Ace Combat 7

[azrael]

21 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

When do we get balloon-shooting DLC?

Growling Sidewinder already posted a DCS-version so….Bandai-Namco, clock’s a tickin’. 🤑

[TangledThorns]

22 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

When do we get balloon-shooting DLC?

It's not the balloon, it's the pilot.

[no3Ljm]

Hasegawa 1/48 F-22 Raptor "Strider 1" (Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown)
May 2023
Y6000

[kajnrig]

Oh, that reminds me. Caught this a couple days ago. Still a WIP as I understand it, but very far along.

 

 

[Chronocidal]

YES.

Once again, my lack of interest in consoles is reinforced.  

I need to get my head around modding this.. and then tackle DCS World. 

[kajnrig]

Some more small updates. By the by, I forget who was working on it, but I remember seeing a Super Sylph and/or Mave in the works as well.

 

 

 

 

 

[kajnrig]

Latest update. Buddy is working fast.

[Chronocidal]

Getting even better!  Itano Circus is in full effect!  He just needs to get it to do the CFA-44's multi-target spam.

mutters something about "those crazy Belkans.."

He's got a few others up as well, showing the various weapons systems working.  He managed to mimic the Falken's laser system with the gunpod, firing as individual shots, but opening up to fire the full beam.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Chronocidal

[Rock]

Is there anything hinting at the cockpit POV for the YF-29?

[kajnrig]

On 3/16/2023 at 12:28 PM, Rock said:

Is there anything hinting at the cockpit POV for the YF-29?

Whoops, dunno how I never saw this. There have been no updates on the cockpit - maybe it reuses one of the ADF designs?

Regardless, it has finally been completed! Links below:

Nexus Mods

ModDB

[no3Ljm]

[wm cheng]

I love them!!! But $55 for 1/144 scale planes (before shipping and customs?!?!) Are they on crack?!?!?!

[Chronocidal]

30 minutes ago, wm cheng said:

I love them!!! But $55 for 1/144 scale planes (before shipping and customs?!?!) Are they on crack?!?!?!

Even crack isn't that expensive.  

I have picked up several of those releases, but never for more than about $35 US, which is still insane for the size, considering that's how much the 1/72 Hasegawa Shinden II costs.  Generally, HLJ will unload them at a decent discount when they fail to sell at the insane MSRP.  Paying in yen at HLJ would actually probably get you an even better discount. 

I get that they're niche designs.. but I wish Hasegawa would continue that line and make more of them, because the 1/144 kits hurt.

In their defense though.. they're really good little kits, on-par with Bandai's molding techniques, and there is something to be said for little knick-knack-sized kits that are easy to set on a desk unobtrusively.  They come with the main body colors pre-painted on one version, and they build up into something more like what Alter did with their Yukikaze releases, including multiple options for weapons and landing gear that you can swap how you please.

Would still love a bigger kit.. but they make nice little swooshable displays (and go nicely alongside the Tomytec Macross kits )

[electric indigo]

If it's any consolation, the 1/100 Bandai Falken is going at insane rates currently.

Time for a re-release.

[electric indigo]

Apparently it's the 25th anniversary of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere.

Blew my head off with it's design & world building when I tracked down & played the japanese version.

Here are my Hasegawa Delphinus 3 (Cynthia version) and Rena's Night Raven from Kotobukiya.