sv51macross
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This means that Hasegawa practically has to come up with a new weps set as they don't offer AIM-120C's in anything else aside their F/A-18E/F. Luckymodel already lists a Hasegawa IDF weps set, so...
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grumpyoldmodeller.com
and it's pretty far down the page, about 3/4 the way
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What I don't get is how the guy in print deals with the lack of visibility...or is that what the head off a Pave-Tack is for...?
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I have an 8 year old boy that is probably the worlds #1 fan of Pokeman and his birthday is in December, and I would love to give him a plane with Ash and Pikachu, his favorite characters, on it. Any help would be great or if anyone could make some for me, I would gladly pay for them. Thanks in advance!
You could try looking to see if anyone made a model of the Japanese 'Pokeliner'. that aside, I think your only option will be to custom-make decals.
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http://www.spineforge.net/tinysquishy/_ima..._25/17_Hind.jpg
I am left speechless. It's lie someone tried to put a Longbow Apache's nose onto a hind's and still wanted to keep the turret/sensor suite...I don't know what to make of it.
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Hobby Link Japan TO THE RESCUE. It seems that for the F-2, you basically just paint the thing golden and the rest is all done with decals.
2 things.
1). Ace Combat 6 has serious issues with proportion, or Hasegawa really fuggled-up thier F2.
2). Holy cluck-chucking crap! Every one of those stars has to be hand placed! AAAAAAAAH!
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LOL....thanks Ken. Too funny.
I'm interested in what the decal sheet looks like. Will all the markings be decals, or will there be an inordinate amount of masking involved?
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Ah, the world according to Playstation 3.
Technically XBox 360 as these are from purchasable Ace Combat 6 paint schemes.
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just wrong...so wrongthe decals should have have been of a playmate instead of some japanese anime crap
Remember guys...Japanese company, marketing to the Japanese Domestic Market. Stuff like this is unbelievably huge there.
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How DARE you mention M7 in the same sentence with /b/!
pray my plans for world domination fall through... because if I become dictator of this world, you'll be scrubbing my toilet for the rest of your life.
I argue against Rei Rei0's explination because I don't agree with it. It's subjective.
Well...there are adult males who like Lucky Star so...I guess at least your distaste includes violence of some kind...
I don't mind the horrid production values...it was only a little worse than SDF. I don't mind the eInvid/whatever...perfect explanation for the creation of the Zentran/Meltran...but exclusively using song to defeat enemies and controlling fighter jets with guitars...
I rest my case.
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How can you argue against ReiRei0's explanation about Macross 7? I stand by it! Mac-7 is equivalent to a couple days on /b/.
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Time to see some Macross then
Throw in some Robotech as well and you have w few hundred hours of fun to go through. 
No not Robotech. I'm not a book-burner but Robotech is an affront and an embarrassment to the original. It's hacked, re-dubbed, and over-edited in addition to a mangled sotryline and a very, very, veeery dumbed-down dialogue for American children. It's equatable to Macross 7 in its sheer stupidity and unwatchable-ness.
No, just SDF Macross, Do You Remember Love, Macross Plus, and Macross Frontier.
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You're wasting my oxygen. Get out.
No, I'm sorry, you are. He might have come up with some of the greatest mechanical designs for anime, but there's no getting around it. Anime is full of BS themes, but someone who can construct a whole universe around young women singing wars to a stop, who can endlessly spew BS like that, that peace can be inherent in human nature is just some deluded, sap-a**, cloud-headed genetic reject. And that he kept cranking out endless emcha and had the UN Spacy changing VFs all the time, as opposed to the logical next-gen every couple/few decades and the close ties with the toymakers proves my point about him being a whore for toy royalties.
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Regarding both these kits: They look pretty nice. Do they have the JF-17 in 72nd as well? I ask because I recall they DO have the J-10 in 72nd.
Regarding the planes themselves... Funny I always thought the J-10 was an F-16 ripoff until I saw pictures of the LAVI, it's totally a LAVI ripoff. And the JF-17, is that supposed to be the "near stealth" or "stealthy" ripoff of the F-35 I heard about? Or is it more of an F-20 airframe modification? I really like that green paint scheme!! That alone makes it worth looking into!
Actually, I think the DSI's are more weight-reduction/internal-fuel-volume measures than stealth, though they probably don't hurt the RCI.
