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  1. sketchley
    The only thing I can add is that it causes a thin layer of water to form under the glue on the sticker, allowing for the sticker to be gently moved into position (it's not 100% foolproof, and like any modelling technique, one gets better at it with experience). The canopy stickers (and some other) come pre-cut with short cuts in them to give you a little bit of overlap. I affix the base of the canopy first, and gently roll the Q-tip over the (now 2 or more) halves to get them to smoothly cover the canopy - with up to 1 mm of overlap in certain places.
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    It's a Bandai kit, right? Their MF VFs are all snap-together. You really don't have to worry about glue. Now, despite them being labelled as transformable, it's recommended that you pick the mode that you want to display it in, and build it in that mode. Transform it as little as possible. MANY of the joints are extremely stiff, and prone to breakage. Or the flip side - become progressively more floppy.
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    Needle-nose tweezers work better than the flat/angled head (hair plucking) types.
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    Re: head laser That's odd. Mine fits snugly in, and was actually a bit "sticky" when removing it to put the sticker on. Are you using tweezers to line it up and gently, but firmly push the part in? Re: stickers Many modelling magazines and guide books (eg the latest issue of Hobby Japan) recommend dipping the stickers in water before applying them to the model. After carefully positioning the sticker (they use tweezers, I have much better luck with the edge of an X-acto knife), carefully roll a Q-tip over the sticker to squeeze the water out from under it. I've seen other guide books recommending cutting larger stickers into more manageable sizes, but (if memory serves) that was for stickers going over rounded or unusual shaped surfaces, it may not be the best approach. Lining up the cut seems may also be beyond your current skill set. The only thing to always keep in mind, is to do it patiently and tentatively (I should probably add that there's no way that anyone is ever going to get a perfect sticker alignment, so you probably shouldn't try - aim for 'close enough that anyone but the pickest person (which includes you ) won't notice. Oh... and speaking of that latest issue of Hobby Japan - the buildup for the VF-31J shows the modeller shaving the bumps off the head part, to get a better fit for the sticker!
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    Something like this classic scene, eh:
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    Nothing on the publisher's homepage (GA Graphic). However, this* blog says that it's being released on 2016/08/31. Buuuuuuuuut, given the history of the publisher missing the deadline, I'd say that that is the earliest we could expect it to be published. The blog links to Amazon Prime**, which has a bit more info on it. The ISBN numbers, etc. are probably the most useful to you guys. Alas, (going by the description therein) the writers are still strumming the tune that the VF-4G is the first VF-4 that has a completed transformation mechanism T.T. * http://mac-log.com/zassi/4048 ** http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4797387661/ref=nosim?tag=maftracking99948-22&linkCode=ure&creative=6339
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    Yeah, my site: http://monkeybacon.mywebcommunity.org/OTvfmf/OTvfmf.php (far from complete, but hopefully helpful to some extent)
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    *snort* Yeah, they need some survivors just in case they want to make a sequel - and don't want to go the hooky SF route of clones/prequels.
  9. sketchley
    Macross F 2059: Memories http://monkeybacon.mywebcommunity.org/OTmiscbooks.php#MF Went back and re-translated some rather atrocious parts, and then went and did a whole bunch of new parts in the book! I was really surprised about a couple of things: The first being that the book questions if the Vajra are individual organisms or what amounts to remotely operated weapons. Interesting. The second were the 'Link Points' - little vignettes about the connections between Macross F and previous series. Most interesting was the one about Super Pack equipped Kuran. And here I thought that it was merely ridiculously over the top fan service!
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    I had the same thing happen with the shoulder on my VF-27 (green, non-commander version). The locking tabs are great, because without attempting to fix the broken part (= reattaching the arm), it still solidly holds together in Fighter.
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    It's very possible that the Concept 9 proposal was the actual inspiration, but Kawamori-san has deliberately chosen to publicly state that it was the X-29 - simply because the X-29 was much more well known, and in the days before the internet, it was next to impossible for fans to find any information on the Concept 9.
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    Ah... it's a movie thing. Well, aside from the issue of what original source number the writers are using, I was mulling this over at work, and it dawned on me that this may be another case of 'too many fingers in the pie'. One person might have said "'about' 10%" (sounds like something Kawamori would say), and another person came up with the figure itself, using some kind of arcane logic based on the real progression of such things (most likely Mr. Chiba, as he's the go to guy when it comes to technical explanations). This kind of overlaps with a recent tangent in another topic in MW (about the YF-29 and the VF-25/27 development), in that later writers added and changed things. That could be what's going on here with the 5% vs. 10% increase.
