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I've recently found info (Polmar's Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines) on actual submarine carriers that were considered in the late 50's by the US Navy. I found the AN-2 design (from Boeing!!) concept similar to the Auerstädt in Macross 0. Even more in a soviet book from the 60s there is a diagram of what they thought was the concept design that is even more similar!! In Polmar's book there are some designs for submarine LSTs and cargo ships too (another interesting "previous art" for Macross designs) Boeing's AN-2: What do you think?

Naphta + silicon...seems like a new Napalm receipt!!! Thanks!! I've always look for this kind of trick. Could you please give us more info? (ratios, shrinkage, etc,)???

Interesting discusion. As far as I remember the original scale models were not for modellers but for military training and they represent the size of the real thing when sighted from a certain distance when holding the model with your arm fully extended. Be aware that I'm not 100% sure about this.

Thanks for sharing!!! It is always a nice thing to see new Macross dioramas!! The CF looks awsome. The soldiers are WWII?? Cory H: how can the soldiers be off scale if both (CF and soldiers) are 1/72????????????????

*twitch* *twitch* *twitch* Sorry, but the polymer chemist in me just can't stand that Anyway, another thing I've seen tried is five-minute epoxy if you're going to bond large surfaces together. Haven't tried it myself, but it does look like it could work. I'm a chemist too. That statment is almost an insult!!! The funny thing was resin is sometime used in paint industry as a synonim of natural resin... I had a big argument last year with a patent lawyer about this issue.

And how this poachers get their hands on VFs??? It is like nowadays smugglers or drug dealers were armed with F-18s, F-16s and the like!! (I know, it is an anime...) (BTW: in the 80s there was word that Colombian drug dealers were trying to buy Harriers to protect their plantations from DEA scout planes...go figure!!)

Are you sure that the M Factory vehicles are in 1/100 scale? I thought they were 1/170... I have to check it when back at home. BTW: excellent idea!! Go ahead!!

Some babelfish engrish from the Bandai visual site: < 1 story recording > * "Person of fifth chapter bird" Terrestrial integrated war breaks out 1999, centering on the space battleship of the strange star person who fell to the earth. 8 years elapse from the opening of the hostilities, the times when the veteran pilot keeps being lost one after another. With bombardment of the daisy cutter with counter integration alliance as for the ??? island in the sea of the fire. Finally taking in plate itself the hate due to fight with the straw raincoat chain sadly, "the person of the bird" awakes and moves to the terrestrial purification. To the last, the unified command and the counter unified command who to move only "the human capture of the bird" unfold heroical fight, but it has preponderant destructive power, there was no ? which the unified command, counter integration alliance you release before "the person of the bird and" do.... On the one hand Kudou thin sorties in order to rescue the plate at VF zero of booster equipment. ?? Fokker had unfolded the confrontation of connection of D & D ????. The ant s which is approached to ???????? hypothetical puzzle.... Fierce battle of the three-sided crest which is unfolded with the magnificent scale. The person of the bird just? As for conclusion of Fokker VS ????? As for thin being able to rescue the plate? Until all puzzles, human pattern is beautiful, the last volume which it keeps linking! Now... at the time of conclusion.

Or, as I prefer to say, "Best injection-molded mecha kit in all space, time, and alternate dimensions." I've built the non-fast pack version, I absolutely loved it. The thing is beautiful. It really changed how I looked at robot kits, and for a long time I lost interest in Gundam as a result. That´s an opinion!! I love this model. I also made the non super or strike version You can find a step by step article I've wrote at: Modelersite Just look for it in the ships/sci fi section

Best Battroid model ever. The snap thing is awful. Parts really don't hold toghether well. As for painting: the battroid is molded in white and it has decals for every colored part except the exhausts -feet, backpack, strike parts- and head visor and head lasers (from a minimalistic point of view those are the only parts that you have to paint) It comes with just one colored part: the chest. Strike parts are molded in grey plastic if I remember well. Conclusion: it is possible to have a toy like Hase Strike battroid with very little painting but you should have to glue it.

