Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0

How tall is the EVA? Is it the same size as the old kaiyodo EVAs?

Oh...sorry then. Is that supposed to be Smokescreen in Cybertron then cause when i saw the pic i thought : "Cool, its Smokecreen's old colors!" 406281[/snapback] I'm not sure, but that would be cool! It'd make 2 different characters in cybertron. I hope they call it smokescreen.

That isn't classics smokescreen, its cybertron crosswise repainted for a later wave of cybertron. And Black Convoy is rumored to be extremely limited.

MEgatron would look infinitely better and have a more G1 homage if they just change all the Neon green parts to RED...like a crimson Red. And make the legs black.

XFA-27 reminds me of an F-14 with macross influence, very VF-11 like. It puzzles me how they bring the falken back TWICE from Ac2, and yet neglect the XFA-27 completely.

tfw2005.com has some inpackage and out of package shot of some of the classics. They are rumored for late summer release now. And yes Kawamori designed masterpiece screamer.

Sweet looking good man!~ Ever notice how the canopy opens up? very very unique! I wish the model would do the same but at the scale it'd be iny and hard to paint. Its a very cool kit, shame I always tend to break my models(alwyas treat them like toys in my case). I hope Bandai makes a soul of popynica Ace combat series consisting of each special plane in the Ac universe(XFA-27, XFA-36 Game, ADF-01 Falken, ADFX-01 Morgan, X-02, et al). These planes would kill in diecast with retractable gear, metal, opening features and in a bigger 1/72 scale format. One can wish. But if I see the Falken for a good price@ a con I might buy it. AMA is in 2 weeks, but somehow I doubt it would show up at an anime con.

Hello all. I notice a bunch of us for the most part do digital artwork. Some of us paint as well by hand. So who paints? I find it interesting that the way I "paint" in photoshop is the way I paint by hand with acrylics/oils. I find that the single thing I love most about digital(painter/photoshop) is that there is NO DRYING TIME! Hell even with fast dryers like acrylic I am feeling the same way....I dunno then again I am naturally an impatient illustrator. If anything I find painting to be relaxing and it can be forgiving since you can always paint over. I find that tensing up is when I screw up, when I take a breath and relax, I do much better. Especially with paints you can't really do fast such as watercolor or guache. I'm giving paints with a macross theme another go. Maybe I will post the WIP's who knows. I figure, its been 2 years since I have took a stab at macross with acrylics, so I mineswell try! But man not painting for a while has gotten me rusty! So any of you enjoy traditional painting media in regards to doing macross or anime fanart? Discuss!

show me some art when your there. it would be cool to see. 405777[/snapback] Will do!

It's probably that they only have maybe 10 good artists and 3-4 of those are greatly talented, but what throws the art off is generally the lack of artist & inker parting for any length of time. ----- The start of the Marvel Civil Wars is fairly unsurprising. Cap has always been a private person and a strong believer in what he was fighting for, the very tradional values of 1930's-40's where it was still believable that the govt was empowered by the people FOR the people and not the way it is today. Stark on the other hand was always hiding his ID and until recently held the same ideal as Cap did. Stark now holds the childish view of "If you don't have anything to hide, you don't have any reason not to tell.". If anything the entire story is a blah! attempt at socio-policitcal commentary. ----- I've been doing art design research lately on old book covers when I stumbled across something very surprising at this website: http://www.sfcovers.net/mainnav.htm under From Unknown Worlds US and UK editions - NEW A sample of what it is below. The nearly knocked me outta my chair! Ross has some questions to answer..... 405481[/snapback] Ross? Why? And I too am a fan of Sean Chen's work, ever since I picked up Iron Man#1 when they did Heroes return.

I bet the F-16 will be the plane that the civies get to fly first!(of the teen fighters)

Marvel is starting to kick ass now. The new age of apocalypse trade was AWESOME..I didn't think a continuation of a 10 year old story would be good but for a follow up, it sure as hell certainly was. It had a good conclusion as well, and of course, I couldn't pass up Chris Bachalo drawing Weapon X. Civil War is off to a good start. I wish I could have said the same for House of M last year. I was very surprised to see that Cap was against the govt and the alcoholic bad ass Tony Stark was supporting the govt and is against Cap. Very surprising indeed. I have heard good things about All star superman. Is the art any good? BTW ultimates fans....did you know that Brian Hitch did some old old transformers comics in the UK wayyy back? If you look at his work then and to now, his stuff now is so much more refined!

