MOSCATO 1/2000 IKAZUCHI CARRIER?

[captain america]

Greetings all! I’d like to propose the next original Moscato Hobby Models resin kit: a 1/1000 IKE CAPITAL SHIP [MOSPEADA IKAZUCHI CARRIER].The kit would come in at a little over 35cm in length.

Kit features:

-positionable open or closed soldier launch bays (no removable soldiers!)

-included decal markings for 3 different ships

-positionable gun turrets

-translucent resin thrusters and hollowed hull sectors for easier lighting

Proposed kit price before shipping: $250 Canadian dollars

Kit price with shipping to Canada/US contiguous: $290 Canadian dollars

International shipping: please PM me for actual quote.

I need a minimum of 20 orders to proceed with the project, so I’ll leave this up until January 23rd (inclusive).

To voice your acceptance of the project, send me a private message telling me:

-« I’m in! »

-how many kits you’d like

-if you’re not in the US or Canada, your shipping location, so I can calculate the shipping to you.

Payment: if there’s sufficient interest, I will collect $200 CAD up front, with the remaining amount due when the masters are complete. I am also offering a 10% discount on any orders paid in Bitcoin.

Posting in the thread/asking questions is fine, but will not be construed as intent to purchase.

If I don’t get sufficient interest by then, I’ll simply move to another project.

Aaaand we’re off!

 

Edited 12 hours ago by captain america

[Seto Kaiba]

~35cm would not be 1/2000 scale for the Ikazuchi space carrier from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.

Per Artmic's settei for Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, the Ikazuchi space carrier is "a large warship with a total length of nearly 300m."

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全長300mちかい巨艦である。

This is referenced in B Club Special Artmic Design Works, MOSPEADA Complete Art Works, and a few other publications.

1/2000 scale would be approximately 15 centimeters, not 35.  A model with a length of approximately 35cm would be 1/857 scale.  

[captain america]

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

~35cm would not be 1/2000 scale for the Ikazuchi space carrier from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.

Per Artmic's settei for Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, the Ikazuchi space carrier is "a large warship with a total length of nearly 300m."

This is referenced in B Club Special Artmic Design Works, MOSPEADA Complete Art Works, and a few other publications.

1/2000 scale would be approximately 15 centimeters, not 35.  A model with a length of approximately 35cm would be 1/857 scale.  

To make a long story slightly shorter, the Artmic stats don't align with the visual proportions of the line-art. Back when I made the Regults, I based the mecha size on a baseline, which is the Zentraedi soldier. If a soldier can't fit in the mech, the stated sizes are irrelevant. Similarly here, I had already made the Horizont and Garfish in 1/350, starting with the Legioss as the baseline. The fighter has to be able to fit in the Garfish hangars, and fit just so beneath the Horizont's lower hull and between the crew pods. 

 

Working from this line-art illustration, you can roughly make-out that one Ikazuchi launch bay holds 24 Armo-Soldiers.

Now if you take this other animation style sheet shown below, you have a decent idea of the proportions of the carrier, based on the other mecha.

 

Knowing that I have to cram 24 soldiers in one bay, a bay must be a minimum size, so either I must deform the ship, or upscale it to make it proportional. If you look at the image below, it shows you how big the Ikazuchi would be at 300m, and the bays are just way too small. Consequently, I have enlarged the ship because physics. I did goof though, the actual kit scale would be 1/1000 and not 1/2000. Fixed that.

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by captain america

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, captain america said:

To make a long story slightly shorter, the Artmic stats don't align with the visual proportions of the line-art.

One of the points of some debate WRT the Ikazuchi is whether that 300m figure is inclusive of the fins on the back.

I tend to side with the school of thought that it isn't, since that allows the rest of the ship to be slightly larger and makes the fit for the bays easier.

If I use your art there as a sample, the fin-less 300m is approximately 800px (so a resolution of ~0.375 pixels per meter).  That makes the interior dimensions of the bays 85x32px, or approximately 32m x 12m.  The Legioss Armo-Soldier's only 4.3m across the shoulders according to MOSPEADA Color Graffiti and a bit under 2m front-to-back meaning six ranks of Legioss's stacked side by side only gonna run ya 25.8m x 8m, meaning there's room for 'em to fit with the spacing seen in the anime in the 300m ship as long as the fins aren't part of that 300m.  Making it 1/1000 at 35cm more or less aligns to the "the fins don't count" theory of its size.  

(That's a topic that the MOSPEADA and Robotech fandoms have chewed over many times in the past.)

[Phyrox]

I'm in