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    Whatever they have, it looks identical to the charging pod, at least as we saw them in episode 6. I'll have to go through ep 13 again to see if there was any footage of the -31A in Gerwalk or Battroid (I think those were -31As that Bogue passed as he went for Aether), but I don't remember seeing anything that really stuck out.
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    Don't know if they've done anything about it on the new decal sheets, but the ones for the VF-25s sucked royally, and would chip off in large chunks at the slightest provocation. I'd suggest at least trying the stickers - use the "dip them in water" trick that was posted about earlier to make them go on smoother, and then rub them down with a Q-tip to make them fit. The stickers at least won't flake off the moment you transform the kit...
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    Remember that commander Ogotai from the Gallia IV garrison has a similar eyepiece to Britai, so it might not be an implant but just a piece of equipment.
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    It's literally just another concert number to book-end the series, with Sheryl and Ranka singing a song together in a holo-stage that looks like a giant living room. It's not over-painted like they do for the numbers in the movie, the characters are left in 3D (normally they do these things like this then draw the characters over the rough models, there's a guy from Ireland i think who did some tutorials on youtube showing how it's done), so it looks a little different from the other numbers, but Kawamori himself says it's supposed to be set after the rest of the movie which would pretty much require Sheryl to be back up and singing.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    SebastianP replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I'm not actually in the market for the DX kits, they're way out of my price range and I'm more of a 1/72 kind of guy. It was just kind of jarring how all the other models looked like they had hardpoint connectors specifically based on the DX toy hardpoints... and then the DX toys didn't have them in the preview pics. It was such a complete "wut?" moment.
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    That's somebody's custom, not the official kit, if I understood the post correctly. And I'm not convinced there's actually anything in the nose profile that would need changing for the VF-1EX, it didn't look any different to me at all. Edit: Confirmed, the builder's tweets linked in the post say he used the Max kit from the Max-and-Milia set to make this, and that the wings are wrong. Might the VF-1EX kit have the VT-1/VE-1 wings with the RCS blisters on them? Edit2: Now that I looked at the decal placement diagram, I think he's referring to the fact that one of the lightning bolts is rotated 90 degrees. They should both be pointing forward and aft with the wings spread.
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    No, British squadrons don't appear to have official names, just the numbers. It's an interesting set of options. VF-1 "Wolfpack" was disestablished on September 30, 1993; VF-33 "Starfighters" literally the day after (October 1, 1993); and VF-111 "Sundowners" a year and a half later (March 31, 1995). VFA-27 "Royal Maces" and VFA-195 "Dambusters" were never Tomcat squadrons, and are still flying the F/A-18E - both of them out of NAS Atsugi/CV-76 Ronald Reagan, apparently. 800 Squadron was one of the last Sea Harrier squadrons, and one of the last Royal Navy Harrier squadrons altogether, and is currently inactive, with a single officer at the RN academy being in charge of keeping the tradition alive.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    SebastianP replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Because some people can't handle that it's not *their* Macross, it's Kawamori's Macross. And the Big Hoary Froating Head does as he likes. Anyway, here's a DX toy related question at least. Does the DX toy actually have the hardpoints that are on all the other merchandise? The in-show 3D model, the 1/72 transformable kit, the 1/144 Gimix kit and the Mecha Colle kit all have very obvious hardpoint connectors (the most obvious on any VF ever), and it was fairly obvious to me at least that they're based on the functional hardpoint connectors on the DX toys for the VF-171 and YF-30... but when I saw the early prototype pics for the DX toy - which are so far the only ones I've seen where the hardpoint connectors should have been visible - the toy didn't have them. And the more recent pics I've seen have all been from the front or above, where the hardpoint connectors wouldn't be visible. (Wouldn't that really be typical Bandai - Kawamori goes "here, let me just use the same hardpoint connectors on this design and make them really visible on the model so people won't complain about how they look on the toy", and then Bandai puts them on everything else *except* the toy...)
