ultimateone Posted May 19, 2009 Posted May 19, 2009 Posted previously, followed some good advice and brightened the image along with a little cropping to off center the subject...
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 20, 2009 Author Posted May 20, 2009 Someone sure loves this bird. Looks okay, but I'm more into the old school as thats what era I grew up watching and playing with. Of course I love this "bird" the VF-11 is my favorite Valkyrie next to the VF-1 ever since I first got vol. 1 of Macross Plus. the 1/60 scale is pretty solid and the detail outstanding dispite not having ball sockets in the shoulders and double jointed elbows. Which is one of the reasons why I did not purchase the 1/72 scale version.
vic01 Posted May 21, 2009 Posted May 21, 2009 My Macross collection! Please check this out. I uploaded it on youtube. Sorry for crappy take, hehe! Thanks for viewing! vic01
505thAirborne Posted May 21, 2009 Posted May 21, 2009 Impressive collection!! Looks like you have the Mac Plus series covered!!
OmegaD3k Posted May 21, 2009 Posted May 21, 2009 Pilot swap! Isamu stealing Minmei Hikaru on persuit !?
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 21, 2009 Author Posted May 21, 2009 HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! (Hikaru) Give back Minmay!!
mcpaz Posted May 21, 2009 Posted May 21, 2009 (edited) Don't know why, but I look at this images in a different way... Pilot swap! Isamu: ... too much whiskey on this party... gotta go home... HEY! this is not my alfa-one!! Minmei: hi there... Hikaru:Finally!!! I got rid of her!!! Minmei: How many coool buttons!! Can't decide which to press first!! Let's see if the eject button starts the radiocassette!! Edited May 21, 2009 by mcpaz
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 21, 2009 Author Posted May 21, 2009 Here is my take. Pilot swap! Isamu stealing Minmei (Isamu)- *Hic*---man dawned one to many shots-*hey this ishnit my eleven, don't remember ever pilitoing a two seater (Minmay) Excuse me sir but whrre's Hikaru? Hikaru on persuit (Hikaru) Hey give me back Minmay; hmmm, how do you turn this thing on? !? Oh wow maybe I can be a better pilot than Hikaru and that guy. He nearly killed me crashing into that building back there. I wonder what this button does?
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 22, 2009 Author Posted May 22, 2009 Finally I decided to put my photoshop skill to the test with my 11 in this position
TCracker Posted May 22, 2009 Posted May 22, 2009 My Macross collection! *snip* vic01 Some day...some day...I will have all of them. I only have Alto and Micheal
PsYcHoDyNaMiX Posted May 22, 2009 Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) I apologize in advance for the lack of a more creative/better background and better lighting... (I was just bored and feeling lazy): DYNAMIC POSE!!! :lol: (running to take the shot?) ***EDIT*** Aww crap... I thought this was the strike a pose thread (I fail...). One day I'll have to get all my valks together and take a nice pic. Edited May 22, 2009 by PsYcHoDyNaMiX
SchizophrenicMC Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 Finally I decided to put my photoshop skill to the test with my 11 in this position Hmm... Not too bad. The colors in the background complement the lighting somewhat, in that there is an orange source of light that could be reflecting off of some object etcetera. My advice: Next time, do the exhaust effect with a lower opacity. That way, it's not just a whiteish blob being emitted, but a gaseous exhaust that can be seen through to an extent. Experiment with it.
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 24, 2009 Author Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Hmm... Not too bad. The colors in the background complement the lighting somewhat, in that there is an orange source of light that could be reflecting off of some object etcetera. My advice: Next time, do the exhaust effect with a lower opacity. That way, it's not just a whiteish blob being emitted, but a gaseous exhaust that can be seen through to an extent. Experiment with it. Thanks for the complement it hasbeen awhile since I done something that if any one remembers the VF-1S and A box art I did for a class project back in 03'. Now that I completed my DYRL Skull squadron I'm going to get back into it. oh yeah thet pesky orange lighting is from one of those energy efficient light bulbs under a lamp shade since my ceiling light had no bulbs and it was getting dark that was my only source of light. Edited May 24, 2009 by VF-18S Hornet
SchizophrenicMC Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 See, if you use the lighting to your advantage, you can get a good image. This was done in 20 minutes in GIMP 2.6. I didn't do much for the text, but I changed the perspective of the VF-11 and did some work (Albeit crappy) on the exhaust.
gwfalcon Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Woo, thx for the good pix for vf-11b. Seems here is dominated by this new comer. Try to get back some RenQi of vf-1. (Dont know why two links appears) Edited May 24, 2009 by gwfalcon
505thAirborne Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 That Hikaru VF-1S looks bad ass! Looks like hes off to cause some trouble!!!
Gunpod71 Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 are those the GBP hands on the 1S? I need to get those!
