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  1. David Hingtgen
    I think of the VF-4 in fighter mode like I do the VF-17----gunpodless. If there's one valk that doesn't "need" one IMHO it's the VF-4---it's got some big guns in the forearms, to me they look much more intimidating than the YF-21's. Remember--a gunpod still only uses one barrel at a time to fire, so much of its size is "wasted"---the actual barrel diameter/round size isn't nearly as big as it looks from the outside. Question I just had----what's in the VF-4's shoulders? When it transforms, the "covers" flip down and expose---something. Missile launchers? Or at least the upper part--related to the guns in fighter mode? Surely the forearm guns work in battroid mode, so do they get a "power boost" when they're in fighter mode by hooking up directly to the aux/upper engines there?
  2. David Hingtgen
    Wrong. Macross-Myth that is oft-repeated (and oft-corrected). See here: http://macross.anime...ndex.html#Mecha The VF-4 has been fully variable from Kawamori's earliest sketches in the 80's of it.
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    Edited first post.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I think the poll is far too simple considering how many different ways Yamato has released things the past couple years. Hand-drilled resin kit vs "unassembled injection-molded v2 VF-1" are very different things, but would be the same option in this poll. And of course, there's the issue of "preferred" vs "acceptable if it'll lower the price by $100 or $200" I think we all want an assembled, painted toy like most valks, but if that'll cost $600, vs "screw it together yourself for $400 or paint and glue it yourself for $200..."
  5. David Hingtgen
    Shut down daily, any other "pause" during the day is usually sleep.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I'd be fine if it was say, tampo-printed but unassembled, kinda like the VF-1 "kits". A bit of time with a screwdriver to save some money would be good, assuming this is going to already the most expensive valk ever or something. (depends on how much of the price of a Yammie is actually assembly work)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Of course those, but I always recall them as being the "most pastel" of all the valks in the game. If people think their VF-22's were "pale", they haven't seen their VF-4's. And if it's molded in white to start with---nope. (they were also extremely boring, having almost no accent color---like they were simply dumped in a big bucket of paint, and that was the entire paint job) M&M valks need stripes, preferably white ones.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. Depends on price. And is it more or less an unassembled plastic toy (as in, snip parts off sprues and glue/screw together) or is it more like a transformable resin kit, where you have to align and drill the holes and hinges yourself in a brittle material? The former would be easy for me, the latter a nightmare. Regardless, whatever color it's molded in would be the final overall color, in my case. My 1/72 VF-25 taught me that painting a transforming anything is futile. Let's hope it's molded in DYRL-off-white. So what schemes are out there? (quasi-canon ones, I mean, not "showed up in a magazine once") I can only think of Hikaru's 2012 one------there's also the blue-edged one that the SHE kit is always seen in---is that from anything, or just what SHE did for box-art?
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    That sounds kinda like the YF-19's method, which I always thought was one of the major flaws of the toy due to how it affected both posing and how well you could "lock" that area together in fighter mode.
  11. David Hingtgen
    A black background shows "sticker edges" far more than white does. Another reason for tampo-printing.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Drool---metallic MG Epyon. http://schizophonic9...mg_epyon_f.html
  13. David Hingtgen
    I needed SOMETHING to post this in, so here: NSFW. Yes, Michael Bolton and it's NSFW. But insanely funny, gets better the longer you let it go.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yup, my first 2 exposures to Macross were G1 Jetfire, and Macross Plus, in that order.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Model kit commercial showing Zeta Plus? Animated, as in, painted cels etc? This I'm unaware of.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Thing is, Zeta Plus would actually be something new. We've seen Kampfer animated in OVA-quality. We've seen Barzam. But Zeta Plus would actually be "something we'd really like to see for the first time".
  17. David Hingtgen
    Seconded. I've been waiting for an MG Delta for years now. Not Hyaku, not Delta Plus. Delta!
  18. David Hingtgen
    There's always conservatism---an oft-cited part of YF-22 vs YF-23 is that the YF-22 looked like a logical advancement/upgrade of the F-15, while the YF-23 was a revolution--and many a general didn't like the "new-fangled-looking" one. Heck, the USAF doesn't like canards, they sure weren't going to like the v-tailed diamond-winged YF-23... Following that--which valk looks more traditional? Certainly not the one that's a Q-Rau with wings...
  19. David Hingtgen
    Isamu didn't have mental issues with a mentally-controlled valk...
  20. David Hingtgen
    Am I nuts, or does concept-art Bruticus's limbs look a lot more "vehicular" than the CG trailer's? Concept-art Bruticus looks both better and much more "could be made into a toy" plausible IMHO. I think they even did the "Blast-Off's wings form the chestplate" thing. I sure hope the in-game model follows the concept art, and not the CG trailer.
  21. David Hingtgen
    WTF? Barzam? At least Kampfer and Zeta Plus were ranked highly, so they're not totally tasteless. Did they ask anyone in the US to vote? (hey, we're watching/dubbing it too!)
  22. David Hingtgen
    1/3000 Battle Galaxy or Battle Frontier!
  23. David Hingtgen
    1998 or so. Discovered Ebay, bought a few old treasured G1 Transformers. Remembered Jetfire. Looked it up (and saw how much they went for!). Found the Macross connection, and bought Macross Plus (subbed) at Best Buy on VHS.
  24. David Hingtgen
    VF-11B is very tempting, but I'm still holding out for a different scheme. (like Milia'S or VFX-2)
  25. David Hingtgen
    Think of it like the F-15 vs F-16. Both are "common" but one is a lot less common and more expensive than the other and only given to those squadrons that really need it. But not so much so that it's considered elite/special-ops-only. The VF-19 is the F-15, the VF-11 is the F-16.
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