Talos

GIMP, its free and it works like Photoshop (from what I've heard).

With GIMP, you can achieve results close enough to Photoshop. The tools are probably similar to Photoshop too.

Hope this helps.

::EDIT::

-__- Just realised that it was way back in Sept...

Gimp is what I use to do this:

Talos,

I'm just wondering if you have a full size mockup of the german flag you used available? And might I commission one too if possible?

I can make a full-sized one in a few minutes. All it is is the UN Kite over the German Bundesflagge and with the word "Neuweltregeirung" on top of that. I did it in small-size this time, but I can make a larger version for you.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot. I'm happy to take commissions.

Thanks, Wolfman. Here's two more.

It's common to add names like "Koenig" (or other terms) to things to show an improved model. Since the VB-6 is a variable Monster, it's thus the "Koenig Monster", meaning "King Monster." That's all it is. It's like in World War II, the PzKpfw VI Tiger I tank was replaced by the PzKpfw VI Tiger II (nicknamed Königstiger).

7. Yes, this is a good idea. I'll place my guesstimate picture in that section and I'll get some more size comparison diagrams up. Talos and meninge had a good idea with the Valkyrie fighter mode size charts and I should probably get to work on one for my site. But I'm lacking side schematics for stuff like the VF-0, SV-51 and VF-19 Excalibur from the model kits (or fan made ones, wherever they came from). Naturally, I'd want high resolution everything. This is the M3 after all

I actually am working on a side profile of the VF-19 based on a tiny and blurry model kit one I found. I'll upsize it to a much, much higher resolution though. If I ever get done with it.

I also have all the different VF-0 models, as well as them with gunpods, FAST packs, armaments, and Ghost boosters. I'll cobble together a VF-0C later based on the new Hasegawa model.

Yeah, I can get you the schematics. You want them in really high resolutions? Here's the VF-4 in a little lower resolution than what you're used to working with:

http://www.new-un-spacy.com/miscellaneous/...-schematics.gif

Thanks, Mr. March, I would greatly appreciate it. I've been trying to do some of the more rare VFs, so that'd help immensely. That VF-4 is what I used as a basis for mine, I just increased the resolution after drawing the lineart from that. They don't need to be in super-high-resolution though, somewhere around the VF-4's level would be awesome.

Crap, double post...

No, I'm basing it on the Hasegawa model, I like its lines better. Do you have the other fighter schematics from TIA Macross Plus? I have been scouring the internet looking for good resolution scans of them.

I do do other stuff!

I've had the VF-4 pretty much finished, so that's why I've been doing a lot of schemes on it. Since I got through some major stumbling blocks on this one, I can get back to work on it and get closer to finishing. There's a ton of curves to work through.

I've been working on the YF/VF-21 profile. There's still a lot left to do, but it's getting there.

I've got a lot to add to the For Fans Only section. I'm going to have to devote some time to doing a major addition to just that portion of the site. With your permission, I'll certainly add your works.

Sure, you definitely got my permission. When you do, go with the versions in my Photobucket account. I do occasionally minor updates to a picture without announcing them or replacing the links.

Thanks, Mr. March. I liked the look of the greyish coloring on your's so I did my best to replicate it here. If you have any other custom paint schemes you want me to do on the VF-4, let me know. Feel free to use it and any other of my profiles on M3 if you'd like as well.

The SVX-4 paint Scheme looks good.. can you do one on a VF-25 airframe?

I'd have to have a drawn, shaded, and colored VF-25 sideview finished before I could. I haven't started on one, so there won't be anything VF-25-related in color coming from me for awhile.

Mr. March, someone on another board requested that I do a custom paint scheme that you had done in your lineart at M3 awhile back. I'm posting it here, hope you like it.

First off, Macross II has no place in the Studio Nue timeline, or Plus/7/Frontier in the Big West one. It is an alternate universe entry in franchise and that's where it should stay. I say that as a fan of the OVA/movie.

Duke, I really do think that Seto makes a valid point in the hypothesis that the Mardook are surviving members of the Protoculture. Had there been mention of a Supervision Army in the Macross II continuity, then there would be cause for them to not be, but as it stands that's the most viable option. Their use of song to control the Zentradi and their total control over them even to the point of suicide on the battlefield would imply to me that they were the creators of them, and thus the Protoculture. I've read some of those interviews, and though it's never directly said, they do allude to it in places. I'd say, where has he said that the Mardook didn't create the Zentradi and aren't members of the Protoculture?

All the Schematics-Guys out there

I'm planning some "All that VF" style animation. I finished most of the static mechanics stages and now i just started the VF modelling. BUT!!!! I have a problem... i didn't found any references (3view ones) of the Ghost Fighters used in the Frontier.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance!!!!

I know hellohikaru was working on Ghost X-9 views, so that's probably the closest you're going to get to them.

EDIT: While I'm here, I finished a couple more VF-4s and updated the Ferris one.

MS Paint has it's uses, though.

As does MS Publisher + GIMP!

Hmm, weird. I'm reloading those ones that aren't showing up.

With the establishment of the UN Spacy forces, the decision was made to commission a squadron designated "SVF-1 Skull Squadron" as the flagship variable fighter squadron onboard the UNS Asuka II aircraft carrier. As a result of this, the former-United States Navy fighter squadron VF-103 Jolly Rogers was supposed to be disbanded but it was reformed instead with it's old designation and markings as SVF-103 Sluggers. The Sluggers fought through the entire course of the war, flying first the VF-0 and then the VF-1 series, before being equipped with the VF-4 in 2013. After only a year of flying the new plane, they were all repainted in an overall-gray scheme to replace the brown and white wartime one.

Later, during the expansion of the UN Spacy to equip the new Megaroad class colonization fleets, SVF-84 was stood up in 2016. Since SVF-1 still took the skull-and-crossbones lineage of VF-84, it was decided to return the squadron to an earlier era as SVF-84 Vagabonds, carrying markings not seen since the early 1960s.

Both these squadrons were authorized to carry a small Jolly Rogers banner underneath the cockpit in all paint schemes to honor their heritage carrying the bones.

In the 2030s, after the release of the feature-length film "Do You Remember Love?", the UN Spacy decided to bring back the markings not seen since SVF-1 departed Earth in 2012 with the failed Megaroad-01 mission. Thusly, SVF-103 was redesignated "SVF-103 Jolly Rogers" and remarked with their old skull markings and fuselage banding.

very cool talos, so does the AB VF-4 still look like a school girl uniform in Batroid mode?

Thanks, k8. I would think that it would still. I tried to adjust the scheme to take into account the transformation of the VF-4.

I use Microsoft Publisher for my lineart. It takes a bit of work to get good-looking results, but it can be done.

Here are the Angel Birds VF-4, including custom unit crest and logo, and the redone SVF-111 Sundowners.

Has anyone seen hellohikaru in a while?

He popped into my thread on Sci-fi Meshes last week, that's the last I've seen him on.

NO no no no, they are ok, LOOK:

I see your chart talos, I think probably is the scale that we use to make our charts, but it's ok, yours and mine!

I looked again at your chart and it's fine, the YF-21 and YF-19 are just back a bit (the engine nozzles aren't lined up), so they look shorter.

Something is wrong with the chart. The 21 should be bigger than the 0.

Or am I crazy?

It is longer, by almost a full meter. I have them at the correct lengths in my chart.