PointBlankSniper
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Gray on gray looks great. The shades and patterns you used actually make it look more serious than the 31A. The wing now looks much cleaner and simpler than the dog teeth delta wing in contrast. I can only think of some minor refinements to try. I think just the hard black on top of the head just stands out a little too much, in a way where you can't tell if it's a painted surface or a giant gap. I'm thinking the calf's brown gray or the feet's dark gray might work there. And maybe unify the canopy's mascara to the same shade if you change it. The stabilizers could be a place to try some simple shapes and division of grays. The outline thing doesn't quite match what you have going on with the overall plane, especially with the underside of those stabilizers being plain. I think that small and irregular tapered trapeziod with a thin line on the chest is a styling you can try on the stabilizer and maybe spread around to other parts if you want to experiment with more patterning. Kind of like sparse tribal markings in small areas. Maybe the legs could use some. Maybe as like for like juxtaposition, steal the 31A's chaos logo to replace the star, just to see how it looks lol
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Coloring the ankle gaurds definitely makes the whole thing feel less flamboyant. Something about the gills looks kind of like a sports jersey. Maybe I wasn't cooking with that one, or requires a very nuanced design to look like angry shark gills.
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NGL I don't get the wing hate, especially since valks already tuck them away. Not that I'm big on prominently winged mecha, especially not giant immobile wings. But If it flies, I don't see a problem with some deployable flight control surfaces. If it's supposed to be armed, I'd like that it has the options to use the pylons. To lose flight control and weapons for the sake of being a perfectly humanoid robot seem like strange design priorities to me. With that said, I actually like the vtol thing on the bottom left the most, and that thing definitely has dangling wings and engines on the back lol.
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I guess the 24 is kinda closest. Now that I think about it, even a Valk that has a pair of vertical and horizontal stabilizers doesn't seem to exist... I guess the Sv-51 is almost kinda there. But I don't want to count it because it's got it's got X wing stabilizers, split wingtips, canards, and the whole thing has weiner proportions. Some of the later valks have those mini stabilizers to form an X and I don't want to count those either lol.
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All that space magic must come with some low noise engines and sound proofing lol Macross really could do with something that has the wing shape of an F-18 and some wing tip hardpoints though.
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I was under the impression you were already going for a more military theme since you said it was based on the corsair. I've seen that image from the files, just didn't remember much of it. What I was talking about is more like the middle one down the left, and the tan one on the top right. Their slab of black running down the middle looks like a sword, just that it looks like it's pointed backwards because they have the black stripe accross the nose as a crossguard. They probably look better that way because of the Kairos wing. What I had in mind was pointed forward, and flanked by similarly girthy crossgard stripes, that aren't necessarily connected, and more forward swept or parallel to be trident like to flow with the Seigfried's wing direction, without highlighting the full span of them. Doesn't actually have to look like a sword, or be black, or be in the same colors. It's more that I was just trying to describe the direction of the pattern.
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Yeah, they'd do that. It's their entire busness model. Last week they announced rehashing the HG Gquuuuux with added glowy rings from the final episode lol. First release buyers are screwed lol
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I have some ideas, but idk if they work or make sense at all I think lines in the following bracket shape might give the illusion of a contained width profile.〔 〕 Especially lines tapering inward toward the front makes things look sharp in general. Shark gills might look more aggressive if they took a sharper angle like those brackets. They might look better ahead of the canards, and get to show up in battroid mode too. The red yellow on the canards might be one color combo too many. I think it makes the canards look too much like they are slapped on after the fact. I'm thinking they might look good the navy white combo you already have. Maybe the Stabilizers could follow for extra coherence, idk tbh Maybe less white on the bottom/battroid front, to look less the transformer trope of robot hanging under a plane lol The ankle guards, I get that they look good in white, but I also always thought it was strange that some valks had distinct and vibrant engine collar things on lol. Maybe being in the same color as one of the surrounding parts makes the engines or even the whole plane look more discreet and serious. I'm not sure if I'm just seeing things, but the feet/exhaust already look kind of blue. Just wondering if it would look better in a slightly more distinct dark blue/gray hue As for the main/heavy stripe, I think there's lots of room to try all sorts of things on the top of the fuselage and wings. Don't worry about looking good and slap together a bunch of w/e designs since you ar just testing A thought I just had unrelated to everything I just wrote lol, is one broad stripe down the middle, possibly with some geometry to the edges, and then something accompanying it in another color toward the wings without reaching all the way, perhaps only outside past the engines or even right over them. Sort of like a giant abstract sword with narrow crossguards.
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I was just saying in one of the other threads, gundam fans are still meming about the missing MG Age kits to this day, and those aren't the only things that have gone missing after announcements or prototypes going on display.
