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Ok thanks!

I actually like the display bases, but the valks themselves are just underwhelming.

Pass--- there is too much going on now in 1/60 and 1/72 (esp 1/72 VF-27, hallelujah!) for me to buy this. I hope that they would just release the RVF-25 so I can complete my All that VF Frontier version diorama

Nice.. it just needs a pink colouring

I think that the chance of having a DX VF-27 and Q-Rea is higher now that they are coming out with the kits! OTOH, I guess since they are delaying the Armoured DX by 2 months to August, that any new DX toys will be similarly delayed? Maybe Bandai is delaying the DX releases in light of the economic situation? Model kits are much cheaper than toys, afterall.

Thanks for the translation! I don't really understand the engine part though-- from M3, the VF-27 uses the Shinchuushuu/P&W/RR/MG FF-3011/C Stage II thermonuclear reaction turbine engines while the VF-22 uses the Shinnakasu Industry/P&W/Roice FF-2450B thermonuclear engines which has about half the thrust (which means that the VF-27 has eight times the thrust of the VF-22!!). Either way, this is amazing! I hope the 1/48 VF-25 will be PG though i.e. more details/movable parts than the 1/72 kit, and not a simple up-sizing like how their 1/100 non scale gundam kits are really just upscaled 1/144 HG kits.

Thanks alot!

Nice.. thanks alot! Are you planning on transforming this? Please tell us if the decals are damaged or anything!

I agree-- my point is that the consensus (from actual combat pilots on other message boards like F-16.net), is that the F-22 is basically being used as target practice by the T-38 (i.e. courtesy kill), and not truly engaged in ACM. Anyway, here's a nice picture of Prandtl-Glauert singularity on the B-2 bomber http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...nd-barrier.html

That would certainly make sense. IIRC EM/solid projectile weapons in the real world have a big problem with the initial acceleration of the projectile and one of the proposed solutions was using conventional gunpowder/explosives to get the projectile up to speed before the rail gun portion took over. Thanks for the clarification Azrael!

Yea I did. Oops. I was looking at the VF-11 when typing that, and my brain got mixed up

Nice... what was the original size of the YF-21 box? I thought they would've just re-used the same box but apparently not?

Yea. I wish they'd announce the VF-171 or VF-27 or something.

Thanks alot! I'm actually glad that they pushed the release to August, at least now there's only the VF-22S for my wallet to cope with in June . My next few months are all full up! YF-19 recolour in May, VF-22S in June, VT-1 in July and Armoured VF-25S in August. I've just gotta fit a YF-21 and a VF-11B in there somewhere

Im not Rabidweezil, but I've used that wash on my models and DX toys, and it does rub off if the weathering is particularly heavy and you don't clearcoat it. But if you are using the wash to panel-line, i.e. wiping off all the wash that are on the flat surfaces etc, then those that are already inside the panel lines wont rub off, even without the clearcoat.

Nice... I will try it when I have access to my Super parts then. Thanks!

Just one more month!

Wow thats fast! And amazing! May I ask if you got your decals from any particular model kit?

Hmm the use of plasma would present tonnes of difficulties-- and if plasma was the intended use in the first place, there are better materials to use than tungsten--which is a dense metal and would require more energy to accelerate, ionise etc. Also, plasma has the irritating tendency to dissipate, making it a poor choice for a penetrating weapon. For some things, good old DU is still the best Again, the whole wording for the SP-55X 55mm ammunition description is quite dubious, IMO. A cartridge doesn't follow the bullet downrange-- it stays in the chamber and I assume is ejected when the VF cycles the weapon-- so I don't get the point of it being covered in a super hard metal, nor the use of gold. Now, if the cartridge was a sabot instead, or maybe a throwback to the olden days of muskets, just a bullet, then possibly the gold was there for its electrical properties (and/or magnetic properties in the case of nanogold) and the hard metal covering would be there to prevent degradation of the round due to friction while being accelerated, and to improve penetration. P.S. I know my firearms just fine, thank you. I was pointing out whether we could really determine the firepower of those beam guns from the name, and no proof shown in the anime, since Mr March himself pointed out that "the VF-22 Sturmvogel II has a "fixed high-powered converging energy cannon"" which was no more than just the head laser.

Could some kind soul seed Thora subs ep 19 and 20 on a torrent please?

Haha there's been much angst on the aviation message boards about this video. I think the general conclusion is that it was a courtesy kill and the F-22 wasn't trying to maneuver too hard.

And every other valk as well Maybe if the 1/2000 SDF-1 sells well, Yamato will be convinced that there is a market for ginormous Macross toys and finally make that 1/60 Monster

Yep.. I do hope they make more announcements of new designs soon though rather than going through the whole VF-25 Armoured/Super pack lineup.

Heh they haven't even announced if they have got the MD7 license as well as any other M7 related licenses yet... so either they are building up to a grand announcement, or they just wanna make us squirm

The reactive armour version would probably come with a new Version 3.0(?) VF-0A/ VF-0S, since the current toys have no way to attach the parts. I guess it could be their 'Revival of Zero' release They could do it in 2012, for the 10th Anniversary of Macross Zero! (Yes I know that's 2 years away, but that just gives Yamato time to make that, and the VF-0D, and the Octos, and the Destroid Cheyenne, and the Monster MkI--- wishful thinking, I know )