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Scopedog did it first? 2016-11-11 19:36:32 Post No. 14925585
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Scopedog did it first? 2016-11-11 19:36:32 Post No. 14925585
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ATM-09-ST
Scopedog
from Armored Trooper VOTOMs
(1983)
Was this the first mecha design to feature individually hinged hip/skirt armor plates?
I mean from its inception. Many mecha designs have had their hip armor retroactively made into hinged plates (the RX-78, RGM-79, MS-06, etc), but that was a conceptual revision applied years later.
I'm fairly sure the Scopedog was the first main character mecha design to feature such skirtplates. But was it the first one, period? Or was there some mook robot from Tryder G7 or Gaiking or something?
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Anyone got any ideas?
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>>14925585
A more interesting question: Was this the first mecha design to feature that triple-scope eyepiece?
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/m/, I am disappoint.
What's the matter? The geek to deep for you?
Come on. Are you not /m/en? Share your thoughts and insights, friends!
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>>14926973
Honestly the GM has only really had its skirt be a two-piece in models IMO, and that's only by necessity for articulation.
Even that is tenuous at best- the HGUC GM has a single-piece skirt that works well for what it is. This whole ordeal may very much be only to do with model kits.
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>>14926973
it might be.
The only other mech series that I can think of that actually had skirt armor built into the design anywhere close to 1983 was the Zeta Gundam (1985).
to my understanding everyone else was either using the old trapezoid crotch like Optimus in pic related or just made Y or T-type pelvises without flap armor.
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>>14926401
>Was this the first mecha design to feature that triple-scope eyepiece
The Scopedog? Probably. Though, again, there might have been some MotW we're overlooking.
>looking
Ha! See what I did there?
>See
Oh ho ho ho, someone stop me!
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>>14926989
That Optimus pic is messssssed up!
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>>14926989
Yeah, it's an element of mecha design that really only have a limited number of options. There's also the "my pelvis is just a block that goe right up into a very wasp-waisted torso" look.
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Goshogun came out two years before and had sideplates if that counts.
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>>14927256
>Goshogun came out two years before and had sideplates if that counts.
Certainly seems to be a valid evolutionary step! Good call anon.
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This is now a mecha skirt armor thread. Post pics focusing on mecha skirt armor.
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Nice skirts, bro
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>>14927242
benis heheheh
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