Knight26

Now that face on the first body would be golden.

They're both super cool planes, and while the F-4 Vandy-1 looks great I have to say that the Vandy-1 is just one of the dead sexyist planes in the sky.

yeah but what I am saying is that the whole picture looks almost exactly like an Adam Hughes picture I have seen before, except for the outfit.

I've worked under the assumption for quite a while the Macross cannon was actually a sort of high powered particle cannon utilizing gravitational forces, or a gravity cannon. WHat I mean is this, and please pardon any miss-spellings or wierd logic right now as I have been painting all day. Anyway, the Macross cannon as I see it is mostly a gravity based weapon, that is why the impact effects are the way they are, causing the targeted ship to collapse in on itself momentarily before it explodes. This would also explain why near misses also result in catastrophic damage to the targetted ship, the gravitational force of the beam tears the ship apart. The core of the beam however would be a massive particle beam, that is one of the reasons why the cannon has to take time to charge up, it is drawing in particles from surrounding space, remember space is only a near vacuum so there is plenty of floating particles, just in very low quantities. When used closer to a planet the charge time would not be as much and if we assume that it can use shipboard air supplies to charge itself as well then charge time can be further reduced, but at the cost of ship's life supporting ability. This massive compressed particle charge would also give the blast a strong impact force and concentrate the gravitational effect making it stronger, almost like firing a miniature black hole. Well I need to rest and get cleaned up now, paint fumes are still wafting off my clothes making me dizzy.

Now that looks much more like Misa's face. The whole composition looks very familiar I assume that you were looking at an Adam Hughes or Varga girl painting/sketch when you did this. I just hope that you actually did draw this and didn't trace it and add the Macross details like certain people have done on the boards before.

No Schwarzenegger = not good movie Well, in a way every superhero movie is about Arnold. I mean Arnold is the closes thing we have to God, Jesus, or Superman, so the movie doesn't really need to have Arnold in it to have the Schwarzenegger influence. You have Arnold Schwarzenegger bed sheets and pillows don't you? I wonder how often he watches "Pumping Iron" especially this week since Jim GOld died, the founder of Gold's Gym, where Pumping Iron was filmed.

No Schwarzenegger = not good movie Well, in a way every superhero movie is about Arnold. I mean Arnold is the closes thing we have to God, Jesus, or Superman, so the movie doesn't really need to have Arnold in it to have the Schwarzenegger influence. AGent one you are a sick sick man.

This movie will likely suck, Jack Black is only good in supporting roles IMHO, he really can't carry a movie, he's just not funny.

I'll have a pciture for you all later that will make all true blooded Tomcat lovers sad, the last flight of the Vandy-1 Tomcat out of Point Mugu with its probable successor, an F/A-18F Super Hornet. What makes the picture especially sad is not so much that Vandy-1 will become a hornet, and not that Vandy-1 may be phased out entirely, but that they got the freaking paint scheme wrong on the hornet. THe hornet is the standard haze gray with a Black Bunny. Vandy-1 has always, except when the bunny was removed, had a black tail with a white bunny, if not an entirely black body, this is a crime and a travesty I say. ANyway check the skies over the next couple weeks as Vandy-1 heads to NAS Oceana where it will be put on permanent display never to fly again.

I agree that 28 Days Later is the only good zombie movie in recent memory, its seems obvious that the creator studied the early Romero zombie movies for inspiration. Though technically in 28 Days Later they weren't really zombies, but it was cool none the less.

nice, very Varga girl, my buddy Kevin would love you for this, I agree about the lips though, too big for Misa

Well, the Cinescape article mentions a budget of 20 million, so it aint gonna be that big Anybody know what the budget for the Dawn remake was? Graham Yeah but remember Graham Romero made "Night of the Living Dead" with a super small budget and it is a classic, even with a small budget a great director can do fantastic things. Hmm, I wonder if I can audition to be a Tom Savini Zombie, now that would awesome.

So super sweet, John Romero is the king of zombie movies, all else are merely pretenders.

I also don't get fan fiction, but then again I don't get cosplay either, although I don't mind looking at pics of cute female Asian cosplayers Graham I agree Graham, I've read some fanfictions, the ones that are funny and don't take themselves seriously just for the laughs. I've never been one to follow fan fiction or write it myself, would much rather write something new, rather then to used characters, events, and universes of other writers.

Shin, yes I am a pilot, civilian only, and am not current. However, I do have an hour each in the following planes, helps to have been a former AF cadet that they wanted to keep bad and have military pilot friends: T-34C T-38A A-7E RF-4C F-16D F-15D F/A-18D Any other military planes were just transports. Unfortunately I never was able to get time in a cat, at least not in the air, but well, well that's a story for another time, let's just say you can fly in a tomcat and still be on the ground, lol. Also even in a flat spin, the shape of the canopy will get thrown so far from the aircraft that there is no chance of an ejection. Pretty much every plane since the F-14 has been fitted with a 0/0 ejection seat meaning that the pilot can safely eject and live at zero altitude and zero speed. Even some pre-tomcat aircraft were equipped with 0-0s. A friend of mine works on ejection seats for planes and they run numerous tests to make sure that such problems do not occur. I almost got a job with him, would have been awesome.

Interesting design, but where do the engines go post in battroid mode?

Doh, oh man, what was I thinking, I have a Puk'n Dogs patch right by my computer too, doh doh doh. DH you have permission to flog me for my mistake. Arrgh. I am sorry that I have disgraced my beloved Dogs so. Not that the Sluggers are bad mind you, but man how did I mess that up? WIll go back and fix my earlier post.

