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And now the Marduk battle pods. The kit comes with 3.

The kit on the top right was another event only release I got off Yahoo Japan a couple years ago. It had a very simple stylized drawing of the VF-2SS on the box cover that I really liked though I don't think Shawn cared for. Anyways when I got it there was no box. The seller had said he'd lost it which I had a hard time buying as he had the box to take the picture for the auction but what could I do... he was in Japan. I'm also sad to say I've since lost the picture from the auction too. I believe it was on my PC at work which I lost access to when I lost my job. If I had a copy at home I either can't find it or it was lost in one of the PC crashes I've had in the last couple years. I don't think I ever had any information on who the maker of this kit was unless it was on the box art pic which I don't think I have any more. [shawn, if you are reading this do you think you saved that picture?] I believe this is a 1/100 scale VF-2 battloid.

The kit on the top left is the VF-XS Valkyie-II. Its 1/144 and made by AlucarD. It was an event only release.

Still no scanner guys or I'm sure I could get you better pics. I hope that'll change after I find a job. Anyways here are all the Macross 2 resin kits that I'm aware of. I think this is it anyways. It took me about 3 hours of digging to find the Gigamesh so its possible I've still got something burried someplace. Enjoy... Carl

I couldn't agree more. But whoever that someone is better know the the best Legioss NEEDS the best Tread to link up with. See what Stick is reduced to now that he's missing his partner.

I don't believe he's looking to sell it but you are free to ask him. You can find the thread he started here: http://www.tron-sector.com/forums/default....o=top&id=272436 Carl

Thanks, Carl

I'm not the best person to answer that question but the phrases: "Those with faith will inherit all things." "Those with faith will rejoice in all things." Sounded like likely candidates to me however knowing everything is on the net somewhere I found this site but I can't find any verse that quite fits. http://bible.gospelcom.net/ Thanks, Carl

I know someone that is trying to get this translated. Here is what he knows about it: "I have this little metal sign that my parents got many many years ago from a friend. We have no clue what it says, but we do know that it's suppose to be a bible verse. Forgot to mention. The guy we got it from was Taiwanese. Don't know if that makes any difference." I thought for sure someone here would be able to help him out. Thanks, Carl

I think the official answer is they are non-scale. Most sites list them a 1:100 but they are bigger then that. They aren't quite 1:72. SHE himself first called them 1:75 seen here: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...she_75yf21b.jpg But this is the SAME kit he later called 1:100 and that even later sold with no scale information on or in the box. I don't even think all the SHE kits are in scale with each other. His focus seemed to be first on making the bast variable kits he could make and scale was secondary. At least that's my take on it.

I hate to disagree with Graham but it all depends on what you are buying them for. To me these kits are works of art in and of themselves and are true marvels of engineering. True the toys are better to play with and some of the fixed posed models can be made to look better but to me the SHE kits capture something that's unique. I can remember when I used the think transforming mecha in general was all anime magic. The first toy I went to nearly the ends of the earth to have as a kid was Jetfire. It just hit me so hard with that feeling "You mean that thing can be made to do that in real life!". True the toys still do that... the 1:48 the most I think but the SHE's leave me in awe of the engineering that went into them. I certainly recommend them as works or art. They aren't meant to be toys or the best looking fixed posed model possible. Carl

Well here are the VF-2JA kits: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/b-club/b-club.htm And the best picture I have on-line at the moment of the battlepods is here: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...musa_v2_box.jpg Its not the best picture though. I don't think any pictures of my Gigamesh are on line at the moment. I'll fix that if I can find it. Carl

One ugly animation... Here is the very first animation I've ever made guys. Its just 19 frames long. Can someone tell me how to take nice sharp pics and turn them into an animation that isn't so pixelated? Surely its possible to do better then this. Thanks for any help, Carl first.mpg