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Basically, the VF-171 was the economy version of the highly effective and proven VF-17 "Nightmare" Stealth Valkyrie. The Nightmare Plus was basically a simplified variant with no stealth systems installed and with standardized cockpit controls and armaments. In essence, the airframe proved to be so good that it was adopted as the mainstay of the Variable Fighter wings as opposed to reserving them for SpecOps or Elites such as M7's Diamond Force. Imagine a stripped down Ferrari without all the bells and whistles and you'll get my point.
So the VF-171 is the 430 Scuderia? The Scuderia's faster than the Enzo...so by that logic... :) The VF-171 is the best VF in the Macross universe!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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LOL love it all you want, it was a failed design :) (although yeah, it was kinda cool looking... most of Kawamori's designs for the "Advanced Valkyrie" series that never saw the light of day were. Several of these were added into the Macross universe and were employed in the game "Macross: M3" for Sega Dreamcast)
Shinsei industries (which was born out of Stonewell-Bellcom, the company that produced the VF-1) developed the YF-24 Evolution, while L.A.I. developed the VF-25 Messiah out of that valkyrie. LAI was pitching the VF-25 to the UN Spacy as the maintstream replacement for the VF-171, while distributing several LRIP ("L.ow R.ate I.nitial P.roduction run) airframes to SMS to field-test at NUNS request before final acceptance. They weren't intended as any kind of "super" valkyrie like the Sturmvogel and Excalibur valkyries were, although they evidently performed as such. There is no VF-24, as the Evolution (at the time of the series) had not made it past prototype phase.
Despite any design similarities (on the battroid level, anyway), the VF-27 Lucifier wasn't designed by the same company or even on the same ship, rather it was produced in secret by the Macross Galaxy Variable Fighter Development Arsenal, but was also derived from the YF-24. There isn't much published information about the development of the Lucifer other than it's controlled by a BDI interface that is a direct advancement of the one used in the YF-21. Evidently the reaction times and capablities of the airframe REQUIRE cyborg control to reach its maximum potential (something most fleets would likely be hesitant to employ.... Galaxy was a corperate fleet though, and likely of lesser moral values) although a regular human could still pilot it.
So you have the YF-24 that was provided as a "proof of concept" (since nothing that has been written about it shows any mention of actual production of a combat-ready version) and two different fleets (Frontier and Galaxy) which have extrapolated their own next-generation fighters based on that prototype.
Do have a point. The messiah does not look very much like a hero jet (save Ozma's. Ozma's Valk is bada**!). And you must have an inside source, did not know that about Galaxy (why not mention it in the anime? Would have made a heckuvalot more sense, there were alot of plot holes. "Gaaaah, watch out for those plot holes!" -Matthew Buck )
So then Frontier was the US and Galaxy China- [ducks the rotten veggies].
[EDIT:] and the failed design thing is utter bullcrap. You're telling me that with all that overtech they can't make new joint actuators? Actually with Macross Zero, they could have swiped the Phoenix's actuators and it would have been fine. The VF-3000 would have made a lot more sense than having a brand-spankin' new VF come out every few years. But like I said, toy vehicle. Kawamori might be brilliant but he's still gay and now he's a ho. and he is. Gotta say, the VF-3000 looks kinda like a Gundam in battroid. Still freakin' cool in Fighter.
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LOL not this time. But I offer this up as an answer to that...
consider real life... If it was the world's opinion that ONE Jet (or we'll take it a step further and say TWO jets) were enough to "get the job done", the world's air forces would be a LOT more boring. As a result, indiginous cultures have developed trends over the years of what they prefer in their fighters to accomplish the missions their air force partakes in. Hence the US has come to rely on the F-16 as its primary ground-attack aircraft over the last 20 years or so while the british employ the Tornado GR.4 in the exact same role.... just for one example.
the Macross world really isn't much different in that respect. If you ever get a chance to read through the new variable fighter file on the VF-1 (you'll need a translator), you learn that the VF-1 Valkyrie was insanely mass-produced/licensed many years after space war I (they even go as far as to include bureau numbers for a few) by various different colonies. As these colonies needs changed/developed/evolved, the need for more advanced machines resulted. Different colonies might've needed different end-products, thus the variety you see. They may all be produced by one or two (or three) different companies, but the divisions that first developed them were indiginous to one colony or the other. "Colony A" probably developed the VF-14 Vampire, while "Colony B" later expressed the need for a new ground-attack Fighter and produced the modified version of the Vampire, the VA-14.
