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  1. sketchley
    It is - though the proper name is: VEFR-1 "Funny Chinese" (VFMF refers to it as the VF-1G, though in both cases, it predates the introduction of the VE-1). http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/Stats/Statistics/VF-1/VF-1alt.php#VF-1G It appears in SDFM, and gets as much screen time as the GBP-1S "Jotun" (that Orguss based VF-1 in joke).
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    Guessing by what they have on the cover: Macross The Ride.
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    Actually, the producers of Macross DID stop using it. It's just 'us' English speaking fans who haven't stopped calling them FAST packs (I'd err on it being a common term that's still used to aid communications, and not a case of blind ignorance [unlike the "colony fleet" term that's used in English discussions on Macross...]). As has been mentioned elsewhere in this topic, Super Parts and Super Packs are the terms that replaced FAST Packs, and us English speakers have to start using those terms more.
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    That's starting to become mandatory with some carriers. Again, it's on a company basis, and not an industry-wide measure.
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    Great Mechanics.DX RIP! Welcome its replacement: Great Mechanics G! Same great content, now in A4 size. [publisher's HP: http://www.futabasha.co.jp/booksdb/book/listview/50200.html ] Macross Content: A micro review of the 1/4000 Hasegawa SDF-1 Macross [admittedly the stuff on the upcoming Gundam: The Origin is more interesting]. Kawamori's column "Listen to Mr. Kawamori!" is on 'travel' this time, accompanied by pictures of a fjord and downtown Dubai. Rounded out with a blurb ad for "Kawamori Shouji: A Vision Creator's Point Of View": http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%B2%B3%E6%A3%AE%E6%AD%A3%E6%B2%BB-%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E8%A6%96%E7%82%B9/dp/4873763908
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    My bad. Shoji Kawamori Macross Design Works Pg 089 & 119 labels them "下面のスリットがVTOLホバリング用メインノズルです". (Kawamori's scrawl is so... illegible at times. Luckily not this time). I don't think anyone needs a translation to get the gist of it, eh?
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    There's a VF-1 back (thruster box and folded up wings) on that spaceship.
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    I believe it's stemming from a couple of major factors - the general decline of print media with the onset of the Smartphone revolution (I've seen a lot of bookstores close or downsize over the past two years), the aforementioned editors not putting a better product out, and the general decline of interest in properties once their TV series is no longer being broadcast (the speed of the drop off is quite fast at times in Japan). There are other factors, such as a bad distribution network for brick and mortar bookstores (I've seen this cited in an article for the advent of Smartphone oriented novels), but I doubt that those played as much a role as the big 3 did.
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    Yes. That's why I've avoided translating manga. On the one hand, it's super easy to do (all Macross manga has furigana - no need to look up the readings of unknown kanji!), but on the other hand, it's also super easy for some jerk to "steal" it, photoshop it into high quality scans, and "save people the trouble of having to buy it". Catch-22. Quoted for truth!
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    http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/ Peruse the links under the Translations header. I've indicated (some of) the VFs that appear in Dengeki Hobby, Great Mechanics, and Great Mechanics.DX. The Other Books/Magazines should also provide a guide. Though, ultimately, the site's content is limited to what I have on hand...
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    The only thing that comes to mind is that the images and some parts of the description that I looked closely at were almost exactly like what Dr. Michio Kaku described as a how to make an anti-object force field in a Discovery show (anti-object, because what was being used as the "beam" to create the force field "net" couldn't stop photons...).
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    ST:TNG is running on Super Drama TV in Japan (gotta love that cable station name). But alas, it's at an unfriendly time slot (for me). Not to mention that I just spent the last year crawling through all 7 seasons (original version). I really like the remastering of the live action footage that they're doing for it - some of it looks incredible now. Taksraven - I think one of the reasons why it didn't get axed was because it was released direct to syndication. There was no one channel that had the ability to quickly axe it, and Paramount was very positive about new ST TV episodes until the early 2000's, as well.
