VALKYRIES

DUDE!

Remember when we were hangin' out after that big 

Dungeons and Dragons campaign 

talkin' about

how cool Valkyries are?!

...

...

No?

C'mon

You know...

the jets/spaceship/fighters

from

MACROSS

aka

ROBOTECH!

(also called Veritechs)

NOW

you remember,

right?!

If not,

here's a great primer

for you to study:

It's a book

compiling the paintings 

of Japanese artist

Tenjin Hidetaka:

He's an amazing mechanical illustrator

specializing in

giant robots

and

sooper cool spaceships!

The book is filled with art he's done for

plastic model kits,

DVD's

and

videogames:

 I'm usually not a fan of 

sooper realistic

mechanical illustration

but it's really cool

how Hidetaka-san makes

Macross seem so 

REAL!

I always have 

fun browsing through this book--

I just wish my Japanese were better!

You can get it here if you're interested,

but it's kind of stoopid

expensive:

BONUS:

While digging up pics for this post 

I found this 

sketch

Hidetaka-sama

did for 

someone:

GAH!

I WANT ONE!