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They used the exact same helicopter shot lineart as the other 3 VF-11 on the same page.
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Dengeki Hobby is out. Another issue of MtR that is mind blowingly awesome (and that's from ONLY looking at the pictures!) Take the title page spread: the YF-27-5 leading a flight of 4 Neo-Glaugs. Think about that for a moment. The YF-21's boss in the PS1's "Macross Plus Game Edition". Mass produced. Used by General Galaxy. Awesome. We also get a code for the Neo-Glaug: VBP-1/VA-110 Neo Glaug. (Does it mean Variable Battle Pod/Variable Attacker???) Other VFs... and there's a whole LOAD o' VF-11 variants: VF-11B Lacrimosa (our first VF to have "Dengeki" on it as a "sponsor") Then, in the "What's Vanquish!! 2" feature, focused on the "Thunderbolt Class" Vanquish races: VF-11B/X Sister Valkyrie (Nun themed ) VF-11B kai El Camino Real (following are colouring only, kits not made) VF-11 "803" VF-11B Miyabi VF-11B/MAXL Red Curtain (body shape looks EXACTLY like a regular VF.) VF-11B Rev-Splash
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Model Graphix #323 (October 2011) is out. BIG article on Hasegawa and VFs. Highlights: LOTS of Tenjin Hidetaka artwork. There's even a 4 page mini-gallery of his artwork! If you can't afford to get his "Valkyries Second Sortie", this is the next best thing. Also it has a halfway decent sized image of his VF-11 box art. List of all the kits, when they were released, and what other Macross products were released at the same time. Kits w/ picts: 1/72 VF-1S Strike, 1/48 YF-19 w/ fold booster, YF-21, VF-11 w/ rocket boosters (?!?!?!?), 1/48 VF-1S battroid conversion.
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The article's main point, and probably not surprisingly, echoed by posters in MW, is that 3D works best in movies that deliberately visually manipulate the audience. Scary movies, with things leaping out from around corners (Final Destination 5 being a good example) are where it works. I agree with that. It worked 50+ years ago in those movies. It worked 30+ years ago in those movies. Why shouldn't it work for like movies now? Just keep it limited to those kinds of movies - as 3D adds nothing. Absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G for me (especially 'cause I don't see those kinds of movies )
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New Star Trek series in the works?
sketchley replied to Zor Primus's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Agreed. As long as they stick to the core values of Trek, and don't try and reinvent the "wheel", it should be watchable. Less SFX. More character, thank you. -
Which is why I didn't pull out my copy to find the page number to tell you.
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That's the only lineart that exists of it, sadly. However, in the same book, there are pictures of the model. Scan has the page number.
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Completed my next big translation project: the Macross article in Great Mechanics.DX #4. [has it really been sitting on the back burner for 3 summers?!??!] http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/index.php?topic=2385.msg35715#msg35715 Summary of translations: headlines of Macross F series overview & Keywords revised VF-25 headlines and summaries of the various Macross series Bottom of VF lineage chart VF-0, VF-1, VF-11, YF/VF-19, YF-21/VF-22, VF-17/171 Intro and topics of the Dr. Chiba interview finished last 2/3 of VFs that are more realistic from the application of (real world) aircraft motifs. Intro and topics of the Yoshino Hiroyuki interview Plus minor corrections, retranslations and so on of the previously completed stuff (brushed the dust off, proofread (heh... funny how there's not much time for that these days... gotta find more time for that.) Enjoy. It was kinda fun looking back at the material about Macross F produced at the start of the series. Nostalgic in many ways.
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LOL ... which brings up a good point: will there be a product-sponsor curse associated with this new movie?
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Heh. Good point. "Soldier" was... well... best forgotten and not talked about in the same conversation.
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Nope. The J in VF-1J stands for Japan. And as Renato said - no mention of the other specifications.
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You're confusing things. So far, only 2 books have been published: 1) collection of the novelization (the publication in your link) 2) collection of the models/mechanical stuff (this: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%80%88Vol-1%E3%80%89-DENGEKI-HOBBY-BOOKS/dp/4048706764/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313379077&sr=1-2 )
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"Do as I say, not as I do"?
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Book store. Option 2: ask Jim Breen.
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And completed the last pages. Some limited stuff on G and Inertia suppression, ISC, Cyber-grunts, active stealth, and the finer points of MDE warheads.
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That's easy. You simply don't click the links for the forums you're not interested in (heck, ignore all the topics that you're uninterested in.)
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The one in the magazine article is a scratch build. I'm not clear if it's based off of a fighter mode only vinyl kit released years earlier, or not.
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Don't you guys use the "view new content" next to that orange button? Pressing any of the links to new topics in the page it leads to automatically takes you to the first unread post in a topic.
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I just happened to be looking through them/cleaning the bookshelf shelf in the past day or two... Personally I like the VF-4's battroid mode. NOT because it looks great or is the best battroid mode designed. Because of the thought that went into it to create a battroid mode for a fighter mode that basically wasn't designed to transform into a battroid mode. ... and yes, I think the VB-6 is even more genius. Not only do we have a battroid mode that looks like the Destroid Monster, but the fighter mode looks like the space shuttle! (Again, I don't think the design looks like the best battroid/fighter designed to date.)
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A bit of a description on ISC and EX-Gear: http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/index.php?topic=2252.0 The ISC description probably should be re-translated, as it's a bit misleading. Acceleration is not reduced, but the forces of acceleration on the pilot/cockpit/airframe (in that order of importance) is temporarily stored "elsewhere", and slowly applied back to the airframe after the period of intense manoeuvres ends. So, it ends up as: ISC at Earth and in the Earth defensive fleet, ISC + EX-Gear in Frontier, and ISC + Cyber-Grunt conversion in Galaxy. Each is a different approach to the same goal, and the total results are slightly different.
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Speed + manueverability. They're unstable because they're using burst-turbine engines that are souped up to the max in jury-rigged airframes with a lot of experimental systems crammed in. And that's not even including the dangers of the race, itself!
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Model Graphix Number 291, 2009 February The fighter mode is from the Number 290, 2009 January issue. Scans used in the fighter mode picture here: http://www.macrossroleplay.org/Sketchley/Statistics/VF-4/VF-4.html
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How's that? As the VF-1XX has the same externals as the VF-1X. Or are you referring to all the option parts and customizations used on the one used in Vanquish racing?
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Just keep in mind: if the manga is drawn half-decently, like a good action movie, you don't even need to read to understand the basic story. With Macross the First it's even better, as we already know the story (SDFM + DYRL)! So, even without looking at the manga art, let alone reading anything, we can guess the story. Nice. Hopefully the interest in it will mean that it gets picked up and published in another publication (if only to conclude it, at the very least). I can do without the Macross Plus TAC Name though...
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That reminds me, next month's model Graphix is going to have a large Macross feature: ［次号予告］ 2011年10月号 2011年8月25日発売（一部地域を除く） 定価780円（税込） 【巻頭特集】ADVANCED VALKYRIE IN ACTION 200-2011 ハセガワ×バルキリー「スタンダードへの10年史」 HASEGAWA meets VARIABLE FIGHTER 10th Anniversary ハセガワ初の本格的キャラクターキットとなった1/72 VF-1の衝撃からはや10年（ホントはもうちょっと経ってるけどね）。ハセガワ製バルキリーの歴史をじっくりと振り返りつつ、スケールモデルとキャラクターモデルの融合を試みた同社のイマジネーションの軌跡を、いまこそ検証してみましょう。 source: http://www.modelkasten.com/magazine/mg/187470322.html scanlation: 10 year anniversary of Hasegawa x Valkyries