I made this for a friend named Dave. If there are any Daves here they are welcome to this as well. Here is the story of how this came to be. My friend posted this picture: Dave Pillow Pic And it hit me how easy it would be to turn it into an Ambigram. So I made the Ambigram and showed it to my friend. It wasn't till then that my friend pointed out that the original TRON logo was an Ambigram itself. Check out this picture to see the original TRON logo: TRON hat Enjoy... Carl

This one just finished. Reflectivity and transparency turned on for the body this time. Enjoy... Carl

I just saw this: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.ht...02/10/12.00.sfc SCI FI Green-Lights Battlestar SCI FI Channel on Feb. 10 announced that it has given the green light to produce 13 episodes of a new Battlestar Galactica series, based on the channel's "reimagined" Galactica miniseries that aired in December 2003. The network has ordered 13 one-hour episodes of the show, which will bring back cast members Edward James Olmos (Adama), Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) and Tricia Helfer (Number Six). Production is slated to begin next month in Vancouver, B.C., the network announced. Ronald D. Moore (Carnivale, Roswell) returns as executive producer. Galactica will be produced exclusively for SCI FI, in association with Sky One and distributed by USA Cable Entertainment, where David Eick, an executive producer of the miniseries, serves as executive vice president. ***** http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.ht...02/10/13.30.sfc Moore: Galactica Takes Off Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of SCI Channel's upcoming new series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that the 13-episode first season will pick up where the hit December miniseries left off and will build on that show's characters and situations. SCI FI on Feb. 10 formally announced a green light for production to begin on the Galactica series, which will bring back cast members Edward James Olmos (Adama), Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), among others. Production commences next month in Vancouver, B.C. As the new series begins, "a few days have passed since the miniseries, and we're in sort of a dire situation right from the get-go," Moore said in an interview. "I think one of the hallmarks of the series will be that it's always going to be a tense situation. These people are always going to be one step away from disaster. Which doesn't mean that the Cylons will be attacking them every week. But I think the nature of their situation and the reality of what they're facing out there alone, with most of them left with the clothes on their back and whatever food and supplies they happen to have on those ships when the events of the pilot occur is only, God, the beginning. And it's going to take a long time for them to get to any kind of stability or normalcy." Moore said that he is currently assembling a writing staff for the series, which may include colleagues from Moore's old series Roswell, Star Trek: The Next Generation and HBO's Carnivale. Moore is drafting the script for the series' first episode, has roughed out stories for the first three and has written a series bible, with story and character arcs for the first season. "The series is going to take its cues from the miniseries," Moore said. "The tone and context will be in that vein. There will be lighter moments. I'm sure there will have things that are unexpected and fun to play as time goes on. But the miniseries, that's the bar. That's what we're trying to [do]. ... We want to do that show every week." Moore said that he may eventually adapt a few of the original 1978 series' old episodes for the new show. "I've talked about revisiting the 'Pegasus' episode, because I think that's a cool idea at some point. There's a possibility in my head we might go back and play around with the ship of lights that was in the original series. And I'm going to sit down and watch all 22 of them again, kind of go through it. But the first thing that springs to mind is that the old show did a lot of planet-of-the-week type episodes, and we're specifically not doing that on this. So a lot of those aren't going to translate very well." Moore added that he'd like to find a place on the new show for some of the original series' actors as well. "That's something that I would like to approach them about," he said. "I'm probably going to approach a couple of the actors, if not all of them, at some point, and talk to them about that possibility, because I think that would be kind of cool and fun. And I think it would be interesting to find things for them in the new series. And not just, like, a walk-on, although you could do always do that. But it would fun to give them a role and have them bring something to the new show." *****

If I had just posted this picture do you think anyone would have noticed what was added?

Here is an idea I've have in my head for 20 years and I've never seen anyone else do. So I finally sat down and put my light cycle sidecar on-screen so-to-speak. What do you think? Does it fit with the TRON slogan of reminding you of something you've never seen before?

I for one remember the ice Tread Armo-Fighter. Do you think I could forget? So when do we get to see the rest of your arctic camo custom VF-1S? You are off to a great START. LOL!!! Carl P.S. Any reason why this work of art doesn't deserve to be in the FRONT yard? Or did you use up all the snow there making the headless VF-1S body?

