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ハセガワ　1/72 VF-1A/J/S バルキリー　超時空要塞マクロス　再入荷しました。

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Low Level Approach

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[nhaneh]

@sylaurin ;D <3 tbh I keep wanting to post more stuff about Jen since her story never really got off the ground due to me getting stuck in XIV with Kea subsequently ending up inheriting a fair bit of her traits but it's a bit of a challenge when I don't really have a good way of putting her in context, nor a 3D model for either of her variable fighters to make use of!

Maybe one day I'll actually get around to making a model for her modified VF-1A Valkyrie at least - I do have model kits built up and painted I could likely use as references but well... 3d modeling is hard? x_x

See custom VF-1A (right) and VF-31km (left)!

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played Robotech : The Macross Saga Roleplaying Game

By Jeff Mechlinski & Bryan Young

An alien menace descends upon the SDF-1 in droves. You, your friends, and the might of Robotechnology are the only things that stand between them and seventy thousand innocent civilians. Do not expect to make it home. Do not expect to see your friends again. Do whatever it takes to ensure humanity’s future.

Welcome to Robotech.

As the cockpit of your VF-1A slowly closes, you hear a small hiss of the compartment pressurizing. The elevator slowly raises. At first all you see is the void of deep space. Then, you see the flight deck. Ahead of you a large swarm of Zentraedi Pods races toward your home. Luckily, you have friends. They will watch your back, or at least, console your love if you don’t make it home. Now is your time to do you job. You have a two protoculture driven engines, 200 rounds of exploding ammo, and three transformable modes.

Play as an iconic Robotech Hero, or build your own. Choose from the following careers:

Pilot: Take control of your very own Veritech fighter. Or play as the Zentraedi and take on the RDF! Entertainer: Do what you do best – keep people happy and confuse the enemy as you dazzle onstage. Spy: No one knows your real name or your real purposes. Are you helping your friends, or just using them? Marine: Pilots get the glory, but ground pounders have all the fun. Hey marines have Destroids too! Technician: Play as a scientist, doctor, or mechanic. Solve the problems that no one else can solve. Officer: Control your very own Naval Vessel, or help command the SDF-1. Volunteer: You have chosen a cause, and wish to help. What does a civilian like you bring to the table?

The Robotech: Macross Saga RPG is 264 pages of amazing full color art goodness. Fans of Robotech will not be disappointed. Along with the rules, is a 50 page Scenario section that outlines the entire Robotech: Macross Saga. Take action along with your favorite heroes or villains, or play as them. The unique system allows for personal level, mecha level, and naval level action. Take on conflicts and drama to secure your future and get the SDF-1 home. Every turn, with every action, you have something interesting to do.

The game is played based around a conflict system that invloves all types of characters, from Valkyrie Pilots to Entertainers. Take actions by making combos of skills from a comprehensive list. Each turn is broken into action phases:

Support Operations Cinematic

As you interact with the conflicts, you will acrrue drama and fatigue, which allows you to choose how you interact with the story. The game is 1 part PBTA, 1 part Forged, and 1 part Old School. Every action taken, has the potential to impact the world around you.

Along with the amazing art and scenarios are short stories about the Robotech Universe. Immerse yourself in the fiction.

[usafphantom2]

#TomcatTails

#TomcatTuesday

Single Engine Divert to Kuwait

I supremely enjoyed my time in the VF-154 Black Knights onboard the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) from 1998-2000. Our Air Wing was CAG 5 and we had 3 Hornet squadrons (VFA-27 Royal Maces, VFA-192 World Famous Golden Dragons, VFA-195 Dam Busters), VAW-115 Liberty Bells, VAQ-136 Gauntlets, VRC-30 Rawhides, VS-21 Fighting Redtails, and the HS-14 Chargers. That’s a LOT of airplanes on the little ol’ Kitty Hawk but she was a very capable boat and ran her smaller flight deck very efficiently.

