Valkyrie Driver

It would take a little bit of extra engineering but if you could 3D print it in pieces, you could make molds from the printed prototype...

I wonder if someone could give me a hand with a recolor?

I actually want the VF-22S's M&M set because I want a VF-22, and I want an M&M set, and I really like the M7 valks. I do however feel the urge to have the VF-1A TV max, and a Milia Q-Rau.

I've fallen in love with the 25. After getting a VF-25 renewal, it's just perfect. There are still some things about it that still bother me. Like the wings hanging off the back.

Nice pickup. I wish I had some more v2 valks. I need a 1A, a 1J, GBP set. and then I have all the variants. I also need at least one M&M set.

Here's my collection in all it's glory. Enjoy. I'll take some more detailed pics later. I wish I had a nice case to put them in like most of y'all do...

I'm very pleased so far. She's a real beauty. Now, I do still prefer my VF-19F and VF-171EX, because they are cleaner looking, the Blazer because it holds together the nicest under play so far. Joints are a bit loose in certain positions on the 25 and 171 though.

Look what was waiting when I got home: I think I now know why people love the VF-25. It's so elegant, and the toy is masterful. gotta say, one of my new favorites. The v1 looks so disgusting by comparison... But the v1 looks ok in fighter mode and so, it sits on the gateguard stand...

I have a new favorite to add. I just got to lay hands on my VF-25 Renewal, and it is masterful. I still like my VF-19F better, because I'm a die hard 19 fan, and I love the VF-171, so these three would probably be the ones that got saved if push came to shove.

I actually start my story in February 2059, so I think it's quite a few months before the events of frontier (I can't remember the source, but it said frontier happened between september and december 2059, or something like that). Looking at the Fleet of The Strongest Women as inspiration, for dealing with the Zentradi, speaker pods seemed to be effective against opponents that were in possession their faculties, and thus able to be swayed by the emotion in song. I have actually used a radio to jam comms with inane chatter or (my favorite, bagpipes). (It was an airsoft game, and they didn't say EW was off limits, so I scanned for the other teams Freq and keyed the radio and played bagpipe music off my phone). It's possible this is another way the Fleet would go about using music to defeat the Zentradi. I might also have my fleet discover the connection between song, spiritia, and fold waves, on their own, along a different line of study than frontier. This information would be shared with the NUNS, but might not have had any impact on frontier as it was "buried" under other research being conducted on the matter, or dismissed as "gee-wiz" information.

This ^^ I lol'd. Interesting comparison. Maybe it could actually be true, given the Human race's propensity for gestalt reasoning, maybe wea are all connected somehow...O_o... Technically if you were going to append a number to the end of the VF-11 Thunderbolt it would have to be III. Since there was the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the A-10 Thunderbolt II (aka, the Warthog). A better comparison to what I envision an AVF upgrade to be is the Mitsubishi F-2. Which is derivative of the F-16 Agile Flacon upgrade. The Agile Falcon had 25% more wing area, an uprated engine, and better avionics. Some of that trickled down into the F-16C/D block 40 aircraft, while most all of it was used as the basis for the Mitsubishi F-2. The F-2 is the prime example of an airframe upgrade. The Agile Falcon was submitted as an entry for the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition that the F-22 ultimately won.

I thought this was worth mentioning here, even though it's too recent to really inspire anything Macross, it is an interesting development in aerospace that could be taking us closer to practical spaceflight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLD1TPsEi3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3F9AQ-JI8 I wish I knew how to get the video to show up in the box, rather than just linking, but here you go.

I have a few, I can't draw so you'll have to use some imagination... My main character is Ensign Soren MacDonald - 22yr old pilot, newly assigned to sword team (Special Ops Strike Squadron, VF-19F pilot), Consummate professional, but a bit wild, with a feral look to him. He's of Scots-American and Danish heritage, fifth generation military family. If anyone can say they were bred for war it's him. He's got a bit of a philosopher-poet side, and like all good warriors he's a reader, and very intelligent. Another main character is Provisional Lieutenant (Warrant Officer) Mira Dosel. She's 18 years old, recent graduate of one of the military academies on the Starlight. She's assigned to a Zentradi Battlesuit platoon as the platoon leader. She's very proud of her zentradi heritage, even going as far as to eschew the use of micloning whenever possible (she was born naturally to non-micloned parents, and finds being micloned awkward). She's descended from Zentradi that sided with humanity, and she feels no hostility towards humanity because of her pride or views. those are really the two I have focused on because the story is kinda told from their perspectives. They're obviously the love interest in the story, and rather than a love triangle, I'm going to have a different love conflict, where a Zentradi separatist is tugging at Mira, and a pacifist is tugging at Soren, and showing how their choices of lifestyles, and devotion to each other, keep them from drifting apart because of the outside influences. I have some other Supporting characters, but I'm still in the process of fleshing them out, since I haven't come to their influential parts of my story yet. Yeah, I'm going to probably use the broadcast idea, and use it like PsyOps (because I have a working knowledge of PsyOps). As for knowing it was a thing, sure, they'll have the info, and due to the freedom of information in the starlight fleet (barring recent classified operations) the public will know too. But I'm pretty sure that the Starlight Military will not be willing to put civilians in harm's way just on a theory or a hunch. Musicians will music, pilots will pilot.

Because I pay attention to detail, did anyone notice the Wehrmacht Eagle on her red hat in the last pic. It's been a while since I saw Frontier all the way through, so I could be wrong, but that wasn't there. But the rest of the package, yes all of it...

I need to add the VF-22 to my collection...

True. I'm more saying landing gear that is attached to the toy, not to the base (VF-19S HI-metal). Even if it requires some parts swapping (I don't mind that at this scale). At 1/100 scale we are really in toy territory, so some concessions might need to be made, so that we get a playable toy that looks and transforms right (mostly). But hey, I don't design them (yet...) and I'm not in charge of marketing them (yet...).

After numerous consultations with my resident Aeronautics expert (my dad and his 28 years of flight experience), he says that the designs are not optimal. Most have too little wing area, and not enough camber on the dorsal fuselage to produce adequate lift. Of course the only things he has to go off of is the toys, and line art. He also says (particularly in the case of the Y/VF-19 and later series fighters) that there is considerable parasite drag created by the humps on the back of the fighter. Now, most real fighters don't have that problem, and there's really no telling how that would affect the aerodynamics, and looking at line art we can't really see the camber in the fuselage that could really be there. We have seen RC planes inspired by macross designs, that work so there's something going on...

I can't for the life of me remember where the skull flashlight that came with my Roy, is. in a box somewhere I suppose...

OK. I tried to list each fighter in each generation in order of introduction. So the VF-17 would have been a late gen 3 design, integrating a lot of gen 4 features, which were already in the works. I agree the VF-17 sort of defies categorization, and would be a gen 3.5 VF.