Goose should have lived, Maverick should have died. BTW the tech advisor on Top Gun hated how they killed goose, said that what they showed never could have happened, him hitting the canopy, many things wrong with that. Said that the better way for him to die would have been getting him trapped under his chute and drowning, which is a major problem and aircrews are trained how to escaped from that. We even used to do that with out trainees too.

Did a quick search on the Missileer that was mentioned a few posts back, and man when I found a picture it made me sick to my stomach. It looks be a development off the A-1 skyraider (the tail looks like a skyraider tail) and is numbered F-6D, basically it looks to be a slow, high loiter time, intereceptor based off a twin jet powered A-1, or maybe an A-6. Thing is, it's a Douglas design, and the A-6 is GRumman, so that leads me to think it was based off one of the A-1s twin seat models with twin jet propulsion and a high wing. But good lord is it ugly. Anyway here is the pic:

oops double post

1) The reason why most A model tomcats have one engine nozzle opened and one closed is because of an emergency override built into the engine controls. Because the F-14s engines are so powerful issues with assytemtric thrust were a prime concern in case of engine out problems. That is beside the point, sorry inhaled too much paint dust today cleaning up a launcher. Basicaly when the first engine shuts down it opens all the way, since at lowest thrust the engine vains are typically opened to the full extent, like in afterburner, it all about pressures people like DH said. ANyway when the second engine shuts down the override kicks in and automatically constricts it in order to maximize what little thrust it might still be able to produce just from the engine left spinning. It was hoped that this little feature would allow tomcats that lost engine power to remain flyable just a little longer and allow the crews to make it to safe waters before ditching. 2) The reason why Tomcat patches have two tails on the tomcat is because the change to the twin tail configuration came late in development. Some tomcat patches were already produced for the rollout of the single tail, ventral finned mock up, which featured a single tail on the cat. When the configuration was changed the second tail was added to the patch, initially as a joke, but it stayed all this time. 3) VF-143 has the coolest squadron name in history lets here it for Mother's Favorite "Puk'n Dogs." THe PC revolution of the late 80s early 90s saw the Puk'n Dogs become just the dogs, as did it see the loss of the bunny marking from Vandy-1. However in I believe 2001 or 2002 a female Admiral ordered the Bunny painted back onto Vandy-1 and the VF-143 Dogs became the Puk'n Dogs once again. The place I used to work at, Aviation Challenge, had all the high school age squadrons named after F-14 squadrons for years, and I had the Puk'n Dogs most often, man I love my Barfing Bassetts, my hurling hounds, my upchucking Chihuhaus, my El Doggos Pukeos, my Mother's Favorite Puk'n Dogs. (fixed, the squadron number, thanks DH, oh man how did I mess that up?) 4) During the filming of and after the filming of Top Gun, TOm Cruise was offered a ride in a tomcat's back seat so that he could actually get flight time and a 1 hour patch. He turned it down because he wouldn't get stick time. Years later when Interview with a Vampire was released in SOuth Korea he accepted a ride in a RSKAF F-16. Hmm, Tomcat king of the skies, or Viper pretender to the throne, hmm, which would you all have picked? 5) Back at Aviation Challenge when flying aggressor one thing would get a trainee shot down by an agressor faster then anything. That thing was ever quoting the Top Gun line, "I'll hit the brakes and he'll fly right by." I personally shot down six trainees for that infraction, quoting any top gun line ususally resulted in points off for the mission too, lol.

Of course you can clearly see that that bluge aft and to either side of the cockpit are twin machine guns. Movies in general tend to hate assymetry, so if a gun is one side there must another on the other side right? Class what was the last plane, anywhere that had two guns installed? Last I remember it was, the Mirage 2000, I don't think that even the EF-2000 or Rafale have twin cannons anymore. Mind you I am all about using guns air to air, but twin guns on what is suppossed to be a modern, or near future plane makes no sense, especially on a US plane where we seem to be forever chained to the vulcan.

Man I hate to bring more attention to this but a guy from work just sent me the following link. http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php?topic=804.0 It shows that fugly, stupidly designed POS being craned off the deck of the Lincoln during a stop over at North Island in San Diego, CA. There is one shot that shows the landing gear pretty well, the mains appear to be stolen right off an F/A-18 from what I can see. The front gear, I don't know it looks way too complex and therefore heavy, it looks somewhat familiar but I can't figure out why. This was posted on an airshow ethusiasts webiste, and some of these guys actually think the plane looks good, thank goodness the last two guys point out that is it crap, otherwise DH and I might have to register and set them straight.

BDI, or VR set up would be best for controlling the arms any mode true, and would especially useful in Battroid mode. I've long contended that at least in DYRL and later, until Mac-7 anyway, that the flight suits were also an integral part of the control system. The forearms and lower legs of which may have held sensors in order to control fine motor movement and possibly to initiate combat manuevers. Most Valkyire movement was likely preprogrammed though to act a certain way according to the control movements, like staying balanced and automatically moving the arms to hold the gunpod when aiming and firing. Macross 0 shows eyetracking lasers in the helmet, if we are to believe that those were also in the VF-1, just not shown due to budget then that is another control method as well. I once had an idea of macross sidestory following a VF-1D squadron where the WSOs were marines trained in controlling the Valkyrie via VR interface, where they were also wearing interface suits that reacted to their movements. However I am against writing fan fiction so I just leave it as another story idea for another day.

Maybe that's because of the fallout following SST, but I wish they would ephmasize in the trailers that point as well, that is it not the book, merely named after and inspired by it. If they specify that I would not be so upset, or if they instead named it after one of the characters instead. A great example of a movie that is inspired by a classic sci-fi novel, yet makes itself its own entity is Equilibrium, which is clearly Farhenheit 451 taken to the extreme.