This might possibly be the most important gunpla accessory ever made.
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This might possibly be the most important gunpla accessory ever made.
Nu Gundam variant
This one is nice and generic and could fill in for many Gundams,
Who is fooled by these?
Me, when they come up in the corner of my eye for a split second assuming it's the enemy.
Amuro, Bright, the entirety of Londo Bell and the Federation in general during Char's Counterattack, for one. It takes them days poring over records and video footage to spot that the ships Char sent as part of the peace treaty were dummy balloons, and they only managed to do so since (a) they were already suspicious of Char and (b) they eventually realized there were no visible guns on the ships when zoomed in. They're not perfect, but they're not MEANT to be; they're only meant to foot people at a distance for long enough to pass by etc. Or as a distraction up close.
The Capital Army
Cameras in UC are basically using AI upscaling and de-noise to view anything at range.
You could probably make a convincing 2d poster if it was far enough away.
The balloon army in WW2 fooled the Germans enough. Keep in mind tech in UC has reverted because of the Minovsky particles interrupting non-hardline signals.
Some details for those who don't know: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-ghost-army-of-wwii-used-art-to-deceive-the-nazis-180980336/
I thought I recalled something about Britain painting troops onto flat wood/canvas in fields to fool German planes too, but can't find details of it offhand.
They had a bunch of real people there to move the balloons, making it look like the tanks were moving, etc.
zooming by chasing someone around a couple asteroids and seeing one of these things flash by could make you do a double-take
For Gyunei he got tricked by seeing Nu-Gundam's broken shield, after landing a hit, and bazooka thinking he killed Amuro
Imagine being so shit of a pilot that you take your hands off your controls in the middle of a battle.
In the middle of a fight, Gyunei Gus forgot to fight.
Just think, in an alternate universe where Ral did remember to fight (or at least not throw his life away suicide bombing the Gundam), he could very well have gone on to lead Neo-Zeon in place of Haman or Char...
What did you expect for someone who was a simp for Quess in which it became part of his reason to surpass Char.
>who was fooled by these?
Huh, I had though the Nu's was the same as the Re-GZ because they didn't have the time to make Nu specific balloons.
Nah, you can see they're visibly different in the film too. They might still have used a more generic profile for the Nu one for that reason, repurposing those from another unit or just making it generic because they didn't have time to get any more detail on it.
>dummy balloons have existed since the 80s
>only now are we getting gunpla accessories of it
Feels kinda odd that we never got them before in any capacity.
Now it seems like such an obvious choice.
They should make 1:1 helium filled dummy balloons and hang them around the Nu for a limited time.
There was also a 1:1 sized Re-GZ dummy balloon bust at the Tomino exhibit last year.
The one thing that’s always bothered me about
Dummy balloons is that they really shouldn’t be able to fit in the MS hands like that, it’s so unbelievable.
They should at least be grenades
Man that’s sick.
Given how large MSes are, it isn't out of the realm of possibility that dummy balloon capsules don't need to be that huge. They're balloons, after all, and maybe future tech allows the canvas material to be super thin while not needing that much expanding gas either. The dummy only needs to last a few seconds at most, maybe more for the ship-sized ones.
It’s like a balloon the size of your knuckle being blown up to your size.
Even if the material was as thin as plastic wrap it would need way more space.
>It’s like a balloon the size of your knuckle being blown up to your size.
It might be an easier feat for MS-sized things due to the square cube law
Is this really something people were even asking for? I mean it's a nice extra but I feel like in terms of accessories it would be a pretty low priority after all the weapons and stuff
Probably not. I mean it's cool for diorama builders but probably not the casual fan.
It's certainly not something I'd say NO too but it's like the Turn A cow. It's neat that it's there but was anyone not gonna buy the model because it didn't have a cow. I seriously love that cow though.
I genuinely cannot imagine Turn A without the cow.
i watched z and zz recently and im surprised at how prominent were the dummy inflatables
like, 90% of the episodes had some kind of inflatable in them, and in a lot of them they were actually relevant for the plot
I feel like this has a large volume of shitpost potential for skilled modelers.
It looks like what you'd get if you crammed an HG into a condom.
Break out those monster condoms bois.
Remind me, within the context of the UC and minovsky physics, how do these dummy balloons help in combat?
Due to minovsky interference, MS sensors rely heavily on visual data from which onboard computers extrapolate what the target might be. What appears on the wienerpit monitors is a CGI reconstruction & not what the sensors actually see. Now, if it looks like a duck & moves like a duck, the computers conclude that it's a duck.
Except for when the show fails to follow its own rules.
Fricking CNT hax. I swear Unicorn went out of its way to make decent attacks fail. Not just Feddies either - the ZZ era Neo Zeon suits jobbed for no good reason too.
The dummies were right on top of him, of course it failed. They generally only work due to the difficulty of making things out over distance. Up close you can use your sensors, especially if no-one has spread Minovsky particles (and pre-Victory that doesn't seem to be possible for mobile suits to do in UC) to see what ones are fake and what's real. When Amuro uses the dummies in Char's Counterattack he just jets them out of the Nu's fingers to provide a momentary distraction for Char so Amuro can land a shot on him while Char is busy getting them out of his way. That's it. He has no expectation Char will actually confuse any of them for the real Nu.
Eh, not really. It's not the most cost effective way to use them, sure, but they can be useful as a momentary distraction that puts your enemy out as in the Nu/Sazabi example. It worked for Amuro; it just didn't work in this case.
Gundam types might have more advanced sensors.
That’s just me throwing around head anon but it would be a decent explanation.
My headcanon is that Riddhe knew what the ReZEL was going to do because he was a ReZEL pilot and knew about EFSF manuveurs.
They only work when it is far enough to fill the MS sensors. That's literally the most moronic way to use it
*fool
I never liked this one. What the frick is supposed to be seen when a totally new suit appears? When a suit that's been identified in one mode transforms into a mode that hasn't been, would it freak out like a physics glitch, or what?
I've always seen it as a purely analog concept. It's not like it doesn't work in reality already.
They need to make plushes of them. Human sized plushes of them. Also of Exia
is it an actual inflatable though? would be weird if it was plastic kit that you need to assemble
They are pre-painted sofubi.
It's labeled as both 1/144 as well as GUNDAM SIDE-F. I think they intend these to be compatible with both 1/144 kits and Robot Damashi.
There was an actually inflatable HCM Pro Re-GZ dummy.
Gunplawup doll?
This is such a fricking insane combat element. I love the Universal Century.
I know the design is meant to be generic but to me the Victory era dummies look like miniature Sazabis.
That's a cool colored Zanscare unit.