Talos

I finished these up yesterday, thought someone could find them useful for their own profile painting. VF-0A/B/D/S Phoenix with Ghost boosters, based on the Hasegawa lineart for the model kits.

SVX-4 Evaluators Ferris-schemed VF-4 Lightning.

It's Shin's F-14 squadron from the first episode of Macross Zero. I redesignated them into the "SVF" fighter squadron classification though. They were, I think, UNSF-225, on the decal sheet.

Not yet, but it can be done. I'll start working on one. I'm finishing up the VF-31 F-14F and working the SVF-225 VF-4 (both pictured below).

SVF-31 Tomcatters VF-4 Lightning III.

I voted Negative for this episode.

That "ATTACK" was too much for me. The Ending almost redeem the episode though.

That Macross ship is probably ANOTHER Supervision Army's ship that crashed due to the same stuff that disable Alto's plane.

Probably related to the same technology salvaged/rooted from the day of ASS-1

Hikaru was, prior to inheriting Skull One, Skull 011, and Max was Skull 013 at that point in time, prior to the VF-4 entering service.

Thanks Wolfman. I had to go back and look at the model reference material before I realized that. I just finished cobbling together a VF-0B lineart that will serve for now until I can get a cleaner scan of the painting guide for the Hasegawa model. That, or maybe a VF-0D, will likely be the next VF I paint.

The Kakizaki-type Lightning's number is inaccurate. The VF-11 image I'm attaching to this post has his actual number.

Thanks, I couldn't find his real one when I was working on it, so I had to make one up. I'll fix it later. Out of confirmation, Max's and Hikaru's are what?

EDIT: How's this? I'm experimenting with putting in a gradient background with it as well.

I've gotten a few more VF-4s done since I last posted.

UNAF Southeast Asia

UNS SVF-111 Sundowners

UNS Skull Squadron Kakizaki type

And just as an extra, my F-14FJ in JMSDF blue scheme.

EDIT: Does anyone have better scans of the VF-0B or VF-0D painting guides then what's on this site? I'm trying to draw those and it's hard to get the details right.

Beige nose and white stripe Max and Milia, as well as Hikaru created as a PR item for 10th anniversary of the end of SW1 in 2020. The decal on their tails reads "Victory 2010". They are repainted from YF-4 L/N 003 (Hikaru, which is unarmed and becomes a museum piece after the celebrations), VF-4A L/N 014 (Max) and VF-4A L/N 032 (Milia), which are both combat-capable and are flown by their respective pilots.

White nose and white stripe Max and Milia are from 2031. 014 was crashed by Max in 2026 and was replaced by upgraded VF-4G L/N 1675, featuring improved engines and FAST pack capability. Both it and the upgraded VF-4A® L/N 032 received a new white radome and where used to help promote the new movie released that year, "Do You Remember Love?".

White nose and black stripes are from sometime between 2031 and 2045. The UN Spacy sells the fighters as surplus to the Jeniuses, along with their SW1-veteran VF-1Js. They are then repainted with black stripes, but maintain their UNS markings. Milia takes her VF-1J with her on the Macross 7 mission, but the other three planes are left behind and donated to the Museum of Flight on Eden.

EDIT: And here's a VF-4 painted in USAF Compass Ghost colors.

Yeah, I know, March. I've mostly been using your images as a rough guide to the layout of the scheme, since I switched to using more realistic FS colors as opposed to the anime-closer colors I originally had. I'll be doing other classic VF-1 colors soon, at least the four DYRL Skull ones and the TV brown cannon fodder for sure. Looking forward to your site update!

I've pretty much finished the base paints for these. There's still some small things I'll go back and tweak later, but they're overall 99%. First three posted now, others and background text to follow later.

Thanks, Mr. March. I've been here for awhile, though I've only been lurking and reading the posts, haven't had anything to post before. I'm still a beginner as far as coloring, but I've been doing linearts for awhile now. Here's a large pic of most of the aircraft I've drawn. Of interest to the MWers here would be the VF-0/F-14 hybrid F-14NG (F-14E, F-14F, EF-14G), and my F-15/VF-11B hybrid F-27C Warhawk II.

Oh, nice work on your site. I've been following it since day 1 and it gets better and better. I've actually been using it as a reference for my schemes I've been working on.

I've been working on coloring one of the VF-4 profiles I drew and decided I should post a preview of some of the (unfinished) paint schemes. What I'm posting now is Max's blue with white stripes and beige radome, Milia's red with black stripes and white radome (Based on her Macross 7 VF-1J), and Hikaru's white with red stripes and white radome. I'm planning to have the following all done at together first:

Max's

Blue with white stripes and beige radome

Blue with white stripes and white radome

Blue with black stripes and white radome

Milia's

Red with white stripes and beige radome

Red with white stripes and white radome

Red with black stripes and white radome

Hikaru's