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Christmas Poll Winner
🕑 Added 2024-12-13 06:41:39 +0000 UTCWell, Macross won the poll! I am in the process of illustrating a nice space montage of the Macross and assorted Valkyries and obscene amounts of detail.
To help in the composition of the image, I modelled this quick low poly Macross so I could pose it and get a nice imposing reference shot of it. The left arm is a bit broken as you can see!
One thing I suspsected but confirmed on this one is that the Macross is actually pretty small! We seem to imagine that's it's enormous because it has a city inside it, but it's only the length of 4 aircraft carriers!
I'm not sure how they manage to squeeze a whole town in there with highways and stuff..!
My favourite Macross show is Macross 7, and in that one things make a bit more sense, as it features the "New Macross Class" colonisation ship which pulls a big ass city section behind it that is about 5x5 miles in size and actually fits a small city inside, complete with skyscrapers and everything else:
Still technically kind of small, as my hometown of Lincoln in the UK is 13x13 miles, and it's hardly the biggest city around.
Anyway, enough of these musings! I shall get started on the postcard print.
-Paul
Comments
Omar Luciano Lopez
I loved the idea of a city inside the SDF, but certainly, as I got older, I realized it wasn't possible to have a city that big inside it. The skyscrapers in Macross 7 make sense as it makes use of the space better, but having "old parts of town" inside didn't. Still, the idea is awesome.
Rik Newman (Remy77077)
YES! Macross also has multiple Xmas episodes ofc...! City 7 must be quite a densely packed Japanese style city I guess ;-)