I might be wrong on this but it looks like one of the Xmen:The End books by Claremont. I am not sure if that series has wrapped up yet.

Kick ass thanks man!

Anyone reading "Basilisk"? Its a ninja manga just put out by del rey.

For you gijoe fans.... Some of you know about Target's Combat Command line from BBI. While TRU has the realistically scaled 1/18 scaled elite force line, Target has the "joe scale" line, made to fit in with your gijoe stuff and with similarly out of scaled vehicles but give you a bang for your buck. The HIND was $12.99 and certainly worth more. IT had a ton of stuff. Sure it was joe scaled and for that matter out of scale, but for the price, who cared? Anyways its on clearance@target for $3.24 now, and I picked it up yesterday. Here are pics http://www.pointsofarticulation.com/phpBB2...php?p=2395#2395 Pick it up!

That was one of the greatest articles I have read. LOL. One of my friends told me that all star bats is actually good and not to listen to the naysayers(everyone except him has told me it sucks, I have yet to pick an issue up). Somehow I think Frank Miller's got a reason for the mayhem but I am not sure. Anyone care to elaborate on the story?

OOOOO!!! Totally forgot about my fav norththrop birds so..... YF-17 vs F-20. Both never made it into production, both from the same family of fighters but with decidedly different designs. Both planes that should have been made but never were produced in mass numbers. Both fighters that people like me wish "could have been". Funny thing is depending on what pics you look at, the YF-17 seems to be able to carry more weight. They both share similar A2A loadouts though(2 aim-9/2 aim-7). I think the YF-17 was the faster of the 2 but tis a shame both of them never made it to service.

Whoa I completely did not notice that/!

Externally perhaps the YF-23 could carry the bombload of an A-6? If so it would be a good plane to take the true place of both the F-14D and A-6E, combining range and power. Not to mention a GREAT followup to the Grumman cats and its a Grumman bird on boat!

Smallest way? I wasn't even provoking you, you were just taking what I said too seriously. BTW a lot of the info on the TV and all is wrong or very very biased. Anyways. Any of you guys think the YF-23 could be made into the naval successor to the Super Bug? Its large, might have a lot of growth potential, is stealth, and faster than the super bug and presumably has longer range. Stealth, longer range, and speed and possible growth potential tell me this bird might be a viable bug replacement in the next 15-20 years.

Shin are you disrespecting me for that matter? FYII got it from here http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f014.html You tell me to read up on information about things like you recommended me to do so I can stop asking newbie questions and this is sort respect I get back in return? How ironic! And this is why I choose not to argue with you guys, because you guys know more than I do and I don't want to get no flame war started but I think you might have provoked me, but apparently my super open-mindedness is not paying off here. 405004[/snapback] Uhm no I am not disrespecting you. Phalanx if you are going to read up on a subject, cross reference with MULTIPLE sources. The site you linked sounds a lot like the info given by the sites who said the ali cat wasn't worth anything in the war, when there is a ton of sources that say otherwise. It sounds like stuff that the pro airforce/anti navy and pro super hornet crowd tend to fling around with tomcat debates. For you to say that the Iranians were inexperienced in dogfighting is wrong. Those pilots had a ton of experience in F-5's and F-4's. They were also US trained. Read stuff like@ACIG.org for starters. Look at the kills list. ACIG is not the most reliable but it has a lot more info specific to that war than the one site you just linked. Go to Tomcat sunset.org. Check sites like those out. If you go to tomcat sunset.org you might find all the info you will ever need. But don't bug them. That and read up on books on the tomcat. You say we know more than you do. Thats because prior to joining this forum most of us were already diehard aviation fans who like me, read military aviation books as a hobby on a weekly if not daily basis. I don't think the number of tomcat kills is as high as Tom Cooper tends to estimate, nor do I think it is as low as the CIA and DOD like to say, nor as low as the Iranian govt tends to say either. I think the Tomcat most likely by all the evidence provided had a lot of kills, thing is with assasinations and lack of contact with governments, the actual kill tallies may forever be shrouded in mystery. And don't start a flame war its not worth it. If you do it'd be over nothing really.

