VF-1 Size and scale up for debate

[Bariaburu Faita]

The cockpit canopy size and shape was also covered in depth, much pain and suffering involved in trying to make it in scale and accurate to original line art. It was just not possible to make line art, anime, and small scale, large scale models all match up due to many real life factors.

[sketchley]

But from the recent Q&A session at the Osaka Macross Museum, Kawamori stated that the reason he made the VF-1 so small, is to make it different from a Gundam.

Well, that pretty much trumps all.

[Bariaburu Faita]

This was a emotional decision that would cause no end of trouble. Because of this, the interior volume of the VF-1 needs to be 1.5 times larger than the outside dimensions would indicate.

Well, that pretty much trumps all.

[VF-15 Banshee]

This happens a lot in sci-fi. For example, the interior sets of the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars would never in a million years fit inside the exterior set seen in A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

Edited July 28, 2013 by VF-15 Banshee

[Chronocidal]

Actually, I've seen a cutaway of the Falcon. I don't think a lot of people actually realize how big that thing was supposed to be to begin with. Yes, it technically was a freighter, but seeing as how the common cargo it was carrying was something that had to be hidden anyway, the Falcon was just about the Star Wars Equivalent of a minivan with a stash of cocaine in the tires. I think the entire living area we saw was actually where the cargo would normally be stowed. To build the full sized exterior would have probably broken Lucasfilm at that point.

Anyway though, I honestly don't see why anything is even being debated for this. Kawamori knows what he's doing, and pretty much covered all the bases. The entire point of the advanced technology in Macross was that you could cram all the fancy machinery required for a mech into the frame of an aircraft, and have no one actually be able to tell from the outside.

So, bottom line.. it's magic. The plane is exactly the size it has always said it is (which is a fairly standard size for a small fighter), and everything works because the plot says it did. Just because the animators weren't able to convey that scale correctly doesn't mean the plane has to be a different size.

[infosys_ms]

Hello All,

I have not been posting or working on my model much because I have a new addiction and its initials are KSP.

I will pick on the model again someday. Anyways I cam across this fan film and it is just awesome! The 3D veritech is more awesome! I had a notion to build out the internals like in the video, but I am just a team of 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvPR9XeZik

enjoy! check out my blog for updates and other stuff!