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This one is definitely Capn Murica's Valk
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I think the main reason is that it has such a broad, level, and featureless top side. It's literally just a flat and wide deck, and doesn't help that every pattern painted on it focuses on it's leading edges, which highlights its lateral width. That and the way the engines are always highlighted in black, as if some hot rod engine mod protruding out of a hood cutout. If it had more longitudinal patterns, body matching engine colors, and maybe some depthwise and vent like paintjobs like the shark gills on the YF-29 or vents on VF-0's airbrake, it would probably look more aggressive
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I'm being a broken record here, but I think Bandai has made their point through the lack of accessories with the YF-19's Revival and sprinkled that extra bit of salt on the wound with the inclusion of FP but only fold booster struts on the YF-21. They probably hate the idea of items in anyone's collection having accesories parity lol Maybe if they buckle their own trend to fleece people with Basara's sound booster, it will open the floodgates to more moaning have and Bandai go back and make right with these last few releases. But that's just me snorting a lot of hopium.
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Am I tripping or that head sculpt looks more detailed than the DX?
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Bandai being less dumb for once, feeling out Arad popularity before mold fatigue
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Makes sense that a viewport screenshot doesn't have all the lighting of a render. I'm just nitpicking, don't take it too seriously lol.
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There's also Teal 171, RVF version of it, the movie version of that with twin fold boosters on top of the wings that never got any physical rendition, and their armored packs with the reaction and dimensional bombs. Then theres Michael's tornado, and then we loop back to Durandal, which IMO was what technically kicked off the revival era with minor tweaks through the Max version, although that one wasn't called a revival since it's a new paint job. If I was Bandai and trolling, I'd go for that Konig next lmao. I feel like Luca still has reasonable chances as long as they haven't announce the Durandal to wrap up the Frontier run, but it will be without ghosts, or only 1 ghost but no super pack to chase that shrinkflation trend lol. And then to piss everyone off, they will do a micro run of 100 very floppy YF-24 Evolutions, sold through lottery, at very reasonable prices comparable to retail items of the same weight, and then scrap the molds. Gotta feed the scalper market after all lmao
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That's just half the reason. The other half is Bandai just wants to mess with people by refusing complete collections. DX Valkyries are just one small thing in Bandai's list of highly sought after items they may or may not have prototyped and refuse to release. For example, the last two MG Age Gundams that they have displayed before have almost become a meme that the gunpla community goes to when it comes to unreleased items. There are tons of gunpla runners that are blatantly divided in ways that are prepared for alternate equipment variants that never get released, despite high demand. They'd rather randomly cook up a new and minimally different variant that nobody asked for, sometimes with completely new molds and runners for existing parts because it's more funny that way. Just look at the YF-21's fold booster struts in preparation for no fold booster release for an example of Bandai's type of sick joke lol
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I wasn't gonna say anything, but your original texture was a bit too yellow, and the correct does look closer to the model kit, although color correction has deep fried the grays and the shadows lol. Makina also needs more saturation on the level of Mikumo's purple or something to get that eye bleeding hot pink vibrancy lol. Maybe to a tiny degree, Reina too, but I feel like her scheme is mostly lacking because it's reliant on the lime green accesories that aren't from the actual valk, so it can't be helped. Btw some of the "transparent" backgound on their Walkure logos are somehow on the wrong layer and opacity or something, and are deleting parts of the white stripes.
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Nice work. Freyja reminds me of McD lol. Speaking of Freyja, I always found it strange that her outfit color is swapped with Kaname, based on how everyone is supposed to go by hair color. I feel like the whole "red ranger = MC" trope really messed up their color assignments, and it trickles down all the way to these VFG models. Kaname even gets shafted by having black and gray for secondary colors to go with her filler ranger color lol
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NGL this thing could have passed for a valk if they weren't so bent on having those oversized truck windshields hanging out the bottom of the fighter, and scrunching up the feet/thrusters closed just to fit in the folding wheels.
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Yeah, the first one's translation was weird so I couldn't make heads or tails of it and just ignored that statement. The rest of his tweets about it were neutral showcases so he didn't seem to say anything negative, other than that the molds are kinda old, iirc. But the second one alone can't be excused lol... Hope more impressions or reviews come out soon to clear things up.
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WTF bandai??? From the looks of the clip, it's not even that it's loose. The hip clip can't even reach its locking position so it just springs back... It basically doesn't even transform. Now I'm worried about mine, but I haven't got in stock notice yet. Classic YYK delays I guess, so I get to wait around and see if there's anything to do about it.
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This reminds me. I should really document my "interpretation" of the transformation to make it accurate in all forms, with ms paint or something, before I forget everything I thought up.
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The VF-19's design has gone full circle and returned back to Orguss. Complete with the tank mode.
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Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru GQuuuuuuX
PointBlankSniper replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm not saying Crossbone animation isn't in demand. I'm just saying, the lead Gundams being their primary merchandise, has been done to death, on every product line. I just don't see the remaining circus insectoid grunt bots being popular on the mass market, with those aesthetics of theirs in 2025. It just makes the whole idea of animating Crossbone to sell toys at this point seem rather unprofitable to me. If they want to do charity and feed the old fans with little return, I'm all for it.
