David Hingtgen

And I was speaking just for myself, not as a mod. (though this thread has been closely watched by all of us since the first post--threads like this never end well)

I wasn't being literal, more like "I agree with previous descriptions of how bad Escaflowne was hacked up".

Seconded---Escaflowne on Fox is only slightly less hacked up than Macross was in Robotech...

I thought I noticed that Brera's eye color seemed different. (plus his uniform)

Apologies to Mr March for sucking his bandwidth.

Are you sure it was actually posted? There's no record of it. Unless whoever deleted it subsequently deleted it from the "archive" as well---which is rare and very paranoid behaviour for a mod.

General help that could (or not) fix various issues: Media Player Classic---Options>Playback>Output. Upper left section will be direct showvideo. Select VMR9(renderless).

Sorry, but Megaforce is specifically not allowed by MW's rules.

Just an FYI, I've found pics of Yamato's entire booth--and there's NOTHING new. Just 1/60 v2 Roy and Hikaru, 1/48 Max 1A and some non-Macross stuff. They either didn't bring any VF-11 stuff at all, or they're saving it for later in the show or something.

Interesting---Brera's VF-27 says "Antares 101" on the legs.

I tried many codecs and found that the CCCP+Media Player Classic blew all the others away in playback performance. It also plays back more files than anything else--there are a few that it doesn't like, but they are rare, and always old.

I don't have a problem with the fighter mode of any of them, but the 1/60 is fat in BATTROID, which is its most distinctive look. The VF-25 looks pretty typical in fighter mode as valks go, no sleeker than an Sv-51. But battroid mode? Its anorexic compared to many.

I never torrent, I always do direct download. Plenty of places to get both GG and Lunar versions. Personally, I find MKV's via Media Player Classic to be the most trouble-free, regardless of which group made it.

Along that line of thinking: One of the many articles I've google-translated from the Chara Hobby show said something along the lines of "The 1/100 is supposed to be line-accurate, while the 1/60 is designed to look like a sturdy typical Chogokin". Honestly, with how fat the 1/60 is looking lately, I wouldn't be surprised if Bandai purposely is making it chunky like the 1/55. Which would suck, as the VF-25 is the skinniest valk ever and is DEFINED by how thin it is compared to others. I mean, we've seen the 1/100 and 1/72, there is NO need to have legs that thick on the 1/60.

More:

Posting this here as well: I made an updated purple version of medium Phoenix armor for females----same as the one I did earlier but now includes textures for "far" distances. Pic: Download: http://home.mchsi.com/~ncc42768/PhxMpurple.tpf Scorpion light armor, in a sort of "Air Force blue" tone----works very well with Liara IMHO. Pic: Download: http://home.mchsi.com/~ncc42768/ScorpLblue.tpf And I'm still open to a recoloring request or two. I can't turn leather into chainmail, but I can make red or blue into green or yellow, etc.

The tailfins clearly aren't black. And no MP seeker has had "contrasting" tailfins yet.

Gah, the new figs have already been posted... (at first I thought they were resin models, then I saw the stuff around them and how "shiny" they were)

No "big wing" -19 lacks the canards. Also, despite having the same wings, the YF-19/VF-19A, and VF-19P/Basara's, have different tailfins----the P and Basara's have VF-19F/S style tailfins, as well as the F/S style of wingroot/LEX.

The -19 family is more complex than you'd think. Making a VF-19F/S from Basara's would take a lot of work. You can't just repaint his blue and change the head, cough cough.

Stickers to make different sets---no way. The missile hatches alone preclude that possibility. Still, since the 1/60 looks "fatter" in every pic, I worry about full armor being possible. VF-25's are very skinny so as to allow such thick armor.

Honestly, I think the current info is good news regarding armor---if they were going to do Ozma with SUPER parts, they'd probably have announced it with Alto's Super parts. Instead, we have only a bare Ozma. I'd bet (and hope) we'll see Ozma with armor after Alto's super, and then Alto with armor. (of course, I want super AND armor packs for my VF-25, and I'd prefer Ozma---might have to do some swapping around with people) Or they may be evil, and release Ozma with super parts a month after Alto's, and we never see armor..

MP TC has got to be the most weirdly-photographed TF ever. He's a different color in every pic we've ever seen--even one from the same guy in the same place with the same camera. They don't seem to have heard (or have the capability) of turning down the flash... I still don't know what color he is. Though at least we can be pretty sure he's metallic.

Honestly I'd prefer foil--even though I am very good with waterslide decals, for something that's going to be handled, I'd want something less fragile. I mean, most of the red striping is on the shoulder joints, which will be moving and scraping at every transformation.

I think the threads will be kept separate, as we have actual samples for the VF-25, but not even drawings for the others. When the 1/100 VF-171 etc have something to actually show/discuss, they'll probably get their own threads.