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Originally Posted by Mach Crit  Maybe I should qualify: The whole foot looks like a good size, but each toe seems kinda long and fragile. Aside from that, the over all foot size looks good. There is also the idea that you are concentrating all the weight across such a small surface area. It's like trying to walk across sand in ice skates.
I understand the scale and the hitting power of such a small cannon. I am sure it is much more realistic than anything in Battletech in terms of cannon size. For scale, the AC-2 on most mechwarrior mechs could almost be an AC-10. I guess the artists never thought they looked "beefy" enough. Heck, the cannon on that bradley unit "looks" wimpy regardless of the impact it makes. I guess I have been spoiled by the mechs that can fire a volkswagen beetle from their weakest ballistic weapon and still call it a "light" autocannon.
I should probably just shut up and drool. Maybe it only sounds like I know what I am talking about to my ears  ! It's already a better model than I can turn out on a good day and I seem to have stepped in something on another thread, so what do I know... |
Hmm, that's a good point. I will look into beefing up the foot structure. But I think the surface area should be ok, we'll see how it goes.
Heh, yeah, I love battletech, well rather mech warrior really, I grew up on those games. And they have some really artistic touches, like most guns are too big, while most missiles are too small. But then again they never claimed it to be realistic anyways, the ammounts of damage those things could take was pretty rediculous. I also highly doubt we'd still have machine guns in the 31st century. Just a different universe really, I'm trying to take a much more realistic approach. I don't know what you're talking about dude, your battletech mechs are most impressive. Always glad to see more giant robots here on SFM.
Also I measured the gun taking into account the size of the mech, its around 80mm, considering its relatively high rate of fire that's pretty good. Esentially 2/3 the size of guns on modern tanks.
In the meantime, an anti-aircraft module: