David Hingtgen

Don't blame Yamato for the -11C looking plain, blame Studio Nue.

I'm sick and coughing and sneezing like crazy, so I figured I might as well do something productive so I translated some colors for Grace's valk. Mr Hobby codes included. First three colors (the main three of the valk) 1. Khaki H81 (40%)+Olive Drab 1 H52 (30%)+Neutral Gray H53 (20%)+White H1 (5%)+Yellow-Green H16 (5%). Overall fuselage color. 2. Tire Black H77 (40%)+ Olive Drab 1 H52 (30%)+Neutral Gray H53 (20%)+Green H6 (10%). Dark stripe/accent color. 3. White H1 (60%)+Grey H22 (20%)+Gull Grey H51 (10%). Light stripe/accent color. Just some notes for those of us (like me) who don't use Mr Color etc: Olive Drab 1 and 2 would probably more akin to olive drab vs green drab for Testors etc. Brightening the heck out of my digital color chart, I would say Green Drab would be the correct choice (on the chart Olive Drab 1 is greener than Olive Drab 2, and Green Drab is greener than US Olive Drab). Plus it just makes sense---it'd simply be too brown otherwise. "H53 Neutral grey" is not the FS36270 color. I think they literally mean Kodak neutral gray etc. Slightly darker and cooler than 36270. Tire black is "very dark grey". H22 grey is lighter and warmer than H53. Warmer and darker than 36270. I think yellow-green would best be described as grass green. REAL summer grass-green, as when you have a pile of clippings from a lawn mower. Not the impossibly rich green everyone wishes grass was. Flightsuit colors (which I think are totally wrong): 1. Emerald Green H46 (70%)+White H1 (25%)+ 5% "sumire and some kanji I'll never identify" 2. Emerald Green H46 (60%)+Blue H5 (35%)+White H1 (5%) I'd do the rest of the colors but really--would anyone use them? I think we're all just going to use our favorite "mecha colors" anyways for the internal frame, feet/nozzles, etc. Beam rifle seems to have 4 slightly different shades of grey, all just mixes of dark greys. None seems to be the "main" color from what I can make out.

Only other source AFAIK is the model kit. And according to it Grace does not have a Gamma like Brera's---it's a Beta like all the other green ones, but customized(?) with a head unit like Brera's. My theory (and Mr March agrees) is that Grace's is unique, or nearly so, and that despite what the animation shows, the vast majority of VF-27's actually have finless heads. (because they weren't going to modify the CGI model for such a little-seen background valk---Grace's was the only Beta ever seen close-up) regult---I'd say the factory simply forgot to paint that piece. Hopefully the green ones will correct that. Anyone got an email for Bandai Japan that's more specific than a general "comments" address? We could send those pics---even without any text, our meaning should be fairly clear.

But hers is specifically denoted as having the Brera-type head, even if no other green/Beta does. (regardless of animation canon) (I too of course would like a Grace sculpt, but to include it with the one that's NOT hers would be odd) If anything, it'd come with the one that's coming in June----like I said earlier, they've got more than enough time just to sculpt up a new pilot. Can't take half a year just to swap colors at the factory.

He lives in Hong Kong.

Eeeek. I just had a horrible thought. Remember Luca's "multiple shades of green"? Sure hope that doesn't happen with this one.

Renato pointed out something very interesting in the Scoopda thread---seems Bandai intends to bundle the fold booster with the green VF-27. http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/chog...item-1000004910 Nifty translation (my fave for Japanese) gives "super fold booster" (well, "Su-pa-fo-rudobu-suta") in the contents list and the following description: Su-pa-fo-rudobu-suta was sold in the soul web shop. It is the same as what attached to "DX superalloy 4 [fo-rudosetto] for VF-25 in Gaul". Only the collaboration parts are different. It also mentions "Collaboration part marking seal for [su-pa-fo-rudobu-suta-]" in the parts list. So it'll be the same booster, but with green-colored attachment mounts or something? (interestingly, it also specifically mentions Grace, which I think is the first time Bandai has associated her with the green *DX* release)

With how easily the paint flakes off, I don't imagine anyone who wants a "plain" green one will have any trouble. Us who want #102 may have issues keeping it that way...

What pilot sculpts would they use for a finless-head Beta? Do they even have pilots? (I personally assume the green ones seen in Frontier are pure AI or remote control by cyborgs--with the exception of when Brera or Grace are personally piloting from the cockpit) (otherwise, there's several pilots who are unseen-and-uncommented-upon survivors from Galaxy) I still hold out a bit of hope that they can sculpt a Grace pilot for the Tamashii one---they've got a couple months I mean. The valk itself is ONLY a color change, not even a scheme/pattern change. (asides from the number)

You may want to see this thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=32538

That sounds like it wasn't fixed at all, just that the internal clock rolled over past a non-existent Feb 29 to March 1 finally. Root problem is still there, and might pop up again this time of year in 2011, 2012...

I would argue that the Macross *FRONTIER* fleet has the most Trekky name by far, followed by Galaxy.

Small rant: Why on earth does every device CARE what the date is? Zune, PS3, etc. And why do they FAIL if they don't know? Why does everything seem to default to "totally lock up if you don't know what the day is, rather than simply ignoring/not displaying what day it is". My 360 doesn't care what day it is, and it doesn't know half the time (it never remembers for very long, and I don't usually bother resetting it---and if I get an achievement "in the future" or "before the game existed" it doesn't care---it simply says "unknown date") But the PS3 seems to go absolutely ape-crap with regards to trophies if it doesn't have the correct date. And also--why do computer programmers seem to really suck at figuring out how leap-year works? 2010 doesn't even fall under ANY of the rules. Most 12-year olds can give you most of the rules. (few people know the "400" rule but we'll all be living on Mars before that happens again)

1/250 has the short end on the bottom. (gotta look close!)

maximilian_jenius posted recently on deviantart account (linked in their sig) so it seems they're ok: http://nermallion.deviantart.com/

The most epic painting ever: "The Death of Jennifer Sisko" http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Scree...egory_Code=BIRD

Yeah, and be sure to thank the alternate source, too.

Open it up and fiddle with the screws around the hinges. I found mine works better by actually LOOSENING one certain screw.

Future is the most "forgiving" stuff ever. http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

Neat concept, though I doubt a prototype would already have a beta variant.

Kaoi--that is last year's ToyFair you linked to. But they showed the Ent-B again this year---with the wrong nacelle endcaps (Excelsior style, not Ent-B style).

Well, it's "necare". What do they get?

Did you clearcoat everything, or just over the markings? And what'd you use? (I was leaning toward using Future, and only over the major areas of paint)

I prefer the F as well. The S has *5* head lasers. Yeesh.

Blazer wings are completely different from both Basara's and the YF-19/VF-19A. And I don't think you can even use YF-19 wings on Basara's, due to the different glove and tailfin. Heck, even the pivot point may be different once Yamato gets around to finalizing/tweaking. (the wing itself is mostly same, but as you get towards the root, everything changes due to the different tailfin location---the VF-19F/S/Kai almost have a kind of tailboom there, the YF-19 doesn't at all) Each type of -19 pretty much needs its own wing mold, despite there only being 2 basic wing shapes.