Macross Models 3D colelction

[guyxxed]

Not a lot to show yet, but work has begun!  I'm trying to be lazy and see if I can convert one of the Macross 30 VF-25A's into a YF-24.  Tail fins and leg fins updated, basic wings blocked out, but still a lot to do.  Didn't realize until I started deleting things that the wing roots of the 25 aren't level, so need to move them around a bit, also need to cut the aeilerons into the wings and figure out what I did wrong to screw up the tail fin normals, but all just part of my usual kitbash work.  It's a bit difficult to tell from the line art, but the 24 and 25 appear to have the same elongated nose, though the 24 has a very different canopy:  flat across the bottom edge and doesn't have the front cowl that the 25 has.  I may take some artistic liberties there since I think it's a bit boring, but we'll see.  Anyway, posting the minor progress here to keep some pressure on myself to keep working on it.  😉  

Edited 20 hours ago by guyxxed

[guyxxed]

Line art comparison for the nose.  Cockpit is bigger on the 24 as well, though how much of that was 'intended' vs just 'how they drew it for the 5 seconds it was on a monitor in the background', I'm not sure.

Edited 20 hours ago by guyxxed

[PointBlankSniper]

Nice work with the wings.

I think the nose are supposed to be very different, considering some parts like the feet and intakes look identical between the two. If you think about how the 25, 27, 29, and even 30 are supposed to be direct descendants of the 24, but all of them look nothing alike beyond general mechanisms, I think it's safe to assume any differences noticed are intended.

So my read is that the cockpit is that little bit larger. Other things like the nose being that little bit stockier might be intentional as well. The line down the center of the nose might be a chine, or could be a two tone nose design along with micro fins at the front of the gear doors that survived into the 29's design. Maybe looking at the 29's line art might help you a little. The 27 might have little features in common with the 24 too. Admittedly, the 30 being related in any way, more than just vague wing profile, is kinda bs lol. Maybe the engine humps with the little slit sensor thing up front counts for lineage... Following that train of thought, those hexagons on top of the engine near the ankles might be missile hatches, something that evolved into the 30's missile container with topside hatches, and then the 31 reverting back to calf missiles but with a large door.

The real thing up for guessing to me is whether the intakes are actually that faint bit taller on the 25, since they do look identical by design, or maybe the scaling of the two images just wasn't perfect so there's nothing to that, idk lol

Edited 3 hours ago by PointBlankSniper