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16 hours ago, Mommar said:

Evidently a micro-managing pita.

Maybe so but that personality flaw is nothing compared to Jimmy Swaggart (who also passed this week, to the delight of many). 

Condolences to the Shooter estate, at least.

*raises hand* When, in terms of what episode, does Deedra get that file (dealing with Death Star). Was this detail in the story one of those force Choked devices that occurred because Andor was compressed from 4 or 5 seasons to 2?

What's worse? It wasn't an April Fool's Joke. it's legit.

Now i can understand WHY Catalyst did it (a blantant Fly Paper trap for GW players). That seems a bold strategy... I just...

I hope politics (financial or otherwise) helps slow the idea down...

 Time Stamp 3:03 I hope the driver was not WATCHING an episode... but this is 'murica (..."It's our Damn Right to watch whatever the %$#^ we want to, whenever the *&^% we want to...") 😕

well that's 7 minutes that i might want back... 06:40 makes me think it Wants to be a Warhammer IIC with a TZ-III Bundle the size of an AC-20....          

yes, someone who is into civilian model flying planes created mockups of the VF-1... but that still does replicate the real thing... with all the bells whistles that Seto mentioned, these miniature planes still dont fully replicate the flight. No front slats no proper flaps that extend, no aspects in how those upper inlets affect flight (do they actually close in flight?)

these are concepts i wonder if anyone has done in Wind Tunnels? I look over my shoulder to a anime wall scroll i bought back when i was working/living the Ventura area in the early 2000s, of a VF-1J looking at it from the Pilots 5 oclock (sans the UNSPACY Kite) and that art IS flying...

IDK. I guess I'm having Old fart moments...

 I'm having a lazy Saturday night, my wife & minion & The Pants are out & about and I'm listening to random and subscribed YT stuff, when I'm not playing DDO. This YT is renown for his F-14 RIO knowledge and tonight's topic on when the F-14 program got DFCS installed made me think: Has anyone done a proper, actually took the time to think 'Can It Fly?' look at the VF-1 (maybe the VF-0, which looks more like a design that would fly... like a brick) on DCS or similar? I'm not talking video games, which do NOT replicate flight characteristics (just X/Y/Z axis on a static image) but the various popular flight sims that gained traction and functionality in the past 5 years...?

On 12/2/2024 at 9:20 PM, Bolt said:

That looks great!

+1000... Do that for M+ (the Movie)...

*bows quietly* another one...

My name... My Avatar...

Well the Avatar is easy. The story has NOTHING to do with Macross Frontier's Female #2. It's the album cover of one of F2's Discography and at the time, I thought it was "cool". I suppose I could replace it with something more modern but *shrug* I'm too lazy at this point in my life...

The Name... requires some travel time in the Way Back Machine...

The time is 1999, the place is Webcity Cybercafe (It no longer exists) and the Game is Unreal Tournament. Now up till that point, I probably had a few different Handles for the three BIG FPS games that came to be from DOOM: Quake (series), Duke Nukem 3D and UT. Of all three, the most, best memories I have, is from Unreal Tournament. For those who weren't even Born Yet, those game were your parent's bread and butter.

During one particularly and delightfully violent session of CTF-Facing Worlds, my friend changed his handle several times, settling on the simple and beloved: Cow.

I, feeling the need to comeuppance, did the same. I initially settled on Pensive.

Now, Pensive holds a place in history (to some); Pensive was a patron of JACS Cybercafe (also long non-existent) who's handle was Pensive. You have to ask him what the back story was and I was not privy to that. But he was a good citizen, kind hearted and yet annoying AF if you played against him (expert at Online Chess) so I always remembered his handle.

Now If you are familiar, Facing Worlds is a very simple design for a Capture The Flag map. I specialized in a very effective Troll by Camping the topside Teleport with my Impact Hammer. Because the results were typically giblets of former enemy players, I had an Apiffany and changed my handle to the name that I retain to this day (but rarely use now):

Pensive's Wetness(tm)

My current handle is merely the result of age and maturity (nothing more). I hope my name brings smiles of remembrance (or maybe ulcers; I wasn't always a nice person to my foes)

Anyway. Derp.

On 8/31/2024 at 10:17 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Against a Zentradi on foot... well, pretty much any Valkyrie's gunpod is going to be heinous levels of overkill.

Valkyrie gunpods are high-powered cannons meant for use against armored fighting vehicles like Zentradi battle pods and battle suits or enemy Valkyries.  Using one on a Zentradi soldier on foot is essentially using a high-powered anti-materiel rifle against infantry.  It's way WAY more stopping power than you actually need to do the job and it's going to make quite a mess.  The bullets they fire are generally high-caliber armor piercing explosive rounds with extremely high muzzle velocities.  As we saw with the first Zentradi soldier which Hikaru encountered in the original Macross series, the VF-1's GU-11A 55mm gunpod was so powerful the Zentradi's armored pilot suit offered no protection at all.  Many of the later models are at least as deadly as the GU-11, and quite a few are explicitly much more so.  