Back in those days, the Kitty Hawk/CAG 5 team would typically have a “Spring Deployment” from March to June or so, then the “Winter Deployment” from September to November. Our principal focus was the Korean Contingent, the war plans for what the US would do in the event a million screaming NORKs came flowing south into South Korea. The initial responses would generally be USAF assets with the Kitty following up in about a week after the flag went up. It was a pretty interesting battle problem for the Air Wing because the NORKs had a REALLY heavy IADS (Integrated Air Defense System) and a massive air force, arguably of mostly older Vietnam-era jets, but if you’re getting run down by THIRTY MiG 15s, you may have a problem.

At any rate, in 1999 we got roped into the Arabian Gulf rotation because there was a gap in CNVs that we had to plug. At that time, it was still kind of that Operation Southern Watch thing with a no-fly zone enforcement over Iraq, along with a new thing called Response Options (RO). Essentially, if the Iraqis did something untoward (flew combat jets, lit off SAM radars, committed hostile acts, etc.) then that would trigger a “Response Option” mission designed to basically swat their nose with a newspaper. We didn’t get to pick the targets, we didn’t even get to pick the ordnance. It was “hit this target with this sized bomb on this date and time”. We kinda knew what we were doing with Weaponeering (the science of blowing shit up) by then and didn’t need the help, but oh well. And the ONE TIME I got to drop a bomb in anger was for an RO mission. I’m no war hero compared to so many other Tomcat drivers out there but at least I got to fire a shot in anger. But that’s a story for another #TomcatTails. This one is about flying a heavy Tomcat in the HOT Persian Gulf when something goes wrong.

On this particular deployment we’re part of the RO team so we had a pretty cool load out.

- 1 x Phoenix (station 1B)

- 2 x ‘Winders (stations 1A, 8A)

- 1 x LANTIRN Pod (8B)

- 2 x GBU-16 (1K pound LGB; 3, 6)

- 1 x “stinger” Sparrow in the belly (4)

We’d drag that load around all the time (same in the image with this poast) as it was highly versatile and we loved the GBU-16, calling it the “Gentleman’s GBU”. It was a great weapon with outstanding penetration characteristics so it was a good all around boom-boom and wasn’t especially heavy or draggy. Contrast that with a GBU-12. Only a 500-pound bomb so some targets might not be destroyed enough. Then you had the GBU-10, a 2,000-pound monster that would blow the living shit out of anything but were VERY heavy and draggy. No, we preferred the trusty GBU-16.

We’d chopped into the Persian Gulf by April and started up our patrols. By the May/June timeframe it starts to get pretty hot in the Gulf. The water gets up to 82° which heats the ship, the air temps get into the high 90s, and it’s just another summer in the Persian Gulf. All the former Persian Gulf Sailors can attest that it’s just balls hot there. Consider as well that aerodynamically, the worst performance envelope for aircraft is “hot, high, and heavy”. We certainly didn’t have the “high” part at sea level, but we had the “hot and heavy” in spades. It has to do with hotter air being less dense and offering less Bernoulli’s under the wing to keep the plane flying. Or something like that. I was a Geography Major……don’t ask me.

On one fine, sunny (hot) Friday, myself and Huey man up for a standard RO patrol flight providing presence over Southern Iraq for a few hours. It was generally a “double cycle” with a standard cycle of the flight deck being 1.5 hours. Launch, gas up, patrol, gas up, patrol, gas up, patrol, gas up, recover. Pretty simple operations. Except this day. And I remember it was a Friday because we were wearing our “shit hots”, a term used for the special flight suit all squadrons have made based on their unit colors. Ours, of course, were all black with embroidered insignia, etc., hence the “shit hot”. That comes into play later.

We bang off the cat and start our climb out at 7 miles from the boat on the assigned radial. Normal Case 1 departure is to launch, do a quick clearing turn left or right to get out of the way of the ship, level off at 500 feet and then at 7 miles start your climb on the daily assigned radial from the ship. During our climb out, wouldn’t you know we get a Master Caution flashing light on the main instrument panel and I look down/right at the CAP or Caution Advisory Panel to see which of the 52 possible warning (yellow) or advisory (green) lights needed attention. Shit. A right Breather Pressure light.