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    There's nothing on the topic in the Macross The Ride Visual Books (either volume), so I assume no...
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    99% sure we're getting all five Siegfried versions, and 100% sure we're getting Keith's Draken III. Only 75% sure we're getting the "regular" Draken III, though, and I wouldn't bet on us getting either the Nightmare Plus or the Kairos - last time, they only made the main character VFs and a grunt version of the VF-27, and that was it, except for decal and equipment variations. We didn't even get a YF-29 or super parts for the VF-27, as Bandai had basically dropped the 1/72 line by the time the second movie was released. Then again, last time they only started releasing kits after the show was over, whereas this time they've started while show is only half way through. *And* they've got the whole "Macross Modelers" thing in the background. Depending on how well the new kits - and the re-issues - sell, they might find it in their budgets to give us some grunts for this show, and maybe even the earlier shows. After all, all it would take for them to give us a VF-25A would be to switch the color on the VF-25G and include the standard gun pod runner instead of the sniper pod, and an extra sticker sheet with some separate numbers.
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    They're even smaller on the 1/72 kit, you know... Anyway, both DX toys have them, though the original version had the part with the thrusters molded in the overall unit color, and as engraved detail at that. Really not very visible unless you already know they're there. The Renewal toy looks more like the 1/72 kit, with the thrusters molded in the same color as the inner frame instead of the exterior, and so they stand out enough to be visible. If Anymoon.com likes hotlinks, then this picture should show the difference: The YF-29 toy on the other hand does not appear to have any thruster detail in this area, from what I could tell - then again, *it* doesn't really need any mini-thrusters when it has the two big ones on the wings that'll be pointed in the direction of travel anyway...
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    Is anyone else hoping we get to see some full size Zentraedi singing again in Delta? Galaxy is Calling Me had Emilia, and Frontier had the Enka singer in episode 5, both of which could be heard for *miles*, but they were both solo singers. Imagine what a good size force of Zentraedi could do with a proper battle hymn. Maybe as part of a "if we keep singing, the VAR won't get us" measure during a battle?
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    The VF-25 had six very tiny thrusters inset in the mating surface with the shield - on the model kits, these like to fall out and I don't know if any of mine has both of theirs at the moment. And of course, the super parts had a medium-sized rocket nozzle as well. I won't know what the solution they used on the VF-31 is until I get my kit, but I'm thinking there'll be some thruster detail on the interior back plate that is revealed when the modular pod is deployed.
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    3' 4", going by the official length. It'd be the size of a 1/350 modern aircraft carrier, or one of the big Space Battleship Yamato kits, so not completely unheard of, just unlikely.
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    Maybe I should have pointed out as well that there are plenty of aircraft where the landing gear themselves deploy into the airstream like that without getting ripped off - because by the time the gear are deployed, the aircraft is moving slow enough for that not to happen. Same thing most likely applies to the VF-31's main gear, it doesn't deploy unless you're below 200 knots or so and thus isn't exposed to forces sufficient to rip the doors off. Also, to expand on the take-off rotation problem: Most aircraft pitch up by forcing the tail down, rather than the nose up. That's why jet fighters either have delta-wings or ginormous horizontal tails - so that their elevators are as far back as possible and can provide downforce to lever the nose around. VFs don't have horizontal tails, and a lot of them - all the variable-geometry ones definitely - have their only horizontal control surfaces well in front of their landing gear. The only way of providing downforce behind the landing gear is the thrust vectoring engines, which in real life aren't enough for the kind of pitch authority you need on an aircraft with conventionally placed landing gear, hence why the F-22 still has massive horizontal tails. The delta-winged VFs at least have control surfaces behind the landing gear, but they still need to provide a lot more downforce with those control surfaces than they would with a more reasonable landing gear placement. Which is why the more forward-mounted landing gear on the VF-31 is so welcome, because it means Kawamori has finally figured out the problem and is working on fixing it. Even if he's introducing other problems by doing so. (just put the landing gear in the wings where the arms go now, and put the arms back between the legs where they used to be, and the problem will be more or less solved. Except for the model kits probably becoming impossible to balance on their landing gear, but then model builders have had to insert nose weights into their fighter kits for years.)
