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  1. Nekko Basara
    Very cute, very weird, and very... Katoki? Seriously, tell me that design isn't 75% Fei-yen!
  2. Nekko Basara
    If Veef will hit us with an animated gif of Ranka in the VF-25 costume, I promise to drop this wonderful tangent!
  3. Nekko Basara
    As a general rule, "flops" don't get second seasons like AKB0048 did. I never looked into this until you asked, but sales number for the two seasons here and here suggest the show was an also-ran at worst (its first season sales were roughly comparable to Aquarion Evol, for example). I'll admit they (mostly) omit the singing, but Strike Witches, Girls und Panzer, and Kancolle are just a few notable successes among a horde of shows that have mixed cute girls and war machine action in the past decade. Heck, just look at the top-selling hobby kit in Japan this week for an indication of how popular the formula is. I'm not saying that anyone here has to like it, but the idea that turning moe girls into variable fighter pilots would ruin their appeal to Japanese buyers is out of sync with a significant trend in anime shows. And before Tochiro has to jump back in, I know that Delta isn't doing that.
  4. Nekko Basara
    The idol characters in AKB0048 piloted mecha and beat people up while singing and looking cute (although the mecha aspect wasn't nearly as prominent as I would have liked). That was absolutely a moe-stereotyped show. I don't think these things are as discordant as you suggest.
  5. Nekko Basara
    I've enjoyed reading all the posts since the reveal. Nearly everything I wanted to say was already summed up by Marzan: All I'll add is that I'm actually sorta bummed by Tochiro's info that the idols won't be pilots. More than anything, I am looking forward to a Macross show my wife may actually get excited about; she's never shared my enthusiasm for Macross, but we both loved Escaflowne and AKB0048.
  6. Nekko Basara
    Why did I never notice that Gubaba also has shades in that outfit? That's gonna be the best thing I see all week.
  7. Nekko Basara
    You are not alone. The best part was that my wife, who's never been more than lukewarm to any iteration of Macross (yet we stay together - go figure!) also loved AKB0048 and became a rabid fan of the group as a result.
  8. Nekko Basara
    So, instead of Macross A-team, it's Macross A-chan?
  9. Nekko Basara
    I was amused that the "Macross Delta" link that Forbes put in the article went to a Macross Wiki article that painstakingly avoided calling it "Delta." Fire Bomber could provide all the music on their new album, "Re:Cycle"
  10. Nekko Basara
    Heh, is anybody surprised?
  11. Nekko Basara
    The P-38, though designed by Johnson, was not a Skunk Works project. The department that would become known as the Skunk Works was first created to design the XP-80 (and largely disbanded for almost a decade after doing so, so even treating it as a continuous entity is problematic).
  12. Nekko Basara
    Hey now, a vocaloid is the only way we're getting new songs from Megumi Nakajima!
  13. Nekko Basara
    That's it - Macross Tannenbaum! The triangle was a Christmas tree all along, and the teaser date was hidden right in the image!
  14. Nekko Basara
    Oh, you got me there and were too nice to say so - "Tora Tora Tora" was the film those Zero and Val mockups were made for, and "Midway" just re-used some of the footage. Another military fake (albeit not a plane) that had me fooled was the mockup Panzer III featured in "Resistance."
  15. Nekko Basara
    Probably one of the disguised AT-6s that were originally made for "Midway." Those have been in loads of movies, and on the airshow circuit as well. All things considered, I think the creators did an amazing job on the likeness.
  16. Nekko Basara
    I enjoyed your long list of movie/TV fakes and mistakes. This line took me right back to Top Gun, and something that's always bugged me in it. When the "MiG-28" F-5s in that film fire their negative scratches - I mean guns - they come out of the wing roots instead of the nose. I've never been able to decide if that's better or worse than having them come from the right place for the real aircraft, given the trickery involved in their identity. I also get a kick out of how the movie mixes one- and two-seaters without regard to tactical likelihood or scene continuity, and how the aggressors in the main part of the film exclusively fly A-4s so that we never see a "MiG" in their hands.
  17. Nekko Basara
    Yeah, those don't look anything like real MiG-28s! (Which, by Soviet numbering conventions, wouldn't even be fighters)
  18. Nekko Basara
    I'm not the expert some folks here are, but I've never seen glove vanes on a VF-1. It might be worth noting that they were generally disabled as unnecessary on the F-14A, and were omitted from the F-14D entirely. That may have some relevance to discussion of how troublesome the shifting of center of gravity and center of lift with wing sweep are. It apparently didn't matter as much in practice as the Tomcat's designers thought it would.
  19. Nekko Basara
    One of the many uses of Future floor "polish" (actually an acrylic clear gloss topcoat) is thickening up posts and ball joints. It takes a lot of coats to get a significant thickness but that gives you fine control, and it is very tough when dry. Ideally you want to take the joint apart and coat the relevant area, but in a pinch you can flow it into joints that can't be disassembled, working them around as it dries to make sure they don't seize. The latter approach will produce a gummier, less precise result, but it's still better than a floppy joint.
  20. Nekko Basara
    Such a nice, clean build.
  21. Nekko Basara
    Here is the other half of the kit-bash completed, a goth-loli take on HoiHoi-san. Apologies for including so many pics, but it was tough to choose.
  22. Nekko Basara
    All I can picture when he says "full of gimmicks" is the Bathroom Buddy from Gremlins. Perhaps it could be issued to pilots as part of their survival gear?
  23. Nekko Basara
    He was crushed!
  24. Nekko Basara
    I'm not sure if you're suggesting Millia killed Kakizaki because he was the best pilot, or because he was romantic competition for Max. Either way is pretty funny, though.
  25. Nekko Basara
    Vader forgot his lines - thank goodness he wrote them on his palm!
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