The Breather Pressure light was a relatively new light for the F-14A. I don’t recall the exact year, but it became known that excessive engine breather pressure was an indication of possible catastrophic engine failure (BOOM!) and the light came on to give you time to reduce power and assess. It was a “land as soon as possible” emergency, so kind of a big deal. In certain situations you could leave the bad engine at idle (night, bad weather) but normally you’d shut it off and recover single engine. Also key to note here, when this warning modification first came out there were quite a few false alarms, making us recover single engine at the boat with a perfectly working motor shut down (causing you to think about the risk balance there). That created a little skepticism about the Breather Pressure light but we’d generally honor it. And in this case we did.

First, we’d just launched so we’re WAY fat on gas so gotta start dumping. Dump is on and Huey starts talking to the boat as we arc around left to get behind the ship anticipating a single engine straight in. I think we climbed to 8,000 feet and shut the motor off and arrived at a holding position behind the boat. The Tower said to let them know when we were ready. “Roger that” as we now start to prepare for the single engine trap. They’re pretty varsity, but during the day not THAT scary. It takes some rudder to keep it all balanced but all in all it’s manageable if you stay in front of the jet.

We were having trouble getting all the fuel to transfer out of the drop tanks because those use a fuel pump to move and we had one engine off, lowering the fuel pressure a bit. We eventually get to where we can start slow flighting the jet to see if we can’t get to landing speed (15 units Angle of Attack or AOA). I think maximum landing fuel was like 5,500 pounds or something so we dumped to 7K just to test the jet. The right drop tank still had 500 pounds in it which you can’t land with….eh, I’ll get to that later.

We drop to about 5K feet and start to slow down. 250 gear down….200 flaps down…..speed brakes out…..slower….12 units……13 units…..and WOOPSIE DAISY we depart to the right. Full power, clean up, get the nose above the horizon aaaaaannnnd, we’re flying again. Hmmm. Let’s try that again. Gear…flaps….speed brakes…..13 units…OFF WE GO. Recover. Dammit. Hot and heavy is not a place to be a test pilot so I tell Huey we’re going to Kuwait while we still have the gas. He says “Really?” Yup. Call tower and tell ‘em we can’t get to 15 units and we’re going to Kuwait. He does.

Tower comes back “Stand by Knight 102.” Pause. Obviously, my CO, ships CO, CAG, Admiral are all talking. “102, Tower. We’d like you to try and slow flight one more time to see if you can’t get to on-speed.” Easy for you guys to say sittin’ next to the cookies. I tell Huey to tell them “no” and switch to Red Crown (Gulf air control cruiser). Huey again, “Really?!?”. I don’t normally talk on the radio but I’m the Pilot in Command and wanted to give Huey some backup so I key and say “Tower, Knight 102. We’re unable to get on speed with this jet so we’re going to divert to Kuwait. Switching.” That last switching comment is to indicate we’re leaving the radio frequency because we’ve made our decision and the conversation is over. One doesn’t do that much in a career, but they didn’t sign for the jet, they weren’t single engine in a heavy jet on a hot day, and they weren’t going to get wet or worse if this went badly, so see ya later. I tell Huey to switch. “Okaaaay”, he says a bit in disbelief. This actually was a very valuable lesson for him later in the Knights on a divert to a Japanese airfield. If you’re airborne, take no shit.

And so we start the route to Kuwait. Nothing really fancy. Just trucking along. At this time, the Air Force had set up shop at Kuwait International Air Port a number of years previous and had quite an operation. A tent city, catered food, a post Exchange (WalMart), jets, bunkers, and all the things you need to run a small Air Force det. Some of the USAF brethren can expand on that as my interaction there only lasted a couple days.

