"Tail Kinker" <gro### [at] yahoocouk> wrote in message 
news:pan### [at] yahoocouk...
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:50:13 +0200, Nekar wrote:
>
>>
>> "POVMAN" <s### [at] acom> wrote in message news:449675b3$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> I still want to do a Maccross-Valkyrie type mech aome time. But
>>>> unfortunately it will be quite some time before I get around to it.
>>>
>>> Is the Valkyrie one of the "VJ" models?  I ask because I have a mostly
>>> done ( and a bit stumpy looking ) VJ model around somewhere...
>>>
>>
>> I think  the term Valkyrie is actually from Robotech. It's an aircraft 
>> that
>> transforms into a mech. Are you interested? It's not stumpie, it'll be
>> curved, much like an F15.
>
> The Valkyrie is actually a touch stumpy.  It's based on the F-14 Tomcat,
> redesigned to allow it to reconfigure.  The term 'Valkyrie' is from
> Macross;  in Robotech, the same mecha is referred to as a 'Veritech
> Fighter', though there is one time that the translators slipped and called
> it a Valkyrie.
>
> http://www.kent.net/robotech/mecha/rdf/vf-1j-battloid.gif
> http://homepage.mac.com/bgillis/macross_web/images/banner.jpg
> http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/vf-1a-gerwalk.jpg

Yes, that's the idea. the one I am busy with looks a bit more like something 
between an F15 and an F22. The transformation would be different as well - 
I'm not too crazy about the idea of the pilot sitting in th stomach  ;-p

I still want to buy a macross model sometime... =)


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