505thAirborne Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Another Angel Bird VF-1A used as a Custom paint scheme!! Will look nice when repainted a 1D.
macrossnake Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 See, if you use the lighting to your advantage, you can get a good image. VF-18S Hornet, good efford for the photoshop. As SchizophrenicMC mention, take advantage with your light source. It is the first and the mist important thing to do. Beware the direction , angle and brightest of the lights. Secondly is the color, that you can fix that in the photoshop. Here is my try, hope u don't mind.
SchizophrenicMC Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 VF-18S Hornet, good efford for the photoshop. As SchizophrenicMC mention, take advantage with your light source. It is the first and the mist important thing to do. Beware the direction , angle and brightest of the lights. Secondly is the color, that you can fix that in the photoshop. Here is my try, hope u don't mind. Yeah, you see. That is infinitely better. I've never been good at doing thruster exhaust effects...
VF-18S Hornet Posted May 25, 2009 Author Posted May 25, 2009 (edited) quote name='macrossnake' post='753769' date='May 24 2009, 03:16 PM']VF-18S Hornet, good efford for the photoshop. As SchizophrenicMC mention, take advantage with your light source. It is the first and the mist important thing to do. Beware the direction , angle and brightest of the lights. Secondly is the color, that you can fix that in the photoshop. Here is my try, hope u don't mind. Yeah, you see. That is infinitely better. I've never been good at doing thruster exhaust effects... Not bad macrossnake and no I don't mind, I did after all created my first three threads not only to showcase our collections but to be creative and artistic with them. Don't feel bad SchizophenicMC I too had a hard time with my VF-1 box designs back in college with the thruster effects. Anyway I did re-work the thruster effects on my 11B and decided to add an outer-glow to the thuster exhaust on the foot, booster, and vernier thrusters [ Edited May 25, 2009 by VF-18S Hornet
Jeremy007 Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 My Macross collection! Please check this out. I uploaded it on youtube. Sorry for crappy take, hehe! Thanks for viewing! vic01 are those Macross Frontier valks the Bandai DX ones or are they the Bandai model kits?
SchizophrenicMC Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 quote name='macrossnake' post='753769' date='May 24 2009, 03:16 PM']VF-18S Hornet, good efford for the photoshop. As SchizophrenicMC mention, take advantage with your light source. It is the first and the mist important thing to do. Beware the direction , angle and brightest of the lights. Secondly is the color, that you can fix that in the photoshop. Here is my try, hope u don't mind. Not bad macrossnake and no I don't mind, I did after all created my first three threads not only to showcase our collections but to be creative and artistic with them. Don't feel bad SchizophenicMC I too had a hard time with my VF-1 box designs back in college with the thruster effects. Anyway I did re-work the thruster effects on my 11B and decided to add an outer-glow to the thuster exhaust on the foot, booster, and vernier thrusters [ A nifty little bonus tip is that you can free-select the lights on the wings and use about a 22% opacity eraser on the selection, giving you a clouded see-through effect, so you can see the background slightly through the light housings. And I forgot all about HSL, Snake. That's another great way to help it out. In the attached, I applied a -55% Saturation value to the image. Cleared that yellow light right up. If there are areas of color you want to preserve, make sure to copy them over to a layer above the Sat-affected layer.
ultimateone Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Moving out, so I packed my Marvel statues and gave the real estate to the Valks. I think they look pretty good up there...
SchizophrenicMC Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Moving out, so I packed my Marvel statues and gave the real estate to the Valks. I think they look pretty good up there... Man, I love that scale.
anime52k8 Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 I love my toys... I always wanted one of these. Though as much as I love taking advantage of Cast off features, I always thought this one looked odd in just underwear, tattered uniform and the full BFG works better.
miriya Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 I always wanted one of these. Though as much as I love taking advantage of Cast off features, I always thought this one looked odd in just underwear, tattered uniform and the full BFG works better. I totally agree with you. She is much hotter with the clothes on (not joking). I was trying an experiment with this one trying to make it look like a real bombshell on the VF-1.....
TCracker Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 (edited) Awesome VF-25S Super Messiah pics! What I have at the moment - dont mind the Transformers, they need to make the shelves look full Now all I need the 1/60 chogokin Armored Ozma and I will be in Shangri-la Edited May 25, 2009 by TCracker
Agent-GHQ Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 You guys got an awesome display case! And how come that VF-1S Strike Valk ver. 2 legs looks bent inward?! It looks freaky!
Lynx7725 Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 (edited) Anyway I did re-work the thruster effects on my 11B and decided to add an outer-glow to the thuster exhaust on the foot, booster, and vernier thrusters Yeah well, I got bored. Turned out to be a few hours of effort: Many things I'm not happy about, and a lot of mistakes, but hey, you learn from those... EDIT: Youch! U/led the wrong file -- screwed a layer up and exported the wrong file. Should be fixed now.. Edited May 25, 2009 by Lynx7725
physioguy Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 I just listed these, so I had to take a few pictures. I know it's a simple pic, but it makes me want to keep them!
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