VF-5000 customized art

[grebo guru]

Here's the VF-5000, the so-called "Star Mirage". It's mostly the B-model, but I added a couple of little tiny details from the G-model. I also experimented with a few different coloring tricks, and added on the gun normally wielded by the VF-1SR series. I have yet to fully "extract" the 1R's gunpod, so it still using the coloring from the original picture -- which ends up texture-clashing with the rest of image. Le sigh. Well, it's all an experiment.

I have some head modifications planned as well, of course.

Grebo!

[eugimon]

so called star mirage? why is it so called when it's listed by that name in the design works?

[grebo guru]

http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati...5000/index.html

The VF-5000's designation was inspired by the Dassault Mirage 2000. Studio HalfEye has called its model the "VF-5000 Star Mirage," although Shoji Kawamori has indicated that it is currently only a nickname.

so called star mirage? why is it so called when it's listed by that name in the design works?

[grebo guru]

Here's an S-model. I went with just 3 head guns, because 4 looks either crowded or dorky or both, depending on how you arrange them.

[eugimon]

huh, that's interesting. why would kawamori have the nick name listed in print form?

[Zinjo]

huh, that's interesting. why would kawamori have the nick name listed in print form?

He's done it with other VF's, but I dont' recall which...

[grebo guru]

Okay, I decided to revisit the VF-5000. I wanted to get a better gunpod going, and I also wanted to get the A-D-J-S heads nailed down. So, attached are the VF-5000A, D, J, and S, all toting a more suitable gunpod. (Many will recognize it as an early design for the VF-1's gunpod.)

Enjoy!

Grebo

[Roy Focker]

Cool I've always like the VF-5000.

[wldr]

I've allways liked the VF-5000. Nice work Grebo.

[kensei]

I could so see Yamato doing this after what they did with the VF-0.

[valk1j]

Love the work on the 5000, but I wonder how it would look with the 5000G gunpod.

[sketchley]

Isn't that the standard gunpod for all VF-5000???

[valk1j]

Isn't that the standard gunpod for all VF-5000???

Hard to say if it is or isn't. I have never seen lineart of the 5000B with a gunpod.

[grebo guru]

Hard to say if it is or isn't. I have never seen lineart of the 5000B with a gunpod.

Well, in the Kawamori Macross design works book, that thing is identified as a "Shock Gunpod", and it's used by the spacewhale-hunters. I doubt it's the standard gunpod.

And besides, it's just an uglied-up GU-11.

Glad everyone's liking the images, though!