Jasonc

Well, it's been a couple days since the last reply, so I thought I'd jump in and see if there were any updates on this project. Anyways, Looking magnificant

Man, Did congress vote for you or the macross fans to go to war??? Damn, man, chill out, breathe into a brown paper bag, relax a little. I don't think people that bought a "Robotech product" are sleeping less, or feel conviction. In a free, capitalistic market we live in here in the U.S. we buy many goods out of choice, not because we have to. Toys and anime like this we buy cause of choice. If you hate HG so much, fine, but let it go about sticking it to them or ranting about that. This thread is about MACROSS being dubbed, not HG or their products. Again, I say, glad to see that it (Macross dubbed) will probably bring in more fans, and as far as modifying songs and the sort, hope they don't. Maybe redoing the original songs, I'd be alright with, but the songs fit great, and should stay original there. Dubbing it is different enough, don't need to change the whole damn thing.

Well, I'm happy to see Mari play Minmay again. This whole debate over Sub and Dub is really ridiculous... Sometimes a comment said in one language doesn't mean the same when translated to another language, so the original meaning gets lost in translation. So, with that said, most people who read a subbed movie or show may miss what is really said. Now, Mari doing Minmay again and how she feels about it is great. Dubbed sometimes isn't just translating, it's a matter of making it appeal to the audience of that language. I do feel the same as many that most recent dubs have been pretty shotty at best, and the cutesie voices many of these shows come out with don't fit the character, but it's not there for stupid people, the U.S. just usually markets their dubbed shows for kids, whereas I believe in Japan it's marketed to span through with a larger agae range. As much as we can all complain about Dubs and quality, when Rurouni Kenshin first came out here, nobody wanted to pick it up. there were the subbed loyalists, who got it, but when it was packaged as a dub as well, that version sold 4-1 over the dubbed versions. I think we should be happy they are doing this. I do know from a valuable source at ADV that the original Japanese audio will be available with English subs that can be turned on and off, and the new English vocals with subs for that as well. Just look at it as being able to get them on better quality discs. My Animeigo discs are getting worse.

Wow, this is another must have. Please put me down for one please. Thanks

This is a definite must have!!! Ryuji, your work is truly awesome. Thanks for the updates. Please keep the gorgeous pics coming man.

OK, I'm late on this, but could you add me to the list? Thanks

I think it's fine adding more "bust" to the sculpt. Afterall, what looks like seperated busts, will be sculpted into the chest plate once done, and will look perfectly fine. On some points of the rendition, I know Ryuji wants the sculpt to look as close as the original artist, but on things like the bust size, I believe a little freedom on his part is great and will actually add to a 3D model. Great work on this, I wish I had half the skill to make those. Nice work.

hMMM, I'm waiting for my box to show up from hlj.com. Anyone know a good place to get the boxes cheaper or easier? Does Frank & Sons have them? anyways, I'll make my report when I get the box.

My cleaning technique for Acrylics (Tamiya) is as follows: 1) Wash out excess paint with water 2) Pour Formula 409 in feeder and spray it out. 3) Clean out broken up paint in feeder and on the heads 4) Pour rubbing alcohol in feeder and spray out. 5) reclean heads and any parts with q-tip 6) pour purified water in feeder and spray out. 7) Dry all parts off and put away happily Is that too obsessive?

With god-like size!!! Mike, amazing! Simply amazing, I'm in for one for sure. And Big F, welcome to the boards man!!!

You have me down for a XL, I just want one Large, Thanks bro!!!

Are you referring to the US edition of VFX-2??? If so, I will have to have a talk and shoot around town for it. Is this guy at Frank & Sons?

1 large please. Thanks

I use the model master dullcoat. And I've used the regular tester's stuff. I like Model Master better. It, for some reason, goes on quite easily and covers simpler than the dullcoat. but As far as finish, they are both the same I believe

There was an older thread about the paper monster. This B&W version is damn sweet. I built the color version on 110lb. cardstock. That seemed to be the best paper. And for the parts that would be showing white in certain areas, I double printed the backside of the the paper in the green color just to keep the same color and look a little more realistic. Actually, I am working on cleaning up the colors of the colored version, because I will be getting it printed on I believe it is 16x20 poster board paper. A print shop will be doing it for me and it's gonna cost a little dough, but that should bring it to rougly a 1/48 scale. Of course, I will be doing this with photgraphs along the way. Now I'm trying to decide,,, do I print it in color (a dulled out green and not so dull as the original, or in the B&W? Again, man, great job on the monster. It's one hell-of-a project, I know.

Um, I don't know if you still needed it, but I'm still in for one, maybe 2 depending on taxes and how those go. But keep me for one. And BTW, those pics are B-E-A-utiful!!! Damn, I need this!

I actually listened to Mari's CD Wonderful People. Not bad stuff at all. Much of it is quite jazzy and melodic, and catchy. I played it on the way home through the car's bose system, and it's good. I want to hear more.

That would be Memo, who got the pics of everyone with Mari and the solo pics. Hopefully he'll post up his 100 shots or so. Maybe he'll send them to Shaun for upload onto this site in a special section or so. Man, I had a great time there, and loved the company. It was great to see Mari again, she is always sooooo hot I was kinda sad not to see too many new customs in the works. That's always a real treat seeing original stuff and paint schemes. but still some great new stuff nevertheless. I wish I could've gone to the dinner afterward, but had to meet my parents for father's day dinner. I guess I'll see many of you at AX. Seiichi, great to see the stuff for sale you brought, I can't wait for the store to come up and I'll see you at SD comicon. Thanks guys for making this a great con again.

Thought I'd give this thread a little update,,, I'm gonna make this into like a 1/55 scale, so that would make it stand what, about 2-2.5 feet??? My question is, what size paper would I need? 16x20? I am wondering if the current scan would work alright on that size, or would I need to "clean" it for a higher resolution. I will get this up and going though, if I can make it possible with the resolution. Gonna start this weekend.

I'll take definitely one large, two if the price is good. Oh, yes, and I'm there for sure

Such an old thread but still such potential!!! Since MWcon5 is only 2 weeks away, maybe some top secret transfer to DVD??? We sit, silent, waiting,,,, patient.

Man, it can't be that hard to prepay people. C'mon, let's show her how real fans are and show that we actually want her there. See you all there. Jason C

I thought Iona Morris was already confirmed. Man, guess I know way more than I should. Some of the animated sequences look tight!!! Especially some of the battle scenes. As far as character design, I was thrown back a little by the new designs, but as I've seen the U.N. thing (on DVD) Marlene/Arial is freaking hot. They made her absolutely gorgeous (prrrrrrr). Since DR Movie is doing the animation, look for this movie when out to look very much like Yukikaze in animation, character design, and animatics. At least I can deduct from what I've seen. Hope it comes out well, cause this is new ground for the people at HG.

Back in the day I customized an SDF-1 like the DYRL style. For the white colors, I used a matte white with a touch of black. It's not a straight white color. As for the blue, Tamiya blue, mixed with the German Grey is what worked for me. The reason why I used the greys and off whites is cause the Macross in DYRL is a very non-brilliant style. Lot's of dull colors, and greys. Hope that helps.

See, that's what's good about the $25.00- No diehard RT people coming over and getting annoying. I know a lot of the RT people, and some can be quite annoying. Although I'm over there a lot, I know my info about Macross and come with my Macross game face when I'm there (and my customs). Somebody mentioned the fact that they'd hate to see our customs and displays called Veritechs, and I agree, even I'd wanna wrap a pool stick around their head, but then again, that just sounds like fun sometimes anyways... I know, call me disturbed