Knight26

Due to my extreme bias towards the A-10 and against the F-35 (JSF in general really, as well as stealth aircraft), and my relative expertice on the A-10, will make only the following comment. The USAF higher ups are a bunch of stupid %#$#$@#@$@#%#%#@$@#%#%#%#%#%@$@#%_+_(_*(_()(_(_ Morons if they think that POS JSF can even come close to filling any nitch in the CAS role. I will stop myself now before I go into a rant, a rant that will surely include foul language my getting my posting privilages suspended. Sorry but I am passionate about discussions involving garbage airplanes trying and failing and the CAS role.

The series was suppossed to take place over a 3 year period, SW1 only lasted about ten months of that. There is a two year gap and then the end of the series.

Figuring that the Daedalaus and Prometheous are about 1.5X the size of a Nimitz class carrier I would put their combined crew space at around 10,000 strong. Figure most of those likely died in the inital space fold, for the sake of argument let's say half died. The other half remaining safe in airtight sections of the ships. Unless significant automation was employed the Macross probably was launched with a crew approaching 25,000 in number. Figure 5000 would immediately leave to make up for the losses on the D+P. It's been a while but if I remember correctly South Ataria had a population of around 50,000 civlians when they were brought aboard. Provided people do not mind living in small homes or military quarters it is no unreasonable to assume you could cram them all inside the Macross. However, with the city they show that would likely be impossible, hey artistic liscence. From a quick look at the macross it looks to have a volume about 15+ times that of a Nimitz, easily enough room for 70,000 then, but not in a city type environment, too much wasted space. As for spares, munitions and food. The D+P and the Macross itself were likely fully stocked at the time of the space fold, enough food, drink, and munitions for a standard deployment, 6 months. Figure that the Macross would probably have twice that amount on board in order to sustain itself without having to land planetside or rely on constant unrep. Watching the show it is evident that the crew of the Macross are scavengers, pickign through the debris of battle to bring aboard anything of use. Hydroponic gardens likely provided a great deal of the ships food and fresh air, scrubers can only do so much, and water would be no problem, recycling of onboard water would be a requirement and ice asteroids would reply the rest. Ice asteroids would also provide hydrogen for fueling the valkyries and the Macross itself. Also, South Ataria island was likely self suficient by the time of the Macross' launch so food on the surface and in storage would be pretty plentiful. Most of that would have been flash frozen during the initial space fold limiting cellular damage and keeping it edible, though probably with a loss in taste, just like any frozen food. The farmers of South Ataria were probably immediately employed aboard the Macross in the hydroponic gardens and possibly in farms using soil from south ataria. Of course with so many civilians on board the food water and air would run out much faster then normal, so would the filters. The Captain comments in Bye Bye Mars that they are running very short of food and other supplies, the perishable and non replenishables. This explains the touch down on Mars, they resupplied with whatever was left there, which probably only gave them just enough to reach earth. The major resupply, rearm and refit was then done earthside, and probably every space cubic centimeter was filled with supplies. Then again remember this is an anime so expect a bit of artisitic liscence on these points, it's not hard sci-fi after all.

If it was a perfect transformation I would think about it, depending ont he price. The amount of engineering going into it would be truly impressive and a marvel to examine. It would be the ultimate prize of a collection, that being said it would aslo likely be insanely expensive. However if one were made it would be cool to stand it next to that POS matchboc veritech and create pictures of it beating up on that piece of garbage.

Guess what another rifle, this is the one I am thinking of for the enemy forces, the GF, it is main line assault rifle of the same type as the one up above. It is also a dual nature weapon, still have to make a scope for it. I may redo the handle, as well before I start to detail it. What do you all think. BTW, that disk in front of the grip is where the Mass Driver (Rail Gun/Gauss Rifle) Magazine plugs in. It rotates forward to admit and remove the mag, then rotates back to lock it into position and cock it. It is a little shorter then the confed weapon, just by like 2 inches, but that is all barrel length. ANy suggestions are appreciated.

Good god that cockpit is beauty, maybe you could let one or two of the other modelers use it as well so they can concetrate on other parts. That might not be a bad idea really, have multiple modelers working on specific parts, of course that would require everyone using the same package. But that would be a super detailed model when you think about it.

