Knight26

Considering how many people want the missing two years and/or a reanimation of the original series, how about a side story? Follow another group of valkyrie pilots outside of skull squadron, maybe Shin's Squadron? Follow them through the whole war and fill in the missing two years. That way you could have plenty of cameos with the original characters and voice actors and settle the story/visuals debates once and for all. Either that or like Graham says a VFX storyline.

The simplest reason why no beam sabers in macross, they are stupid.

I know I may be in the minority on this one, but before yamato closes down the 1:48 molds and shoves them in the back room I think i would be a great service to the fans if they made a VF-1D. They don't have to make all the two seaters, but the VF-1D is just my favorite valk design, love two seaters in general and makes sense for variable mecha in my opinion. Also, the VF-1D would be the easist to make in 1:48 without making to many design concessions, the biggest problem will be the chest shield. What do the rest of you think?

I wonder if Yamato is looking at this to get ideas for their Koenig Monster's box.

Eh, not big on hentaiesque statues, it really doesn't even look like Millia, at all that I can see.

Did he redo the pilot as well?

That Blockade Runner is cool, but for something so large, the details stink. now that AT-At is cool.

I'm still on the fence about the MP Prime, but if they make an MP Starscream that's as good as the Prime I will grab one.

Love that model, now need a side by side comparison shot with the actual toy.

There was 1:18 scale blockade runner built, now that I want to see pics of.

I say leave the crack in the nose, makes it look more realistic, seen very many F-14s with similar cracks in the radome paint. Heck on the German MiG-29s the paint all over the nose cone flaked away because of friction and the radar pulses.

*rubs eyes, looks again, rubs eyes again* Dang Datterboy that thing is sweet looks like someone painted a model or a 1:48 flat gray, very well done.

Though not the most accurate art they are really cool shots, not ones you see often, and Culverin, what's your issue with the thread?

Let's see from the realm of TV and movies only, therefore I can exclude my own designs, what can I say I am partial to them. Starfury's (B5) one of the most realistic designs I have seen on TV Viper MK2 (New BSG) A major improvement over the original, better visibility and the way they animated it, well it looked like actual physics were in place. B-wing + A-Wing (SW) To be honest these are best designed star wars craft, from a practical standpoint, while not as iconic or flashy as the X-wing or tie fighter they are clearly better designs. Gunstar (LS) Not a really a fighter but more of a light gunboat, it's design was fairly realistic and well thought out with a seperate pilot and gunner. Hammerhead (SAAB) Great transatomspheric fighter, looked real and for the most part acted real, at least it had thrusters for manuevering, though I was never wild about the control layout in the cockpit. Bad Designs (I know I will get flamed for some of these, but sorry the designs really are piss poor, even though I hate to admit it) X-wing, Ties (SW) Hate to say it but these designs are not that great, poor visibily being the primary concern, lets face it in an X-wing you have virtually no forward visibilty and in the TIEs you have only forward visibilty. Any trek "fighter" things are more akin to the scale of gunboats, bomber or corvettes, but what am I saying I think almost all trek designs stink. I agree with some of the others listed here, though you only asked for fighters and I will not mention them then. Design is a lot more then just visual appeal to me, realism and usibility count a great deal in my thoughts and a fighter with little to know visibility is junk in my opinion. Realism also counts a great deal in my opinion and most sci-fi movie and TV designs are not realistic in my opinion. A little fudging is ok for storytelling considerations but not too much.

Any updates on this baby?

I have no problem with overweight people, many of my friends are in fact. The problem I have with this guy is that he does not look like at all like the character he is dressing up as, that and the unitard *shudders*

Oh man that is just scary, almost as bad as man faye. though it begs the question as to what kind of program he is suppossed to be, maybe some kind of FAT-32 drive partioning software?

How hard is it to put a new plane into flight simulator? What modelling format does it require? Do you just plug in a bunch of BS values for the performance figures or is it more like X-Plane where it performs an analysis of the design to some up with the figures? I'm just curious because I might be tempted to try and put some of my designs in just to be able to fly them around. I've only had moderate success in other programs, ok none to be truthful.

Oh man those pics from the January underway of the Enterprise got out, man, Dr G I gave you those in confidence man. Seriously great work, can't wait to see more.

It is interesting I will give it that, but it is too unbelievable a design. I like the idea of the decoys, but those would be too small to really fool anyone, unless they're like those lame inflatable ones in Gundam. Also those attack drones would be a pain to seperate in flight in an atmosphere, there we would far too high a risk of collision with the launchign aircraft where they are now.

Well I wonder: 1) is this official, as I don't see any BW logo or SK signature, though I may ahve missed it. 2) why mount them above the fuselage like that, it would seem that the pilot would want to launch them immediately upon entering the combat zone, too much drag and weight on the airframe otherwise. 3) are you sure those are some sort of high manuever missile and not just aam-1s, its hard to tell from the pics 4) the small pic of the VF-0 with the highlighted cockpit, what is that saying there?

At least the Marge cover is funny, Paris Hilton, I'm sorry you stupid spoiled little rich hoe but you're a freak nasty.

Here is video number three, sorry number two ended up too big and well turned out pretty bad too. This program Accurender is nice, but attaching textures can be a pain in the butt, I spent about half an hour just getting the textures to stich correctly. I'm still having to attach the textures by layer and create new layers as well as recreate the textures in accurender. I e-mailed the company hoping they had a way arouind this in the new version but have not heard anything back yet. animation two splicer 1000 fighter

What I've always been curious about concerning that scene is where the heck is that on the SDF-1? That is a heck of a concentration of firepower afterall.

those lines are from the software, it puts them there since it is only the trial version. I am still debating whether or not to buy it.