Noyhauser

But you can't SKIP customers. think of a production line like a pipe. if there is a stoppage along the pipeline, it cloggs everything down the way. Its not prestige, its the nature of the just in time system. You can't do anything unless the bodies sitting on the floor get moved out. And you can't often move those pieces without alot of work to prepare them to move because they are in assembly. Its just not feasable. Look at the article I posted, it makes very clear that the 747 was always had the freighter conversion in mind. Something tells me that this was not the case with the 380. While the 747 could have been immediately converted to a Freighter, I don't think the 380 is even close to being able to have that sort of modularity. I bet that you have all but complete A-380s sitting in toulouse without wiring but essentially complete. I think its a bit presumptious to say that they can just simply change the lines. I'm not familiar with the A-380 as I am with the A-400M program (due to the implications for European militaries strateic lift capabilities and my work). However Airbus attracts the best and the brightest from Europe and North America. They've probably thought of switching the lines a long time ago, and saw it as unfeasable. Five years ago people were deriding Boeing the same way you are now, for the disaster from the batwing and the Sonic cruiser and their dropping to less than 50% of market share. The rise of Airbus was linked to its dominance in the translatlantic market, partly due to changes in regulations with over oceans flights around 1985. (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards), The A-330 was key in this struggle. People were saying that the the private investement model that Boeing used was not as effective vs the publicly funded model of Airbus. Now others are saying the exact opposite. the Sonic cruiser program has paid off in divideds in the 787 and 747-8, and the supposed plane of the future A380 looks decidedly outdated beside the Dreamliner. I'm not looking forward to fly in a A-380 as much as I am on a Dreamliner. Two things happened in the last five years. Airbus forgot what made it great, and Boeing, learning from its mistakes and with good new leadership, astutely predicted the direction of the market, and has a brilliant product to show for it.

Something tells me that the way the manufacturing process has been done is that there are plenty of airframes sitting on the toulouse floor waiting to be completed, and those are all passenger planes. Since there is now a production bottleneck, they can't start the Freighter aircract without completing the construction of the several hundred passenger aircraft that are already on the books and were prioritized first. Also I found this on NYT this morning on the 747-8 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/business...amp;oref=slogin enjoy

French poised to steal £10bn Saudi contract from BAE http://news.independent.co.uk/business/new...icle2021446.ece

I was curious to see when you would show up.... Yay for Egan!

Well recieved by whom? A bunch of internet speculators who haven't even seen the model yet complaining about the legs being too small? These are the same people who complained about vader's hands being too small.

I thought the characters fit their part perfectly, not everybody in this world are nice and likable nor are they evil and distasteful. The reason why Isamu is sent to Eden is indicative of the type of person they wanted for Project Supernova, driven arrogant brash men, who would do anything to win and possessed skills in spades. And I don't think they were unlikable either. None of the three central characters were "evil" even Guld, and they all had their charms and vices. I think that made it more compelling rather than less. I felt for guld dying at the end. Thats an pretty ignorant statement, particularly when he's working with Mikimoto on the macross 7 project AT THE SAME TIME. The story was a bit thin around the centre, but only one of the flashbacks are important, and thats the Guld one near the end. Really, I thought the first 3/4ths of the movie set up probably one of the most fantastic endings of all time, which is why the movie was actually better than the OVA. The Guld death sequence was a tragic one, and for me probably only matched by the Legend of the Galactic Heroes in its ability to toy with one's emotions.

nothing to be sorry about, my first post was a bit in jest as the cardinal sins of Macrossworld. then someone had to act all innocently abused. Now you know

He's been around for just under a month and posted before. Would you rather he spam more with really inane questions? Its pretty clear that he could have known better, particularly when we are having a macross 7 flamewar in the thread next door. Using a search function is pretty basic stuff in any forum, and there is a Battle 7 transformation thread http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...ic=5673&hl= and its in the newb thread as well. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...=140&st=380 Moreover, take notice I didn't say anything when you started posting here in a really annoying fashion because you didn't know better.

Can you commit more cardinal sins in the Macrossworld forums at once? all you need to do now is start up a "why is Macross 7 a kiddie show" and you've just about got all the major ones covered. Please use the Search function and newbie thread, or both for such questions. We've had innumerable discussions about the Battle 7 (of which I and others are tired of debating) and the VF-17 is obviously has a passive stealth system that should have been asked in the newbie thread.

In this day and age of globalized industries, it doesn't matter. The Cancelation of the A-380 will hurt US producers too. Airbus has significant facilities in the US as well, while significant parts of boeing's industries are not in the US (Japan being the largest foreign source).

MD Geist had mecha too.

LOGH (obviously) Macross (everything) Nausicaa (especially the manga, which is so dark) Future boy Conan/Laputa/Porco Rosso (the rest of Miyazaki's works) Lupin III (Whatever movie or TV series) Gundam (only the UC stuff) Black Jack (the older stuff) Doredamon Armored Troopers Votoms FPM (I've got to have ONE new one right?)

