Shawn

Well not sure with just a click-that was sort of a joke. I imagine they are going to monitor traffic from us to them and see where you end up or something. Those details not quite worked out-and suspect it would be more of a monthly or onetime thing I'm sure.

Sorry to have kept everyone in the dark-it was something Graham and I have been informally discussing with them for a quite a while now. (dropping little hints for the last couple years). It was as much a suprise to you as it was to me. It is a trial run (probably just to shut us up) for a couple months, just as we did with our first sponsored banner run about two years ago for the Hikaru toy (not so successful from our end-we saw absolutely nothing from it). You won't see anything Macross related in that upper right corner, as there are unresolved licensing issues that will be with us for the rest of our fandom, but that's life, get used to it, we all have. LOL The banner is unobtrusive, not flashing in your face, and is for the Proto-Garland (one of my personal favorite designs). What more could I ask for I really hope it develops into something tangible after the trial (solely tentative on any traffic it may generate), as it would be great to finally get some of my server costs offset, but that would be the extent of it. Fansites are fansites-all manufacturers take their licks about the merchandise they make, so nothing would change for anyone here. Having any sort of elevated status would not be fair. I'd just like to thank them for finally giving us a trial shot. Go Megazone! Click click! Shawn

Our firewall is set to automatically block any IP address it finds attempting a brute force attack. Get your IP range from your home computer and send to me (PM) and I'll remove the block. Until someone in your area tries again, you'll be good to go. Most of the automatic blocks are from people randomly trying to crack any server they can connect to, sorry you were affected by this. Shawn

Yes, lets please not bring this subject up anymore on these boards

test post countdown to forum upgrade begun...

please review your time now the server's time zone was set for CDT and the board PDT now everything is CDT

what time is it

Preorder on Yahoo Japan- http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p73576930 http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p73576932

Our friend is creating a Japanese Macross 25th anniversary website. He is advertising in NewType,Animedia, and other forums asking for original Macross art work. Characters,scenes,mecha... You'll get full credit for everything you submit, but it must be original-no scans or modified copyrighted art. Sounds like a very cool idea-wonder how many submissions he has been getting! 25 years-holy cow. Shawn

Picked this up at my Barnes and Noble this weekend http://www.amazon.com/Grumman-F-14-Tomcat-...TF8&s=books Really good book-pictures are just amazing. Text is mainly snippets of commentary from those who have flown her-some are just insane. You can pick it up and read from anywhere. Highly recommended! smile.gif http://f14tomcatbook.com/ByeByeBaby.html Shawn

Added Very cool idea!

Beautiful work-I'm in love with that VF-1 Can't wait to see more!

Incredible work One thing I love about these CG models is the fact that they can look like primered resin or plastic model kits. If I knew anything about CG I'd never even color them in Next best thing to actually breaking them out of the box. It would be cool to have a virtual model kit program with all the pieces from a real one scanned in Anyhow-can't wait to see more! Shawn

Graham.. Time to make the call.... Shawn

Macross Nexus of course. Really opened my eyes at how much of a dinosaur the main site is LOL Jealous!!! I hope that site reeeeeeally takes off-very impressive.

Wow-now that is awesome work! Did you base it on the Imai 1/72 kit? Some of the dimensions look very similar. http://www.starshipmodeler.com/mecha/ls_mos.htm Shawn

Congratulations!!! I know you've been tracking down that kit for what...3+ years now? Persistence always pays off!!

I'm going to see what is involved with that upgrade. Its been a couple months since I've been able to find some time to get into the server and perform all the upgrades/patches (long overdue )

Anyone know if we go from 2.0.4 to 2.1.6 do we lose the skin? ---nevermind, looks like we'd have to do it over not sure what we want to do

ok-try now

I applied the patch-it said it was compatible with the version we are on now. I've been trying to get in contact with invision board for 3 days now. Will let you know as soon as I get through Shawn

Another incredible year we shared at MW Con. 5 years now! That is pretty damn amazing in itself. Each year we see new blood attending and they consistently say they had a great time and it exceeded expectations. This year was no exception. I'm almost remembering peoples names...LOL (next year we HAVE to have name tags again!) Having Mari visit was just amazing-many many thanks to Solscud and Xstoys for pulling off that one. When I walked her out to the car she said she had great time and enjoyed talking to all of us. She also said to call her again next time-she'd even sing for us! Everyone was very professional and respectful with the questions and the leering(hey-she's hot-I'm only human too) Egan FINALLY broke out some of his collection-my jaw was on the floor. I hadn't ever seen half the things he had. Just shows that for Macross collecting you really can't ever find it all. Considering that the original merchandise has been out of production for 20+ years and we still find new things shows how much they worked the license. Mittens and Kids shorts. LOL Thanks to Tommy too for coming buy and breaking out the goods. He and Steve had gone to Japan last year and found a bunch of original preproduction Macross artwork by Miyatake himself. Some sketches were even on the back of someone's homework! He literally grabbed any loose paper he could when doing rough sketches. Tommy even showed us some of the new stuff coming from their new Robotech OVA-looked good(I'm a huge Mospeada fan). Everyone I talked to was awesome-the help and offers we got from website maintenance to finally subbing the tv special was most appreciated. The customs again blew me away (the cake simply rocked-and whoever makes an edible chocolate 1/55 next year WILL win-I promise) And Seiichi! Again brought the goods and sold for outstanding prices. His webstore is close to completion. He will have a booth at San Diego Comic Con next month-PLEASE make sure to stop in and support his efforts for all us old-school Macross fans!! Please post your pictures and comments here-would love to see the pictures taken! You guys(and girls!) rock! Shawn

Hey guys come on There is over 10MB of scans in this thread alone Server space is not unlimited Please host external next time-thanks! Anyways when Seiichi's store opens he's got some of these for sale S

Friend has a 1971 Buick GS (455 Auto) He recently put a Vortech YS trim centrifigal on it, only 7lbs boost 560hp and 814lbs torque at the rear wheels Says at freeways speeds he can hammer it and break the rear end free no problems. Sick sick sick. Got the p600 setup off a running 1973 TA 455 (stock). At 4lbs boost(belt slipped after this) it was putting out 600lbs torque on the dyno. The shaker is obviously going to live attached to me hood. I have a 2nd unit I'm using for that(same year), so the original is going to go in my closet. Damn thing is worth $600 with all the flappers and solenoids-no way I'm chopping it up! Yes-my car has the HO(RA4 derived) heads(car is all orig EXCEPT for the block-has a 73 455 auto). Pulled the old stock engine out and sticking it in a corner for now. Until I drop it into my 96 240sx LOL

Pontiac people at Macross World? Wow! I've been restoring my 1972 Trans Am(455HO/4sp) Been doing the bodywork for the last 6 months(why I'm not here much after work) Engine is almost complete-been finding parts for 2 years now. All I need to do is to clean up the deck and it all gets assembled-yeah Wenzler Aluminum heads with shaft mount rockers Intercooled P600 Procharger supercharger 12lbs boost Crower billet crank JE custom pistons Crower 6.8 rods etc, etc, etc Body is SOOOO beat up-been cutting out all the rust. Found a passenger quarter panel(be here in a month) to take care of that half of the car. Need a drivers side quarter, trunk floor, and some work on the fenders and its done. Yeah-thats ALL. My brother has a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge/Ram Air 3 4spd Shawn