Knight26

It's about modifying Hasagawas

What is the cost going to be, if it is cheap I think my stepson would like them.

Ok, so Prime's head looks like Prime's head, why doesn't Meg's head look like Meg's head?

I know something you don't know, damn OPSEC

New pics are posted here: http://goodtogocustoms.com/forum/index.php...msg4840#msg4840 And here are my comments on them so far: Storm Shadow: Looks Great Duke: Head looks a little funky (might be the angle) but otherwise good Scarlett: Someone feed the poor girl and pain some normal (not cartoony) eyes on her. Cobra Soldier: Frigging awesome Roadblock: Beyond badash Snake Eyes: Best one yet, and great custom fodder for the rest of the original 13, just need heads now CC: Very cool, just needs and interchangable head to for hooded version Destro: Head is too small, holster too large, and too the lower body looks too scrawny Baroness: Other then the face she looks great, her face looks squashed from the side, maybe its the glasses. Just make the glasses seperate pieces. Gung Ho: Looks good but the colors seem a little off.

screen cap, screen cap

There will be 25 total figures, probably encompassing all the major players from both sides in their most classic looks. Personnaly I hope that Snake Eyes appears in his original look, I never liked the whole medievil visor thing, thought it looked stupid personally. @gerwalk25: I think they are using their own variation of those bodies, kind of like their marvel legends line.

One simple reason why they are unhappy, no freaking women and a whole generation of horny hard up guys. lol, jk

The pics of Scarlett are up, she is way too skinny in the waist and her eyes look way too cartoony.

Looking good so far, aparently the next one revealed is scarlett

Hmm a short list of who has spy sats: USA, UK, CIS (Russia), China, Japan, Germany, France...

Now the question no one has asked, why is the Yamato SV-51 carrying Phoenix missiles?

The President's assertion was pretty broad and is pretty much universally laughed at for its stupidity. As stated pretty much every super power has a spy sat, which can be seen as hostile. Basically what the president was trying to say was the denial of access for the deployment of weapons. Again a stupid thing to say because there really is no way to control that.

Dang it why does all this really cool stuff have to come out now when we are practically broke and have a baby imminent?

I got it, it's JetFire *avoids rocket propelled bricks*

This should illustrate one of the concerns I have with how you have your torus interacting with the ship MM. Now, this is assuming that the EM field and and charged particles are only in the outer walls of the torus, which I do not think is correct. Here is a deck say three decks above your generator and aft of it. The green arc represents the inner wall of the torus field. Notice that it crosses two main passageways, completely fills a crossing passageway and inpinges on two rooms. And this is only a 1Meter wide field wall, you now have to shield everywhere that the field is touching, plus more in case of fluctuations in the field or risk frying your electronics and steralizing your crew.

I see where you are coming from MM but for I still think that the spinning torus is the better way to go, true it has more moving parts, but overall works better in my mind for the following reasons. Kinetic projecticles, if of fereous or otherwise EM charged nature (such as from a rail gun) will have their trajectories altered passing through the field, especially if it is always on. I really don't use light weapons so that is not much of an issue and in the right up I note that while the field dissipates charged plasmas in a laser beam the light itself still strikes hull, which many crews find disconserting. As for timing the field with a flicker rate, or just a temporary drop for shooting, you just seriously amped up the power requirements there. Plus you are forgetting about missile weapons, even with the spin the missiles will have to have some shielding during launch to protect them from the launching ship's fields. True the shield could be flickered off (in your case) or the field rotation temporarily slowed (as in mine), but some EM shielding will be necessary, even if it is just temporarily shutting off the tracking systems during launch. As for getting the crew around. Unless I am misreading my research on mirror fields and van allen belts the charged particles are not in just the outer sheaths, but fill it. So you will still have charged particles running all through your ship. Even if the particles and EM radiation are confined to the sheath, those sheaths still intersect your ship. So now you are talking major masses of addtional EM shielding to protect not just your electronics but the crew. Even if the sheath is only say 1 meter thick, you have a big arc of it running through your ship, at a minimum of two places per deck.

I meant does anyone have pics of the IDW F-22 Starscream?

Mind sharing a picture of that?

Could have sworn I said that 7 posts ago

Ok that is freaking cool and may be the first transform I buy, outside of Macross, since I was kid. Yes I still have yet to get the MP Starscream.