Denobrium: Not a military machine. It came from the factory and was a military demonstrator, that MIGHT be entered into production, so all the art was really AE advertising.

Ha. really funny. *Silently pulls out his gun*

How terribly ironic this whole post is. Your idea of a "new direction" would be to make a remake of SDF or for many people a gritty war scenario that would probably look very similar to macross plus or SDF. How boring. Compared to that other long running japanese mecha series, Macross looks dynamic and interesting. Compare SDF, to M7, to Plus, to Zero, and its pretty apparent to me that there are quite significant differences between all of them, where lately Gundam looks pretty stale to say the least (with the possible exception of igloo).

Probably because the RPG site made it up. This is exactly why you shouldn't go dismissing the compedium like you did earlier. The reason why the compedium IS the bible is because it gives you exactly the amount of detail that BigWest made for it, not a stitch more or less. I'm sure they didn't think what phalanx variant they animated... some animator may have just sketched one out from memory to what he "thought it should look like." You and the RPG website can add all the detail that you'd like, but its not Canon. In any case I really like your CG stuff. Its nice to see this stuff rendered. Thanks for sharing.

Or Shirahama in Wakayama-Preficture... which isn't so much of a large trip, and the scenery in the area is fantastic. The sea front and the verdant mountains, its gorgeous. Also I should say not a big fan of Tokyo, I don't think it has the best parts of Japan either. I love Kyoto... its by far my favorite City in Japan. Just don't go to Nagoya.

umm, maybe you don't get it. they just released a VF-0 Armored Battroid. given its size and complexity, IMO (which may be very wrong) I think they are doing quite well.

Agree with that fully, especially the translation bit. There is nothing definitive at the least to say that the VF-0 was ever intended to have thermonuclear engines. If anything I took his remarks to mean that they were waiting for the VF-1's engines to be completed. If you look at the stats the VF-1 is superior in almost every single catagory over the VF-0. Why would you make a fighter that large when you could make it almost 1/2 the size, with the same effectiveness? Its a technology test bed at best, and a stop gap. Its NOT a superior fighter, nor a superior design. I know I put forward the Anti-UN fighter theory, but it was completely conjecture. My ultimate point though is that the two planes must follow different design philosophies because one is intended to run a conventional engine, the other a thermonuclear turbine. Once you admit that, then their designs must diverge signficantly.

Umm no. Anime.net http://macross.anime.net//mecha/united_nat.../vf0/index.html To me the VF-0 was designed to deal with the current threat of the Anti-UN's top line fighters, not the Zentredi (which was a more current threat). Sure it was a test bed, but Also I get your point about the need for Aerodynamics, but again the VF-1's primary operating mode seems to me to be battroid, rather than fighter. According to the Compendium, the fighter mode was intended to be the same as contemporary fighters... therefore they were able to make it smaller, with far more powerful engines to achieve the same effect as having a streamlined fighter. Their main focus though was to give it battroid mode... which they had never done before. So they took some liberties on aspect of the design in order to give it a powerful battroid mode.

Actually also people forget that the VF-1 was intended to be a battroid that can turn into a fighter, while the VF-0 was a fighter that could be a battroid for limted times. SK designed the VF-1 that way. Remember that the VF-1 was designed for one thing, to stop the zentredi. Humans had 100 years of experience making aerodynamic fighters, they had none making battroids. So their main concentration was building an effective battroid rather than a fighter, and let overtechnology make up for any deficiencies. Moreover the VF-0 is a fighter that relies on fuel, it NEEDs streamlining, while the VF-1 doesn't because it relies on a fusion turbine to do everything. Two different design philosophies, two different designs.

I would say no. I find most company's paint formulations are pretty specific for their own products... I'm sure the thinner may "work" ... just not very well. It would be like using regular isopropylnol on regular tamiya paints.

Sigh... didn't we have this discussion just yesterday? I agree with Jardann. The VF-1 looks and FEELs like the successor to the VF-0. Smaller, Nimbler, better engines, ect. I don't think it needs to be changed given the context its in.

Sorry, but I think I need to inject this with a bit of a dose of reality, and be the stick in he mud on this one (then again I am posting in the toys forum when I'm a modeler.) There are plenty of good business reasons NOT to announce something before its fairly advanced, and its not for competition reasons. When Yamato annouces something its almost as if they are committing to producing that item. If they do it early, when they haven't solidified all the aspects of the program (ie unit cost, feasability, ect), then they may be on the hook for costs or problems later that they were not aware of. By not announcing it they aren't dashing anybody's expectations if they do, because they have no hopes to keep. I can just imagine the complaining that would go on in here if some person's favorite project got canned after it being announced. I'm sure there is also marketing rationales behind not annoucing it too early, and making a splash at toyshows or magazines about a new product, rather than have a long drawn out expectation period about something that was announced a year ago.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but its NOT a wax or polish but an Acrylic finish. Its made to withstand people walking all over it all day long, so its quite sufficient someone handling it as a model.