Pretty much any VF-mounted weapon is overkill against Zentradi infantry because they're all designed for destroying armored fighting vehicles rather than engaging soft targets.  The Valkyrie's coaxial laser cannons would probably be the best weapon for the job.  They're less powerful than the gunpod, they can't jam or run out of ammunition, they don't require reloading, the available fire arc is much larger than the gunpod's, and they can easily target multiple fast-moving objects because the Valkyrie's head can turn quickly and the shot moves at lightspeed.

had Macross SFDM-TV came out around or after first run of Neon Genesis Evangelion, with that concept that the GU-11 was considered overkill in certain situations, one wonders if the makers of SDFM-TV would have borrowed the idea of weapons lockers placed in locations within Macross City, equipped with weapons useable by Valkyries and Spartans (weapons that have real-world versions of Sub Machine Guns or similar? 

actually since both MF and Delta has come out at a time that the youth involved in those series would have seen NGE, was that ever a thing (weapon caches in the cities)?

On 7/14/2024 at 2:51 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

It's not reactants they're drawing in in atmospheric flight... the compact thermonuclear reactor's running entirely on internally-carried hydrogen either way.  It's that they don't have to carry supplemental propellant with them to generate thrust.  They can just pull in air and heat it up like a normal turbofan jet engine.

As to the main question... well... they might not have even bothered.

Had the Earth UN Government and Earth UN Forces had an accurate picture of what space warfare was actually like they probably would probably have decided to focus on large-scale static and mobile anti-fleet defenses rather than anything designed for infantry combat.  Grand Cannons, weapons satellites armed with high-powered beam weapons and batteries of thermonuclear reaction missiles, guided missile destroyers, etc.  Weapons designed to absolutely saturate near-Earth space with thermonuclear fire in order to wipe enemy fleets with overwhelming firepower.  

If they bothered with Valkyries at all, I suspect we'd see something more like the VF-X3 Medusa from the FamilySoft Macross games or a VF-25 with a permanent Armored Pack... something less like an aircraft and more like a heavily armored brick of a spacecraft built to carry the absolute maximum amount of "I want it dead yesterday" firepower.  Even a transformation would probably not be bothered with in favor of maximizing the ability to saturate the combat area with firepower and manufacture as many of them as possible.

If they were absolutely, doggedly determined to make a VF like the VF-1... probably something akin to the VF-0+ or VF-3000.  Just, the VF-1 but bigger.  The size constraints on the VF-1's battroid mode were what caused its limited internal fuel capacity for space flight.  

 

 

The source you are probably thinking of is Macross Chronicle (2nd Edition) Technology Sheet 01E "Variable Fighter", which says things like:

"Energy conversion armor is said to be a technology obtained from the combat pods left in the ASS-1, [...]"

There's a problem with a bigger VF-1 (Maybe I've mentioned this in the past?). That's means you need bigger ships. The main reason all the VF's are referred as Fighter Aircraft (and the people who crew them as 'Pilots' or Aviators) is because of the method in how they are deployed. Otherwise, we might as well call Hikaru, a Battroid Pilot... or 'Mechwarrior (LOL).

On 7/27/2024 at 12:52 PM, Froy said:

Something odd is going on that intake. Seems to be attached via like a swivel mechanism. In Guardian mode it is way more separated from the chest plate and closer to the fuselage

 

Random thought: This looks more like the VF-2SS as I look at this (like if the VF-2SS came out first then as a prequel, the VF-1J Dox?)

On 7/25/2024 at 7:24 PM, no3Ljm said:

Also, from this photo, are we seeing some preview of what parts are going to go yellow first? 

I agree with everyone else on this (Hard Pass) but the differences also make me think that the makers (and probably Harmony Gold, since they would have to sign off on this) took a cue from Cataylist Game Labs's propose to the Reseen art work for Battletech.

Think about it, a moment. HG can't use any of the original art designs for SDFM-TV or DYRL. Is this HG's means to get around that? Or I am just looking at this wrong? Personally, I'm not sure if that was the goal (CGL's goal was to be able to use designs similar to the classic unseen but not exact/improved upon, which is why they succeed because Battletechs fans are mostly like 'Project Phoenix whut?' when it comes to PP designs to the current art used in the current post kickstarter era we are in). 

