Yes, it’s Independence Day in the United States, and what says more about American independence from Great Britain than an African soldier wearing Canadian powered armor in the service of the United Nations? I can’t think of one thing. Nevertheless.
This is a drawing I’ve been wanting to do for some time, really just to see if I could. It’s the “exploded” view of a UNA “Regulator-II” powered suit, as seen in 6-Commando. I was always fascinated by these kinds of drawings when I was a kid, and it was a challenge to draw, but quite enjoyable. I’ll have to do more!
So anyway, this is just by way of saying I’m still here, and still thinking about 6-Commando. All the best folks, and to my fellow US Citizens, happy Independence Day!
Couldn’t you make a more HD version of the pic..I can barely read the text. My eyes are starting to hurt.
For you, anything. Let me see what I can do.
Yes, please!
Oh, you know… just the little things I do on the side.
I had a reverse side for this card set up when my digital art setup broke. Hopefully I can get it sorted out when I return to my Secure, Undisclosed Location at the end of the week.
AHHHHHHH YES
😀
Very nice. One thing, though – are you aware that you have two pieces of the armor labeled “3”? The second one is the inner cuisse (thigh armor) above #30.
And I second the request for an HD version. The print is very hard to read at this resolution.
I had NOT noticed that – even the UNA makes typos, it seems!
I’ll try to get an HD version together but unfortunately, after five years and four full chapters of sterling service, my digital art kit has failed, and I’m not in a place where I can get the parts I need to fix it, so we’re on a hiatus from the hiatus, for a few days!
Stupid technology. But hey, it lasted one hell of a long time, considering. Sound investment, I have to say!
Wow, really cool
but I can imagine donning and doffing them to be a real pain! 😉
You ain’t kidding! It’s rather like medieval armor in that way – lots of parts and maintenance, but if it works, you wear it.
I wonder if there’s also an option to wear just the “musclesuit” without the external plating. On the plus side, it’d be a lot lighter, less bulky and with a lower profile. On the other hand, without the rigid plates to keep things together an incautious wearer might end up doing very bad things to their internal skeleton, especially if they tried to pull the kind of superhuman stunts such powered exoskeletons tend to enable in fiction…:P
That is, in fact, the problem. The muscle suit interfaces with the armored plates the way a crab’s muscle fibers need its exoskeleton to stay functional. They can, technically, be worn independently (like a crab can molt its shell), but the result is often hyper-extension or dislocation of limbs, as the flexion of the myomer is more powerful than human muscle by about a factor of five, and is actually pulling the wearer’s body around from the outside. The computers and sensors that keep the myomer suit functioning are inlaid in the armor and the whole system is interactive. That’s why you see that even unarmored utility suits have rigid plates (as in Chapter 3).
Strictly speaking I suppose they could design a lighter-weight, thinner muscle suit designed to be worn independently, but the need for response sensors and monitoring computers, as well as a power supply to keep the whole thing running, would pretty much wipe out any benefit of reduced bulk you might gain from it.
Wish I could see it all. Still is excellent to look at. I can imagine getting into such a multilayered contraption. Better not have any fear of closed spaces too. I gather when it is operating you can hardly feel the suit armor on you.
Just ordered replacement parts for my drawing kit, so I expect to be able to provide some higher-res images soon. Honestly, I didn’t imagine so many people would still be watching while I was on vacation so it literally didn’t occur to me!
Welp finally the longstanding issue with Powered armor is answered, ‘how the heck do you handle chafing below the waist’.
With an anti-itching analgesic and an external catheter.
They never said service in the Armored Infantry Corps was pretty.
“My nose itches guys”
“Tough.” 😉
Although I’d imagine that some degree of self-control conditioning to get people not to respond to itches and such would be part of basic armor training, much like it is for snipers and sharpshooters.
If an HD version is not easily done, how about a link that gives us just the text? I hate for you to go to all the trouble of writing all that if we can’t read it. You obviously put a lot of time, effort, and thought into it.
It’s coming. My new tablet arrived and I’m working out the kinks. Not to worry!