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  1. Knight26
    Nice but there are significant design changes to the VF-1D that you haven't integrated. The whole forward fuselage is different as is the chest piece and head hatch. They are subtle changes but pretty significant. What you have here is the VF-1C which is a VF-1A with a VF-1D head.
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    That's because Stealth is really only useful for forward intercept. Once you close with a target and get within range where you are into a "turning fight" the rear stealth characteristics are actually a hinderance. The Russian's have been all about that close in fight design since the Su-27 and MiG-29 family of jets. Yes, in a long range engagement, the F-22/F-35 have the advantage in stealth, but once you get in close, the Su-57 can outturn and outgun them.
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    I agree so much, I forgot about some of your points, also was distracted during some of that by my son.
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    It is an interesting movie for sure, and works as two separate storylines that eventually combine nicely. The science in it isn't terrible but it hinges on a pretty weak premise, the discovery of a habitable moon of Jupiter. That is a pretty unlikely scenario given how much we study our solar systems largest gas giant. Then there is the "Event" which is never properly explained in even the most minimal detail. When we get to see the devastated Earth, we are seeing something that is of doomsday asteroid level of destruction, but dialogue makes it sound like some "Accidental" nuclear exchange. Also, as stated above, if the colony ship was to leave a week earlier, and the vent happened 3 weeks earlier, then the crew would already be in orbit aboard whatever space station was acting as the staging post. The event would not have deterred their launch. THe communications blackout is a pretty weak plot device to keep the crew out of the loop as there would be multiple backups in place to let the crew know what had happened, and the ship would have had multiple comm devices aboard. Still, as a character study it was worth the watch.
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    I remember speaking to the guy directly after the whole affair began. He was unaware, and checked his sales, sure enough the artist for the comic had bought the models to use and it was a commercial license (his mistake for not having made it non-commercial). I will double check, but I think he eventually got credit and that was enough for him as he had already been paid for the model itself, no additional money came in. He changed all further sales to non-commercial then pulled sales of the model entirely due to all the backlash he recieved.
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    Looks like the Yamato/Bandai style toy transformation (hip bar) not the animation transformation, with the hydraulics and sliding plates.
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    Macross Books

    Knight26 replied to Penguin's topic in Collectors

    I am thinking I want to get this, and the first one, but am waiting, for now. Want to see what the impressions everyone has on it is.
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    I am curious what they are building up to with the name drop. I cross my fingers for a certain storyline (the timeline is right) but in the new canon doesn't fit as well with what the characters motivations are. We shall see.
  9. Knight26
    One of the great hard sci-fi writers has passed, may his Grand Tour be never ending.
  10. Knight26
    Well that looks like, crap. Yeah let's go with that. Can't wait for Corridor Crew to tear it apart. On the plus side lavagirl grew up hot. lol
  11. Knight26
    Late to the party, I know, but those look more like Nerf Stampedes that have been extended with extra bits slapped on. Need a cleaned image though.
  12. Knight26
    Looking good, what scale are you printing it at?
  13. Knight26
    Love it, are prints up for sale?
  14. Knight26
    This will be my first 1:48 since the Yamato times, I love two seaters.
  15. Knight26
    The images popped up again on Instagram, and mentioned the name.
  16. Knight26
    I found the source. These come from the Macross SF Challenge Game on Laser Disc. It's apparently quite rare, Shawn did a post on it years ago that had some additional images.
  17. Knight26
    Are you scrapping the whole thing or just certain parts?
  18. Knight26
    WHen do these go live?
  19. Knight26
    Someone posted this to FB today, has there been some new that we missed?
  20. Knight26
    What makes you say that? Looks pretty damn impressive to me for the tiny size.
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    Yeah, the bit of the VF-5 sounds like 50s fighter lifespan, when we were throwing everything at the wall to see what would work. The VF-5 as a budget VF probably used inferior materials and more "off the shelf" components to try and get more mass produced VFs out there faster for all the various fleets. IIRC wasn't also the only single engine VF? It is likely that this left the fighter underpowered and unable to keep up. All of that taken into account, the short service life makes sense. Still curious what it looked like.
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    Still pretty cool.
  23. Knight26
    It was actually a really nice design. A real successor to the A-7/F-8. It reminds me again why the JSF should have been a tech-dev/demo platform that lead to multiple aircraft
  24. Knight26
    Wait are those fully variable 1:48 ride armors?
  25. Knight26
    Thank you
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