I started doing this as a bit of a joke, but let's see how far I can go with this....
  
  
  
(Sakura also has long (But not as long as Moka) Pink Hair and green eyes.)

Yes, I am mostly just messing with the images from both respective manga's.
Questions, comments, ect.?
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar

I know we've got some knowledgeable BT players here. A while ago I picked up the 25th anniversary starter box which has been sitting in the pile, the rules in it put me off somewhat then I played a game of BT:Alphastrike, now that I liked and I'll pick up a copy soonish. However, I'm still left with a problem just what factions can I make with the 'mechs in the http://www.sarna.net/wiki/25th_Annivers ... ry_Box_Set]box. Not to mention the time period.

At one time before ROM, before Wobbies, I would've said Comstar. Now? Not them, nor the crazy's which knocks out most of the Houses.

For fun I thought about going Lyran, just for the joy of running a Lyran scout list, but I think I'd have to get more Atlases.

Yes, I like the series and want to see more (have the blu-ray, doesn't have the OVAs).

However, I'm a bit annoyed with the fact that it's got me back into the habit of building plastic model kits. Yes, they re-purposed a bunch of kits by mainly dropping in a new decal sheet and paint scheme guide.

But I want a bit more then that, for I consider myself even with the years of off and on model making to be at the noob level. While I can assemble the kits to somewhat resemble the end result in the instructions, I'd like to do better. I've noticed that Model Graphix were apparently attempting to do that, with releasing a series of how-tos -japanese language, of cause- in their magazine and a book.

There's just one problem with that, the book covers the Pz.IV and Pz.38(t)/Hertzer, and I'm working on the Stug III, Maus and maybe a T-34/76 (I just decided as I've worked on a few 1-100/15mm, why not build one at 1/35) so would like to see their approach and recommendations for those kits. I know I've come across one for the Maus so far - the hull top is flimsy and some reinforcement would not go astray, the other is get appropriate Maus photoetched grill set, they certainly fill the large gaps the open vents leave in the deck.

Hmm, I suppose it boils down for TLR's is what issues of Model Graphix or similar should I be looking for guidance on GIRLS und PANZERfing a 1/35 Stug.III, Maus and T-34/76?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/mickey-roon ... -1.2600540

Quite the career - he was acting in movies before the "studio system" started, and was still acting in movies after the system ended.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Something I had laying around for quite a while... still in "writer block mode" in terms of stories, but maybe the wiki/tech posts will break the block.

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Mimetic Plastic

»You dropped WHAT into the plastic wavium batch this morning?«
- heard after the Tentacle Whiteboard incident on Jenga, Summer 2018

»Controlling mimetic plastic is not just about computer power, its about distributed algorithm and self-organizing structures. Just google for cellular automatons to learn more.«
- Cathy about Mimetic Plastic programming

»No more buying used smartphones for drones, call up Stellvia, we need a few hundred tons of venus oil.«
- Cortanas, at the end of her presentation of the first generation HOWOs

Despite its heavy and ubiquitous usage by the catgirls, Mimetic Plastic is no original development of Catgirl Industries. The prototype was acquired by Cathy during the raid on Nehalenia from Quattros lab, but it’s unknown if it was a development of Quattro itself or not.

In its unmodified form Mimetic Plastic looks like an unicolored sheet or block of plastic. But by applying certain external or internal stimuli, the material begins the bend, twist or even flow into a different form.

With the years Catgirl Industries managed to create a whole family of different strains with widely varying capabilities. A major part of the ongoing research is to combine the capabilities of multiple strains into a single one.

Strains of Mimetic Plastic

The original strain of Mimetic Plastic was a breathable substance that was skin and fur friendly. It had only limited movement capabilities.

Quickly afterwards an airtight variant of Memetic Plastic was developed. Together with the original strain they became the starting point of Catgirl Industries Dynamic Pressure Suit project.

Another common strain is the Touchscreen Strain. This transparent Mimetic Plastic is used in combination with touchscreen capable tablets and smartphones and is able to produce real buttons, switches and similar 3D surfaces over the user interface. Certain quirks prevented a large scale production of this strain for years and when they were finally resolved holographic interfaces were already available.

The Mini Madcat project also used a different strain of Mimetic Plastic as muscle fibres.

Holographic Waveguide Optronic (HOWO)

The most important development related to Mimetic Plastic was made in 2020 in a lab at Jenga. Since the foundation of Catgirl Industries in 2015, the company had always been very dependent on the import of Smartphones or other computer hardware from Earth. Especially Cortana and Serina looked for locally built replacements for years.

While other research groups worked on spacesuits, delicate manipulator arms or even artificial muscles for robots, Cortana pushed a small research group deep into the details of microscopic deformations of Mimetic Plastic. Using a refined technique of an existing strain which was able to produce internal tubes and cells on demand, they created a variant that was specialized on minute internal changes.

In early 2019 they finished a first prototype cube that could produce multiple types of optical metamaterials within. Combining this technology with a nanoparticle that had been developed for a new kind of holographic projector system, they managed to build a very compact and flexible optical active element, capable of emulating simple computational elements.

More than a year later the group presented the other catgirls the first Holographic Waveguide Optronic cube. While the first generation of the small cubes were not as good as waved computer chips from Earth, they could be produced on Jenga from Venus Oil.

Since then Catgirl Industries has not imported Earth made computer hardware anymore, all hardware has been built based on the new holographic circuits as soon as the storage of the old hardware was gone.

