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That's a really nice picture. When you're playing around with perspective, it's true that scale isn't quite as important. In fact, you can use things like zoom and "forced perspective" to make things look like they're in scale even when they're very different scale. Zooming flattens out the picture, making objects on different planes appear closer together than they really are. I'm sure you've all seen pictures of a sunset where the sun looks enormous behind silhouetted people. That effect is accomplished by using a telephoto lens and shooting the people from a long distance. Vic's picture illustrates another useful effect--the relationship between aperture, focal length, distance to subject and depth of field. By using a relatively wide aperture, Vic blurred the Valk in the background somewhat, for a nice artistic effect. Compare my picture of a VF-1J looming in the distance from the perspective of the Tiger. I didn't zoom at all, and I selected the smallest aperture possible. The lack of zoom emphasized the distance between the two toys, and the small aperture gave me enough depth of field that both are pretty much in focus--which would usually be the case if the picture were actually taken from several yards behind a real tank. The small aperture required a long exposure, though, so I set the camera on the floor and used the timer to take the shot. I didn't use flash because the battroid would have been completely lost in the gloom. (Flash was used in various "night time" shots for just this purpose--to isolate the near subjects and produce a dark/murky background.) For the purpose of this thread, if you're going to post up something "extreme", it would also be nice to have at least one picture of the toys side by side--or nearly so, to clearly show the relative size. Anyway, another picture from an old thread: Jung's 1/48 Legioss (transformable kit by Imai) and Yamato VF-1A Hikaru. From the pinned MPC thread. More info on the Legioss is in this thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...t=0entry24812 (Looks like he sold it.)

More good stuff from other threads. Vlenhoff's 1/48 Motorworks F-14's with Yamato 1/48 Valkyries.

That appears to be a Tomcat model. Well, part of one... Here's a picture from another thread (Graham posted it, I forget if he took the picture or scanned it). Two Hasegawa 1/72 models--VF-1S and VF-0S.

Featured toy here is the Matchbox 6" Armored Zentradi Warrior. From what I've seen, pretty much the only figure from that line that looks halfway decent. Height without helmet comes to almost exactly 15 cm. So what's the scale? Zentradi average about 10 m tall; Kamjin is 11.85 m according to the SDF Macross liner notes (episode 4), while Exedol is 10.15 m. So if this guy is 1/72 scale, his "real" height would be 10.8 m So let's put him next to a Bandai HCM 1/72 VF-1J... (Little bit of digital editing to try to make the background contrast with the 1J's head lasers. So if you see any artifacts, that's what it's from.)

Well, that's kind of the point: let's try to answer the burning question of "Does a 1/48 Valk look "right" next to a 1/48 Cobra?" We do know that a VF-1 Valkyrie is actually kind of small as modern jet fighters go--quite a bit smaller than an F-14 Tomcat, for example. Well, for real-world stuff, the manufacturer may fudge a little, but the point of putting a scale on a toy or model is to get the linear dimensions as close as possible to 1/n of the real thing. For made-up stuff, "official" stats are often generally available, and the manufacturer should use those as reference. I've read though that Yamato's VF-11 is actually significantly larger than the 1/72 which is often quoted. And other toys, like the Matchbox 7" destroids and pods, don't have any quoted scale. So you have to measure and calculate. Discussions on MW tend to point to the Yammie VF-11 being closest to 1/60. We also had a couple threads on the scales of the Matchbox stuff here and here. Here's a pic worth cross-linking from there... Picture by CHAN of a Matchbox (maybe Playmates) Tactical Battle Pod (Regult), which is somewhere between 1/55 and 1/60 scale, with a Yamato 1/48 Max 1A, Yamato 1/60 Max 1J, and a Bandai 1/55 Hikaru VF-1S Strike. Too bad some of the other pics seem to have been taken off the servers where they were hosted. If anyone has those great pics of a Yammie 1D with a pod, please repost them here!

Actually, it would enhance the color factor. I'll bet if Yamato did several nonstandard Glaug camouflage paint schemes (say, desert tan, jungle camo, olive green, gull grey), they'd be even more attractive to BT players.

Thanks! But come on people, identify the toys/models! Otherwise this is just a wacky picture thread.

Vic, what's the toy with your Yamato 1/48 VF-1J? What's its scale (or size). Has it been rescaled n the pic? Warrhead--I think the Radio Shack R/C Tiger is great! I have a pretty detailed review in the thread I linked above. Price has gone down a couple dollars, I think--now it's just about $30. I'd recommend getting rechargeable batteries for the controller and charger stand, but don't do like I did--I got the batteries and battery charger at RS. You can probably do much better at Costco or Target, etc.

Background is photoshopped in previous pic, BTW. Nothing else is altered. The carpet makes a nice steppe, doesn't it? Next: Gerwalk attack! Russia, 1944...

"Heinz, ich habe ein schlechtes Gefühl..."

"Scale human-eye view"

Tank parked with battroid.

Overhead view.

You might find your answers in one of these threads. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=228 http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=140

According to this, they were.

Go wild, folks, but personally I think it's more interesting if you can get the scale to match "naturally" instead of digitally resizing. That way the thread can be a sort of "guide to what toys will go with what Macross mecha". About matching scales: a 1/60 battroid is about 92% the height of a 1/55, and anyone who's put them next to each other can tell that's a pretty big difference. To see if two toys are compatible, take their scales and divide the smaller by the larger. If the result is 0.97 or more, the difference isn't very noticeable--it'd be a difference of a "scale foot" for a battroid. Some new pics in a few minutes... Okay, ready to go. Next up: Bandai 1/55 Hikaru, and Radio Shack R/C PzKpfw VI Ausf. E Tiger I, approximately 1/54. (Some more info in this thread.) Picture 1: Parked in the living room.

http://www.ex.org/2.2/04-artland1.html http://www.anime.net/macross/fallacies/ From the second link, "Haruhiko Mikimoto was in Studio Nue for a brief period until 1980, but had changed studios to Artland before the first Macross series started."

I don't think Mikimoto is/was a member of Studio Nue. His studio is/was Artland. But I think that the character designs that he did for Macross were "work for hire"--at least, that would explain why the SDF Macross character design copyright belongs to Studio Nue/Big West.

I've read/heard in multiple places that the cool, English Roger Moore was closer to the original conception of Bond than the swarthy Celt Connery. But Moore was already committed to The Saint and had to wait a decade before getting his turn at the Bond role. Fleming even said at one point that David Niven (who played Bond in the spoof Casino Royale) would have been his choice, but Connery won Fleming over. I hope one day to watch all the Bond films in order on DVD, but the project has stalled after Dr. No. I don't think I've even seen more than a few minutes of a non-Connery/Moore "Bond". Of the lot mentioned at the beginning of this thread, the one guy I'd like to see is Ewan McGregor, who I believe could bring a lot of personality to the role provided he doesn't just try to do an impersonation of Connery. The only problem is that I'm not sure he's big enough or mature enough.

This might help, although there aren't any timecodes: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/video/..._comparison.htm

Here's the pic, originally posted in another thread:

It's not from MAT, it's from the Macross Hobby Handbook. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/...s_hobbyhand.htm I also would like to see that information online again. Even if it's not canonical, it's a valuable part of Macross lore.

I don't know but I like that picture. A lot. Great work, Aztek.

Daytime, on top of a ridge... (Background is a National Geographic...some photoshopping to fix the destroid paint and to semi-successfully hide the page gap.)

Nighttime... (Small amount of Photoshopping to fix the paint on the destroid and get rid of some background stuff I didn't want.)