He never ordered the F-15. There was a flyoff between the 2 and he apparently had wanted the Tomcat all along and the fly off proved nothing. He felt the Tomcat was the superior plane. And he and his air force wanted it more. You have to remember as well, the Shah was a fighter pilot, not just some figure head who was getting advice from his politicians and military. I think he did order F-16's but by that time the revolution was in the midst of occuring and so was the later embargo. The whole rumor about a defecting ali cat stems from when a tomcat was flown to iraq and I think the crew wanted to live in exile outside of Iran. The Us pilots didn't want to fly the airframe back to the US so it and 2 phantoms were dismantled in Iraq(pilots were skeptical of the condition). The US and CIA were the ones doing this. This was during the Iran Iraq war and at the time the US was supporting Iraq. 404969[/snapback] That I know of course and you are right about the US and CIA dismantling the fighters but you forgot to add that Grumman technicans and Iranian technicians that were friendly to U.S had actually sabotaged the Pheonix missle systems of all the Alicats so they can be rendered inoperable to Iranian pilots as well as the guidance systems but the AWG-9 radar was still intact. They never used any Pheonix missles when the Iran-Iraq war started. However, the Alicats were never effecitive as part of the IRIAF since they were only able to maintain a small number of them. Due to their essential value to the IRIAF, some alicats were given frequent mini-AWACS roles to patrol their airspace since their radars were very powerful and they did not want to send them in combat. I think the reason why the Alicats were ineffective IMHO was because I think the pilots didn't clock in enough flighttime to get a formidale amount of experience. I don't know how much hours of flight time they put in but I think this was the reason why they were ineffective. The severe lack of parts for the Alicats resulted in the IRIAF having to canibalize a small number of their Alicats (15-20 estimated by the Western Intel) so they can keep them flying and have the remaining 50 or 55 used for spare part holders. After all, when Ayatollah Khomeinghi was in power and placed a nationwide embargo on western arms, the IRIAF's most essential weapon they coveted, the Pheonix missle, was never delivered to them as they requested 400 Pheonix missles and the severe lack of parts to maintenance the Alicats were what grounded most of the ALicats. As a result, the U.S reciprocalized by cutting ties with Iran. I think the reason why they wanted to try to order as much AIM-54's as they can was due to the fact that since I think the pilots were inexperienced at dogfighting, they could use the Pheonix missles o take out the Foxbats from a distance since it would save them trouble of having to wait til' they came into visual range and try to engage them via dogfighting. But then again I think that MOST of these pilots were never any good at dogfighting and that wouldn't make any difference anyway cause during the conflict, airpower wasn't essential in trying to gain an advantage over each other because both sides didn't know how to use their air force effectively and strategically. Even though dogfighting was very rare throughout the course of the war, the Iraqi's seemed to have won most of the air batteles as the Iranians lost most of them due to the fact that their pilots had more training flightime and had advanced French arms like the Etendard and Mirage F-1C armed with the Matra R-550 Magic missle. 404993[/snapback] Nope. When the Iran and Iraq war started the alicats got a lot of kills with the phoenix. It may not be as much as Tom Cooper says but it is substantial. And INEXPERIENCED@dogfighting? WHAT?! Uhm guys...care to explain to phalanx? Anyways.....I don't know where the hell you are gettin the info mixed up but the Iranians seemed to have slaughtered the Iraqi Air Force many times in the war. I am not sure who had the overall winning tally but the Iraqi's only started catching up once they had the Mirage F1. Your logic is flawed, dogfighting does matter and it sure as hell did in the IRIAF's case. Hell most of the kills I have read about were close in. Tell the Israreli's that their dogfighting skills didn't matter in the Bekaa valley. Not sure if its even applicable.

Collectiondx.com has a review of the dougram. Looks awesome. But how tall are these guys? I was thinking the EVA's would be as tall as the old Eva's......I hope I am right! These things cost more!

He never ordered the F-15. There was a flyoff between the 2 and he apparently had wanted the Tomcat all along and the fly off proved nothing. He felt the Tomcat was the superior plane. And he and his air force wanted it more. You have to remember as well, the Shah was a fighter pilot, not just some figure head who was getting advice from his politicians and military. I think he did order F-16's but by that time the revolution was in the midst of occuring and so was the later embargo. The whole rumor about a defecting ali cat stems from when a tomcat was flown to iraq and I think the crew wanted to live in exile outside of Iran. The Us pilots didn't want to fly the airframe back to the US so it and 2 phantoms were dismantled in Iraq(pilots were skeptical of the condition). The US and CIA were the ones doing this. This was during the Iran Iraq war and at the time the US was supporting Iraq.