Well, if you're dyslexic, this model would be perfect.

I don't know, this suit seems mobile enough for guerrilla warfare. :mrgreen: Think about it, mobile suits are big and bulky, and you cant stay in one forever. A skilled crew of MS-Sappers, a commando teams in the hangers & quarters, or cute girl who could kill you in your sleep could do a lot mo...

HellCat wrote:I always felt the chest worked best...

Ray Palmer and I agree. The chest is the only way to fly.

That, or give me a reason why BattleTech's Atlas doesn't count as western mecha. If it was eastern, it would most likely be the "big evil dragon" mecha a protagonist would have to face before dealing with the primary antagonist. It is huge (by Battletech standards), heavily armed, and spo...

The irony with Battletech, is that they are portrayed as slow, lumbering machines, but in the Hero Games notes form the old rule booklet notes that that the pilot can move their battlemech like an extension of their own body: "MechWarriors wear neural-impulse helmets connected to sophisticated ...

Wow, its hard to consider westernize mecha, as most are hugely influenced by Japaneses mecha, but I have seen a lot of originality in Deviant Art and the Concept Robots blog. Another thing to consider, is time-frame. As time moves on, so do the tastes and aesthetics of each side. With general aesthe...

On the note of why cockpits would be int he head or back...and bringing in physics to fictional cartoons... would any of this matter in space? I'm no professor by ANY means, heck I suck at math, lol but I'm sure someone here would know this, but really, would the vacuum of space effect depending on...

DuelGundam2099 wrote:Why exactly is that Acguy pink?

Because, crimson didn't make it look cute enough.

They are only stealthy, because they are so shy.

The funny thing about Minovsky fusion reactors (like a lot a fusion reactors in sci-fi) is the lack of waste heat, and the lack of heat radiators to remove it. Naturally, sci-fi writers like to ignore them because they look like big, bulky solar panels, and most people would see them as such. They w...

I can totally see Bernard Monsha popping out of a crotch-mounted "codpit" without any sense of irony. Although, sticking the hatch at the rear underside hip would really be suitable for that obnoxious %$#@^%$. :mrgreen: Adding a cockpit to the mecha's center of gravity would make sense, bu...

I'm in the middle of reading some old Doc Savage yarns, by Lester Dent (namely: Death in Sliver , The Golden Peril , Cold Death , The South Pole Terror ). To give you guys an idea on how these stories play out, imagine Jonas Venture of the old Team Venture, but set in the '30s, and without that anno...

Personally, I would have added stuff like M1 Abrams, F-18 Hornet and the Death Star to give a better idea of strength-levels. Although, I think the writer was off with the "realism" area. The technology need to make Zakus and GMs are the same needed to build the Gundam (sustained fusion, M...

A thing to note about rail/coil/gaussguns, is that they propel a slug at a higher velocity then conventional explosive propelled slugs. This is significant, as effectively elevates the scale of the weapon, with greater impact, greater range, less bullet drop, faster time on target less, wind drift a...

Sorry for going all political - seeing how its rude to talk about prostitution in mixed/polite company - but I say that it should be required for all candidates to have a colonoscopy, and to have it publicly available, so the voting public would know the face of those they are voting for.

I'm still hoping for sexy naked, green-skin martian chicks. How sad it would be if we put all that time, money and talent into seeding the monster of all R/C cars out there, and all we find are some cruddy old fossils? Yeah, NASA would make the daddy of all finds, but without the alien chicks, the c...

That is neat. I always figured they where just windows for torso mounted senses. If might be both. Like with the visored senor-clusters on a VOTOM Scopedog, being able to remove a damaged senor-set for the pilot's own (highly vulnerable) eyes would keep the pilot from being blinded when the head and...

Thu funny thing about this topic, it that even the most famous hardcore sci-fi writers make huge flubs with their own books. Things like nuclear reaction or particle-projection is not freakin' rocket science! ...it just particle physics. :P What I like about this topic, is how we are all arm-chair p...

There is a Japaneses website called Watermark , with rules for old-school hex-and-chit wargaming for a number of classic anime war-fiction (Gundam, Macross, Dougram, VOTAMS, Galactic Heroes, and so on), and it has a ton of graphics to be altered and customized for one's own use (under: MS-DOT-MATRIX...