Chas

Hey TSP, Great idea (doing your own version of it), and so wonderfully executed I'm trully impressed. I just thought I'd let you know that I'm in the process of scanning my coppy of the Flashback 2012 graffiti book which is just chock full of images of the Mature Minmei and the concert arena I should be posting a link to the images sometime tomorrow eve. in the T.V./movies forum.

You could also try using Artists drawing ink and water -Makes for easy clean- up if you screw up. Here's a link to where I first found out about it. Ninfinger Productions (Edit)doesn't look like the link is working so here's what it says: A nice way I've found to accent the panel lines is to mix a solution of drawing ink and water. I don't have a mixing ratio, but 1:1 is about right. I use Pelikan grey drawing ink instead of black; this seems to make the lines a little less stark against the background colours. The nice thing about this method is that it's real easy to remove when you make a mistake, or the stuff 'blobs' in the wrong area. I apply the wash with either a wide (1/4") brush or a plain old Q-Tip, and I keep Q-tips and Kleenex handy to wick off the excess ink. The whole wing, tail, or whatever gets coated with the wash, and this prevents puddle marks on the model. Good luck and good modelling.

WoW That's incredible! really nice preshading there! and those in-flight dispays - HOW'D HE DO THAT! I'm just floored. I mean WOW!!!

Openning illustrations last page, and last one for tonight. What comes next in the book is the Scene Selection basically 42 pages of stills from the animation with written (japanese) descriptions. these should be up by late Sunday night. Does anyone know anything about the legality, or more importantly, potential illegality of posting the entire contents of a book that you do not have the copywrite for onto the web, 'cause I wouldn't want to get anybody (especially myself) in any trouble here.

Openning illustrations fourth page.

Openning illustrations third page

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Openning illustrations first page.

Title Page

Well I had some time tonight so I did scanned some more pges here are the net &. Oh! let me know if you guys would rather I post them as images or if you would rather I post them as a zip file. Edit- Scratch the .zip file idea waaaayyyy!!!!!! too big for the boards. This is the inside front cover with the front leaf (dust jacket fold over)

Thank -you Jesse - That is exactly what I was offering to do. I completely agree with everything that you all have said here about re-casting. Anyway, I started to figure out how I'm going to build the mould for these poly-rubber wheels (man they are tiny- I've never had to deal with parts this small before). Should have it finished in a couple of days, I'm building it at work where I cast parts for a living, so I have to do it in fits and spurts between shots for GM and Siemens. I'll let you all know how it goes if anyone is interested in they're progress.

Well I'm also going to cast some 1/72 scale black polyurethane rubber wheels for my kits. Don't quite have all the details worked out yet but I think it should work out O.K. The only thing I am worried about is the possibility of the poly-rubber wheel compressing too much when everything is assembled, but I think that it is only a very remote possibility at most.

I didn't mean to imply that I'm going to recast the entire kit. I'm sorry if anyone thought that. I am going to make an extra set of fast packs for a custom idea that i've had for a while and I thought that, as has happened with myself on a few occasions someone on the boards may have screwed something up while building one of these kits and been looking for a quick way to get the parts they needed. Or perhaps, like me, they were interested in customizing a kit they already have. Sorry if posting the offer was a no-no, consider it revoaked.

My three 1/72 Hase. Kits just arrived this morning (Oh Happy Day! ). They are the VF-1S strike, VF-1A super. and the VT-1 all fighter mode. I am planning to do some recasting; right now just the fast-packs of the Strike, and thought I'd see if anyone was looking for any parts from any of these kits and wanted me to cast them for you. So anybody need parts?

Kinda busy this week. But I'll have more up over the week-end.

How's this yellowlightman?

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Well, even though nobody seems to want to translate them I'll post the rest up anyway. At least we can all look at the pretty pictures.

I've had a copy of the Macross Guidebook since about 1986 or so and there is a 16 page comic in it which I've never been able to read. I've got 9 scans that contain the whole thing and I was wondering if anyone, or group of you, would be willing to do a translation so that we Gaigin can enjoy the humor as well. Here's a taste of the comic. I have to go to work now but I'l be back in about 11 hours so I can see if there are any takers and if so post the rest then. Charles.

Oh right I was devideing by 2.25- Silly boy!