For an example: the VF-3000 Crusader II was designed as a kind of beefed up VF-1 intended to be marketed to independent national factions within the UN Spacy... those independent factions would be required to provide many of their own systems (avionics, fire control interface software, etc) for the chassis.
(the design tanked... the design suffered from some serious flaws in it's transformation actuators, as a result only one or two orders for the aircraft were placed, and those aircraft were summarily replaced.
Ooooh, I really like that design!
Maybe I should get a 'Gawa Vf-1 and have at it. 
[again, no 'thoughtful' emoticon, so rolleyes has to do][EDIT:] That gunpod is ridiculously huge.
You do have a point but from the way the VF-24, 25, and 27 were shown in Frontier I thought the UN Spacy headquarters on Earth or something had a few contractors come up with a basic design and then that airframe design was sent to the colonies for production by them, the colonies modding the design to suit their needs.
And I thought that the F-16 was initially to supplant the F-15, and then gradually GTOW was increased with various upgrades. And though its not as fast, the F-16 is self-escorting.
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Fixed.
Canada ftw on that. I used to own a '91 GTS-T.
She's looking good. didn't realize the Calsonic was wider than stock. (been a loong time since GT4)
Traded it for a Scoobie?
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Something's up with Photobucket. That aside, can't wait to see this built.
Just five more years until I can buy one! (25 year age-out of NTSA/EPA reqs in the US).
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Here's what I really don't understand. With spaceplanes, aero is trivial. And has been shown, the only atmospheric fighting in Mac Frontier was mostly in battroid/gerwalk anyway. So really the only advantage the VF25 would have had would have been engines, avionics, and thrusters, all of which could have been integrated in the VF-171 to make it faster. And it could have been made stronger with uprated actuators in the joints.
And in sixty years, the UN Spacy went through how many VF designs? I get the feeling Macross is kind of like high-quality Transofrmers, it's a vehicle for action figures.
[insert Skull Leader rolling his eyes and yelling at me]
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That's alright, everyone starts somewhere.
You stated that you're building the 1:48 Revell F-16C. Now, the Revell F-16C builds either the earlier A model or the block 25/30/32 variants of the C. The main difference is the exhaust. The F-16As, as well as the block 25 (and 32/42/52) birds used the original P&W F100. For the C kit, Revell included the afterburner nozzle to represent the GE F110 (used on block 30,40,50,and 60 birds).
The F-14 had two types of engine. The P&W TF-30 (an incredibly poor engine for the Tomcat, it's the reason Goose died in Top Gun, plus it produced a pathetic amount of thrust) was what it started off with on the F-14A, but gradually the engineers and bean counters came to their senses and used the GE F110 for the F-14B and F-14D tomcats. The Revell F-14D kit is the original F-14A kit with the GE burner cans and later gun-gas port. But you are probably ordering one of the newer Tomcats correct? (F-14B kit has box art of a Tomcat trapping on the carrier, the F-14D has boxart of the F-14 waiting at the catapult) I was referring to the purchase of the old one (which is just over half the cost of the new ones and has a parked Tomcat as box art).
Anyway, if you took an F110 exhaust from a Tomcat kit and used it for the F-16, the F-14 could still be built as a A instead of a D. You would need new decals for a F-14A, but it would still be a complete kit.
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lost the back end of a revell 1/48 f-16c, its not a great kit but i've made a nice job of the cockpit (and the filling and sanding yawn) so i would like to finish it. Can't find specific cans for a revell kit, anyone know how likely aftermarket stuff for tamigawa will fit or am i better off scratch building?
Thanks
Did you just lose the can or the housing to the fuselage as well? Because if it was just the can you could get a Michaels coupon, grab a Revell F-14D for cheap, and steal one of the F110 burners out of that (or were you using the F100 burner?) You'll still have a F-14A leftover and a spare F110 nozzle for something else.
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Well I got pwned.
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Is the M249 the only gun for the topside ring, or does it come with a minigun or M2?
Hasegawa 1/48 VF-1, Wave 1/72 Tomahawk and Monster
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Or the Yamato 1:48 'Perfect Transform' VF-1.