Counter Pressure Suits (Tron Suit)

The current spacesuit technology of Catgirl Industries is also based on Mimetic Plastic technology. The suits uses a multilayered fabric of different Mimetic Plastic strains to create a suit that is comfortable to wear but can shift into a counterpressure style full body suit.

In 2022 the suit is made from four parts, tights, t-shirt and boots. It is normally controlled by a 'Third Eye' collar, but can also be controlled by voice commands. A drop of blood is necessary to adapt a suit to a new user, reverting this personalization is a time consuming procedure.

In addition to the normal parts a circular disk can be attached to the back of the suit to provide energy, cooling liquid and oxygen recycling for long-term operation.

Composition

The inner layer is a thin sheet waved with a strong Handwavium strain normally used in medical and environmental systems. It keeps the skin or fur from becoming irritated or itchy and is fully permeable to air coming from the middle layer.

The outer layer is waved to prevent it from being pierced and ripped, with similar attributes like a loose mesh of carbon nanotubes or kevlar fibres. It contains microscopic openings to exchange air with the environment, but these openings can close on command of the inner layer.

The middle layer is made from a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb. Some of these microscopic cells form a mesh of tubes between inner and outer layer to make the whole structure breathable, others are used as a circulatory system for cooling liquids. The middle layer also contains a mesh of holographic circuits, that control the contraction and expansion of the tiny cells to pump liquids and morph the shape of the suit.

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Usage

The suit has three modes, casual, sealed and closed. In sealed and closed mode blue or orange colored lines appear along the suit to represent that its active and fully functional.

When not in use the suit is normally switch to 'casual' mode, which means that all four parts behave like pieces of cloth that can be worn below other clothes.

In 'sealed' mode the parts of the suit extend and form a single piece body suit. The sleeves of the suit form gloves for the fingers and the tights form a protective sheet around the tail (if the user has one). The suit then constricts to provide the necessary counter pressure against vacuum. The suits thickness increases by a factor of two to three to provide better isolation and shock absorption.

'Closed' mode means the suit makes the outer layer airtight and deploys a transparent helmet around the head from the neck and shoulder part of the suit.

Trivia:

• Cortana thinks that she can increase the efficiency of the HOWOs a lot with improvements of the necessary cross-compiler system.
  
• The first mass deployment of the HOWOs was the third generation of CIs Exocomps.
  
• The Exocomps use a Mimetic Plastic system to produce tools and manipulators since 2020.
  
• The Tron suits helmet has a tentacle like attachment that can automatically plug into the mouth of the user when the suit detects the user becomes unconscious or is about to throw up. While active this also blocks the user from speaking.
  
• A security variant of the Counterpressure Suits is still "Work in Progress" in the early 2020s.
  

Ok, this idea came from this:And an artist made a thing about it, and claims to be doing something with it later, but it has been 1-2 months now and nothing has happened. Here are the images:
Spacebattles started doing stuff for it, write ups that is, but I feel they are forgetting a lot of things.
Number one being that having a Main Character for a child is implied to be a BAD thing.
Number two is that they assume that people will know if they are good guys or bad guys growing up.
And number three is that they are not chaining events in meaningful ways.
I feel that in order to explain number 1 is by explaining number two, and by making it ominous.
You don't know if they are going to be a good buy or a bad guy. You might have made the next Gendo, or you have a good guy who dies a tragic death like Achilles.
the Ominous bit, you can add in ROB (Random Omnipotent Being.) He created this world based off of earth.
When a Main character is born, or in some cases added (as in people can become Main characters.) this ROB takes notice, and determines a plot line for that character.
This character, once their story is over, dies, and is reborn in another reality where this character is reborn for a new setting without the stigma of the knowledge of main characters.
And this is a known thing throughout the world, and Mika (the main character in this story line.) is trying to avoid that, or at least chose which genre she will become apart of.
As for chaining events, like in the image for example, the transfer student, the mecha pilot, and the prince.
The person in lover with her is the boy she refused to make a promise with as a child, who summons the demon to try to force her into loving that guy, and the magical object was given to her by that creeps little sister as a means to defend herself.
She also has full potential for half brothers and sisters to become issues later with her mother leaving.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar

The latest in insightful commentary on information technology from America's Number One Right-Wing Religious Nutcase here.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

We've just arranged a vacation in September at a time-share resort in Collingwood, some 35 or so miles northish of Toronto.  Not just Peg and me, but also Helen and Attila.  Assuming the rest of the party has no objections, I wouldn't mind meeting up with folks from the area -- like Rob! -- for dinner or some such.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

FOXBAT BEYOND








"I had to steal the suit from my 80 year old crazy uncle to avenge my parents death. But it's become more than that now. I feel like I can give back to the world. Give people a little hope.

I just wish Uncle Foswell would stop laughing in my ear so much and trying to get me to throw water balloons at people. "lighten up"? Are you crazy? This is serious business! I don't have time for that!"

Basically an inversion of the Bruce/Terry bit going on there. Yeah - there's humor in the concept, but young Foswell is the straight man and his crazy old uncle back in the Foxbat cave is the one saying "Why so serious?" And trying to set up dates with all the young supervillainesses.  

Folks might remember that I mentioned I had two reasons why I wasn't doing very much writing lately, and one of those reasons was that something was going on at work. Well, that "something" was a promotion board - and I got one. Even better, I'm still doing the same work (that I love), but getting paid more for it.

So, now that that's out of the way, I can pay more attention to my writing...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012