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Very nice gunpod, Rodavan. Keep up the great work!
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Just did a quick look-through of my copy. Very, very nice. I'm going to be drooling over it for awhile. Was not expecting a VF-11MAXL...
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Glad to hear all our MW members out there are okay. I remember when I was in Tokyo a couple years ago we had something like a 5.6 in the middle of the night. Save the next day mentioned it was the worst quake he had felt since he moved to Tokyo. They had one plant automatically shutdown (SCRAM) when the quake hit, but I'm surprised the other one didn't. I was going to rewatch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 sometime but I don't feel like it anymore.
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Glad I could help. I started with just the first line, then I kept going back and adding more and more.
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No, the squadron commander will get an x01-numbered bird. The CAGs fly x00 ones and can have more then one plane in an airwing. So you could have, for instance: Skull squadron 1xx Angel squadron 2xx Apollo squadron 3xx Roy would have his classic VF-1S in Skull markings with Modex 100 (yes, I know, canon Macross has it reversed, to an inane 001). The Angel squadron commander would have his VF-1S numbered 201, Apollo 301. Roy could have a VF-1 in those squadron markings too, which would be numbered 200 and 300. He could even have a Cat's Eye marked for him, numbered something like 700 or 800. Traditionally, CAG planes would have more extravagant paint schemes, especially including rainbow markings of some sort. (The rainbow symbolized each squadron). With the move to low-vis markings in the USN, they usually keep the CAG plane painted in full-color, high-visibility markings. Old-style CAG plane with rainbow http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/colinritchie/f-4b%20project/f4b-3.jpg Regular plane, same squadron http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/F-4B_VF-51_CVA-43.jpg Modern CAG plane in high-vis markings. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/FA-18_Super_Hornet_VFA-103.jpg
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Macross Frontier Movie 2 thread - Now available on Blu-ray/DVD
Talos replied to Tochiro's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Judging by the shot of it in the end of the first movie (specifically the shadow of the lower fuselage), it is a Super VF-1J. Also, it is armed with a gunpod. -
Looking good, D. I can't wait to see what you do with the two-seaters I sent you.
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The whole time I was drawing it, I couldn't help but think egg plane.
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Finally got the cockpit installed in these, so I thought I would post them up. From top to bottom, the VF-1D+ (DYRL? cockpit interior for now, since I don't have a TV interior done yet), VT-1, and the civilianized VT-1C. This is supposed to be a bare one, not like the whale hunters'. The head is a custom piece, VF-1A base with the laser removed and replaced with a second camera for the backseater. Still need to fiddle with the nose some, try and get rid of that chin it has.
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Very interesting comparison, I don't think I've seen all of those together at once before. I am liking the newer Hasegawa model, but I loath the look of the Yamato 1/60 v2 (and I say that having two of them). The contours of the nose and canopy just look atrocious. With the Master File one, you can trace back where it comes from, it's just an up-detailed version of the one from This is Animation: Macross Plus. You can compare it to this one. http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/vf-1a-valkyrie/schematic-vf1a.gif It fits closer with the production art from the show, which shows a very skinny and flat-looking VF-1. http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/vf-1a-valkyrie/vf-1a-fullyarmed-fightermultipleviews.gif Notice the intake trunks stay flat, instead of coming down like the Hasegawa ones.
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On a VF-1 roll, I finished two upgraded VF-1s from the VF-1 Master File book. The designs were tweaked some, mostly in the canopy and intake, to make them flow better. I also did the new gunpod for them, the one the VF-3000 uses, but I want to rework it a bit before I post it.
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Best I can do is this. http://www.dalong.net/review/etc/mf11/p/mf11_m0036.JPG
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There's a side view of the model in the instructions that could be used as a basis for one. Finished another VF-1, in this case it's one from Master File, a block 13-17 VF-1J. In MF, the VF-1 was suffering from fatigue problems and had to be fitted with external stiffeners on the ventral fin and tail so this block eliminated most of those. It also features flush antennas on the spine and rearranged access to the avionics bay in the nose.
