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NZEOD

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  1. Thinking a Wild Weasel/Growler style fighter would be a cool one. Radar jammers, VF-1D nose for the extra seat/Warfare officer, VT-1 wings for the wingtip pods, Reaction missiles for the picket ships it runs into and the extra boosters to bail out for home once the front door has been kicked in and the path is clear for the rest of the strike force. Painted in Lo-viz

    The idea would be for the them to sneak in, blow a hole in the picket ships and run for home. So to assist in this mentality, removing the gun pod for two center line Reaction missiles would make sense and discourage unwanted heroics. Should things get dire they can have the arm launchers on the super packs switched for arm mounted cannons. Transforming into Gerwalk or Battroid mode to use them would mean ditching the pods so the mission would be blown at this point anyway. This way the key to success would be to run in, dump the ordnance and hit the boosters for home asap with no distractions along the way.

  2. ahhh to its a long range Fast pack mod. The bottom unit is just a giant auxillary fuel tank and extra booster. It switches out the missile units for the fuel tanks.

    It'll be the fastest unit out there in a straight line too. Be a good mod for a stealthy Elint Seeker. No transformations without jettosining the units first though as they will foul the arms in Gerwalk and Battroid modes.

  3. dont...lol the animation is all over the place. Its really just best guess at this point and how your minds eye sees things. I'm used to seeing vehicles and picturing the crew space (in order to best attack that point and determine what equipment and voids would be between my shot and my target location, especially given how much a Nato SS109 rd loves to deviate on passing through panel steel, lowered glass window, internal door lining, seat material then finally the target!) so when I look at the pods... they just HAVE to be bigger.

    Afterall, Kamjin was suited up inside the Glaug in an F1 Racer seating position comfortably, not too cramped at all.

    Heres are some images that mess with the theory of Valk vs Zentran heights...

    sdf-macross-episode-32-remastered-galaxy

    31.jpg

    And the Rau in this image is in the background behind the 10m tall Zentran...

    71.jpg

    That image puts the soldiers at the Raus knee, so its closer to 23m tall in this image which is about what it will be using a 1/60 one as 1/72 (330mm is about 23.7m tall)

    ... which then gets screwed up by the Rau off top the right side in the front of the troops knee only being shoulder height on the Zentran.

    And a favorite...

    ep32_kamjin_rides_konig_monster.png?w=50

  4. or even next to an upright ruler and I can photoshop it next to a scaled Hasegawa Battroid. My scale theory is based on the idea the Battroids were developed to fight the supposed giant aliens crewing the SDF-1 before it crashed. So the VF-1 would have been around the size of a zentran and not the pods, which wouldnt have been known about at that time.

    So the pods SHOULD tower over the Valks

  5. given it houses a 8.5 to 10m tall Meltran warrior... I think its about right. Thats not including the freak of nature Klan Klang. Glaugs should tower over all of them, then the Nous, then the Rau, then the Regults in size.

    Think I'll take a gamble and buy one to size up.

  6. You can do the decals yourself pretty easily.

    Get yourself a cheap Canon PIXMA MG5420 inkjet printer (under 70USD) that prints to 9600dpi, some decal paper (tons of options on the net) and Adobe Illustrator or any other Vector program (I use Flexisign as I do graphics on my units weapons and military vehicles on the side - I rock the best looking kit in the sandbox!) and have a play.

    Its pretty easy and the trace programs are getting pretty clever these days to save a ton of work.

    You want Vector based images as they are mathematical images (lines from point A to point B with colour fills) and not pots like bitmaps and jpegs so there is no loss of info and resolution when you shrink or expand the image. You could draw the plans to an aircraft carrier in Vector and shrink it to the size of a coin and still have the same sized file and info stored on it with no loss of detail.

    You think you dont have the skills but you'd be surprised how easy it is once you try it and watch a vid or two on youtube about creating vector art.

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