Knight26

Just so you know I really do like it and was not dogging it, just adding constructive criticism to try and help.

Sweetness, can't wait to see this.

Duke please don't say such things, I want to see the battle bad, and Anakin to be totally darkened at that point, irredeemable, and sent into the lava by a swift kick from Obi-Wan. Now Obi-Wan diving after to save his friend I can except, but not Anakin hanging on with any kind of self redemption.

Looks a little cartoony right now, but the texturing process should fix that, on the plus side you can really make out the panel lines.

Update time, if anyone is still interested. Basic untextured, uncolored, unmarked textures are applied to check for fit. I should have a few basic textures done tomorrow.

Very nice, though it still lacks a pilot, the leg extension pistons, and the shoulder impinges on the wing in Gerwalk mode a couple times, plus the control surfaces are completely inert. Other then that it is great.

fore starboard ventral

Ok, the panelling is done, and I have cut it up for texturing. I have to make a few tweaks to the engine nacelles and missile pods but once that is done I can start into texturing full bore. Also, I have given in the temporary vandy-1 treatment to make sure the cuts are correct for texturing. Let me know what you think.

Update time: I finished paneling the dorsal fuselage, will start on the ventral side tomorrow since I have the day, gotta love being a federal employee, lol. I also had to turn off the lights, not uncommon when I go into the detailing process. For some reason AUTOCAD hates it when I start detailing and I invariably have to kill all my lights except for ambient if I want to render. Of course I can put the lights back in later no problem, the biggest pain here will be remembering the positions and values, especially on the cockpit glow light.

please excuse the ignorance, but who?

the thing that I always thought was strange in the DoD (original and remake) they are there for a couple months right? Well after a month or two of exposure to the elements a human corpse will be pretty badly decomposed, why do we not see that? Heck in the remake all they really had to do was to wait it out for the dead to be too decomposed to move then leave. Oh well I guess that is what happens when I input logic into the equation, lol.

Underwing hard points, sorry they are a little hard to see.

I redid the wing panels, altering several of the wing panels, and adding access ports as well as hardpoints, plus I paneled the dorsal fins.

Ok, been a busy week, but today I panelled in the wings. I think I may have overdone it a little, but I still have to add in other sundry bits to the wings, fill ports, hardpoints, etc... If you have any comments I appreciate them. I will start on the tail surfaces and fuselage tomorrow. Then of course I will have to start texturing it.

Really, where did you hear that it's only going to be 12 episodes, oh wait, its coming on midseason, bugger. Of course sci-fi runs seasons wierd so that might not be true.

I am currently without cable as well, and other then having to wait a few days, or a week, to download shows I don't mind too much. Really the only channels I miss having are the discovery channels, TLC, and to an extent the Cartoon network, since I can never find the Adult swim shows for download anywhere.

I think you mean the Tie-Phantom from the the Rebel Assault 2 game, or possibly the Tie-CLutch from I-Jedi.

Man the thing is fugly and the design makes no sense what so ever, I think someone designed that while on some seriously good crack, the same stuff George has been smoking.

Gott im Himmel!!! I agree it is probably the rarest of the rare Macross items, but nearly $700 with two days left, that is nuts. To the members who have them, how much did you pay? Of course I hope to someday find a beat up and abused one, where the stitching has started to go, then take it down and hove someone make patterns from it before repairing it. Imagine, custom Macross VF-1S plushes, lol.

I've always loved the Hasagawas, the only thing, and it is a small thing, that I had against them was the leg angle in fighter mode, non-FP, but that was a minor gripe and nothing to bash over.

I think Focker is confusing the book, movie and TV show, combining them which I've know many people to do. I myself found the series to be fun and a little closer to the book the then movie, at least technologically. However it still had far too many elements from the movie driving it. I have the whole series as well, mostly because I like the designs and can sort of watch it as a seperate entity. The movie however was complete garbage. As for the anime version, I have a non-subbed copy, its not bad, I love the mechanical designs, but the bugs look like garbage, and after the boot camp portion the story goes seriously off track from the book.

Just watched with all my office mates, several are still laughing so hard that they are hurting, loved it, reminds us of what we do with tech support on the launchers too.

I didn't dislike, nor did I love the ending, one thing I wished had been there was a Zentran Scout picking up the signal of the AFOS folding and reporting back to Breetai's fleet. Remember when the Zentran first show up in SDF Macross Exodore comments that they picked up a signal from earth and that is what they tracked in.

@ Lynx: I'll look into canting the dorsal fins. As for the profile view, I agree it is starting to look very much like a hawk or eagle. I may rename it now and just make the Phantom-4 an older fighter not seen in the books, we will see. I will not hook beak the nose though, sorry this isn't Buck ROgers, lol. @ ZD: The nacelles were done that way intentionally as a nod, though I may make the sides opaque again so they don't glow, I am undecided at this point. @A1: I went to the bubble canopy because it fit better in the overall GF Design scheme, all their fighters have bubble canopies. However, I plan to make a few variants of this one and one will be an early variant which may or may not have the angled canopy. This one is the standard late war model so it has the bubble canopy.

@GC yeah the DVDs were originally suppossed to be double sided, and some actually are. However, from what I have read the very first pressings were double sided but there was a mix up at the manufacturer and they did not get enough double sided disks so did the rest as two disks, hence the lack of artwork.