One “funny” thing happened on the way to Kuwait. Over your left knee in the Tomcat are your engine instruments in the form of white vertical tapes with all white maxed out, all black means off. They’re RPM, TIT (Turbine Inlet Temperature), and Fuel Flow which is the primary engine gauge used to set your power. We’re just tooling along, left tapes in their proper ranges in white, right tapes all black with the motor off. At one point I glance down just as the LEFT Fuel Flow tape rolls down to zero, all black, indicating the engine just shut down. This is another of those instances my Dad (a Naval Aviator) called “a shot of cold piss to the heart”. You know that shudder you get when a cop car lights up behind you? This is like that but times 100. I take a breath and then realize that RPM and TIT are fine. Move the left throttle a bit and see a response. Left engine still running. Perfect time for a Fuel Flow indicator failure right? Cool, cool.

We start our approach to Kuwait and honestly the landing was fairly uneventful. We took an arrested landing just to be safe. After we shut down in the wire and hopped out to look at our stricken jet, I asked one of the USAF dudes for a spike or a heavy screw driver so I could open up the engine bay door to take a look. We always got funny looks from USAF Airmen when we’d ask for a tool. Did it quite a bit, really. I pop the bay door open and WOOSH, a couple gallons of oil come pouring out. Whattya know? The motor had entirely shit the bed and the Breather Pressure light was accurate.

Huey and I are wrapped for the day so we go in search of a place to eat and sleep. Now remember when I said we’re wearing our black shit hots? Well now we’re just getting stared at wherever we go. “Who the f**k is THAT in the black flight suits??? U2 guys? Spies???” I imagine them saying. Stares, points and whispers. We ignore it and find the chow hall. Or shall I say catered cafeteria. Loads and loads of wonderful fresh food, fruits, vegetables, desserts. This is a constant feather in the cap of the Air Force….they know how to take care of their people.

Onward to lodging. We’re directed to some tent to check in. But on the way there we notice….an above ground pool with a deck around it. And on the deck are a bunch of lounge chairs. And laying in the lounge chairs are a number of attractive bikini chicks. Wait. Bikini chicks? 5 Star dining? The only thing that could make this better is if they got paid extra to be here. Oh, hang on. They do. Per Diem, bikini chicks, great food. Sign me the F up!!

We eventually find our lodging and get assigned a tent. We figure this is just gonna suck for a day or two so we get ready to embrace that suck and move on. We head to our tent, walk through a double fly kind of thing and…..it’s like 65° in there!! There’s a massive A/C duct on one wall, exhaust on the other, and you could literally hang meat in there in the middle of the desert in the summer. WTF??? I always said you can never be too comfortable on cruise but this is ridiculous.

We make a quick run to the post Exchange for essentials and then start shooting the shit with several of the Air Force dudes. After explaining our flight suits (because EVERYONE asked about them), they were interested to hear about life on the ship from these two strange Navy people. And naturally, we eventually asked in hushed tones about where one might find an adult libation in this desert paradise. “Oh, there’s no booze here” we’re told.

Me: “Yeah, sure. I get it <wink>. Then where’s the….uh….medicinal supplies <wink>.”

Them: “Honestly, Sir. There is none. That’s a big deal here.”

YGBSM! (You Gotta Be Shittin’ Me). No booze in this place? What’s WRONG with you people?!?!? Ah well, better luck next time. In all honesty, our USAF hosts were very kind and polite and we really appreciated their hospitality (even if they were holding back about the booze thing).

I don’t recall if it took 1 or 2 days to repair our jet, but the Kitty sent a C-2 Greyhound COD (Carrier Onboard Delivery) with a TF-30 in can and the Maintenance Crews to swap the motor. After the swap Huey and I launched out and did a maintenance check ride on the motor before arriving back at the Kitty Hawk for an uneventful day trap. That really was quite a flight and an experience. Both of us learned quite a bit on that one. We knew the Air Force really took good care of their people but the expeditionary forces really got some top notch stuff.

But Bikini Chicks??? Sheesh…….

@VSE_VB via X

[ariesgamesandminis]

Restocks are in from Kids Logic!

Before anyone asks…the Super Veritech models MT13, MT14, & MT15 are still not back in production. Hopefully later this year.

