Talos

Oh, Hell yeah!! Now, Talos, quit teasing us and finish that frakkin' image! Or do I need to bug you on the other forums we both frequent?

Don't worry, I will. But first I need to finish the Rogers and Tophatters! I'll post them all together.

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Something like this then, guys?

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You have to have the Bounty Hunters added at some point, their markings are just to amazing!!

I made one of my 1/72 VF-0B kits in this color scheme!!

I did a VF-2 VF-4 in that exact color scheme during my first run of VF-4s. I'm going to do a triple profile of them, that, the old CAG schem, and a low-vis bird.

No problem, Wolfman.

SWEET! Are the Bounty Hunters up next?

No, but they should be coming soon enough. Probably Tomcatters and Swordsman up next.

Preview of some of the squadrons I have in the paint shop right now.

SVF-96 will get upgraded eventually, along with the rest.

Thanks, chillyche!

And here's SVF-1A Wolfpack (designated as such, since SVF-1 is the Skulls).

You're welcome. I can't wait to see your next pictures.

I might have the ELINT schematic, but I can't recall if it's the blank or the colored one. I'll check when I get home later today.

The only one I can recall offhand is the colored decal markings guide from the Hasegawa VE-1 kit. The one on this site. It's one of the blanks I've intended to draw sometime, in the far future at least. XD

What I do is I set the lineart as the top layer. This would make the image all white with the black linework, but I set the layer mode to "multiply", then I have the other things on lower layers. Each of those VF-4s I posted a bit ago has, for example, 85 layers. I'm using GIMP, so I'm not sure where that option is in Photoshop, so you'll have to look around.

Ah, it feels nice to go back and work on some more VF-4s. Here's SVF-143 Pukin' Dogs.

Yeah, feel free to use any of mine. I have finished:

Hasegawa-based VF-1J, VF-1A

VF-19F, VF-19S (same lineart)

VF-4

VF-0A/B/C/D/S bare, with gunpod, with FAST Pack, and with Ghost booster

VA-3

VE-3 (my own design)

YF-21

VF-22S

Unfinished:

VF-9

VF-11

VF-2SS w/o SAP

YF-19

VF-25S

VF-171

Let me know if you need anything. I can send you my colored and shaded VF-4 if you want too. It's in .xcf or .psd.

Thanks, hellohikaru! I had to do a lot of the detail based on the "full-detail" picture of Basara's VF-19 in Kawamori's Macross Design Works book. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

As far as my coloring/shading job, I'm at here so far:

I finished the lineart for the VF-19F, so I thought I'd post the blanks here for anyone who wants to do their own. I provided one without markings and another with stripes and roundel.

Just as a teaser, here's what I have so far since I started shading and coloring the VF-19F. I'll post the finished lineart later for people who want to do their own coloring work.

Thanks, hellohikaru. Your VF-19F was one big reason I did it. It was well-done for the references you had and I wanted to improve on it. Heck, your VF-2SS SAP is part of the inspiration for the non-SAP VF-2SS I'm doing too.

They extend. That's what the arrows in the second picture Mr. March attached are indicating.

I have this VF-1 I drew based on the Hasegawa kit if it'll help. It has a full AMM-1 loadout.

Thanks, guys. Got a lot more of the VF-19F done today. I'm looking forward to color schemes on that one more then the VF-19A, since I haven't seen many good and accurate ones on it ever.

Previews of a couple other line-art profiles I've been working on.

Aahh!

There it was right under my nose all the time!!

Thanks for posting that link.

Cheers,

Glad I could help! I used those to draw the F-14 tail insignia to use for my VF-4 profile drawings. (I did a squadron marked as SVF-225)

Ok - I may as well push my luck here....

Can anyone post a scan of the Hasegawa instructions? Specifically the painting instructions - but the whole thing would be better!

That should be enough to complete the references for a 1:48 build.

Cheers,

Something like this? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...f14/hasef14.htm

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...F14_Dec_Ins.jpg

That looks awesome Talos, Be great if you had a VF-4 to apply it too!!

I'd also suggest this one to the OP too.

I have one other SVX-4 VF-4 planned.

I saw those Tomcats a few times at the Van Nuys, CA Airshow in 97-98 ( I'm pretty sure), definitely before 9/11 when security went ape-$hit!!

As the pilots were leaving they kept raising & lowering their front landing gear like they were bowing, Then took off at full afterburner. One regular pass, one inverted!! Good times!!

Surprised no one has tried this color scheme for any Valk.

I did it for a VF-4 profile, at least (soon to be updated to my current version, including cockpit).

I'm gonna go with this. I wonder if such a tactic has ever been tried in real life though.

Back in the Cold War days, the Soviet VVS would equip aircraft with a semi-active radar homing (SARH) and an imaging infrared (IIR) version of the same missile. The pilot would fire both, because it was thought that the western pilot would spoof one of them, but wouldn't counter the other. Also, during the Vietnam war, it was typical to launch two missiles in quick succession because of unreliability.

So pretty close! In real life, the AIM-9's performance envelope is a lot shorter then the AIM-120. It's supposed to engage targets inside the AIM-120's minimum range. The AIM-9 doesn't operate into the AIM-120's envelope. I don't have the numbers on me right now, since I just woke up, but I'll look for them later.

add a couple of bumps on each side under each wing glove

Those bumps are only seen on the F-14B and late F-14A (they were a retrofit), and are the best way of seperating the F-14D from those models if you can't see the dual IRST/TCS chin pod. The F-14D incorporated those antenna flush into the airframe and they're simply missing on the earlier F-14A. I did a lot of research into the Tomcat when I was doing my F-14E/F/EF-14G VF-0/F-14 meld designs a couple years ago.

Also,

That Macross Tomcat carries AIM-120's instead of AIM-7's

As you can see in the above pictures, Shin's Tomcat has AIM-9 Sidewinders on the Wing glove sub-pylons and AIM-120 AMRAAM on the main ones and the four fuselage Sparrow hardpoints. The real Tomcat was never deployed with AIM-120 and carried AIM-7 Sparrows until its 2006 decommissioning.