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  1. Talos
    I actually did those a few years ago, back during my first round of VF-4 work. It's not very good, so I plan on starting over with my new VF-4 sometime. Actually, the top, bare, plane in that sketch is the main reason I'm doing the center fuselage, since it would be visible without the default rockets and beam cannons mounted.
  2. Talos
    Oh yes, but of course. Just have to draw the side view from scratch....which will take some time. The VF-2JA is already long-planned.
  3. Talos
    Got my copy too, not a bad volume at all. Macross the First was epic, as always. Max makes one hell of a destroid pilot. I actually got worried about the Prometheus there for awhile, what with The VF-1J poster/calendar that came with it is awesome. I love how they melded the DYRL and TV schemes together into a very modern look. The Plus adaption is worthless. If you're going to do an adaption of an old OVA like that, at least give it new material like Macross the First, or provide decent mechanical art. Ugly! More details later, I'm looking through the GM book now.
  4. Talos
    Yeah, I know. It wasn't one of the main characters using it (Isamu and Gamlin respectively), so I didn't mention it with the other.
  5. Talos
    Funny you should ask about the shoulder pads. They are a design element of the flightsuit that I'm not a big fan of, but I've thought a lot about why they have them. None of it's been officially stated, so we are left to our own conclusions. You can see the pads used as lighting in DYRL, when Hikaru and Minmay are in the bowels of the ship. It would be sensible for a spacesuit to have something like that to aid in SAR efforts. The flightsuit from FB2012 (Seto can fill in the names for me, I don't have them with me at the moment, I'm typing on a phone), has them too, but restricted to a single band over the shoulder, without the massive pads. Why the Zero flightsuit has them, on the other hand, I would guess it is purely aesthetics. The whole "Macross look". One of the neat things about Macross the First is that the deck gang working on the Prometheus is shown with a new spacesuit that incorporates the glowing bits all over, for visibility on the flightdeck. I kind of like the touch of the Macross Plus and 7 helmet taking the annoying pointed part on top and making it transparent.
  6. Talos
    According to HMV, my copy shipped... (have to figure out how to use EMS tracking. They gave me a number) Also, the 12/28 date has been on a few sites for most of the month already.
  7. Talos
    I think you're thinking about the Gakken Mook one. http://www.amazon.co.jp/MOBILE-SUIT-RGM%E2%80%9079%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0-%E5%8F%8C%E8%91%89%E7%A4%BEMOOK-%E5%8F%8C%E8%91%89%E7%A4%BE%E3%83%A0%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/dp/4575464511/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293336212&sr=8-2 The Gogg book is in this series. I got that too, early this year. The one I'm talking about is this, which came out a few months ago. http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96-%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0-MASTER-ARCHIVE-MOBILESUIT-RGM-79GM/dp/4797359048/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293336212&sr=8-1 Same group that publishes Master Files.
  8. Talos
    Don't forget the sunglasses! That just reminds me that I need to catch up on Ecole. According to Amazon.jp, it came out in September. I will probably start a thread on it when I get it in the mail unless you grab a copy and do it first. Looks to be interesting.
  9. Talos
    He's quite obviously a Char. (Yes, I know who he really is, but still...) I wouldn't be surprised if his assistants were doing the mecha art. He probably does the same thing in École du Ciel. My copy of Macross Ace #007 (and Master Archive MS RGM-79 GM and Master File VF-1 vol 2) are in the mail and should get here on Monday. Good week.
  10. Talos
    It's what I do. Looks good, Schizo! Did some work on the VF-11 the past couple days. Mostly cleaned up the forward fuselage and started adding detailing. I also started blocking out the changes for the VF-11D two-seater. Not the Custom Jamming Birds one yet, the regular one. I incorporated the .51m forward fuselage stretch and started shaping the two canopies. They're still very early and rough, so expect changes.
  11. Talos
    Umm, no... While the VF-0 series has tailerons, you seem to be thinking of the vertical tail, which is sometimes filled with fuel. The taileron in the VF-0 is the trailing (rear) edge of the wing, the movable surfaces there. The VF-0C/D has larger ones then the VF-0A/S first of all. Second, the VF-0D does have vertical tail surfaces where the VF-0A/S do, just smaller and shaped differently. The delta wing is the difference, and would have room for a lot more internal fuel then the wings on the VF-0A/S. It also has enlarged ventral fins (on the bottom of the plane), and the addition of large surfaces out on the wingtips too. Much more room for fuel... The other main difference besides the forward fuselage, wing, tail, and ventral fins, is the head, which is a completely different unit. I haven't watched Zero in a while, but I think I remember seeing 3 VF-0Ds on screen at one time.