On 8/4/2024 at 6:23 PM, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I watched the 1st 2 episodes of 3199.  I am glad it is back.  The episodes were great.

link plz? (or is it still not available in CONUS?)

On 8/1/2024 at 7:13 PM, jrhudson311 said:

Ok boomer 😄

Son? Come over here. I, Said. Come. Over. HERE. *Drags you over here, BY your ear*

*Reminds the Yout why being Gen-X, a Veteran & Retiree, is combination to be Feared*

Actually no, I'd probably F up my back trying to drag him/her over so I'll just do the safe thing and flip him off, call him names, something less physical...

Facebook Lets pay honors to this version of the YF-19 (makes me weep; I have not the time or skill or funding to even consider buying it)

Now, questions...

It's been forever since the YF and VF-19's have been out and the first thing that catch's my eye is those 4 circles behind the head unit. There are no danger markings to indicate otherwise but what are they? Intakes for the back mounted torso motors typically seen in some fashion to provide propulsion in Gerwalk mode? Venier thrusters? They ARE the exhaust for the propulsion unit. They are also different (less refined?) than seen on Macross -7's production model...

On 6/3/2024 at 2:35 AM, pengbuzz said:

Yeah; having had both the VF-1 and AFC-01 as transformable models/toys in 1/48 scale, the Armo-Soldier is kind of a shrimp by comparison. I had to hunt down few pics to make sure I remembered correctly:

So many the intent goes sideways, humor wise?

Although much of the imagery from IC is semi-cringe, its also very detailed. In this video, it has two Armored VF-1Js and two different models of Legioss (in Soldier Mode). The Legioss's look like large power armor in scale. Are the legioss smaller than a VF?

On 12/28/2023 at 4:23 PM, JB0 said:

It... it's beautiful.

and its all Fast Pack mods, just requires a BASIC VF or VT.

...Because nobody else has said it...

WELCOME.

(Please don't be like Brofessor... what-ever-the-F that mutant is.)

Seto, already said, Gundum is to Japan, like Barbie (maybe, Mickey Mouse, is a better example) is to the US. Anything else is generally a miracle in terms of merchandizing. What exactly is your interest in anime merchandizing? Is this a numbers thing or a Stock Market interest?

... The one BELOW the caption you posted (You are awesome, simply by captioning that imagine of #2, For the Record)  Its the SIDE view of the expansion, explaining the arms, how they rotate.

1 hour ago, tekering said:

"Arms rotate, legs swing down." 😅

🤭Let me be specific: I'm talking about the side view (below #2). From Left to Right, it would be the second notation (but the first one under the side profile) I'm gonna guess its NOT landing gear but something dealing with the Transformation pivot point?

11 hours ago, MKT said:

Can’t find any landing gear illustrations either, but we can assume it has them since it’s supposed to be primarily an atmospheric VF, as opposed to the VF-2SS that is mainly a space fighter.

Stabilizers do swivel away hidden into the shins.
 

Lets make some assumptions, based on what we do know about the VF-1 (in regards to its landing gear in the leg nacelles), as well as the VF-2SS (which does have line art including landing gear)

1) the Gears on its mains probably deploy the same way (and direction) as the VF-1 

2) Look closely in the picture provided (TU for that). There is a panel line directly underside of the cockpit. Its directly underside and long enough to suggest much. I would suspect that is the hatch for the nose gear.

Also what does the Kanji say on the notice that is placed on the first underside notation (from Left to Right)?

43 minutes ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

I don't necessarily expect to see traces of vf-1 (or vf-4) in the vf-2. In the same way that the f-14 doesn't resemble an f-15 or f-16.

But vf-1a, vf-1d, vf-1j, vf-s are all clearly minor variations on the main vf-1 design. Same similarity can be seen in vf-11, vf-17, vf-25, and vf-31 variants. And others as well. Variants being barely more than a head change in most cases.

Then you look at vf-2j and vf-2s and they are about as different as an f-14 is to an f-15. How can they really both be called vf-2? I always wondered why it wasn't vf-2 and vf-3 or something. It's bothered me ever since I first saw the show lol.

Maybe the LACK of development falls in line with the perceived Malas or Blah that was apparent (especially in the manner the UN Spacy conducts their first engagements with the Marduk). The commander in charge of that battle looked... for a better word, Bored. To me, now that i think about things, that seems so unlikely but back in 1992-3, when I first watched MII:LA, that's how I viewed the politics of the story. If the UN Spacy has been either destroying or outright subverting random Zentradi forces with ease, the urge to be on the cutting edge, probably dulled (if there wasn't any profit in it, at that point).

What was the story about this kit? It wasn't made by an authorized vendor, was it? (the lack of details underside bothered me, in those pics)