epsilongold said:
you made a mistake.The gattling shield is a weapon that the Kampfer can't use. The fore arm shape makes it unable to attach.
I patterned my pic after a Kazuhisa Kondo's variation, from Crossover Book I - Since UC 0079.
He painted a Kaempfer in black and tan camo, wielding a Gouf-style shield - page 047 Italian issue.
I took the idea from there, and further refined it.
Besides, I called it a "Gatling Gun Custom", so they could have reshaped the forearm to accomodate for a shield, or a multi-purpose hard-point.
Towards the end of OYW Zeon was known to streamline production lines so as to use the same pieces over and over.
So, grafting a Gouf forearm to a Kaempfer wouldn't be out of question - maybe the sensibility of using an armour-light Kaempfer over the Gouf in point position might be questioned, but we could assume it was a field conversion.
Besides, gatling shields look great on most mecahs.
Let us call it an out-of-canon MSV, and so be it.
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Redscript said:
God bless female wariors with almost no clothes at all, and the people who draw them.
Clothes get in the way of distracting opponents.
Xodlirv said:
Kalamos, I am loving your Zeonic Nylons pics! I am a longtime devotee of the female foot and leg in nylon, and you render it superbly!
Any chance of seeing some nyloned soles in your next illustration?
I found the trick for rendering nylons almost by chance.
Glad you liked it.
I noticed the sore lack of soles too.
I plan on making up for that in a future piece - I might even change my current schedule if the idea sounds good enough.
Low_Roads said:
Wow, Kal! You've got a veritable psychopathic Vargas line going here!
I guess my real fetish ain't tickling, after all...
Is that a sword hilt protruding from the butt end of the gattling gun, for instance?
In some variations, mechas are known to keep swords and axes in shield-mounted hard-points.
As you pointed out, they make for excellent last resort weapons, when main guns run out of ammo.
You might also notice I shaped it after real German WWII daggers - in keeping with Zeon's style.
(a most judiciously positioned gun stalk!)
That's why, however out of canon, the gatling shields becomes sort of a necessity here.
I want to keep my PG rating...
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Nylons in combat... can't be standard issue. The barely adequate breast guards and loosed legging hint at a comfortable casualness in this killzone (if I see this right, she's removed her footgear for her victory pose. Intentionally toe-caressing a fried enemy noggin... blood chilling!)
This wouldn't work as a Nylon ads, but it would fit my idea of a soldier joke or low level propaganda.
My original plan was for the mecha maiden to lose the right legging and shoe in the fray - but reading it as a deliberate act works well with the general tone.
I refrained myself from painting blood, since it would have drawn the attention further away, but I won't promise anything for the future.
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The shielding sparkles with a fabulous blue finish (battered, but undimmed... battle damage actually intensifies its beauty through contrast). The ashen background ruins, conversely, throw the woman warrior into sharp relief, both through their dinginess and soft focus. I see that she too bears an identifying device, marking both her apparel and her flesh. Tatooing... burrr! Now I know she's tough!
Tattooing is something I like in my pics: makes sense with army types, plus gives an air of archaic branding - it is no longer sci-fi, it becomes technological middle ages, as techno barbarians sort it out with guns and swords in a surreal scenario of wanton destruction.
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No wonder ppl are scared when I'm around.
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