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Q/A & Help Group 8 years, 4 months ago Does anyone know the specific functionality of each part of a gundam ? I’m building a MG geara doga and I really wish to know the purpose or functionality of the Yellow pipes that go around the waist and in between the hydraulics of the legs and arms. Like what’s suppose to be in them? Im assuming not cables or liquid cuz if they get damaged in battle then what?
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well everything on a machine is of some importance unless it’s completely cosmetic so it’s kinda like saying “if the head gets chopped off then what?” anyways those are power cables. and if they get cut then whatever they’re powering either shuts down or has lowered responsiveness if there’s an alternate power feed aswell.
For a minute I was like -well that’s poor engeneering or construction- bc why would u leave such things (cables) exposed, specially being a suit with so much armor but then again maybe it’s a strategy to lure enemies and then, Baaaam! I was just really curious bc I didn’t know what color to paint them.
not gunna lie lukenotskywalker its better to not criticize the way they desgined it lol its a gundam sorry to say this to all my gundam people but gundams arent real lol theyred sifi anything can hapen
well there’s a bit more to it actually, the Zaku is supposed to be a cheap mass produced unit, so something like exposed cables helps keep this idea but they’re not all that vulnerable they’re kept rather close to the body so really if you’re close enough to hit them you’re close enough to finish the job too. also it looked cool and that’s why Sunrise kept designing suits with it..
There’s some more to that as well, when you get the 00 series Exia again has external power cables, though it’s different as these are GN Cables now but the idea is that they kept the suit as minimalized as possible to increase it’s agility so those cables had to be put outside as there wasn’t room inside anymore till they advanced the tech again, that concept may also apply to the Zaku.
Thank u for remind me that it’s all sci-fi, I was about to go insane. But even sci-fi has some kind of explanation of “Why of things”. But anyways thanks Steve for the info and no that wasn’t sarcastic. Exia had external cables???
yeah you can see them from the shoulder armor to the side of the upper arms. it’s only in the first season Exia has them, they’re seen on the shoulders, after that the tech evolved and it wasn’t needed anymore so repair II and onward don’t have it. and unlike the Zaku it’s not armored. also on the exia repair, they’re missing because 1 arm is totally gone, and the other is damaged, the arm still works but presumably not as well.
There’s other cables as well that aren’t as obvious. The head has a ridge up top and to the sides of it there are power cables, there’s more just under the side armor that you can just make out through cut outs in the armor at the sides, where the red bit(abs) meets the blue(chest) you can actually see them in the first episode, and on the model kits there’s one in the crotch that I don’t know why they included cause you’ll never see it, and two more, one in each thigh just above the knee, though these cables are technically under the armor with the exception of the head and the shoulders.
The vast majority of the technology in UC timeline of Gundam is based on real world tech and principles. The space colonies are actually Modeled after the O’Neill Island 3 concept that was purposed back in the early 70’s(but thanks to the cold war, was shot down. Also, do some research into Gerard K. O’Neill. He’s a brilliant scientist who’s theories and contributions to Physics heavily inspired a lot of the original gundam’s tech).
As for the Conduction cables(that’s what they’re called), on the Geara Doga, they’re main purpose is a distribution route for power, however, they’re not only route for power, as there are additional routes for it. The only reason the Geara Doga has them, and this goes for any Zeon based MS after the original Gundam, is because they were an Iconic look on MS like the Zaku and Gouf. They do add a pretty nice look to the MS and they are armored(which is why they’re segmented they way they are).
Very nice thank u so much. I’m off to paint them bronze or gold but maybe bronze since I might paint the thrusters gold I did so for the ones of the bottom of the feet (or whatever the actual term is)