Chronocidal
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Sheesh... well at least they lasted about half an hour. I have to admit, I do kind of wish I had waited fot HLJ too, but the peace of mind not having to wait around for a random half hour window does help make up for the higher price at NY, at least a little. And even then, it's nowhere near ebay price.
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Yep, just got my confirmation as well. Now the wait begins until Luca's gets announced. I'm not so concerned about Michael's super packs (but will probably grab a set if they come with the speakers and/or fold booster), but I really hope they just bundle Luca's. I don't think he ever actually had them off in the series anyway. Hopefully they'll include the ghosts too, but I'm not going to get my hopes up much.
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Well, sure, they're all robot mecha airplanes, I know. Thing is... Kawamori has a degree in aeronautics (as far as I recall). The whole point of the VF-1 in the first place was to make a plane that turned into a robot, not the other way around. On top of that, due to the plot, the robot part was supposed to be entirely secret. I guess no, they don't have to be realistic at all. But it's fun to imagine that they could be. It's fun to think about what valks would look like if they were real, and actually used by real life militaries. Given how many people go out of their way to detail models of them up as if they were actual aircraft , it's clearly a popular idea. Really.. this isn't so much about whether Macross has to look real or not. This is about the fact that despite the overwhelming treatment of valks as "real" aircraft from other sources, Bandai just can't seem to comprehend the concept.
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I honestly don't know why everyone was so concerned with the rifle... the model mounts it just fine. It does, however, stick waaaayyyyy out the back. The bending though.. ugh.. You'd think after.. how many years has Bandai been making toys now? And they still don't understand how to prevent parts from warping? Or is this just a "We don't care about Macross" thing? Funny thing about the painting though.. seems like they're still ignoring the canon colors for Michael's plane. Looks like they got the underside of the nose colored as in the anime finally, but they're still forgetting the fact that the VF-25G doesn't use black paint. It's actually a darker blue-ish purple. Even the anti-glare panel on th enose and the tails aren't really black. I'm not really going to complain about that, since I think the black looks nicer anyway, but it's sad they just can't seem to figure out how to watch their own source material for reference.
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Actually, it's a maintenance issue. Same reason you don't paint landing gear any oddball colors: so you can see if something's wrong, spot leaks, or damaged parts. Fluid leaking into your intakes isn't a good thing. And there may be more reasons, but that's just the one off the top of my head. Anything on an aircraft that needs to be kept clean you paint white, so you know when it gets dirty. Every fighter aircraft I can think of paints the intake interiors a light color, even planes like the Blue Angels. Outer paintschemes are one thing, and really, with all the fancy uber-tech stealth junk they have by the 2050s, it probably doesn't matter how you paint your aircraft. But you still have to maintain them. Painting critical and high maintenance areas all kinds of crazy colors is just making the job harder.
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He just trimmed/flipped the YF-29's normal canards to match the ones on the Fire Valk. I love that YF-19 styled one, but... seriously people. Learn something about aircraft before you go painting everything random colors. Intakes are not something you paint as a colored accent. That's actually part of what bugged me about Macross 7... While pretty much every other Macross series has adhered to marking aircraft with standard military-styled painting conventions, Macross 7 kinda went and ignored a lot of standard aircraft things. I don't mean paintschemes mind you, I mean things like the white intakes and landing gear/bays, certain warning symbols, anti-glare panels, etc. Macross Frontier actually did pretty decently in that regard too, but now Bandai's slapping colors all over everything like a five-year-old given a toy airplane, and a paint marker.
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Copilot's actually Klan, from the last episode scene. NY seems to be a bit behind sending out the shipping notices this time around, but I guess I'll find out what happens next week.
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Honestly? My favorite scheme on this plane is the one I got from swapping around parts. I'm tempted to order a couple of the Ranka versions too to experiment, but mixing the darker blue pieces from the Sheryl version with the white fuselage from Alto's looks great. Not sure I love the orange canopy, but the purple clashed with the blue enough that it looks a little better. I still can't believe anyone at Bandai actually considers that fugly scheme a "VF-1S tribute." Though, given the other things they've completely missed before, I suppose it's not that big of a surprise.
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Found this sweet hybrid while surfing the net
Chronocidal replied to Shintoryu's topic in The Workshop!
Looks like all he did was switch out the wings and head for ones from the YF-19. Doesn't look bad at all in fighter, since the wings on the VF-25 are mounted so far back anyway. The rest though... eh. Gerwalk looks pretty good (though he should have stuck to the VF-25 shield), but the battroid trans just doesn't look good like that. I think it would be a lot better if he folded the wings properly, and laid down the backplate, but the way he left the nose sticking out propped up the chest higher than it should be, and the torso looks a heck of a lot longer that way. Still, a fun concept. I'd love to see it developed a little more, since it looks kind of like a less over-engined YF-29. -
I keep hoping they'll eventually release unpainted versions of all their valks, especially if they offer a couple different mold color choices to start with. But, the more complicated their engineering gets, the less likely that seems now. Looking at the way the VF-19 is constructed, I'm not entirely sure that you could assemble one by hand, at least not without some kind of specially designed jig to hold parts in place. Those spring pins they've grown fond of are a pain. Not saying it's not impossible.. it just seems like a far cry from the easy screw-and-glue assembly of the VF-1.
