VF-171EX that's my injection wishlist at the moment.
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I like it Flatline would be my suggestion to NATO, if they're listening lol
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I thought Tu-160 "White Swan" was an official moniker?
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Yes, it generally is.
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there's no way to express the amount of laughter that brought me... thanks!
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"Special Forces" would have something to say about an official branch also shorthanded S.F., and I wouldn't want to tug on those manly, manly beards "US Space Command" was a thing once, before it got merged with STRATCOM. they may very well go with that. "Space Corps" is another possibility, which I love, because it opens the door for IRL Space Marines!!!! lol "Space Force" is predictable, boring and stereo-typically bureaucratic... it'll probably be that.
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MIG-29K? Yak-38? lol, jk.
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different strokes I guess, it's all good Models and the building thereof has been my chief hobby since I was 6... I'm beginning to look at kits like: "that's a nice starting point... but I'll get the resin cockpit, accurate afterburner cans, replacement antennae, weapons pylons, weapons, resculpt this, rescribe that... on and on and on" lol. I'm also glad I'm not a warship modeler... that's too much photo-etch for my ADD to handle!
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Hase's kits are more for folks like me who build/paint "regular" scale models. I'm with Mr Cheng... I'd rather cut a mask out of paper/tape myself and paint it... though I will admit the thought of doing all of Delta Squadron that way gives me pause... Bandai's seem more for the Gunpla crowd... who seem to skew towards younger folks or folks new to models, and folks who have only so much time/effort they can devote to 1 kit. [No offense/elitism is intended here, I am in awe of some of the thing's I've seen done with Gunpla over the years] aside: I'm not even certain how to classify some of Bandai's kits anymore... comparing a Bandai kit to Revell, Trumpeter, Eduard or even Tamiya is not an apples-to-apples comparison, though Tamiya's recent 1/32 warbirds are marvels themselves, it's still not quite the same thing as Bandai's 1/72 transforming VFs, or a Real/Perfect-Grade Gundam. Bandai's engineering is a whole other level [partly because they've been making anime-magic Gundams a reality for... 45+ years now?] which allows them to be this odd half-way between "models" and "toys/action figures". they're also what I would have called a "Skill level 1 kit" [meaning you only need a set of snippers and a bit of sandpaper to get a nice result] but that is in no way an indication of detail, or any other limitation imposed on the modeler because "it's just a cheap snap-tite kit". these are full-fledged models made to be simple enough for anyone to build, and get a piece they can proudly display when they're done. The Real-Grade line is simply a marvel to behold, let alone build... Their Macross offerings continue to improve and impress. Though not perfect, they are continually moving closer. They've broken the mold as it were... and more power to them! They are [on] the cutting edge at the moment.