>>23733494
Grandpa is 18 meters, nu is like 22 I think
I'm not gonna count pixels but doesnt seems wrong

>>23733494
>6'0 vs 5'11

>>23733494
>Also, isn't bigger = larger target?
Generally speaking yes, which is why mobile suits underwent miniaturization come late UC. But around the end of early UC mobile suits were large powerhouses, filled to the brim with weapons. And the Nu carried the earliest prototypes of beam shielding with the fin funnel shield formation.

>>23733494
Doesn't look too off from the old HG and MG comparisons. CCA era MS are supposed to be quite big

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>>23733494
>Also, isn't bigger = larger target?

Yes, but it can also carry more fuel, equipment, ammo and armor. It helps to remember that the 22m Nu was facing 20m Geara Dogas, 21m Jagd Dogas and the 23m Sazabi so it wasn't very different in size compared to it contemporaries.

>>23733528
ackshually the dendrobium had the first beam shield out of all the gundams. they got it from reverse engineering the big zam or something idk

>>23733575
You mean the i-field generator? That's generally considered a different thing rather than a distinct shield. It's more like a bubble.

>>23733494
Ra Cailum is also twice as large as the White Base, so it evens out.

>>23733494
how big and expensive would be a Xi gundam at the same scale?

>>23733494
The scale of spaceships and colonies is massive. The ships are tiny when you consider that Argama fit inside a colony and was able to hide in rubble inside the colony at the start of ZZ.

>>23733611
Probably like around the 800-1k dollars range? Xi is taller and bulkier than the Nu and the poncho might be a problem since it needs to hold the flight mode position and the simple hinge system they use on the HG will not hold in a PG scale.

>>23733536
not a fan of the panel lining on those

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Damn

>>23733494
The psycommu needed giant machines to be installed
The nu uses the psycho frame that no longer needs behemoths, but probably still needs a big frame

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>>23733892
MSV already had Psycommu Zaku which is more or less Zaku height but slightly bulkier, under 18 meters tall.

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>>23733494
Nu already had to crouch to get out of the Ra Cailum's hangar

MSV is gay

>>23733937
as with all things, a resounding yes, because you sure as fuck can't reconcile all the plot holes

or maybe it managed to get away with being less bulky since it used wires so it didn't need to dedicate extra space on the suit and the remote weapons for signal receiver transmitters and antennae, etc

I like to think qubeley looks the way it does not just because of aesthetics or AMBAC but because the parts that stick out a lot like the shoulders and the knees and the toes happen to house psycommu antenna and receptors

>>23733937
now THIS is the kind of deep hard hitting analysis that keep me coming back

>>23733892
The Jegan is similarly larger than previous GMs even without fancy newtype tech, its probably more a payload/reactor size thing.
>>23733947
You can just rationalize it as the Psycommu Zaku being a low spec testbed for the systems used in the Zeong, which even without legs dwarfs the RX-78, add the legs and the Zeong makes the Sazabi look small.

>>23734087
Given that as far back as the MK2 the direction of designs is becoming minimal armor to allow for max performance, I think it's fair to infer that machines only got bigger because at that point, there wasn't really a way to squeeze much more performance into an 18 metre chassis and the gains of having more internal volume outweighed the losses of becoming a larger target.
It's supported by the fact that later on we see smaller suits outclassing larger ones, once advances allow them to squeeze more into smaller machines.
Smaller is better, unless you can't actually fit all the shit you need in smaller.
>>23733687
Lining on sites like that is typically deliberately heavy, it's to highlight where the panel lines are more than be a pleasing build. Same reason you'll sometimes see then deliberately leave nub marks more visible than you'd typically want to.

>>23734108
Mobile suits actually got heavier armor all the way up through CCA. The MK2 just had an inferior armor material as it was supposed to be a testing prototype and not actually deployed in combat. Most suits were going for firepower/armor which is why they kept growing.
It's only with F91 do mobile suits ditch most armor with miniaturized mobile suits and just go for speed/fire power.

>>23734152
Anon that's just not true. The material is beside the point, the entire reason it was an innovation was it was basically the mobile suit equivalent of all-or-nothing armor first being introduced as well as the supporting moveable frame to make it actually work.
Or at least that's one version of things, I'm sure there's about a dozen semi-canon explanations of things in a dozen different places giong their own ways. But for the MK2 at least they're pretty consistent about that.

>>23733892
I'm pretty sure the Nu wasn't designed to house a psycommu system until the psycoframe designs got "leaked" to Anaheim, which allowed them to add the control system for remote weapons and develop the fin funnels later. Funnily enough, the psycoframe is small enough to be carried by a single average person.
As to why the CCA era MS were so big? Well, don't forget that Anaheim has a lot of reasons to want MS to be bigger, more hittable targets.

>>23734077
>deep hard hitting
Slut.

>>23734152
F91 is also so far after Zeon that their old suits shitting around and being used by people became less of a concern during the Zeta era and the post CCA era there were still plenty of random zeon suits from the one year war who used conventional weapons as the primary force the EFSF actually fought so the Jegen and the Gustav Karl being heavier suits built to shrug off shitty gun fire makes perfect sense when people still using garbage non-beam weapons from one year war surplus were the largest concern of the federation.

>>23734237
Who is the middle guy?

>>23736865
F90

>>23733575
Like the other anon said, that’s an I-field generator, they’re different but they have their own advantages and disadvantages compared to beam shields, in fact they’re still largely useful in late UC especially during the Jupiter and zanscare periods

>>23733907
Why is that carrier sporing some tire armor?

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>>23737110
at some point when you are launching and recovering MS, someone's going to make a mistake while landing or come in with a damaged MS, they might not be able to reverse thrust to avoid colliding with the ship's hull, so the giant rubber tires are there to absorb impacts

reusing worn out vehicle tires is cheaper than purpose-built giant rubber shock absorbing pads, don't even need to melt them down