I am now considering calling in all my old squadmates, including the tank commanders, helo pilots, special forces operatives, black ops boys, CIA agents, NSA agents and a few others who are even more badass. Mind you they are all macross fans, some hardcore, trust me the pranks I pulled in high school and college would be nothing. Sheol given the time, money and patietence some of them could make HG never exist. Now I'm really tempted to call them. BTW, I am not kidding or exagerating this at all.

Thanks for the encouragement guys. Actually the short stories I have written rough outlines for all occur in the same fictional universe, but star characters that appear onyl briefly in the books. They are all really fun characters that I liked and it lets me experiment with them more, so that is the plan. Of course I am waiting to hear from the last couple publishers before I impliment the plan. As I said a year+ of short story writing before I resubmit should hopefully be enough to get my name out there and better my chances of publication. I will update you all as events warrant.

Huh? I can try and make a wallpaper, but most of mine are of my designs.

Well the publisher who requested the additional pages wrote me back, a little bummed right now, so will let their words talk for me: Oh well, the beginning of the book is not the best written and I have been toying around with rewriting it. However, I have still not heard back from a couple publishers including my first choice, who all recieved the whole book, so I am not totally bummed yet. But if they reject me I will just go to plan B, rewrite the beginning and start submitting short stories for a year before resubmitting with the new beginning. Well appreciate all your support, always knew it would be a painful process, but as the song goes "I will survive!"

Wow, Chris, I thought you dropped off the face of the earth, and thanks for the compliment. Yes before anyone asks I am still using AUTOCAD, even I'm surprised how nice they came out in it.

I know a few air musuems that would love to get their hands on that Hornet and Fulcrum, if they did I would have to go back there all the time, especially the Fulcrum.

This was a semi-request by EXO, the standard sidearm, I actually did this one before the rifle, still needs to be detailed, but liked the render. The reason for the large unit under the barrel is that it is the Plasma tank, holds enough Plasma for ten energy magazines. Well let me know what you think.

Now the other side.

Here a couple images of the new PLASER SMG, I've put some more details into it, but I still feel like its missing something, no idea what though. For a sense of scale I've rendered it with the larger rifle. Let me know what you think, still have to figure out what it's missing.

It is still needs a lot detail work done, but here is the basic body of my next rifle. Basically an SMG in scale it is the little brother of the larger rifle I designed, strictly a PLASER rifle it's the MP-5/P-90 of my main troops.

The forward cocking lever on the left side is for the Mass Driver, AKA rail gun, It chambers the first round and is used for clearing jams, etc... The rear cocking lever on the left side is for priming the PLASER Magazine, clears and hooks up the power connections and the plasma shunt. As I've said before there is a method to my madness.

Thanks Gonzo, it is still a work in progress at this point and the PLAMSA LASER barrel is going to be changed a bit. As for the ammo ejection port, that was becuase of how I am currentlt envisioning the power source. I had three ideas for that, power source in the gun, power source in the magazine, or power source attached to the round. The rifle here is using the third option. Each round comes attached to a power cell that is flash drained for each firing, then the spent cell is ejected. This arrangement actually is a good idea thermally as the power cell would be very hot after firing, so instead of having the magazine heat up as you fire, the hot power cell is just disposed of. True it isn't very environmentally friendly, but the magazine is more easily reloaded and reused. So there is a method to my madness. Also, it makes sense to have the ejection port just in case you have to clear a jam. Terrance, thanks for the compliment, haven't seen you for a while. Yes it does bear a striking resemblance to the XM-8, I hadn't seen it in a while though, hmmm, maybe I can equip the GF with updated versions of it, lol.

Is it just me or does the boat module look like a combination of the Yamato and the Macross?

Is it just me or does that strike cannon look way too much like the one off the 15th anniversary figures? Man I hope BW jumps in both feet first on this one, this is the kind of thing that can shut HG down, breaking international copyright law can get you in some serious $h!#. Then again I almost, almost, hope that BW and HG came to an agreement and with HG just taking a little off the top we will get real macross merchandise here in the states, like DVDs, toys, models, etc... If HG was smart and such an offer was laid out they would be stupid not to take it. I would have no problem with that really, unless they had the idiots who did the voices for robogarbage do the dubs on any region 1 DVDs, *shiver* makes me glad I always watch the sub.

Holy Shreg Mechmaster, that is one sweet scene, what package do you use again?

Last one, shipboard security guard colors (proposed):

Ok time for the two funky color schemes first: chromed honor gaurd style:

De-milled Hunter styling, well not really but the colors are.

Desert Style: