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Are you saying Mikimoto does a "kiddie porn" style? I don't really get that at all, but I guess that's just a matter of opinion. You've done some really good pics though. I wouldn't say they are in Mikimoto style at all. They do have more of a 40s-50s retro look, or more of a Betty Page pin up style than anything. The coloring is nice, except the green Star Trek alien "Snookie" girl (couldn't resist). Meltran women have normal skin color. If anything, maybe a bit pale from not getting any sun.

It looks like the people raising their hands in that picture to people who look like they're just relaxing after walking around all day seems very roughly 50/50, meaning, your room is really half full. Out of the 50% their actually inside for the panel, maybe 20% are there because of someone they came with, not because they actually want to be there, and out of that same 50%, at least 20% of them are Macross fans over Robotech fans. I'm probably off, but probably not by much. I look back to the AX panel, and while a good portion were Robotech fans, they were Macross fans just the same, and just sat to listen to B.S. and silently ridicule the panel afterward. I know this cause I hung out with a good portion of them. Also, is it no surprise that there's no news for the Live action RT movie? We are talking about Robotech here.

Damn, that's awesome! Very nice work on your custom VF-1J. Looks like it took a good deal of time. Love the little added touches, like verniers on the backpack, and the extra decals.

I guess I could throw in Resident evil afterwards, and create a backstory for them mixing together, LOL. On a different, related subject, I know Kawamori did one of the jets in it. Anybody know of a link to get any line art of it?

So, if you don't press the triangle, it says you are dead because you don't raise your arm? Maybe just dead inside?

I smell troll.

In response to all this, I bring to you the TRUTH! How anime was really started, how Macross got started. From rt.com: Effin laughable.

Yeah, they were pirates, and it kinda explains where they get some weaponry from, which is like some arms dealer. Also, considering the age of the VF-1, that's probably a little more feasible, I guess. Even then though... In anycase, it looks like this kit doesn't need a whole lot of surface painting. I will definitely do a weathering job on this. Seems like mostly white paint, and giant decals.

Hmmm, yeah, it was kinda strange at times, having to be very tactful to some people, when all you really want to do is rip them a new one for such lame ideas. When I first heard they were using LLA, as a MOSPEADA fan myself, I was hoping that it was a joke. Fat chance for that. Then I thought, "Maybe they'll at least release the original with whatever they are doing", but I doubt that as well. You can find LLA on bittorrent sites around, and that's how I had to get it on my computer, and then on DVD. There's no subs, but you really don't need them. It's great music. If you didn't know, it seems like this short film chop job is going to be an animated version of the Robotech: Invasion comic, that takes place with the invasion force that has Lancer crash landing on earth. It seems like it's not going to be anything related to LLA, except for the taking of the animation. You gotta wonder what kinda thought process went through their heads with this? I mean, do you think they know that this was going to drive more fans away? I doubt a small project like this is going to equate to more fans, BUT, those that aren't happy with it, and the banning of people who disagree with it isn't gaining them either. That seems like losing fans.

I don' think that's the goal of the new project. Seems like they are simply using LLA to probably save on cost of animation. Although splicing old and new animation together just sounds like a stupid idea now. No, it doesn't sound, it is the stupidest idea I've heard of in a long time. As of now, they haven't mentioned anything about using new music, and from what has been said on rtx website, it appears HG spokeperson, Memo, is already saying that having "new music" isn't important, as they supposedly already have a library of old music to go with the old animation and old, outdated way of chopping animation together. As for the theory that LLA was going to be the project, I do remember hearing some fans wish and hope for something like that to happen. I thought it kinda strange that some fans would have such a lack of creativity, and such moronic notions, I thought HG would never go there. Then when Tommy pretty much gave it away, and we found out what was going on, it started making its rounds over a year ago. Oh, and you probably don't need to write a different post almost every 10 minutes. You may want to compose all your thoughts on one post. Just a suggestion.

That's one of the things I thought was a good idea with Macross II. SNS had an aircraft able to keep up and get the footage, and was designed specifically for their needs. The fact that it had a GERWALK mode was pretty good, too. It just doesn't seem feasible to have a news agency flying in, I guess what would be, a decommissioned fighter line. Not saying the kit isn't cool, cause it is, just a little odd.

Well, Carl could've been a nice guy. I met him a couple times, and he seemed OK. He was willing to talk, but it wasn't like I HAD TO TALK ABOUT ROBOTECH with him. I'm just not someone with RT licensed fan goggles that becomes like a whiny, squealie schoolgirl around their staff. And Darkwater, I totally agree. Carl wasn't the originator of the chop job anime to American television, and I'd even question the fact that he made Japanese anime popular in the U.S. It was already coming over, and coming over more frequent in the time before Robotech first aired. A lot of the fanboys won't want to admit that, as that would question their faith and belief in their almighty Carl. Don't kid yourselves. He was a producer, and put something out during the perfect storm, but that's it. To call him a visionary? I find it funny that Frank only has great things to say about Carl, as does Tommy, when it was HG who fired him because he couldn't produce anything with substance after using the original series. From what I do know, he was kinda the laughing stock with the RT staff, and seeing Tommy role his eyes when Carl would talk definitely confirms that. That would mean that they definitely are using his death as a marketing tool, even to this day. Seems like every which way I turn, HG's Robotech dept. is doing something stupid. I love pointing this stuff out.