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I know the feeling.. really, all these sales have recently accomplished is convincing me that I should begin waiting for sales in the first place, since the various Macross 7 valks are hitting the 40% off mark, which puts them way under what I originally paid when they first were released. I'm still debating whether to cancel my pre-order for the super VF-17D, and wait for a sale later on.
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Nice! Was hoping that would be her, and not Ranka/Sheryl/Cathy, since I've already got two of those. And, though I might just be clinging to an impossible hope here, I think they might actually have molded the lower wing gloves in color. They didn't bother to paint the interior of the lower wing glove on Ozma's VF-25S, but that one there clearly isn't blue.
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Well, actually, it had to do with the character designs. The style used for the drawings reminded me of some older anime, like Vampire Hunter D. The facial details seemed strange for this genre, but they reminded me a lot of a style I've seen in creepier stories. The way their eyes were drawn in particular reminded me of Blue Gender. Don't think it was necessarily bad, but they definitely played up the creepiness factor of many of the characters. It really came out in Tomahawk, and those two weird characters Rei met when he crashed.
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I'm figuring it will be that way too, but I'm holding out hope that they might realize what a bad setup it is. For Ozma, yeah, the tabs would get scratched, but they'd still be gray. For this, any missing paint is going to stick out like a beacon.
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Scanned or not, it's still easy to pick out those dipshits still haven't taken the time to color match the pieces in the knee to the rest of the leg interior. Seriously, Bandai, get with it here. I just hope they had the foresight to realize that if they don't cast the lower wing in white plastic, the pegs that lock into the leg are gonna turn blue and look hideous really really fast.
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Interesting.. I wonder if they're mixing around the elements of the series and the movies with this? That shot of the group walking down a corridor looks like Sheryl, Ranka, MIchael and Klan (wearing the Basara/Mylene costumes from the second movie), Kanaria, and... some random bluish-purple-haired person? Not sure if it's Kanaria either, but it looks like her hair, with the bandana she tended to wear tied into it. The mystery person looks like a girl, but knowing Alto.. Don't think he'd wear something that skimpy though, so it might be a random bridge bunny, or maybe even Nanase (looks too tall/thin to be her, though).
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They definitely went with a uinque style for the artwork. Can't quite put my finger on what it reminded me of at the moment though.
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Actually, they have book 2 at the moment as well, but only about 5 copies left (I just ordered #6, along with book 7 of the Haruhi novels ). Even if it's not that great a book, I figure it has to make more sense than the anime did.
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LOADS. They actually give the background for the characters enough that they make some kind of sense. Basically, the anime cut out all the exposition in the book, whether it was necessary or not.
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I'm not sure if all the books are translated, but I definitely bought the first book on a whim while wandering through Borders when it came out.
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Yeah.. just finished the first novel, and have to agree, that anime was a complete charlie foxtrot. It crammed the beginning and end of the first book into the first episode, then splattered random bits of the rest of that book across the episodes, before turning into some kind of "HAH, FOOLED YOU!" ending. The actual entire point of the plot got somehow lost in the backwash. Also was really disappointing how little screentime the actual Super Sylph got because of that. The book just made much more sense.
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Wish I was a bit farther south, I could've seen that myself. Congrats to you all who got to see it fly in person. Oh, and I forgot.. it's easier than I thought. Just call it the J-21 Laptol. -
I do have one of these, and never noticed any problem with mine. I think it came from the later releases, so you'll probably be fine. I'd check the listing on Anymoon.com, since there's a fairly thorough listing of any v.2 VF-1s that were known to have shoulder problems. I know there was a supposed cut-off point, where any valks released past a certain release (I want to say Max's TV VF-1A) should be safe, but there were a few later releases that used old stock.
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Considering the shipping on those, there are probably much better ways to display your valks. I mean.. sure, you can set them on there.. but you're talking about a flat piece of plastic supported by posts. They don't sell the ones with the pedestals for mounting valks on anymore. I guess I never really understood why Yamato keeps selling the display bases without selling the mounting armatures anymore. Sure, they might work decently as risers for setting figures on, but I'm sure you could make your own risers out of clear acrylic very easily (and I know some people on these boards have done just that).
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
For a country that experienced and dedicated in making cheap bootleg copies of other people's work, what else can you really expect? I'm tempted to start slapping Chinese sounding nonsense words together with "raptor" to come up with a really racist sounding nickname.
