Terribly sorry for your loss my friend.
I know exactly how you feel because I lost my dog of fourteen years three weeks ago.
Lemme know if you wanna talk about it on AIM. We'll get you through this.
I was just watching episode 25 and noticed something interesting.
Go to time marker 15:17 to 15:20 and take a look at Alto's VF-25 (returning to MQ and switching from Fighter to Gerwalk).
The legs are well below the shield which makes it similar to the DX version.
See what I mean? It's anime accurate after all.
A couple of years ago I was looking for the tiny backpack hook on one of my 1/48's for the LONGEST time.
Little did I know that that tiny piece fell into the folds at the bottom of my jeans.
It was sitting in there the WHOLE time I meticulously searched the floor looking for it.
I'm sure we've all done it before at one time or another. The faced paced action of Macross leads to people rewinding a scene and pausing it to study all the little details.
For example. In Pine Salad Miria takes her Q-Rau and does a low level flyby through a city street. The animators threw in a TON of in jokes which weren't that easy to see unless you hit the pause button.
Have you had to do this in Frontier?