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    I think that's unnecessarily harsh criticism on the writers. Is the number that they're starting at the 100% figure for that type of engine? There are interviews with Kawamori and Chiba that state that pretty much no fighter jet engine is tuned perfectly (thus their logic behind the tuning of the VF-0's engines to get more output out of them). Perhaps the writers of MtR went with a different starting figure. Or perhaps the number that you're using for fact checking isn't the right number? Isn't this one of the cases of there being different numbers on different publications and model boxes? As the VF-19E/F comes from a modelling magazine, wouldn't a figure on a modelling box by the best place to check first? Many factors to take into consideration...
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    Short answer: no. Long answer: On the one hand: do we know that the original stuff was accurate in the first place? On the other hand: it may have been an attempt to provide a better unified, cohesive tome of all the Macross lore. In addition, the creator's could've forgotten that they said "X" to publisher 'A' way back in the day, and now say "Y" to publisher 'B'.
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    And here's my translations of a lot of the sources Seto mentioned: http://monkeybacon.mywebcommunity.org/
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    I agree about the need for different tooling. The small quantity that the non-standard VF were produced in M7 is also telling. Nevertheless, the circumstances are all that us fans have got to work with...
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    The thing is -at least in M7's case- the same production facility was used to make the VF-17, VF-19, VF-22 - and all three types of Valkyrie were produced in extremely limited numbers (less than the fingers on one hand). The same facility was also pumping out VF-11. It's prolly a safe thing to infer that they used the same production line to produce all 4 VFs (and possibly others, too, like the VF-16).
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    The bold line struck me as odd. Yes, General Galaxy (and the other manufacturers) probably have a home office and manufacturing plants at Earth, but by and large, each fleet has their own branches, each with their own manufacturing lines. Example: the VF-1's production line was shut down on Earth way back in the 2010's. However, it is still being produced under licence throughout the galaxy, with the latest confirmed production date being 2058 (MtR) in the form of the VF-1X++. Then there's that new VF-1EX from Delta... And then there's the craziness of General Galaxy (indirectly?) producing a VF-19 in the Galaxy Fleet in MtR! I say indirectly, because the Galaxy Fleet is a General Galaxy sponsored corporate fleet (thus Fleet = General Galaxy), but the manufacturing plants in each fleet don't appear to be run by individual companies, but instead are run by the fleet (possibly cooperatively by several companies in each fleet), like the Three Star in the M7 Fleet (thus manufacturing plant = not General Galaxy). ... so yeah, from the Official Setting materials we've been given, there are multitudes of production lines for Valkyries throughout the galaxy, but they're not necessarily owned by the "owner" of the Valkyrie that the production line is producing.
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    I think he was just putting it dramatically to emphasize his point. Pretty much all official material I've come across state that the VF-1 (and by extension, all subsequent VFs) have an effectively unlimited range in an Earth-type atmosphere. So, toilet breaks, coolant and armament usage, and other annoying things like that are the main limitation on atmospheric flight.
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    Black is completely made up stuff. With my game stats stuff, always keep in mind: Official Setting (=cannon) information is in darkgreen. Extended Universe (= semi-cannon) information is in steelblue.
  21. sketchley
    Apparently fried tarantula in South America taste like fried prawns - to the extent that they are referred to as "Jungle tempura" [not that I've tasted them. Source: "Itte Q"]. But before we delve too deeply into what is palatable, just remember the Norther American staples of head cheese and prairie oysters.
  22. sketchley
    They appear to have been re-issued recently (well, after the debut of MF recent). You should be able to find some at Mandarake. Heh... sounds familiar: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=41488
  23. sketchley
    I think the Valkyries in Macross are doing just that. The VF-1's prime weakness is the limited range in space - and when one considers that much of the "reactant" that fuels the reactor is getting tossed out the back as coolant/substitute for atmosphere, the reason for that limited range starts to get into painfully sharp relief.
  24. sketchley
    The VFMF books (not part of the official setting) state that extra fuel is stored in a slush-like state. Presumably the heating of that into a gaseous state would offset some of the heat produced in the engines - especially because that fuel is being used to both drive the reactor in the engine, and get flung out the rear to provide thrust (that's just about the extent of the description of the official setting info on the inner workings of the thermonuclear turbine engines).
  25. sketchley
    If memory serves, that started when the introduced the Stage II Thermonuclear Turbine Engines. More specifically (for those that don't), engines that provide enough output to concurrently provide enough thrust and power the on-board systems (energy weapons, PPB, Energy Conversion Armour). It makes sense, with the preceding line of reasoning, that although some of the excess heat is dumped via the exhaust from the nozzles, that the remainder would require additional heat sinks.
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