TehPW

the fact you use a mask at all makes you better than most retards i know in the states that paint for various reasons (PPE? whats that?)

I would be very pleased to get at least 3 of the DoD-style tags for me & my GF (plus a spare), sir. And 2 UNS kites as well.

How is it no one remembers Thundersub!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYIWV4m_Dk4

took me 5 mins to figure what this clip was from, via Wiki... i could have spent that time on Youporn instead. derp. Horrible dub, LoL..

an 8-month bumb isnt epic (it merely qualifies as thread dusting) though im happy to see it. looking for stuff on MW (regardless of othewr peps thoughts contrare...) is a B*tch.

is there anything on the chopping block you're working on Sir Poli?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ9qFofOwo

ok a$$hat. you owe me like 5 mins of breath (because i could not stop laughing!!!)

heh i have 3 VG tat's

the designs you provide... uhm... i dunno. how ever the art STYLE (and especially the Isamu smartass posse)... wow. im struggling to think where ive seen simular line art before. It's very... well its very very cool. it gives me this thinking that its NOT super deformed but it so wants to be, vibe. do you other genre besides Macross? i'd love to see what you'd do with battlemechs or generic GMs from Mobile Suit Gundam?

the fail for VOY was consistantcy. The ship, crew, the interiors never suffered from lack of proper repair...

Talos might wanna check your link. i had a virus alert pop up from looking at your pic...

Transformers as they appeared in the original G1 carton, movie or many comic adaptions would not translate well into a live action format.

With the way CG and even practical effects have evolved I seriously doubt the movie-going public would have made the Transformer live-action films as monetarily successful as they've been.

And don't forget that's why big budget blockbusters get made, not to satisfy the wants and needs of fanboys and girls. Hell, Serenity was a great example of that, it was a good show as Firefly and by a wing and a prayer got a theater release. As well liked as it was by fans and I think critics it didn't make the coin to continue the franchise in TV or movie form.

Sorry to all of the old-school fans, or fans of the old-school, that want to see Prime in all his G1 goodness, either from the cartoons or movies it just won't get butts into the seats. Stylized like Dreamwave or IDW or not.

Better of for worse you might as well cozy up to "Bay-formers" or similar designs or just let go of hope of seeing the type of Transformers movies you seem to want so badly.

And if part 4 gets made, or if they re-boot for the love of God I hope they don't put another screaming nerd in the lead role (looking at you Shia).

-b.

thats the point for several different genres that likely will never get a live action version. Macross, Robowreck (because of legal action that makes the properties radioactive), Battletech (because of its origins, potential radioactivity, and very narrow fan base)... even hollywood wont do another Gundam (though i think something gundam wqould make them money... say a 3 part live action version of Gundam Wing... twilight with mobile suits anyone?)... *sigh*

does it really MATTER who did what? its not like our opinions matter to TPTB (this is more towards western fanboys as opposed to home guard Far Easterners who can voice their opinions more effectively, because they speak the language/understand the Kanji and interface with local forums with ease compared to most westerners, me included. but i try. ).

suffice to say, i dont single out specific names in the glorified who's butt is bigger contest, not my concern/interest. what i am interested is what they are planning next, if anything. no new TV show is gonna be worth anything if they dont come up with the supporting merchandice...

i just has such a huge nerdgasm that i really need to change my shorts. the Ibuki Light CV totally had me at hello.....

odd though. i searched and found common macross images but nothing unique. nothing at all when you search for Battletech/Mechwarrior. Is CBT pretty much unknown or uncared for in Japan because the property has zero exposure because there is no anime for it?

I wouldn't give humaity that much credit, particularly if they emulate their progenitors, the PC.

If makind had that much power, no doubt it would corrupt them like it did the PC and plunge the galaxy into another devestating civil war!

In 60 short years mankind has re-discovered much of the technology of the PC age and thus far we've not seen the dark side of the ambition that such power tends to initiate.

open your eyes, sir. the numberous mentioned battles, small civil wars mentioned in the past, as well as what has occured during the recent video games (assuming some form of cannonity), not to mention Macross Galaxy's interstellar coop attempt shows that its already happening. what makes me wonder about the future of Macross is that, eventually a civil war will occur, amounst the various colonies of humanity (a good example to think in terms of instellar conflict: Battletech's succession wars fluff.) would they go that direction when they think about storylines (let alone toys for those stories)

what shocked me was how they got away with a PG-13 rating. The

... now my GF's 8 & 10-year olds are pretty pro to some movies (and still enjoy a lot of parently restrictions at home) but i was VERY uncomfortable letting them see Tr3... maybe my age, finally?

i was pretty cynical about hearing Nimoy voicing Sentinal Prime, presumable as a disposably toon. Oh no was i wrong.

Wrong movie, dude. THIS is the Robotech Live-Action Movie!

wow. i should find you and hurt you. im missing brain cells of that 'film' clip... ZOMG that was horrible. what WAS that?