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Everything in both of those two was vector lines done in MS Publisher, then imported into GIMP, minus the badge base, which was taken from a USAF badge. I could have redrawn it in vector, but it was faster that way.
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Sure, I can post them. They're really old and rough, not to mention VF-4-specific, but here they are. (And yes, I realize I forgot the crossbar in the "A" in Angel )
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Thanks. I need to get back into the profiling game. All I've done over the past year or two is line art.
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I should probably post some of the stuff I have done. Most, if not all of mine were done for my profile works (both Macross and aircraft). I do most of the markings for my profiles, including the squadron insignia on the tail, the UN Spacy text, and the UNS Kite on this SVF-213 Black Lions VF-4. http://talos56.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d25zmdi My very first attempt at a crest was for this (old!) VF-4 Angelbirds profile, where I did both the crest and the logo for a VF-4-era Angelbirds plane. http://talos56.deviantart.com/gallery/7626781?offset=24#/d1r2gbn Also attached are an 84th Bomb Wing crest I did for a Martin B-51 profile a friend and I collaborated on, and a NUNS insignia that I did the line work for and Seto Kaiba here colored. Oh, and a couple airlines I'm working on for my 757 profiles, and a couple squadron tail markings. The palm tree on the Saudia one needs to be redone. It was at a lower-res and I could get away with a simple design there before.
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Macross Frontier Movie 2 thread - Now available on Blu-ray/DVD
Talos replied to Tochiro's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
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Perhaps taboo, but certainly not unknown. Gundam (of which Kawamori was a massive fan of, enough to work on a fan magazine for it, Gunsight) has had nuclear weapons as a main cornerstone since the very beginning. The One Year War featured a massive nuclear war, eventually resulting in the Antarctica Treaty outlawing them for the rest of the war.
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Damn straight, I would love to even just have something in novel or manga format. About the only detail we know, beyond birthdays and such, is that Milia almost died during Miracle's birth (which is why they named her that). One of the twins shows up in another of Emilia's pictures during the 7 movie, but as a teen.
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Sounds like you guys had a great time. Wish I could have been there for it. I totally know how Tenjin feels. While working on line art for the VF-1D and VT-1 series (even the VT-1C), I've developed an irrational affection for those trainers. He's always been a big inspiration for me and of course I say this with his VF-0D art from the first book as my computer background. Just one more week or so and the second book is mine... What was the mad signer like in person? The only time I've seen him speak (on video, not live) was in the extras for the first movie bluray.
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There's also Komilia's Macross II-universe appearance from 2036 and Eternal Love Song.
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Agreed. Your last comment does go against that, though, but I wasn't attacking you in the post (as I even said in it). I was quoting what you said as a generalized thing to react to. When I wrote the post I didn't remember exactly who-said-what and didn't look back to find out until you posted that you never said that. Which is true, back there you didn't. Like Frothymug said, it's the elitist attitude that some of the posts come off as that bothers me. I have all of Macross the First and Macross Ace, I'm doing my part to support them, but a nicely-done, well-edited scanlation on my computer would be a wonderful thing to have too. Were it available in English in the US you could bet anything that I would buy a copy the first day it came out. I don't advocate piracy, but in a situation like this it is the only way for the average fan to get access to Macross. I can't think of how many shows or manga I was exposed to like that. It's one reason I now have a stack of Patlabor DVDs, artbooks (mostly This is Animation and B-Club), and figures... That's not even getting into my Cyber Formula and Macross ones either.
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I didn't say you did. I was responding to posts by sketchley and Tochiro when I posted earlier today. I only quoted your's because it was the latest post before mine and offered a neat summary to use. That being: That being said, I think that getting more fans exposed to Macross can only be a good thing. They aren't going to put the effort into learning Japanese to read a manga and only the hardcore fans are going to pick up a raw manga just to look at the pretty pictures.
