hellohikaru

nanashino

Any chance of us seeing the HellHound ?

joseph those are really great. Any chance of a side view ?

I use a mouse, i believe even TWDC still uses one too.

With my shaky hands and butter fingers i think i could use a tablet

Thanks alot for the tutorial.

Btw can't i already do many of the things in Illustrator like tracing and vector lineart with Photoshop or are they any advantages like being more convenient to use ?

For the dial-up people.

No, there was only a full 50 episode run, tons of merch, multiple soundtracks, 3 extra produced episodes, a short movie, a 4 episode OVA sequel, etc. Probably didn't catch on that well at all Like it or not, 7 was popular in Japan, deal with it. If it wasn't, it would have been clipped mid run.

The animation is no worse than that of Wing (which aired a year later), and was a common standard for its era. Not super excellent, but also not subpar. The music was great and varied, regardless of whether you like the style or not, it was very well produced. The Valkyries don't look even remotely "gayish" they have faces, get over it. Even then, there's only 3 of them. Had Macross 7 been the first series to feature mecha with faces, then maybe peoples attacks on them could be understood, but seriously, get over it.

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That's just your opinion as a diehard M7 fan though. I said the mecha and explosion animations were crappy and recycled many times never said the characters were that animated bad. Let's just say we have a different taste in music. I think the music is very generic though.

I wouldn't mind seeing HG taking M7 and making it part of their rowboatech continuity though.

Polidread i am interested to know the procedure for coloring the VF-2 comic script style like the one you did.

Probably minor sharpnel damage. Its hard to see he took direct hit from Zentraedi beam weapons otherwise there would be a gaping hole through his chest.

Macross 7 probably didn't catch very well with youngsters in Japan and as a result most of them not knowing about SDF itself went for Gundam instead. Much of the mecha animation is kinda crappy, the Valks look gayish, the music is annoying. Yet there is the hidden gem of the M&M VF-22S scenes

I really miss Longbow 2. So hard to run these days.

Another helicopter sim i am rediscovering is DI's Hind. Dated graphics and sound but it was the first helo sim to feature realistic infantry. Just gotto try the Aghan campaign. They will shot more RPGs than you can shake a stick on.

Awesome work Polidread, is that supposed to be the newspaper comic style ?

Its the Gloster Meteor.

Those are very very cool . I would love to see a 1/72 Fanjet and Tunny. Any chance of a Dragon and Karyobin ?

That purple Alpha really blows

I hope they will show more of the obscure vehicles from the original show like the Condor, Yellow and Jonathan's aerospace fighter, the stealth cyclone but i guess that's unlikely.

Oh I see. so the legs rotate. did'nt know that.

Anyway on to another topic:

Somebody could tell me why the vf pilot that Nora nailed on the ground in episode two have a higher rank than Roy Focker.

Im assuming that the PL on their names means pilot, which is no rank at all, i think. While that unfortunate guy Nora nailed has LCDR then his name Tim Baker, which i assume means, LT. Commander, which is a real rank.

Please see the pics below.

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In Japanese a Lieutenant commander is a Sho-Sa which is the same word for a Major. So the ranks are equal. However Major Focker is still the commanding officer of Skull and Lcdr Baker will remain his suboirdinate.

I was wondering what the ASCC names for the newer Russian fighters were. Came out with this.

http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/soviet.html

Su-47 Berkut is the Firkin lol!

Finally!!

rowboatcrap wasn't even an option.

one more

hi DH

I thought you didn't even like Area 88 to begin with.

I posted a photo of the model before.

I was surfing for the A-9A and found out a model existed for it albeit a resin one.

http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/mod/us/ya9preview.htm

http://www.anigrand.com/AA2021ya-9.html

I can't find the gun muzzle for the A-9 though. The prototype reportedly flew with the 20mm m61 rather than the GAU-8. Any idea people ?

Nose undercarriage is offset to the left so an operational A-9A would probably have had the Avenger mounted on the center much like the A-10.

The upgraded destroids were very interesting...at least they don't get converted into construction robots.

Finally going to finish this one.

wow...a splinter/lizard Sv-51. More more more

Some of you might love this

http://www12.plala.or.jp/carimerodr/su-37.html

Rob, what about the Sky Angels book I bought from you?  It isn't canon, but it has a lot of fun stuff.  I know you scanned some of it, but I don't know how much.  Do you need some new scans of it?  LMK. 

Melissa

Are you talking about this?

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/dou_mat3extra.htm

I've always wanted to take a look at the content!

I too would love to take a peek at the contents.

I have a whole bunch of those. A MWer called crazy canuck made them ages ago.

That use to be the link to where one can find blanks. Think it doesn't work at the moment

http://unspacy.msyte.com/images/blanks/blanks.htm