Simon Pegg is into Max Type (Attack of the Show, via Trek Movie)

For tonight, I present to you guys, this time for a change...

Originally, I wanted to go as close as possible to the original VFA-192 CAG bird while trying to follow the paint schemes in the data file, but decided to combine several versions. This after I stumbled on a curious Minmay sticker in the book section on the MW main site, and liked it.

OBTW, Vince Arkady was one of the principal characters -- a Navy SAH-66 chopper jock -- in the naval warfare novel "Choosers of the Slain" by James Cobb.

ok, THAT caused a erection....

Trailer on Youtube

As it is, the trailer isn't that special. But for something with that kind of character design, it looks OK. Far from the likes of Digimon or Bakugan etc.

meh. unimpressed. the first thing i thought of seeing the ememy mecha 'So that's what the Eva Angels are up to now. Type casted as Evil Enemy Gundam Eva Angels now...'

did the hero smack down his Black Lotus card to power up the Gundamn Aerospace Ground Equipment?

only one complain that spoils the pic as being of a model kit: the wheels. the bottoms need to be filed slightly to give the impression of carrying weight evenly. it's impossible to tell of the VF-1 because of distance, but the wheels being perfectly round on the surface (plus the uneven aligment of the outboard wheel on the port mainmount). just remember that when your making pic dioramas. other than that, me likes (though a little liting from the VF-4, to show that its powered, perhaps a few moments from launch?)

im sorry, Navy SEAL VF-25? really? wtf? please be reminded to THINK about your ideas. SEALs? really? o.O *mumbles* they are -already- epic quality without the over the top ideas...

LOL that Defender version inspired me to make a Rifleman variant on Heavy Metal Pro with 2 RAC/5's, 4 tons of ammo and 2 Rocket/20's, all arm mounted...

oh... 2 sets of missle pods per arm? hmmm...

well i made a 2nd varient with 4 Rocket/10's and a 5th ton of RAC ammo. still live that idea even though its so plainly cut & paste unoriginal...

Robot Chicken, I have never seen a Robotech reference on the show, that says something about the actual cultural impact and popularity of Robotech I think. (sadly there have been no Star Blazers references either)

I THINK... that when they animate the skits, the producers usually have the rights to use the various toy images. because the legal status of Macross in the US, i doubt they CAN use Robotech images (due to the nature of world wide legalise)

can someone more knowledgeable speak up?

wiki/RC

Why would a successful outfit like Bandai want to buy a proven failure like the Robotech franchise? Seriously, why would they? The show's track record is terrible and its amateurish merchandise sells for crap. The only part of the franchise that's actually worth any amount of money is the international rights to the original Macross series, and they don't need to pick up the whole franchise to have those.

they would if they ever wanted to sell merchantdise in the states. Kill HG's hold on Macross's name and you can finally get to see all the product without additional hassle.

i think it's why i've never seen much attemps for FASA to mass produce models for battlemechs, beyond the resin kits, and one vague toy series (not talking the TV toy tie-ins, thats a separate rant).

merchantdising is the backbone of anime. Bandai made a killing with thier cheap-junk Gundam kits when Gundam Wing aired 4 years after it's release in japan. they had advertisements. the product had support.

Robotech, because of the constraints placed on HG, enjoys nothing like that. no merchantdising, not toys avaible at Toy-R-Us, no series on TV. im very certain because of american bungling and legal actions, the various owners of the various portions of macross, could CARE LESS about the idea of merchantdising anything related to macross in the states, because of what HG and the company involved in the FASA Unseen (its name eludes me atm, 20th century products?) did in the 90's.

when i was younger, i had wished that someone would make bandai/Hasagawa quality kits of various battlemechs (at least the older, more intelligant designs and artwork. ill will hurt you if you even dare suggest TRO 3060 was good art) but the game is probably dead in its current form. No new video games, no books...

no merchantdising, no product.

Question: this email address ikido55@aol.com used to be on my contacts as a actual person. sometime last year, the email account started spamming me. Now i had learned that someone stopped using it, possibly lossing access to it. So i Sweeped it (my email is provided by Hotmail), placing it on my blocked list. now reading the details says it automatically deletes emails after its placed on the block list. now it does work, 99.9% of the time as i never see the same email spamm address twice... except ikido55@aol.com . how is this one email account able to consistantly appear in the junk folder, when others get blocked successfully?

Translated one of the tables in the book, since I'm working on the production blocks.

interesting... i was hoping to see something that ive seen looking at some Legacy F/A-18 and older P-3 SE manuals when dealing with specific BuNo's of aircraft, where some lot numbers cross over (either because a batch was being built along with another, from different plants) but thats not the case here. its pretty consistant, save a few times where obviously something else was being build in significant numbers besides VF-1 airframes...