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If nobody minds my adding a question on this thread,I'm building a Hasegawa VF-1J as Miriatype and I was wondering how to do the panel lines on this red airplane.I figure her plane won't have too mush weathering-Miria would probably assign one guy just to polish the Valk-and I don't know if I should airbrush pre-shade(and what tone to use)or lining later?

I wasn't thinking so much that she SHOULD come back as if anyone had seen any info about her-I have an Animerica magazine(can't find it just this moment,of course) from late '98 on'99 that tell the fate of the Bridge Bunnies,Breetai,and Global-and I was wondering if there was some info about Claudia that had come out since then.I just don't have the skills to translate my Macross artbooks,and I was hoping that some translated stuff from VF-X2 or Macross Zero would mention Claudia.

w m cheng-you ARE the master!I'm so inspired by your work.

Not that one so much,but the thin 2-step one-I just checked and there's a great view in"Pineapple Salad"when the crew check Roy's VF-1S.My problem is trying to fabricate it in 1/72 scale.I'm building a VF-1J as a MiliaType with a ground crew loading weapons.I'd also like to have an open canopy and deployed boarding ladder. I guess I was asking if anybody had made one out of brass or something.

Great work-can I get on the list for a couple?

Very nice.What thickness of sheet styrene did you use?

This is just truly awesome work !

The Navy-style built in one.Gomen-I should have been more clear.

I agree with most of these opinions.Some of the price differences between companies is due to "most favored Nation Trading Status"for China(Trumpeter and Dragon)and taiwan(AFV Club)and Korea(Academy).Japanese kits seem to be hit with some kind of tariff.Hasegawa kits are now distributed in the USA by Dragon so the prices seem to be coming down.Tamiya put there domestic factory/warehouse in Marin County,CA-very ritzy developments and housing-and seem to be charging us to pay the higher rent.Why they didn't put the warehouse in Oakland .

You know the F-4 Phantom-style crew ladder on VF-1's?Has anybody scratchbuilt or modified one in 1/72 scale?Also,are there any good drawing or photos to show the pivot when the Valk's canopy is open?Thanks.

Right on with that-naming for people that are still alive just seems wrong.I miss the old carrier names-Saratoga,Independance,Essex(which has now been bestowed upon an amphibius ship).Oh well,maybe one of the new attack subs will be Colorado.We havent had one since that lovely clipper-bowed battleship from the "30's.

Hey guys.I just looked on Macross2.net,and someone there said a panel at AX 04 said Aegis is not related to Roy.Anybody ever heard that

Who was the other? 424357[/snapback] He will certinly be missed.

I thought I saw someware that Aegis Focker was Roy's nephew-but it aint on the Macross Compendium site-anybody know?

An excellent oldie-one of my all-time faves is Galaxy Express 999.It is an epic romantic film that all anime fans should see.I used to work in an anime store and it was my standard recommendation.

Thanks,Knight26-I'll look for that now-Claudia was always a favorite of mine

I know Kawamori has said that the story of Misa,Hikaru,andMinmay is done-and we know about the bridge bunnies and the micronized Zentraedi-but what about Claudia? I'm pretty sure Edgar from Macross Zero is her Brother.Was there ever anything about her?

Me too.

I believe the Minmay Guard scheme was from the Japanese hobby magazine Model Graphix-I don't know which issue.I have the Hasegawa Battroid kit with the markings & I think they were just having fun,imagining a joyous concert on the surviving moon base/city.On the markings sheet the unit is liisted as U.N.SPACY/SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND/SPECIAL WEAPON DEVELOPMENT WING/87th SPECIAL ESCORT SQUADRON"MINMAY GUARD' hope that helps

True, but in space, aside from the big gas planets, there really isn't that much of it. Even in the pseudo-scientific technical manuals for Star Trek, they don't claim for such a system to be that effective in producing the quantities needed to sustain a long duration, let alone fast, trip. Here's a scientific article on the idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet And some scientific stuff: "The collected propellant can be used as reaction mass in a plasma rocket engine, ion rocket engine, or even in an antimatter-matter annihilation powered rocket engine. Interstellar Space contains an average of 10 (to the -21st power) kg of mass per cubic meter of space. This means that the ramjet scoop must sweep 10(to the 18th power) cubic meters of space to collect one gram of ions per second." In other words, 10,000,000,000,000,000 cubic Km to get one gram. For fun, in imperial: 62,137,119,200,000,000 cubic miles for all of 0.00220462262 pounds of it. 426578[/snapback] Probably why it usually shows up on relativistic ships in sci-fi. The faster you're going, the longer your volume is, and the less width you need on your scoop to sustain things. 426736[/snapback] the Helium 3 isotope wouldbe a very efficent reaction mass for Macross drives-and it is present in the atmospheres of the gas-giant planets.Also,I believe the waste produced by fusing Helium 3 is good old H2O. I think it wouldn't be difficult to harvest with Macross level tech(I believe the major difficulty is GETTING to the gas giant planets) .Addenum-I just saw on one of those Lunar landing hoax BS websites that there is 10 billion tons of Helium 3 on Luna-deposited by the solar wind.