  12. Talos
    This help any? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/hasegawa/hasevf0d/Has_VF0D_Ins_7.jpg By single-seater, you must mean the VF-0C. Hasegawa made a model of that a couple years ago. It never appeared in the anime, it is just them adding the single-seat model sprue in with the delta wing. They did the same thing with the VF-0B, adding the two-seat forward fuselage with the regular wing body. It was in a Bandai toy recently (1/250th scale), so who knows. http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii87/desyeo03/MISC%20II/VF-0C_1-72_Delta2_VMFAT203_dec2008_.jpg The only three VF-0s to show up in the anime are the VF-0A, VF-0D, and VF-0S.
  13. Talos
    YF-19 updates. It's almost finished, just need to finish the wing, intake, and clean up a few spots and it should be good to go.
  14. Talos
    Very nice looking cover! The other preview pics were pretty nice too. Hmm, according to Amazon, the new date is 12/28.
  15. Talos
    It happens in Macross on occasion. The VF-1xRs spring to mind. (VF-1AR, JR, SR) Besides, I know it's not technically an official designation, but don't forget the F-16CJs.
  16. Talos
    No, no, no, it's definitely this. I'm not liking it so far, but I'll explain in more detail after I sit down and go over the design in depth again.
  17. Talos
    It's also missing the canards. The entire nose shape is that of a VF-X-4. Now how it got the VF-X-7's beam turret is the real question...
  18. Talos
    More like "I was having a chat with Talos about the VF-171 and how the entire plane was scaled down because Kawamori is the Hory Froating Head and it must be 2cm longer." Took you a bit to come around to my "mistake or typo" camp. I'm working on a VF-171 side view after getting the 1/250 for the 171 and EX yesterday, which led to the discussion after I was researching the two planes. As the TIA:M+ side view has slightly long feet/nozzles, if I keep those, I can probably wedge in the VF-171 nose in about a meter longer length (I would be shortening the VF-171's feet to anime length if I did that). Otherwise, it will probably be a bit longer then that.
  19. Talos
    Yeah, it is. Seto calculated it out for me a while back and came up with the size I'm using there, 13.505m. 2.3m longer then where I have the VF-9, based on info from Mr. March. True, very true. I had forgotten about that. It's what I get for posting after midnight. Comparing the head to the VF-0B box art painting, the panel line closet to the top of the head should be closer to the kink in the intake. A little shallower then the side view.
  20. Talos
    That's an unmodified copy of the Hasegawa VF-0D model kit's side view. Trust me, I've thought the same about the gunpod. I can only assume that the beam barrel raises up when the gunpod fires. When i get around to going back to the VF-0s and modding them to increase detail and such, I'll definitely take a look at the head. A quick glance at the wonderful VF-0B box art seems to show that the head is too deep. Thanks for pointing that out!
  21. Talos
    Repost from another thread.
  22. Talos
    Funny you should ask that... Like Seto said, it's a cool design that has had zero love before. All we have had is a couple rare model kits (old and not very detailed), and the new 1/250th toy (which I happened to get today...). I'm a big fan of the VF-4 fighter mode. I generally don't care about the other modes, since I'm a big aeronut. The VF-4 is a unique design, very cool, and more then meets the eye. Without carrying any weapons on hardpoints, it has the same misile armament as a loaded VF-1 (12 x AAM-1s), as well as a pair of beam cannons like the Strike Valkyrie. Then it has twice as many hardpoints as the VF-1 (8 versus 4). Finally, it has the usual pair of engines like any other Valk, plus a pair of unique scramjets for high-mach flight in atmosphere, and a pair of rockets (basically like the VF-1 FAST pack's) to give bursts of speed in any environment. Since I got the 1/250 toy this morning, I decided to start something I've wanted to do for ages, draw the central fuselage of the VF-4 so I can do some of the modular weapons configurations (removed rocket boosters, gatling guns for CAS, etc). It's still rough and undetailed. I need to refine the shapes before I start putting detail work in, but you can get the idea.
  23. Talos
    I don't think I need to add anything to what Seto just said, so I'll just post up a non-canon EW design I did a while ago, based on the VA-3.
  24. Talos
    I think Seto touched on why the VF-25 doesn't have any internal missile bays. It's intended to pretty much always operate with a FAST pack setup of some sort and all of those have (in some cases /extensive/) missile armaments. As for the VF-11, Kawamori did have internal missile bays in the legs in an earlier version of it, but they were not included in the final design. They are an animation error in the Operation Stargazer segment. However, he did put them in Mylene's custom VF-11MAXL, and I assume they are probably included in regular MAXLs too. You're right in that the F-15's packs aren't FAST packs anymore, not since they dropped the sensors that were supposed to go in them, leaving them just CFTs. The only Cs to carry them were the ones stationed in Iceland.In the USAF, only the F-15E carries them regularly, but I believe the Israeli F-15C/D/I, as well as other Strike Eagle derivatives, all carry them as well. They are just weapons, engines, and fuel in the VF-1. FAST pack was a new thing when Macross was being made, so they went with the catchy name.
  25. Talos
    *dusts off thread* Since I just updated my VF size chart with two new models, I though I would start posting it in here. It's obviously still unfinished, half of the planes are in boilerplate status (black silhouettes) and several models are missing.
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