Knight26

Well here it is. I downloaded a trial copy of Accurender for AutoCAD, and gave it a spin today. Right now it is a bit of a pain because of how it assigns materials. basicaly I will have to assign layers to each different object and reassign their textures. Anyway here is the first aniamtion I did with it. I only used two textures so it is a little simple. I used a fly around and well i was experimenting so it is not the greatest. let me know what you think. Oh yeah this is just a simple cruiser. Anyway here it is: Animation 1

Looks good for now, try dirting it up a bit, get some good low-viz decals to dress it up. Love the Phoenixs, tried any other real world armaments yets, Sparrows, AMRAAMS, Sidewinders, Mavericks, Slicks?

Looks good for now, try dirting it up a bit, get some good low-viz decals to dress it up. Love the Phoenixs, tried any other real world armaments yets, Sparrows, AMRAAMS, Sidewinders, Mavericks, Slicks?

Dude where have you been, pics of that guys costume have been circulating the net for more than a year. It is a great costume, a bit too chunky monkeyish for my tastes though, and I agree that that Minmeis hot.

I would love to see or have made a 1:48 VF-1D double strike. I discussed this with a few guys before, a true strike valkyrie, loaded down with dual strike cannons, dual gunpods, maybe additional pods on the wings or just missile packs. Plus it would have to be a 1D. Any takers to make it, I will sacrifice one of my 1:48s for the cause plus pay for the parts. Color scheme would be a hard one to call though. Part of me screams midnight blue with silver white trim, like my characters fighters or a Su-35 style scheme, hmm, not sure. Oh well, I guess it's just a dream for now.

COngrats Wes I rememeber when I got my liscence, now once I free up some funds I can start flying again and get my Instrument Ticket.

Nice to have you back Egan, now go get some sleep man, take care of yourself. As for this neat little bit of information, come on man, give us a little hint, jk LOL

Man I missed this thread entriely when it came out, and now the link is dead. Was it a translation of the MAT book? Even if it isn't completely accurate I would have loved to have checked that out, especially if it had the illustrations as well. Hey Nanshi, do you have it in PDF format? Welcome back Egan, the walking Macross database has returned.

Egan you're back, we al thought you dropped off the planet.

I think it's in either Perfect Memory, the GOld Book, or Design Works (sure its this one) has a diagram showing that the head laser drops briefly during landing gear cycling. Also all the line art confirms a longer head laser then is shown on the Toynami's/Bandais's etc... So far Yamato is the only one to get that right.

I want them all *evil cackle*

Nifty Idea,but I think doing it yourself or having someone recast the otherwise unatainable pieces is the only way it will happen.

It's obviously a photoshop job, you can even see the new lines they had to add to it, they stand out pretty well.

Quick somebody call "Straight Plan For The Gay Man" Red Comet is back.

I was about to ask the same, looks like the standard recasts. Did you recast them yourself?

It was discovered en-route to the attack on the Zentran Factory Satellite. It was believed to be a Supervision Army ship along the same lines as the original ship the Macross was built from.

I like Planetes, it is good, and I love the Manga too. Tanabe hasn't even shown up in the manga yet so far as I have read. Maybe she will show up later, it was a good idea in my opinion to add her character at the beginning of the anime. It allows them to explain things that are stated off character in the manga, plus it gives the anime a wider appeal, attracting female audiences. Plus I love the music, need to find the OST.

Me like hat YF-19, nice low poly model.

Sweet, it's always nice to see real world squadrons represented as VF's, go VF-31 Tomcatters. Are you going to do FAST Packs for it as well?

The forward ejection port is large enough to clear a jammed/misfired round, I think, great now I need to go back and check, lol. As for a misfire with the the PLASER rifle portion, basically you are dealling with gas, so there is an emergency relief for that just in case of an overpressure. The right side rear heat sink doubles as the overpressure relief vent.

Iparisek in regards to your comments: 1) The forward magazine is a double stack and is for the mass driver (rail gun), the ejection port is simply for the power cell that is attached to rear of each round, and is used up with each round. I made sure it was the right size, one of the nice things about designing in CAD. As for the rear mag, that is for the Plasma LASER barrel on top, it has no ejection port, it simply acts as a battery and holds the primary plasma charge. Therefore there is no need for an ejection port. That grill above it is the primary heat sink for the Plasma exciter. 2) Again the front handle should be long enough, checked my weapons design manuals and if it it too short, it is just barely. As for the rear charging handle there is a mechanism inside, but it does not need to travel the full length of the magazine. All the charging handle does is strip away the protective strip on top of the magazine exposing the electrical connections and plasma charge port, compressed hydrogen. THis is in contrast to the enemy weapon in which the strip was be removed before it is put into the weapon, possibley mitigating a loss of gas, accidentally electrical shock, and release of the weapon. 3) I debated putting heat sinks of the barrels and am still doing so. RIght now the primary heat sink is the grill between the forward grids and the one at the rear. I may add additional heat sinks to the barrel. I'm also working on a possible reconfigure of the upper barrel, but since the actually plasma round is a ballistic, mind you a high powered energy ballistic it will retain a somewhat ballistic appearance. I hope this clears up any confusion on those points, and thanks for the comments. BTW nice SMG you have going there.

I don't think it's suppossed to be any established valkyrie. It is obviously an F-14 based variable fighter with shirow influenced weapons. I think it is really cool, very nicely done and creative. The scene is rather impressive with the exploding wingman, and the whole composition makes me think high end movie pre or post production artwork. Hey XStoys, where did you find it, does the artist have any other artwork posted?

Nifty, definitely has a Shirow feel to it. Hmm, imagine a Kawamori/Shirow cooperative project, cool.

Is it just me or do the missile launchers on the legs of the 1:60 Millia Q-Rau look like they are swapable pieces, where the closed disk is one and the open exposing the missiles is another? It would make sense if they were, otherwise the knee joint would be way too big and spherical, looks good to me though. I also agree that the Max VF-1J looks better in the darker blue, man they need to make it even darker though, a midnight blue valk, that would be cool. Ok that's just wishful thinking on my part, but I want a midnight blue VF-1D in 1:48, that would the ultimate for me. As for the VF-0, hey's a prototype and subject to major changes, I'm sure the production version will be much better, and since they are making it smaller and of less expensive materials it should be easier on all our pocket books. I just hope they make the chest place a little bigger, seems small to me in battroid mode.

If I had an valk meshes I would love to lone them to you for cutting. I'm sure one of the others will be willing though, hey who wouldn't want to see their CG masterwork translated into reality? I know I would be thrilled to see my 3-D models as solid models. Good luck and keep us updated on what happens.