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Caught the last season, anti-climactic ending for sure (which honestly fit the series). And, I echo @Mog's comments. It felt rushed. The earlier seasons were 10 episodes, which gave plenty of time for character development and making side-stories that actually flowed.

I will applaud the choice of song, and it looks like will have some decent action at least.

Tried connecting to D+ on my VPN and kept getting an error, ugh (NordVPN)

Dang that looks awesome

Well minivalks (can't remember his username here) aka Michael Ryan, did create some MTF heads for his 3D printable valks. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/vf-1-valkyrie-battroid-mode-incl-fast-packs

I liked Tig's character when she first came on, but stopped watching shortly thereafter. But yes, I don't know many Trek fans who like disco, so I doubt that it will do well. Love SNW and Lower Decks though.

Based on this pic: That fighter mode looks like it was already destroyed. Hard Pass. The most interesting thing is that Tomahawk based armored Valk. Was that is Macross the First?

I do not care for it. The proportions are super off and the knee joint is just tiny, how the heck would the intake air pass through there? The proportions in fighter mode are going to be horrendous.

So the one of the left is the Production F-23A concept. It would not have had thrust vectoring, focusing more on stealth and speed (YF-23-2 was so slick and fast nothing could catch it, not even the chase F-15). A thrust vectoring F-23B(?) was discussed at NG but never made it far because they lost the ATF Competition. The NATF concept is on the right, and had a couple of iterations, that is the first one, with canards (super sexy) and thrust vectoring. The later iterations ditched the canards but were externally pretty similar. Thrust Vectoring was never a requirement for the ATF Competition. But, LM put a lot of research and development into it so incorporated that into the (Y)F-22 because they wanted to give it more agility. ANd it added an extra wow factor at the competition.

In short, sort of. The original ATF requirement called for thrust reversers and that was pulled late on, so the YF-22 never had them, but the first YF-23 did. The second one did not, and because of the lost weight could outrun pretty much everything else. A thrust vectoring F-23A and NATF were drawn up and proposed during and after the competition.

Probably a better question to ask in the workshop or modelling forums.

Warhammer fans have kids? LOL JK Very cool build though.

No worries, these things happen. What was the issue that couldn't be cleared? If you don't mind me asking.

Amazing engineering brother.

Well, the redesign of the YF/VF-19 and YF-21/VF-22 have real-world examples. The YF-22, YF-23, X-32, and X-35 were technology demonstrators and were never meant to be representative of the final production aircraft. The YF-22 is actually a good example since we did lose one during testing due to Pilot Induced Oscillation (PIO), which is a major concern in any fly-by-wire aircraft. I even worked on the Flight Test Program where the goal was to limit PIO as much as possible. Now, we do not know why the YF-19 prototypes crashed; it could have been for any number of reasons. But consider this: the YF-19 had one the most complicated transformations to date at the time (In the real world, yes, the SV-51, VF-9, and other advanced Valkyrie designs had some pretty origami transformations). So, the crashes could very well have been a result of that locking up or the pilots initiating them at too low an altitude or other PIO-like issues. The fact two pilots were killed leads me to believe that they were both aboard the first prototype when it was destroyed; perhaps one was acting as the onboard Flight Test Engineer (FTE) in the back seat. The other two point to an issue with the flight control computer not being properly attuned, which tracks with what we know about the Chief Engineer wanting to do anything and everything to prove his design was the absolute best. Once selected, the -19 would have undergone an extensive redesign for the production version, eventually leading to the VF-19F/S/P/Kai. However, like RQ-4A Globalhawk, there was an immediate need for the VF-19A to go into Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) to fill a gap in the UN Spacy Space Forces. These would likely have been derated in comparison to the YF-19 to make it more manageable for the average pilot, likely by adjusting the engine output, limiters, transformation mechanism, cockpit, and Tactical Operational Profile. Maybe the Master File has a better explanation for the redesign and why the YF-19 flight test program faced so many issues, but that has always been how I looked at it.

Wasn't the VF-5 supposed to be single seat? I know it was never officially seen, but I swear that it was written up as being a single seat VF based losely on the sea-dart. Or was that strictly fan conjecture?

Much better idea.

Damn, so nice.

Fantastic work my man.

Great work brother.

Damn, that is nice and your print quality if amazing.

Oh man, been a while since I read his work, but it definitely was impactful and a huge influence on the genre.

So, everything I read keeps saying all 18 entries in the franchise for worldwide release, nothing, that I have seen anyway, says that SDF and DYRL are excluded. Or am I missing something?

How hard would it even be for Disney to "convince" HG to allow SDF and DYRL on D+? Heck they could buy HG out for the amount the spend on days worth of Disneyland toilet paper.

ooh, pretty cockpit