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    This build looks really nice, and I kind of wish there was an 1/72 kit of the VF-2SS to go with all the other VF kits.
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    All VF landing gears are bad, period. Except maybe the YF-21/VF-22, and that's only because I don't remember where they go on that plane. The problem with the previous ones is that ideally, you want the landing gear right behind the center of gravity in order to make the take-off rotation easier, with nearly half the mass of the aircraft acting as a counter-weight. All the VFs with the landing gear in the leg have them way too far back for this to work properly, thus they need a bunch of extra lift (and thus speed) in order to get the nose up during take-off. And the problem with the VF-31's gear isn't the landing gear door orientation - look up what the nose gear on the F-15 looks like - but that it appears to retract into the intake trunking for the main engine. Which means that air would have to magically get from the intake to the engine without passing through the leg, somehow. Not that the airflow needing magic is anything new in VF legs, all those joints in the legs would make airflow pretty much impossible IRL anyway.
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    Bigger pictures: I'm thinking I'm going to get three or four of these... The one inaccuracy with the thing that I see is that the carrier decks are flat, rather than folded down like on the anime version. Then again, this is still a 3D-print preview, not the finished model - you can tell from how rough the sides of the central section are. Also, I'd love a 1/4000 of this and the Battle Frontier from Hasegawa. And the Quarter too.
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    You'll notice that they very pointedly haven't shown us whether the modular pod on the super VF-31 is the same as the normal one, or the speaker pack... and that they haven't shown us whether those pods on the back open. Pretty sure they do, given how similar they are to the VF-25 super parts. but they probably have smaller payload.
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    I still can't take the designations for those Mauler guns seriously... because in my native language, "röv" means "arse". As in, the very vulgar version of the word which your momma will threaten to wash your mouth out with soap for using.
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    This is like arguing politics, you lot are so completely convinced Johnson is an idiot that you can't accept any arguments that he isn't. Chaos didn't win? Chaos aren't a true military force, they're basically security guards for the galaxy's rowdiest concerts. They're tiny, they're spread thin, and their entire training is to shoot to disable, rather than kill, because the people they usually fight are innocents that can be brought back to normal with sufficient song. They end up being charged with protecting the entire cluster from a nation-state actor with the ability to suborn local forces in minutes, and whose base they can't get to despite knowing where it is, and who has all the advantages. And their best asset at combating the Var can only be in one place at a time, while Heinz doesn't have to leave Windermere and can project his song anywhere in the cluster. Despite these disadvantages, they still manage to figure out what the cause of the mind control is, and what the enemy plans to do. They even have a plan to do something about it - which would have worked Heinz hadn't miraculously gained the ability to sing twice a day instead of once. "Why didn't they lie in wait for the Sigur Valens and blast it as it came out of Fold?" I don't know, why did no one else try doing that? Oh wait they did at Al Shahal, and the fold barrier came up immediately, no-sold the whole armada's massed strike, and then the fold song turned all the defenders in 15 minutes. "But with Walkure singing it would be different!" Walkure were stunned out of their own song when Heinz started singing, it was that strong. Walkure *themselves* needed a morale booster or two before they managed to start up again. Face it, the moment the bomb went off and the ruins were unhurt, it was plainly obvious that the planet was lost. They'd traded the city away and gotten nothing, and would never have gotten anything even if the Sigur Valens *hadn't* been sitting on top of the ruins when they blew.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    SebastianP replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    The under-wing panels are shield extenders - you can see them when Chuck goes "Gerwalk Fighter" and deploys his arms in episode 6. The boosters IMO are no worse than the boosters on the VF-11 or the AeroSpace super parts for the VF-19 or (IIRC) VF-22 - those don't look all that secure either. Anyway, this was just posted to /m/:
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