BG01 Robotech Macross Dog Fight, The Miniatures Game MT02 Robotech Macross VF1J Fighter Mode Miniature (Hikaru Ver) MT03 Robotech Macross VF1J Guardian Mode Miniature (Hikaru Ver) MT08 Robotech Macross Destroid Phalanx MT11 Robotech Macross Officer's Battlepod MT20 Robotech Macross Reconnaissance Battlepod (Set of 3) MT21 Robotech Macross Super Valkyrie VF1J Battloid Mode MT22 Macross Veritech VF-1D Battloid Mode MT26 Robotech Macross Super Veritech VF-1A Battloid Mode MT27 Robotech Macross Light Artillery Battlepod (Set of 3)

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Waddup hoop heads! I'm back with another blog on what your local hoop junkie is into. Like I said in the last article this weekend is session 2 of Philly live period. There will be 100s of coaches from all levels as well as players of all levels. This event will feature some of the biggest names in the country when it comes to high school basketball such as, Imhotep charter, Don Bosco Prep, Hudson Catholic, Archbishop Carroll (DC), Gonzaga College High School, St. Peters Prep and more! If you are on the high school basketball scene in the tri state area, Thomas Jefferson University and Allan Horwitz 6th Man Center are the places to be this weekend. These are the games I plan to check out as i foresee them being heavy hitters.

Friday:

Bonner Prendie Vs Hudson Catholic (2:20 @6th man Center)

Coolidge (DC) Vs Archbishop Ryan (3:30 @6th man Center)

Father Judge Vs Coatesville (4:40 @6th man Center)

Saturday:

Archbishop Carroll (DC) Vs Rutgers prep (11:20 @Jefferson)

West Catholic Vs St. Johns College (12:30 @6th man Center)

Don Bosco Vs Notre Dame West Haven (1:40 @6th man Center)

Sunday:

Imhotep Chater Vs St Peters Prep (12:30 @6th man Center)

Berks Catholic Vs Parkland (1:40 @Jefferson)

Conestoga Vs Eastside (Camden) (4:00 @Jefferson)

WIth Philly Live being less than 12 hours away I am excited to see these match ups and many more. from 1a schools all the way up to 6a, if you want to see where your varsity squad measures up, Philly live is the event for you! I hope to see many of you guys there. I will be in attendance bright and early; ready with my green Starbucks coffee mug my VF gear and Ipad, pen and note book ready to get the scoop for you guys. I am excited to hear what games you guys checked out over the weekend. I'll check back later on that though. See yall at Philly live 2!

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[nhaneh]

star wars republic commando still has enough of a presence in my headspace that I headcanoned that same kind of extendable punch blade under the back of the hand plate into Jen's custom VF-1A Kitty Magic™ edition for dirty punchups with macronized Zentradi

insert vaguely related headcanon about one of her traumatic memories from the first space war being a fight that ended up with her as the lone survivor surrounded by downed valkyries and dead zentradi, her mech coated in zentradi blood and her being sure she could smell it despite the cockpit being a sealed environment

[lakan-olivares]

Super Spacetime Fortress Macross: Repairing the VF-25S

2022

1/72 Scale Diorama

This diorama features the Macross Frontier’s VF-25S “Armored Messiah” (Variable Fighter), a new generation fighter that began operations in the year 2059. This is more advanced than the VF-1A “Valkyrie” that saw combat during the Zentradi invasion of 2009.

The Macross saga was started with the “Super Spacetime Fortress Macross” (超時空要塞マクロス) that aired in 1982. The Macross Frontier (マクロス フロンティア) series was aired in 2008. The last Macross presentation was the “Macross Delta” that was last aired in 2021.

The American release calls the series “Robotech”.

In this scene, the VF-25S in under repair in the hangar, while the military brass inspecting the process.

According to the Macross fandom website, the VF-25S is listed as 18.72 meters tall with a wingspan of 15.50 meters, and weighs 8.45 metric tons.

For the diorama, I used a Bandai VF-25S kit and a VT Hobby set for the hangar.

For more information and close ups on the diorama, you can view them on my FB account: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10158966028156404&type=3

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