Mechamaniac

They'd better be damned big, poseable, and have removeable armor at 6000Y each. The pics look more like 600Y trading figures to me.

I've got the gunpod sound somewhere at home. I'll link it up here this evening. As to other sounds... can you be more specific?. What are you looking for?. If you have a DVD ROM in your PC, you can get a program called Total Recorder that will let you capture sounds from the DVD output, I have used that to capture all kinds of stuff from Anime, and movies.

OMFG!! That show was only on for what...a few years?. I can't believe it but somehow I missed every single episode, including the last one.. Seriously, I have never seen a single frame of that show, and am better for it. As soon as I saw the concept sketches of the ship, I knew the show would blow goats, and decided it was unworthy of my time. See you in hell dinner plate.

I can't make out enough of it to see that it's an Ostrich. Looks like 1/72 scale to me.

If you mean why is a Max 1S more plausible than a Kakizaki 1S? The answer is simple: Kakizaki never flew a 1S and Max did, albeit briefly. Kakizaki bought the farm in his 1A in both the series and the movie...big lug could never catch a break; hence, no VF-1S for the big guy. The sad thing is that they could release both with very little effort. For a 1S Max, all they would have to do is swap the heads. For a DYRL 1A Kakizaki, all they would have to do is load green paint into the machine instead of red, yellow, or blue. Both pretty freaking simple mods if you ask me.

Yeah, seems right to me. Hell, not only did he get it right, but he refers to it as Macross more times than Robotech.

Where's the old barfing emoticon when I really need it?!?!

Yes, in under 2 seconds she will go from a cute, cuddly, ball of joy to a screaming, pooping, barfing maniac!. And when she starts to crawl/walk, she will become the ultimate machine of destruction. I've got two of them, I should know. Congrats man!. What a cutie!

Right. You see, it adds another facet depending on what you want to do. If you are doing a literal translation from the spoken word into English, then "Mr. Lieutenant" is literal, and correct to what Minmay says. But, if you are trying to interpolate what she says into English colloquialism, then you have to take into account that postfixes like, San, Sama, Chan, Kun etc. are basic parts of Japanese grammar that have been in place for centuries. They are there to denote respect etc. towards the person you are speaking to. Does that mean that they are literally saying "Mr. Lieutenant" when saying Sho-i san?. No. It is engrained in the Japanese language to include those postfixes into greetings as a gesture of respect, but not really a literal translation, unless you do not know that person. In normal civilian communications, I would more than likely refer to you as Mr. Hurin until you told me not to. But, were you a member of the military, I would definitely not call you Mr. Lieutenant, but merely, Lieutenant, or Lieutenant Hurin, as that is your rank and name.

I agree, Admiral Global sounds good to me.

Well, the problem with Global (Gloval) AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Is that you enter into the realm of actual vs positional rank. An Admiral can hold the pay grade of Admiral, but be in command of a vessel, and therefore be referred to as "Captain." Along the same lines, an officer ranking lower than Captain, can be in command of a vessel, and as such, be referred to as "Captain". So, though in DYRL, Global is a Brigadier General, he would likely be referred to as Captain.

I think, times being what they are onboard the Macross, that Minmay would be very used to interacting with members of the Spacy. and therefore, I think she would refer to him simply as "Lieutenant"

Thats because the Ranks in SDFM and DYRL are different, as Hurin found out earlier today. Also, (and adding more confusion) there is no corresponding character in Hiragana or Katakana for the letter "V", so names with V would traditionally be pronounced with "B". So, it could be either one...

It's Global. Why RT decided to change it to Gloval, I'm not sure, but they did, by one whole letter.

Edit - answered me own dumb question..

Well, honestly with the VT & VE, there is at least some lineart to work from. Check pages 310/311 of the Gold Book and you'll see what I mean, plenty of lineart for both designs including some pretty good shots of the backpack and tailfins.

Nice, but the difference is the Bandai 1/850 is snap fit, and ready to build complete with lights. I had the 1/850, and it was OK, but too small IMHO, this one would be the bomb if it was along the same vein. I really like the pics of the Reliant on their site!

Have you contacted BinaryBeing? He did the printing in the past iirc.

Definitely not a Yammie. Either Bandai or Boot, not much difference between the two anyway.

Very Nice!! Nice & Clean. Battroid mode looks great!

Yep, update on that... Got confirmation Friday, the panel is ON for this year. Gonna be a good one this year too since I will have feedback and stuff to show off from MWCon5

I agree, the Rowboatechies have Robocon. This is Macross World. Besides, if RT gets involved, HG might show up with their lawyers, and try to haul Mari away claiming that they own her.

Yeah, see page 1 for Q & A. He expects to start on our project some time later this month, or perhaps early June.

No light sabers for me until they make a real one.

No, you will be able to make this conversion kit work with ANY 1/48 Valkyrie. The conversion kit will include a new VF-1D head along with the rest of the parts.