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    And don't forget: http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/Stats/Statistics/VF-171/VF171.php (stuff in green is official, stuff in steelblue is semi-official) and you can find a bunch more info browsing around here: http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/ (and as Macross Chronicle and Great Mechanics.DX keep cropping up in recent topics these days, the direct links for their TOC's): http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/OTgreatmechanicsDX.php http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/MCindex.php
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    If you don't have something to suck up the fumes, it's best to spray paint outside. The sticks and clips are to keep each part separate to give access to all of their while being painted to give them an even layer of paint. I generally only spray paint a clear-coat on, but even using only a lowly paintbrush, the sticks and clips method works wonders. Top tip: make the sticks out of disposable chopsticks. Use masking tape to attach the parts to the sticks. Use a rolled up (or folded up) cardboard box (taped up, cut in half) as a holder for the sticks.
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    Sketch hasn't been active since 2013: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showuser=1441
  16. sketchley
    Those aren't ducts. They are nothing more than an expansion joint that collapses when it transforms into Battroid (like Venetian blinds). See here for further details: http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossplus/yf-21/yf-21-transformation1.gif (note how far forward the engine nacelle slides in the open position).
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    There are some big, glaring questions not being addressed with this: what is the environment? What are the gravity conditions? For example, the VF-11 are routinely seen in M7 making vertical takeoffs in outer space off a low gravity carrier deck, and the aforementioned VE-1 is seen making a vertical take off inside a Zentraadi spaceship in space - which may or may not have a much lower gravity and less dense atmosphere than Earth does. Now, assuming that the official stats that say that the VF-1 is VTOL capable are written from the perspective that it is occurring in conditions like those on the surface of the Earth, than in that specific instance, it can only be done using vernier thrusters. It's not very efficient, probably consumes a large volume of the manoeuvring fuel load, but it is highly probable. And if the VF-1 can do it, presumably all subsequent VFs are capable of doing it. I get the sense that this is for some type of RPG or gaming. In that case, I recommend letting the players get away with it, but penalizing them later with the vernier thrusters that they used to do the VTOL running out of fuel (and no, fuel from other vernier thrusters cannot be moved internally to the other ones in other parts of the fuselage.)
  18. sketchley
    Found: Police Officer OCC Special thanks to Desubateta for providing the stats!
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    Thanks!
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    The main problem the VF-1 has in space is lack of fuel - it's like one of the Russian fighters (the Su-27?) which has been derisively referred to as only being good at protecting its own base, due to its lack of internal carried fuel. The VF-1's FAST Packs are mostly a bunch of additional fuel tanks, with a pair of limited duration large boosters strapped on top (despite them being used constantly in the anime, at max thrust they only carry 150 seconds of fuel!), and a few additional armaments - which go hand in hand with its increased endurance in combat (endurance in the sense of length of time that can be spent on the battlefield).
  21. sketchley
    The Super Parts are supposed to be purge-able. So, once their fuel/armament loads are consumed, they get dropped, but the VF-11C still has engine nacelle armaments.
  22. sketchley
    Indeed. Officially it's a limited production. You're making a fanfic, so anything goes, right? That said, you can just out and say that your fleet was one of the few that produced the MAXL in large numbers (like the Galaxy Fleet and the VF-27), or pick and choose the parts you like from it, and apply them as you see fit (eg: replacing the standard engines with downtuned MAXL engines [properly tuned ones are too powerful for the unreinforced airframe of the standard VF-11). Expanding on that last point, you could say that because the engines are too powerful for the airframes, the near end-of-life-VF-11 were removed from special forces duties, downtuned, and given to the canon fodder pilots to maximize the fleet's investment in them by lengthening their end of life period! (Or the MAXL airframes themselves had to be scrapped due to over-stressing, but the engines were recycled, or something to that effect)
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    Not the MAXL Kai, the MAXL. Mylene's Sound Force fighter is a customization of a MAXL (or the wordy wording: a customization of the MAXL customization of the VF-11). Compare: http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/Stats/Statistics/VF-11/VF11MAXL.php to http://www.mtranslation.host-ed.me/Stats/Statistics/VF-11/VF11MAXLKai.php
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    Ahhh... the water technique works best for large stickers where its much harder to eyeball placement. That said, try and avoid balls of water. Nevertheless, those small ones... I always use a blade edge to apply them (the same exacto blade used for cleaning up the sprue marks on the pieces): get a small part of the decal on the sharp edge of the blade, and use that to transfer it from the decal sheet to the kit. Keep the sticker from touching the plastic until your satisfied with the placement, and affix the larger portion onto the plastic (a soft, blunt tool (fingernail?) should do the trick), and gently remove the blade from under the sticker.
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