I was going to say that kit is pretty cool, but the most fascinating part is the camera pod. I just preordered one for myself. I haven't built a good Macross kit in a lonnnnng time. Edit: To add, it seems that by 2059, U.N. Spacy made the VF-11 series available for civilian use. To me, doesn't that seem a bit odd? It'd almost be like a news agency being able to buy an F-14, or the F-20, hell, even an F-4, and I don't think that's ever going to happen.

It's been posted in several media sites over the past few years, that Harmony Gold haven't been very nice to Michael. It's been on Myspace, briefly talked about on Facebook https://www.facebook...s/187067344377/, and has been discussed by several fans who hang around the "Robotech" groups long enough. There were serious issues with Michael just being able to be able to put out his own CDs with the music he wrote because HG had such a strangle hold on the songs. Lately, this documentary that is on this A&E Robotech set has come and gone, and Michael was never asked to take part of any of it. Oddly, Carl's last day on this earth was on his way to see Michael's band perform, as he wanted to see Michael and hadn't done so in some time. Then, this side project has been talked about for over a year, and HG has known they were going to use LLA over that time. A story that focuses around a character that Michael Bradley helped make popular through his great music, and there's been nothing. You can also find a good synopsis of the basics on the rtx.com website, and of course, on the facebook link. I don't want to get into details about all of it, and I'm not the one to really talk about it, but like the mentioning of this RT project being LLA about a year ago, trust me on this. This stuff is why even if HG put out a good product, I'm not buying anything. For all I care, they can suck it until they rectify the issues they've caused. Michael has been there in the beginning of Robotech. Like I've said, whether you hate Robotech, or like it, or are indifferent, to treat someone who has done that much for that franchise, and truly loves the work he did for it, is just wrong.

Yeah, not looking forward to horror stories like that. I'm sure I'll start picking it up pretty soon, and I'll probably open up a whole new world.

No, and at first, I was thinking, if it had the original sound effects, I would have. Then, after all the B.S. with blacklisting Michael Bradley, and the seeming refusal to include him in the documentary, I wouldn't even buy it in that case. As a matter of fact, I'm not ever going to buy a single thing from that franchise until that gets fixed (even then, if the product sucks, still not going to buy it).

Yeah, it's definitely possible to do. To make it collapsible would take more time, but it's possible. Even better though, I may have one somewhere in my collection. I know I dismantled a couple beat up MPCs several years ago, and I think the parts are in some box either here at my place, at my mom's house, or at my in-law's house. Was going to keep it for a custom, but I can sell it to you if you're interested. PM me.

Thanks for the info. I was reading up on some of this, as I wanted to possibly texture it. I'm not much into creating these for any animation yet. For now, being able to create these, then get a toy made is very exciting. If I get asked to help out with something, I've been putting these good bits of knowledge away, so I do thank you for that information. I hope to be able to enhance these someday, and good textures would definitely be the path.

Here's my latest. 1/60 GU-11 prototype gun pod. Going to hollow it out, and adjust the barrel's insides to make it recastable, so 99.8% done. Comments welcomed.

Now that's Robotechnology...Protocultivating!

I'm definitely getting one. I wish this kit was going to be bigger, but nevertheless, it looks fantastic. The first shots of a completed one look a bit over weathered, but thus is the issues with smaller scales...any weathering often looks amplified with small scales.

Idiots should not be allowed to give reviews of anything, and should get an instant banhammer when they do. I'm almost willing to bet hat 90% of the review will be stuff that's already been said by, I don't know, EVERYBODY. 9% will probably be fanwank and fluff, and 1% will most likely be predictions, something like how A&E is so cutting edge because they put Robotech on DVD, and how they are on top of the entertainment industry, and how everyone should be quaking in their boots because they have a re-re-re-release of a 26 year old cartoon.

Well, we know they aren't really gaining anymore fans, but this definitely shows they are losing them. I know this is a stupid idea, and really shows the stupidity of the "creative team", but even moreso, the fact that they have this concept, and won't even approach the man who made Lancer/Yellow Dancer's music for the show, is an insult to him, and a disservice to the fans. It's been said around, but Michael Bradley has done more for Robotech, and keeping the music he did alive, than Tommy and co. have done in their whole career combined. Despite your view of what Robotech is/was/will be, to treat someone with talent who truly has a love for his work, to be treated with such disrespect, and to be excluded because HG shafted him long ago, is just another example of the lack of class they have. That has nothing to do with any Macross vs. Robotech, that is just classless, and I really have no respect for the crew at HG.

I will listen in tomorrow.

Which makes me ask even more, WHY??? Note to the Super RT fringe fanwanks, doing something just because it can, doesn't equate to a good idea, or a smart decision. When the "creative staff's" greatest idea is to mix and match new animation with some that are 25 years old, It's quite easy to criticize.