AFAIK those flaps are from the VF-1 1/48 resin kit

Just another thing: Arii's VF-1A cannon fodder has a green armour instead of blue!!

Even more a VF-1A cannon foder n° 5 (from Arii): The VF-1S from Arii sports the n° 3 on it's chest... Very confusing...

I'm not 100% sure (have to check M. Perfect) but number 1 is associated with Hikaru's VF-1J. Imai 1/100 models have the following numbering: VF-1J Hikaru: 1 VF-1A Max: 7 VF-1S: 4 Imai GPB model

Looks nice. More pics!!!! Thanks!!

David, I can't see how a conventional bomb (don't matter how big) would create significant radiation aside from thermal radiation. If this is what you mean the term IRRADIATE is not properly used. Could you please clarify this? Thanks.

Ever, excelente trabajo. Mis felicitaciones a tus cinco estudiantes!!! Que no aflojen!! El libro que menciona Neova es el Macross Design Works de Kawamori que reune casi todo lo que se publicó anteriormente en diseño de VFs (variable fighter) y cosas nunca vistas antes. Vale la pena tenerlo. De hecho puede ser una buena fuente de inspiración para tus alumnos ya que hay muchos bosquejos iniciales que te muestran cómo fue llegando al diseño final de cada VF. English: Ever, excelent work. Congratulations to your five students!! Tell them to not give up!! The book mentioned by Neova is Kawamori's Macross Design Works that presented all the previous published designs about VFs and also things never published before. It's worth to have it. In fact it could be a source of inspiration for your students since it has many initial sketches showing how the design evolve to the final one for each VF.

Moved to submarines recently...sub models are easier to build and finish (considering I have two children and a wife to care of) Almost finished: modified Revell's Skipjack and 1/144 Trumpeter's Kilo class. Macross: in my workbench since a loooot of time 1/100 VEFR-1 in gerwalk mode.

Thanks for the clarification Nanashi!!! Thanks. Now it is ubiquitously strong clear!!

Niiiice!! I like the way you painted it. You just glued the hatch or did something with the interiors??

A lot of tugboats indeed. Surfacing this thing for recovering the fighters would be another difficult task... but considering that we have an alien vessel with overtecnology everything is possible. Nanashi, what I don't uderstand is this phrase: "It's an ubiquitously strong alley" what's the real meaning of this?

Do yourself a favour: Just grab your copy of DYRL and watch it again...not just the valk scenes.

Hey! nobody commented about the dimensions I've calculated for this beast!! IMHO the size of the sub makes it very difficult to operate. It would be very hard to dock it. It's bigger than a Nimitz class carrier and even wider, not to mention that you would need a very deep harbour to dock it. Maneuvering it would be a mess too though this is not very important since the kind of missions that was design for (it is not a SSN nor a SSK) in fact I think about it as a Sub-Nimitz... It would be nearly impossible to operate this thing in shallow waters (i.e. ~100 m) What do you thing?

I've made some guesstimates based on the drawings and this is what I got: Lenght > 350 m width >95 m height: 74 m This are rough figures based on the lenght of a SV-51 -~23 m- (which can be seen in the second lineart) and on simple meassurements on the pictures (not taking into account the angle of the sub, thus the " real " thing should be even bigger) This thing is much bigger than a Typhoon!!! (as was said before more than two times bigger): RussianTyphoon: Length: Approx. 574 ft (175 m) Beam: 75 ft (23 m) Draft: 38 ft (12 m) Displacement: 33,800 tons

Hey everybody, he doesn't know... lol Hey everybody, he doesn't know... lol Hey everybody, he doesn't know... lol Wait a minute...you mean that Yamato is making a toy out of that!!! What would be the scale?? 1/100 ?? Bahhh, I hate small scales I want it in 1/48 !!! (Sorry Akilae, it was very tempting...)