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  1. David Hingtgen
    Almost all the official art shows the external armament---but people don't realize they're looking at it! I think a lot of people miss that the "long skinny humps" all over the VF-4 *are* the missiles. There's 12, after all. (3 on each leg, 2 on each forearm, 2 under the nose) They're conformal missiles, to a degree even greater than the F-4/F-14/Tornado do. You just rarely see them "fired off" with a recessed trench left in the valk--though at least one drawing shows this: http://www.macross2....-4/vf-4-la3.jpg That's the only drawing I know of that shows "what's left when the missiles are fired off"----looks very much like modern conformal-carry missile launchers. Kind of a shallow trench. In short--it doesn't need pylons on the wings (there's not much room anyways) because it's already carrying a decent load all over the fuselage. If they're colored a different shade of grey than the rest of the valk, they're easier to spot. :;edit:: Highlighted for clarity: Just look for the grey humps that all look the same. They're not structural bulges of the airframe itself. It's a unique and cool feature of the VF-4. Whoever made the model in the previous above seemed aware of this, as they painted them with typical USAF missile striping, made them a different color than the main fuselage, and they clearly have exhaust nozzles. Hey Graham---could you make sure Yamato is aware of this? They should be painted a different color than the main fuselage, and even making them removable could be one heck of a neat feature. Just make sure they don't sculpt them on as "part of the valk itself". They should have a distinct nozzle at the back end, like on the model above. They should not "taper off and blend" at the rear. They should be more "cut off". They should look "stuck on" and not "part of the valk itself". Making them removable would be the only way to have a "bare" VF-4, as well. Some "standard missile striping" would go a long way towards making them look like missiles---again, just like the model in the previous post. (it's a REALLY good example, Yamato should definitely reference it for how the missiles should be done)
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    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2012/01/picture-lockheed-reveals-conce.html
  3. David Hingtgen
    Lockheed unveiled their F-22 replacement proposal: Huh. Looks kinda like a certain F-22 competitor, only flattened. So we could apparently have had the F-22's successor, years ago, had we just gone with Northrop in the first place...
  4. David Hingtgen
    Never doubt HFH's generosity nor awesomeness, for he will provide for us all.
  5. David Hingtgen
    That's my thought.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. The G-variant is by far the best-known of the VF-4's, but the best-known scheme is Hikaru's of course---but presumably he wouldn't have been flying the G-variant. Or perhaps the G-variant is externally identical to the VF-4A, etc. (the "finned" head could be like the VF-27β, where there's two different head options for the same variant)
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    Yeah, only really works on those where the hands tuck into the shield, rather than having the shield sit on top of the arms.
  8. David Hingtgen
    If you slice an F-14 right down the middle, you basically have a traditional airfoil cross-section.
  9. David Hingtgen
    That's how I "erased" my last PC's hard drive. Or maybe 2 PC's ago. Either way, cheaper and easier/faster than using any program IMHO.
  10. David Hingtgen
    The first time you die in Bastion will likely be one of your all-time fave moments. Trust me.
  11. David Hingtgen
    I was going to make a follow-up comment to Graham's about body lift but didn't. I'd assume the VF-4 actually gets more lift from between the nacelles than outboard of them. Like an SR-71 does. I'd love to see some numbers for fighters, especially say F-14, F-15, and F-16, to compare different configurations.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. True. And I rank animation over polygons for "what is canon"...
  13. David Hingtgen
    Thing is, if they follow their only canon appearance, they would be pastel, even more than their VF-22's are. The above art is more of a "how they SHOULD look" and not "how they DID look".
  14. David Hingtgen
    The sad part is not the crash itself, but that she then GUNNED THE ENGINE AFTERWARDS to try to get unstuck, and had to be coached that perhaps backing up slowly may be the better option... Or maybe she wanted to cause even further damage after the initial scrape.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Cool Russian stuff: (check out 5:45 in on the second one)
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    The history of aviation has shown that "more power" can beat "fancy aerodynamics" most every time, and solves many problems. (the link between engine power and a wing's ability to produce lift is often overlooked-----wings are not perpetual motion machines, they cannot "create" the force of lift out of the void---they are more like converters, the original source is the engine---this is why when a two-engine plane loses an engine, it may lose 90% of its climb ability---the wings are just as good as they were, but there is now almost no excess power beyond what is needed for maintaining level flight--there's nothing to spare to dedicate to increasing altitude)
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    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?
  18. 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.
  20. 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..."
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    Shut down daily, any other "pause" during the day is usually sleep.
  22. 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)
  23. 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.
  24. 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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