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Fan Fiction / Re: Iron Father
« Last post by shopsmart on Today at 07:04:45 »
Quote from: PsihoKekec on Today at 00:48:26
Were the explosives that suicide haunts carried gunpowder or fertilizer like mixture?
Truthfully never worked it out.  So yes and yes?  I intended to explore that angle but never got that far.  One property of the guano was it made one he'll of an explosive was one of my intentions.
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Off Topic / Re: Naval Pictures X: Underway on Nuclear Power
« Last post by phoenixalpha on Today at 06:29:13 »
In that image - those are older & smaller cruise ships. Newer cruise ships (like the Icon of the Seas) which was launched this year is 365m long x 48.5m wide and has 20 decks grossing it at just under 250kT. The old Enterprise was a lot smaller.
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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Speed paint random stuff.
« Last post by agen2 on Today at 06:27:20 »
Quote from: Greywind on Today at 02:01:38
Are they just painting fast or are they using Army Painter Speedpaint? So far I'm enjoying the Speedpaint set.

Nope,not speed paint,but painted fast with slap chop.
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The Inner Sphere / Re: Professional Soldiery Liaisons and their BattleMechs
« Last post by Stormlion1 on Today at 06:06:25 »
Most likely camouflage with the Combine Symbol in place. If the Liason position has a symbol that would be on there as well.
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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Weird question about miniatures
« Last post by worktroll on Today at 04:33:18 »
The only ones not based I have are unassembled - which makes estimating height tricky.

Plus there's little consistency between IWM's minis over the years, and even within the new Classic plastics (Mad Dog and Awesome are decidedly oversized, but look so good it doesn't trigger my grumpy side ;) )

BTW, vehicles operate on a completely separate scale again. I did work out some equivalencies so I could scale some 3D prints of tanks I was having made. But vehicles work out at around 1:200, except significantly wider than real-world armour.

Mechs are supposedly 1:285, but one only has to compare to GHQ's accurate 1:285 vehicles to realise that's a little ambitious. The Classics may be somewhere like 1:200. Must do some measuring this weekend ...
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by worktroll on Today at 04:28:10 »
Quote from: Daryk on 05 May 2024, 19:16:35
Nice!  All the more reason to figure out how to shield Mars with a magnetic field...

Have you considered the sheer amount of energy in a planetary magnetic field? Currently something like 3x1016 joules. Which is about 10 megatons per second. Magnetic fields aren't strong, but they are expansive. If we could generate those sorts of energy, it would be easy to remove the Jovian atmosphere & expose the rocky (diamond?) core beneath.

Ganymede probably has the same mechanism producing a magnetic field as Earth - an electrically conductive outer core in circulation over a solid inner core. Except it would be salty water and rock for Ganymede, not liquid iron & solid (super-compressed) iron as with Earth. Decaying radioactive heat is Earth's power source, gravitational squeezing by Jupiter in Ganymede's.

(Counterpoint - Io has a magnetic field also. But it's coupled with and generated by Jupiter's magnetic field directly. Not safe for children, folks!)
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Fan Fiction / Re: Regulations and Regrets
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:37:55 »
Since you're equipping your infantry with SLDF gear, some food for thought:

Mauser Shenanigans

Proposed Fix to the OG SLDF Armor Kit
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Fan Designs and Rules / Re: Record Sheets: Beyond the Frontier!
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:31:29 »
Nice! :)
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:30:18 »
That too! :)
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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: The Royal Dick: Journey to ReaperCon
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:29:16 »
Looking good! :)
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