SchizophrenicMC

He's mocking your use of the term from Robotech, which is generally laughed at here. The proper Macross term is Variable Fighter or VF. Valkyrie or Valk also works. Anyway, your stuff looks good, man. I like the shadows.

It was in service a bit less than a year before the whole Zentraedi-just-blew-up-Earth thing. Which means it isn't unreasonable for some to have survived, as they were out of service when it all went down, likely in processing, or in storage. I mean there was the whole 25th Anniversary animation, with 0's, so...

Putty has a solvent in it that degrades styrene. Further, the curing process is exothermic and exponential. If you double the amount of curing putty in a given sample, the heat given off is 4 times greater. Pennies are a better option for ballast. They cost $.01 and are 2.5g apiece. Curing plastics is fun stuff. I was once making a fiberglass prop helmet, and I'd prepared a fairly large batch of polyurethane to coat the helmet in. It rapidly reached 300 degrees, and turned to jelly. The plastic container I'd had it in literally melted. (It was a plastic resistant to urethane corrosion; the heat was what did it in) Cold-set plastics cure faster when they're exposed to heat, and they give off heat as they cure, so the process just accelerates until it's all used up. I have a baseball-sized lump of urethane resin in my room from a batch last summer that just balled up, then cured rock-hard. Save the expensive putty for smoothing stuff out.

I have a collection of over 16,000 elements. I can see 4 different types of elements, just in those pictures, I don't have, and most of the pieces I have that I'd need are the wrong color. If I had the instructions, I'd have to get all those pieces from Lego Pick A Brick, and whatever PAB doesn't carry, I'd have to get from individual sellers on Bricklink.com. That's inconvenient and overly expensive. It's more convenient and economical for Lego to do something like this. Of course, licensing makes it impossible, but it doesn't help anyone to post the instructions. Anyone with all those parts is gonna have their own idea as to how to make one, anyway.

Actually, Lego CUSOO is an official TLG website, and TLG will give official attention to any project that reaches 10,000 supporters on CUSOO. Most recently, this happened with the Lego Minecraft project (which was recently released) Of course, this won't actually happen, because there's too much red tape. There's not enough of a market in Japan for sets of this scale to be one-offed for that country. (There is a large LEGO market in Japan, mind you, it's just not as big as, say, the US market) As far as "putting up instructions", it doesn't help anyone, if he has access to parts that are rare at this point, or he changed any parts' colors. Bricklink is awesome, but it's not a lot of fun waiting for a million shipments of expensive, discontinued parts.

Resin casts are made of a type of plastic called polyurethane. It's a type of urethane plastic. Enamel thinner (whitespirit) is a mineral spirit that won't damage urethane plastics. Acrylic thinner is a different chemical that also won't damage urethane plastics. Most plamo kits are molded from Polystyrene (PS) , a type of styrene plastic. It's also immune to damage from the above chemicals, but isn't as hardy against certain others. Yamato Macross toys are molded from Acrylonitrile Butadeine Styrene (ABS), which is known for its durability, precise results from the molding process, and expense. It isn't degraded by any of the above, but is prone to oxidation. (yellowing) Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) is a soft plastic that doesn't like most chemicals, but has a unique property of being a thermoplastic. That is, it can be heated up, deformed, and allowed to cool, and its chemical structure will be unaltered. PVC parts that get deformed can be hit with a blow-dryer or a heat gun until they get soft, placed in the correct shape, and when they cool, they'll be correct again. Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA, Acrylic Glass, Plexiglass) is a clear thermoplastic that isn't as strong as Polycarbonate. Cyanoacrylate (CA, Super Glue) is an liquid plastic compound that rapidly sets and cures into an acrylate plastic when exposed to oxygen. Do not get it on your fingers. Also, once it cures, acetone doesn't do much to dissolve it. That was a bunch of plastics, but I've seen them all in models, so watch out.

