Aurel Tristen

Nice kit. However a VF-XS...... http://nanashino.macrossmecha.info/variable/vfxs.html I trust you meant VF-xS....

Robo-what?

Hello all, first let me say that I don't have any model building skills, but I am going to be trying my hand at them soon. Hasegawa has produced some awesome looking kits, the some of the model detailed kits to date. However, I have a gripe about their VF-1 kits. I'm not certain if this has ever been discussed or not. (It probably has) Unfortunately, Hasegawa has apparently screwed up several things that Studio Nue has specified. Studio Nue's 4 hardpoint specification - screwed-up there are a lot more hardpoints under a Hasegawa's wings. UUM-7 Micro Missile (weapons set) 5 Rearward-firing HMM-1s of the UUM-7 micro missile pods - screwed up 2 crooked leg/engine pods - screwed-up schematic-why couldn't they just use Shigeki Ninomiya's plans as a basis? 4 vernier thrusters on leg/engine pods - screwed up-they seem to think those are lights and not nozzles when Kiyomi Tanaka (Studio Nue) has drawn those very detail internal cutaways and labeled them as being vernier thrusters. I thought Hasegawa was working with Kawamori to ge these things as correct as possible. Just curious, has anyone ever modified their Hasegawa VF-1 kits to correct these errors? (Filing down those incorrect hardpoint locations etc.) Also, did anyone ever thing about making a modification kit for that purpose?

1. I am not perfect, I have made mistakes. 2. I apologize. (Especially, to you Egan Loo.) 3. I realize that go against the grain sometimes. 4. I want to be recognized for my efforts as fan. 5. I do not wish profit moniterily from my website. 6. I do not wish claim anything as my own which is not that. 7. I have been greedy. 8. I ask that my scans only be viewed personally and not redistributed on another website etc. 9. If they are used please don't alter them and give credit. 10. If they are altered and/or not credited, there is nothing I can do. 11. I will no longer use script code to prevent people from taking images. 12. All images from now on will be tagged scanned by and credit will be give to the original artist whenever possible. I don't wish to talk about this kind of stuff anymore, so please don't give me poo about it.

Yes but Keith.... you are MINE and I haven't plastered any logos all over you or made you a bitch to download. ; ) LOL So, please don't complain or I might have to keep them all to myself. *hugs himself and starts swaying back and forth while standing* Oh my.... ignore the above text.

私のミレーヌ、かわいいね～ http://www.macrossmecha.info/non-mecha/myl...and_guvava.html

Would you rather my site didn't go anywhere and I didn't post links here? Now that would be confusing. HAHA! ^.^ j/k

*bites tongue*

That's cool. : ) Do you have any larger images of that model?

Its a sticker from a music CD.... Really? Which one? I have almost all of the M7 CDs and I've never seen it. Must be a Chie Kajiura or Tomo Sakurai album. Chie Kajiura's LOOPHOLE

There is one up on Yahoo! Japan for Auction: http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r6329920 Showing this for the 3 larger pictures

Older legit VHS covers

Its a sticker from a music CD....

DYRL

http://nanashino.macrossmecha.info/variabl...lingcannon.html Note 4 barrel gatling cannon in replacing one of the RMS-1s and the blade antennae on the FAST packs, also the shoulder super parts.

Sometimes you just want something non-mecha to look at.... hehe http://www.macrossmecha.info/non-mecha/mylene_feathers.html

Shread some trees to clear a path, tear up small enemy vehicles and personnel, dig yourself into a position (literally), I'm sure there are many things they can be used for. They can be used as weapons.

Oh you are talking about the Macross Super Plastic Model Manuals. Those are not Macross mecha. They are designs from Megaro Zamac. You see, after Kawamori came up with the "GERWALK", other anime series, etc. started using the concept.

Don't forget there are still the non-variable SB-1-/10 Starwing Large Wing Stealth Bombers for large-scale strategic bombing.

Found this fan custom recently: http://www.geocities.jp/j02i924/page010.html Not sure if anyone posted this before. Its pretty cool.

I would get the Japanese Region 2 Macross II DVD collection (2 DVD-set) Its much better than the US release. Here is a capture I took (cropped with auto-contrast applied) :

The mecha depicted in the Macross Hobby Handbook vol. 1 are fan custom kit-bashes [some of which are] based on drawings by Studio Nue.

There is no official information on the VAB-2 available except specifically for when the development began, the engine and vernier models and performance, and that the Saubergeran, was based upon it/converted from it. Specifics are only known for sure for the FBz-99. My site..... its almost up. See: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...=0entry237234 for a list of some of the available entries.

Just because it was designed as a varaible A/B doesn't mean that the mechanisms used for and during transformation wouldn't take up room that could be otherwise used for missiles/bombs. If you're going to argue that they simply made the VAB-2 larger to accomodate the same number of munitions, my counter arguement would simply be, why not make a larger bomber period? Or, produce more of the smaller bomber? The fact that the VAB-2 has limited ground capabilities also limits it's practicallity in battorid mode. Granted, a GERWALK mode could be conveivably useful, but if you look at modern A/B solutions, faster and maneuverable is more useful than slow. With the avionics that UN SPACY has at it's disposal, making a stable platform for dropping munitions would be easy, regardless of variable ability. Also, consider that modern A/B planes, hit their targets, expend their munitions, return for refuel and re-arm and then return to do more damage, they don't stay in the air and attempt air superiority missions, which is analagous to the arguement of having a VAB-2, transform and carry on the sort of missions a standard VF would be more suited for? Why waste a craft that can support fighters/bomb targets with a mission that it is ill suited for? Conceivably GERWALk mode, with internal weapon bays still ready for deployment could be useful for doing low altitude runs against ground based mecha and/or installations, but I have already concede that GERWALK would be useful. Nothing states that the VAB-2 has or would have limited ground abilities. A regular attack bomber it is not. OT enables the military to manufacture these variable combat systems. Suggesting that a variable attack bomber wouldn't be as effective or lethal as conventional (non-variable) attack bomber would be like saying there is no need a Valkyrie because a conventional fighters could do a better job than a VF. Comparing the F-14 to the VF-1 or the SV-51. There is no comparison. Without a doubt, the Macross creators would make the variable version of an attack bomber as vastly more compliable than a non-variable one in a multitude of ways as they have with the VF.

I doubt that a 'transformation sequence' would have been "added" to the VAB-2. Like other Valkyries, the VAB-2 would have been developed originally as Variable Attack Bomber with that concept already taken into account An attack bomber that could transform in midair, land, take cover, engage in a fire fight on the ground after firing missiles/dropping bombs on an attack run--just like any other variable craft yet with a larger payload, having similar abilities would be quite beneficial to the Spacy.