sketchley

Ga! I'm mixing up real world design and in-world design dates. Anyhow, you may want to add the VA-3M. It's true that it is a varient, but given the radical changes between it and the VA-3. Just curious, are you going to add the recon and trainer variants? Perhaps as seperate lines from the main chart. Ex: Recon: VEFR-1 Electronic Warfare Valkyrie ("Funny Chinese") > VE-1 Elint Valkyrie > VF-11 Radar Dome Equipped Super Parts > VF-17 Radar Dome Equipped Type > RVF-171 > RVF-25 Messiah Trainer: VF-0B (VF-0D?) > VF-1D > VT-1 Ostrich > VF-5000T-G > VF-11D > VF-17T

Variable Gluag and Neo-Glaug are still mixed up. (the names are right for the image, but the order is mixed up) Re: VF-5000 Egan Loo actually posted somewhere in MW regarding this. Basically, the VF-5000 is not the main UN Spacy fighter, but the main fighter of a different branch of the UN Armed Forces.

If I remember correctly, the VF-X-4 (or VFX-4) is a fully transformable* VF that was underdevelopment when the Zentraedi destroyed Earth. As most of the people involved in the project were lost at the same time, the project was restarted with what little info there was on the SDF-1. The result of those efforts being the VF-4. * Lineart with SK scribbles pointing out leg and arm parts. In short, the parts are in the same places as the VF-4.

Try the help feature that comes with the program? or http://docs.gimp.org/en/ ?

Arguing semantics at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units (US customary units = English units = Imperial units = standard units) BTW, I'm not disagreeing that the measurement units currently used in the USA and those formerly used (but not completely unused in all situations) in the UK are different.

I just did a google search on this term. Nothing came up (unless if we include investment fund & computer terminology.) I don't want to be a pain about this, but could you provide some links to a description of this? (Note: I'm not disagreeing nor stating that it doesn't exist. However, if it was as mainstream as claimed to be, it's lack of results is odd. Perhaps it has a different name?) that you included a system of measurement.

Oops. Made an error here: That should be VF-1 -> VF-4 -> VF-5. There's no VF-3. Also, the VF-5000 AND VF-5 both lead into the competion. Meaning that they lead into both the VF-11 AND VF-14. The VF-9 does NOT lead into anything. The Sv-51 also appears, but it leads into a question mark. You need to add the Gluag. As in: Gluag > Neo-Gluag > Variable Gluag (images are the correct order; names are not.) You have the wrong line art for the VF-14. Try http://unsd.macrossroleplay.org/vf-14.html

Play it safe. Do the direct romanization of his name: Mihaeru Buran.

Wasn't it that way from the very beginning? Ie all VFs after the VF-1.

see chronicle news thread for a translation of the ship class names.

To stave off further confusion, I've modified the two to indicate exactly what is canon (either direct translation, or as seen in the anime).

LDR-04 Maverick large size 3 barrel missile launcher x2 40 mm AA gun launcher x1 3 barrel missile pod x2 Stampede Valkyrie large size electron cannon x1 35 mm 3 barrel gattling gun x1 12 barrel missile pod x2 10 barrel missile pod x4 under (?) missile bay x4 VF-X3 Star Crusader (Madusa) (cool?) electron beam launcher x2 3 barrel grenade rack x2 (???) laser system x7 super small missile phalanx x2 Missile bay x6 QF-3T Ghost This has to be the first time that I've seen line art for the battroid mode of the VF-X3 Star Crusader and the Stampede Option.

Translation: QF-9iE Ghost II (Fantom) 2 barrel 35 mm gun launcher x1 20 mm gun launcher x4 beam turret x4 small size missile cluster x4

Random thoughts: VF-1 leads into VF-4 into VF-11 into VF-19 VA-3 leads into VA-14 VB-6 is pretty much a fighter on it's own (though it's correct that it's an outgrowth from the Monster.) VF-17 leads into the VF-171 into the VF-171 EX I did a translation of Great Mechanics.DX6 a while back, and they had a flow chart that had: VF-19(?) into YF-24 Evolution into both VF-25 & VF-27, with the VF-22 also leading into the VF-27 But hey, don't take my word for it. Go with the chart in Great Mechanics.DX 4: VF-0 -> VF-1 (Branches in two (a and b in the following) a branch: VF-1 -> VF-3 -> VF-5 (sub branch to VF-9) ->VF-11 -> (branches recombine) b branch: VF-1 -> VF-3000 -> VF-5000 -> (branches recombine) VF-11/VF-5000 -> VF-11 & VF-14 competition (VF-11 wins, and from VF-11) -> VF-19 (YF-19) & VF-22 (YF-21) competition (neither is indicated as winning) -> VF-25 VF-17 -> VF-171 are a seperate chart.

The top view of the VF-0 in battroid mode is pretty groovy. So is the size chart. BTW, it's not a comparison of the SDF-1, Megaroad-01, City 7 and Island 1. It's マクロス級,メガロード級, 新マクロス級, & アイランド・クラスター級; both City and Battle sections for the later two. For the Japanese illiterate, that's: Macross Class, Megaroad (Megarodo) Class, New Macross Class, & Island Cluster (Airando Kurasutaa) Class.

Great. Not only do you insult us fluent native speakers of English who don't use archaic imperial with your poorly worded post, you also missed my point entirely. The point: no system of measurement = easy misunderstanding. (Is the -40 that was posted m? ft? cm? Kg? oz? F? stone? football fields? Ri? The name of a rock band???)

'cause it could also be the Rapu Ramisu ship.

The majority of the world isn't, and the majority of the world (including a number of companies from the USA) use metric. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system (or inverse: http://buzzfeed.com/scott/countries-that-dont-use-metric ) Next time, use an SI.

TIA Macross 7 Animation Materials pg 78 "彼の(...)" His. Just glancing at the text, it looks like his "looks" have something to do with possession by protodevlin. BTW, did you look it up on the Compendium first? http://macross.anime.net/wiki/Geperuniti

Break out your copy of TIAtS:Macross Plus. There's a bunch of non-Skull squadron squadrons in it. Complete with painting, marking and squadron logos.

Personally it was when the show got a big budget. Time and time again, I've seen well written, great shows go down the tubes simply because they get the budget to do the first idea that pops into their heads. It should be par for the course that it's the revisions to the first idea that make for greatness.

Yes. See my review of it in the news thread posted 3 days after publication.

120,000 m? That's pretty damn high, son. Otherwise, I agree with everything other than the not hitting a low-Earth orbit. Even the compendium doesn't give it a maximum ceiling. Now, just to be clear - once up there at a low-Earth orbit, the VF-1 can't do much of anything. That's why it needs rocket boosters to reach satellite orbit later in the series.

You mean satellite orbit, right? At the beginning of SDF:M the VF-1 is seen flying up to meet the SDF-1 at a low orbit (but what defines orbit? In this case it was after the blue of the sky fades and the stars are visible.)

Bummer.