Riptide model

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**sLeEpYrOcK**

Anpu42 wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
Anpu42 wrote:
I am just wondering how tall the model is.
I have a wall of Mecha I could use to proxy if I knew what size it was.
At least until I can get one myself[
Its about the same size as a Dreadknight. Except it can be posed.

The official GW pictures have it next to some drones so you could use that as reference.

It also goes on the oval base.

I was hoping to get a mesument, I have not even seen a Dread Knight [I can only play out of my house]

Actually, it is about the same height. As a trygon, which are taller than dread knights, though it wasn't fully standing....

**Flinty**

Maelstrom808 wrote:
If you look on the front of all the suits (from crisis on up), they all have a tiny vision slit on the upper part of the chest. That is approximately eye level for the pilot. Having some sort of sensor pod that can pan and tilt would pretty much be a requirement for a suit like this, otherwise you have almost zero situational awareness. It would be silly to make the sensor pod bigger than it would need to be to hold the sensors as you are just making it a bigger target at that point. Having it mounted at the "head" of the suit makes the most sense as you want it mounted high for best visibility, and I'd imagine that it would help with disorientation.

You don't necessarily need a head, given that other sensor clusters positioned about the mech could be used to feed the required information to the pilot, however, the pilot has a head and its probably easier to train people/aliens/whatever to use giant mechanical suits if there is a direct corrrelation between mech parts and body parts. However if you are going to give your mech ahead, as noted previously, you don't make it any bigger than it needs to be just to fit some aesthetic preconceptions.

**HerbaciousT**

EmbracetheChaos wrote:
Does it look silly to anyone else to have a tiny little fire warrior head popping out of the top of an anime-style robo-suit?

Not sure if its just how ive read your post, but just to be clear, thats not actually the head of the Shas'Vre piloting the suit popping out the top. Thats just the suits 'head', a sensor array.

**HoverBoy**

Flinty wrote:
Maelstrom808 wrote:
If you look on the front of all the suits (from crisis on up), they all have a tiny vision slit on the upper part of the chest. That is approximately eye level for the pilot. Having some sort of sensor pod that can pan and tilt would pretty much be a requirement for a suit like this, otherwise you have almost zero situational awareness. It would be silly to make the sensor pod bigger than it would need to be to hold the sensors as you are just making it a bigger target at that point. Having it mounted at the "head" of the suit makes the most sense as you want it mounted high for best visibility, and I'd imagine that it would help with disorientation.

You don't necessarily need a head, given that other sensor clusters positioned about the mech could be used to feed the required information to the pilot, however, the pilot has a head and its probably easier to train people/aliens/whatever to use giant mechanical suits if there is a direct corrrelation between mech parts and body parts. However if you are going to give your mech ahead, as noted previously, you don't make it any bigger than it needs to be just to fit some aesthetic preconceptions.

Another clever, practical thing to do is not paint the head/sensor array a different color from the rest of the mech so that it doesn't look like a bullseye, guess whatever sept GWs Tau army belongs to feels like this gives the enemy a sporting chance.
But seriouslt people wouldn't complain about the head's size so much if it's color didn't make it jump out and attract attention almost immediately.