Tamiya X20 Enamel Thinner is just whitespirit, and won't degrade polyurethane. Tamiya X20A Acrylic Thinner is some other chemical, I don't recall, but it won't damage urethane. I wanna say it's ethylene glycol, but don't quote me. I'm almost positive it's a type of alcohol, but most alcohols destroy acrylic finish.

What's wrong with innuendo? Tits > All

Played around a bit

I personally love Tamiya Color acrylics. For detail painting and airbrushing that's all I use. Sometimes, it's cheaper and easier to get the Tamiya enamel spray for big parts, but the colors are exactly what I want. For about 7 months, my local HobbyTown USA has had no Tamiya paint, but they're finally getting shipments in. I need to get some more paint and a new airbrush so I can build this Skyline that's been in a box on my desk since August.

I dunno, I see nothing wrong with switching out the oven-dial comm switches for something more... Un-oven-dial-y.

Robotech is best Macross. Problem solved.

So much DLC, so little on-disc content. This is why I don't buy videogames anymore. You just can't get a complete game anymore, it's ridiculous. For Ace Combat, itself, I couldn't find any gameplay videos that weren't either official or played on easy mode by new people, so I have no idea what to think, except what I've read from this thread, which is conflicted. Yup, this is definitely Macrossworld. I think, on principle, I'm not going to buy it. I still enjoy my other Ace Combats. (All of them- though Electrosphere stopped working, much to my sadface) Hase Wyvern, Nosferatu, and Morgan are very much welcome in Schizo's mind.

What are you getting at, Gubaba? I'm just saying, this is what I'd want in a remake, with the implication I want to hear what others would like.

I'm noting my ideals for it, for the sake of discussion. If you don't want discussion, why bother being in a forum? So he directed a couple fairly obscure anime and wrote scripts for a few others. I didn't pay enough attention to VOTOMS to note any names. Also, what Keith said.

This is like saying the new season of Pokémon is bad. It's exactly the same, you're just too old to appreciate the new one, and feel too much nostalgia for the old one. (Excuse me, I was born in the 90's, I watched Pokémon) I think the new Macross stuff is good. It's different, but it's good.

Huh... The landing gear thing actually makes sense. Use active structures instead of passive ones to make the whole thing work. As for the display, Samsung unveiled an opaque-on-demand TOLED display at CES earlier this year. Apply that to the canopy of the VF-1, and you have an explanation for the expanded HUD and battroid display.

Ryosuke Takahashi? Only way that name rings a bell is Initial D... Anyway, like I was saying, update the visuals, keep the script close to original. I'm not saying word-for-word, but the dialogue should come off as having the same meaning in either version, know what I mean? As for the soft porn tease, I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

I think it looks good. The yellow could use some more mustard, but otherwise, I think you did a good job for a first try with the wrong colors of paint. Yellow paint is always runny-looking, especially when applied with a brush, and over dark material. It's best to first prime your piece a lighter color, then airbrush the yellow on. It's more expensive, and takes more time and effort, but the results are worth it. This is especially true of acrylics, though I hear enamels go on better. Reminds me: I need to buy a new airbrush and compressor; mine died.

The updated visuals, mostly.

Anime. It makes the most sense as a medium for a Macross remake. I suppose, OVA or movie could be done, but we already have DYRL?, and an OVA doesn't stand to capture all of what made Macross great. Keep the story and most of the dialogue the same (I say most, because I'm sure there's some ridiculous line that needs serious clearing up to make sense, and that ought to be explained in its own context, or omitted), I say, but improve the details in the animation to better reflect the action and emotion.

Wow. Can't go wrong with Minmay Guard. Ever. That looks great.

LCAD is much better than LDD for Lego Drafting on a PC, but it's harder to work with. Pretty cool to see such a large-scale SDF build. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

My condolences to his family and friends. It's too bad he's gone, but he'll be long remembered for his work in anime.

Wow, no brony love on the forum? I daresay I'm more a man, because I can feel perfectly secure in my masculinity, even while watching a show targeted at little girls. Seriously though, I really like how this one came out. Time to custom-paint a toy or plamo.