Knight26

That's funny, John Carpenter rocks.

Interesting, seems a bad place to store missiles though, if the seals go bad you're seriously hosed if you are the pilot. Seems like the better place to put them would be the legs. But hey, it's the Zentran, and we know they don't but a whole lot of stock in their pilots.

The Defense grid make a lot of sense. The reason we see so much desert area is becuase the attack by the Zentraedi probably ripped away multiple layers of topsoil, leaving most of the planet desert. We see evidence that the rainforests grew back in record time. Infact areas around crashed zentraedi ships and mecha are shown to have recovered first, possibly due to radiation or the techno-organic nature of the zentran ships. The reason most area is still desert though is that it takes generations for topsoil to replenish itself. UN Spacy is probably trying to slowly reforest the planet, rebuilding the topsoil, but its a slow process. So, if you are trying to save a near death planet, of course you will protect it with dang near everything you've got, espcially while it is on the brink of returning to life. Well that's my too cents. And yes particle and beam weapons are really convetional weapons in that they do not use a nuclear detonation as their primary reaction. Though nuclear reactions may occur at the impact sight, so low level readiation is also a likely hazard in some areas.

Nice work man, the soft loght pics look much better, again great work.

Holy Shreg, they cost that much, sheesh. For maybe half that I would go for it.

Hey Super O when you get your copy let me know, like to try it before I decide to sink money into a modded PS2, or steal my cousins' and mod it.

Those bookends rock, I'm thinking I might get those and rearrange my shelves to stow my macross DVDs between them.

Anybody know for certain if it will import AutoCAD models? If so I might get it.

"From the Halls of Monezuma to the SHores of Tripoli..."

Damn I like that piece makes the Marine in me get up and salute.

ten pages, wow, man I've been neglecting. ANyway the GBP looks sweet will definitely get one. *looks around* surprised Graham hasn't commented on this yet, hmmm, conspiracy I say.

hmm... a low vis veritech, wonder where they got that idea. Though I have to admit that the color scheme isn't bad.

Totally sweet, I wonder if it will be a retelling with a whole new storyline, an animated version of the whole manga run, which would be sweet, or a continuation of the animated storyline. Personnally I hope for an animated version of the original manga.

Definitely need to make some more using hasagawas and the 1:48.

On the ones I have seen in your list:

Last Exile: I agree, normally I am not into steam punk but is really good, highly recommended.

Ninja Scroll (series): Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, shows some promise.

Stand Alone Complex: Only seen the first few but I like it, cvould do with less fan service though. I think it is much truer to the Manga then the movie was.

In regards to the leaked Tarkin Pictures: Remember you are comparing pictures of photos again white backgrounds to stills from the movie. Makeup in movies is laid on pretty thick because the lights tend to wash them out otherwise. People in movie makeup tend to look fake up until the point you see them on screen, it's all due to the lights. I'm sure the guy will look much better in the film and movie stills. Lets put it this way as well, in order for Portman's elaborate makeup in the first one to show up as well as it did she would litterly have a good pound plus of makeup on her face.

King Nor, what's R-Type? These are from my books that I am writing.

Here it is the Merlin's envisioned color scheme, Black with Red trim, try spotting that beast in space combat, especially since it has no engine glow.

Like with any design there are comprimises made, in order for the VF-1 to transform it has to have the flush rear canopy. This really isn't as big a deal as many people think though. WHen looking behind you you can never really see your six unless it is your six o'clock high position. Things like the seat and tail fins get in the way on all planes. Also if you look DYRL you can see that the HUD is wrapped around the whole cockpit. In the first battle you see Hikaru look over his shoulder and still has his target bracketed despite the fact that it is in a blind spot. Being able to see straight back is not that critical an issue as long as you can see upwards, which you can in a valk, that canopy extends back a great deal past the pilot.

Last scheme for now, looks familiar don't it?

A simple recolor, will work on a few more color schemes, will eventually go with a darker scheme, possibly with red stripes.

Sorry for the confusion but here is some more pumage, finished the interior panels of the weapons arms. So here is a close up, with the crew at their stations, to boot.

Well since as far as I know AUTOCAD has no resident animation capability, I may try and brute force a few simple animations, basically render each frame and assembled them into an .avi or animated .gif, of course that will require me figuring out how to do that. Will see what happens.

Argh, forgot the pic.

Last one, comments welcome.

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