Hello, To your first question I'd have to say yes. If I can ray-trace anyone can. Check out my TRON thread here. I'm not up to doing meshes yet like most of the objects here but I'm just building my models from primatives (boxes, spheres, cones, etc.) just like they did for these two subjects in TRON itself. My thinking was start where the profesionals started 20 years ago. You can get POV-Ray for free here and I got started by just reading the documentation that came with it and I've had fun so far. Enjoy, Carl

I just saw this: Galactica2003.net reports: ***** January 30, 2004 - Battlestar Galactica Greenlighted! - According to a handful of sources, Battlestar Galactica has been given the greenlight for series. More information will be published as soon as more official word come from the Sci Fi Channel. *****

A friend of mine had the link so I actually didn't have to do any digging. Thank you. This is cut from a JMS post dated (09/27/2003 08:18 AM): To the many questions that have arisen here of late...yes, as I mentioned before, there is the possibility of something Babylon 5 related on the horizon, but again I don't want anyone getting excited until we know if either one of these two projects is going to actually come to fruition. We should know where this lands in the next few weeks. The only thing I will say is that they're not print projects, so if you were to assume it's for TV or film you wouldn't be too far off...but that neither of them are series. And that's all I'm going to say about them for now. There I think everyone now has as much info as I have. Enjoy, Carl

All good questions. I could be funny and say this was The Minbari operating System - About the fall of Microsoft but to be honest your guess is as good as mine. Here is what JMS has said in the past... (this is cut from a post of his dated 11/30/2003 02:34 AM) On the B5 front, there has been something of rather substantial proportion that's finally gone from talk to money, such that I'm now working frantically to meet some deadlines, but there's nothing I can say about this until after January 15th, probably closer to the end of that month. The only thing I can say is that phase one of the new project is a go, hence the furious writing schedule at this end of things, which is why I've been silent until deciding to kick up some dust on the political discusion. I've been writing my little brains out. I know the immediate result of this will be speculation, but if we could keep that to a low roar on the nets to avoid precluding anything, that would be a wonderfulness. But trust me: I wouldn't go on about something in this way if it wasn't a significant development. Just trust me on this one for a bit and hold fire until further word. (Longtime followers of the various news groups know that an eep means that something significant has happened, but that I can't talk about it...the eep is just a way of saying, on the QT, that something has, indeed, happened and it's real, not just speculation or maybe-gonna-happens. So on that basis, you may consider this an eep.) So up till now B5:TMoS has just been refered to as "eep". As to the second question JMS has said it's not a series and that it's not for print. I'd have to do alot of digging to find those posts though. I think most are thinking it will be a made for TV movie. Thats really all I know at this time. If I learn more I'll share. Enjoy, Carl

Here is the post from JMS... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jms at B5" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: Re: JMS New Babylon 5 related project (sorry if it´s already been > It's taken longer than hoped for to be able to talk about this, because it's > taken longer than hoped for to go through all the machinations of the deal. > Depending on the nature of a given deal, it can take a few weeks to a couple, > three months to actually cut the deal and finalize the language in terms > everybody can agree with. We only literally finished the deal last week. > > Writing on B5:TMoS is complete, and as soon as the powers that be sign off on > everything, it can be turned in and we can start moving. At that point, I can > say more about this. > > Figure another couple of weeks. > > jms > > > (all message content © 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd., > permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine > and don't send me story ideas) Enjoy... Carl Edited to remove JMS's email address.

WOW!!! I can only think of one thing I'd want to add. Someone with more photoshop skills then me should take one of these pictures and put the mospeada in the foregroud of a legioss model that's adjusted to be in scale with the bike. I can just see the bike sitting in front of a legioss with the cockpit open or maybe the armor standing in front of the leg of the battloid. Don't put the whole legioss in the picture to keep the cyclone the focus... I just think it'd make a very kewl back drop. Great work!!! Carl