Graham

I had no probolem with the small amount of reused footage. hardly noticed it and I've been watching every ep 6 times or more. Likewise, I had no problems with the pacing of this ep. Thought it was fine. I'm curious though as to why Alto felt the need to eject the back mounted armoured packs. Even if he's already fired of all the missiles from those packs, he's losing the beam cannons and giving up a lot of thrust. Ozma has already shown that the Armored VF-25 can manauever in tight quarters. Graham

Yes, it's new, not the old 1/60. Graham

An earlier pic of the back of the shield detached from the arm shows it has a cross shape peg on the back for attaching to the arm. Graham

Nah, made a mistake. It was my copy of Great mechanics DX 5 that shipped from HMV Japan, not the Macross Chronicles. Graham

The early CG art of the VF-25F fighter and gerwalk modes published online and in the hobby magazines showed the VF-25F without the red and black stripes on the top of the head, just a plain white head top. I'll have to rewatch eps 1 & 2 and the Deculture ep, again to see if I'm right, but I think when Gilliam had the VF-25F, it had a plain white head top. If my theory is correct, it wasn't repainted with the red and black head stripes until Alto joined SMS and started flying it. Graham

Great Mechanics DX5 has a 10 page article on the VF-25. Here are the scans. Included on page 9 is some black and white lineart of both the single seat and dual seat cockpit, which I've been dying for lineart of. Enjoy. Graham P.S. Hopefully, somebody can translate the article in full.

Kei's sub of 13 impressed me. Lunar's glaring "Remation Eater" error was so funny. WTF is a Remation Eater!!!! Graham

Just got shipping notice from HMV Japan. It's being sent by EMS, so should be here in a day or two. Graham

No it is not correct. This is why I dislike Wikis, cus' every self proclaimed expert can change whatever they want, right or wrong. Graham

Nice detail on the back of the shield, follows the line art well. The photo makes me think that you might have to manually unplug the shield from one side of the arm and plug it in another side when transforming from fighter to battroid mode. Graham

Chapter 6, page 43. Last page. Graham

Chapter 6, page 42. Nice pic of the VF-27 in fighter mode. Graham

Chapter 6, page 41. Graham

Chapter 6, page 40. Graham

Two page spread. Pages 38 and 39 of chapter 6. Hopefully, somebody can edit them together. Graham

I hope the visor is going to be translucent green plastic and not just green paint on top of the base white plastic. Graham

Sorry for the delay with getting these finished. Last batch coming up. Here's page 37 of chapter 6. Graham

Spoke with Yamato a couple of days ago and they said the release date in Japan is July 19th. Graham

You gotta wonder what happened to the canopy? Graham

Got to go aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) a couple of weeks ago when she visited Hong Kong. Here's a few pics. Graham

Makes sense to me. To be honest, I'm surprised at least 1 Jamming Bird type squadron per coloney fleet isn't standard. Graham

Yep, we already have a thread on this just a few topics down. Please check for an appropriate thread and post there before creating new topics. Graham

Not talking about having Vajra swarms every episode, but it's been ages since we saw any Vajra at all. At least some Vajra action every 3-4 eps would be nice. Graham

Definitely looks like the hands are removable and do not fold or retract inside the forearms. Not surprising and half expected it really, given how skinny the forearms are. Graham

And of course poor Luca is Kakizaki and we all know what happened to him. Graham