Biggest problem I see with that is how to fire the weapons through it, and you have the EM field of the inner wall of the torus running right through your ship. That EM field would reek havoc on unshielded electronics and the fact that you have high energy particles runnign through it could injure personnel as well.

I understand where you are coming from, and the actual write up I did is a much more legitimized document. Also look at the armor write up I just posted. Everything on there is real world tech just taken to the next level. My "nanosheet" is known today as buckypaper, if you look it up on wiki you will see I lifted a lot of stuff right off of it. The same goes for the metal foam, I just made it composite with ceramics. The My changes to mechs torus shield were done as a comprimise to make it more practicle, no offence mech but in order to use energetic weapons with yours tuning would be much more difficult issue. Then you have mirror fields, which are real and in development for use in fusion powerplant, these are the true core of the EMT, and several papers discussing mirror fields have put forth the idea of using them as some sort of at least radiation screen. And again the first generation plasma shields currently in development by the military use the same prinicipals as my EMT, I'm just taking it to the next level. Really the shield that uses the most handwavium is Gravitational Deflector, but even that I have used actual scientific theory on anti-grav, researching many papers, it just took me asking here to really get my brain to wrap all the various scraps together. Yes I have done my homework, helps when there is so little to do at work, lol.

Since there were questions about it, here is my armor description, comments: The outer layer of all starships be they combat or non-combat, must provide defense against artificial and natural threats. For primitive races this armor usually takes the form of heavy plate metals attached to the outer hull of the ship, however these armored plates add a significant mass penalty to any ship and are not considered viable options. Armor still takes many forms but the most common type of armor found on combat and non-combat starships is found described below: Outer layers of hull armor are typically composed of multiple layers of nanosheet, nanosheet is a thin sheet made from nanotubes which are 250 times stronger than steel and 10 times lighter. Nanosheet is ideal for use in the outer layers of hull armor for the following reasons: • As one of the most thermally conductive materials known, nanosheet lends itself to the development of heat sinks, and in the case of space craft, nanosheet armor is often used to supplement or completely replace traditional thermal radiators. • Because it has an unusually high current-carrying capacity, a film made from nanosheet allows for electrical energy from electrical discharge strikes or energy weapons to flow around the craft and dissipate without causing significant damage. • Films of nanosheet have also proven itself to be able to effective protect electronic circuits and devices within ships from electromagnetic interference, which can damage equipment and alter settings. Similarly, such films allow military craft to shield their electromagnetic "signatures," from conventional electromagnetic radars. • When layered correctly nanosheet makes a highly effective anti-ballistic armor plating. The layers of nanosheet act as an extremely hard outer layer, and as a very effective conductor of heat and energy. Impacts from energy weapons typically dump their energy into the lattice matrix, which then spreads it across a much wider area via conduction. However the lattice can be breached if enough energy is released into it because it will disrupt the atomic linkages of the carbon nanotubes. Beneath the nanosheet layer and the main armor lays a network of fiber sensor and microtubes known as the self repair sheet. The microtubes are in turn lattices nanotube constructs with numerous opening through which an army of carbon construction microbots reside. These tiny microbots, once activated seep out of the microtubes and repair any damage to the outer layers of armor detected by the fiber sensor grid. The final layers of the main armor lie beneath the self repair sheet. The main armor is composed of varying layers of high density composite closed metal/ceramic foam arranged in ablative sheets. The metal used in the foam can take many forms but is usually an aluminum/titanium composite. This lightweight structural material has proven itself time again to be extremely stiff and rigid and highly resistant to impact, though high velocity ballistics will permanently deform it upon impact, mandating its replacement. The armor is cast in such a way that the material density increases as it nears the inner wall, shrinking the size and number of foam pocket and making the material more solid. This makes the material highly resistant to impact and penetration. Additionally the armor is always forged in a nitrogen rich environment with the purpose of trapping nitrogen in foam pockets. The addition of the nitrogen in these pockets gives the armor additional resistance to energetic weapons that penetrate the nanosheet layers, which vaporizes the trapped nitrogen blowing the melted hull metal outward. The resultant spray of metal particulates has the added benefit of disrupting the cohesion of any additional incident energy further protecting the hull for a short period. In addition a nanotube lattice is woven throughout the closed metal/ceramic foam. In the event that a ballistic impact has enough force to fracture the hull armor the nanotibe matrix is normally strong enough to hold the damaged sections together.

I wonder how long it will be before someone mods a YF-19 to be able to do the high speed mode.