I'm both amused and astonished to see what Japanese model-maker Hasegawa has done to special editions of its 1:48- and 1:72-scale models of some of the world's most advanced fighting aircraft. It's given them a paint scheme based on the Japanese Idolmaster arcade game, which has been adapted into an anime series. The paint schemes are also used as an add-on pack for the Xbox 360 game 'Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation'.
Here's what some US fighter aircraft look like in Hasegawa's anime imagination:
F-15E Strike Eagle painted to represent Idolmaster Chihaya Kisaragi
F-16 Fighting Falcon painted to represent Idolmaster Mami Futami
F-22 Raptor painted to represent Idolmaster Haruka Amami
Hasegawa has released models of many more modern fighter aircraft, painted in the same way. I don't know that I recommend looking at them, but they're certainly fascinating . . . in a gruesomely appalling, vaguely repellent sort of way!
Peter
4 comments:
The heathen Chinee is peculiar
Well, if the airlines get paid for painting ads on their planes . . .
I also imagine that if an, oh say, Osprey were painted with these things, the enemy would be laughing so hard that it would be a fairly easy victory for the US Marines or whoever.
LittleRed1
Ohhhh, Idolm@ster. The music in those games are as popular as the characters in the Japanese corners of the internet.
xD Is it sad that I knew about the series before this post?
I don't know, but could you get an ADHD arcade-loving child to sit still for a bit and put one of these together? Even just parts of it?
Sorry, sanity rears its ugly head, again.
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