Trooper Cooper's custom ideas! Contributions accepted!

[Trooper Cooper]

So anyhow, my list of projects continues to expand, and as such so does my list of military-themed Gundam MS custom projects... it seems that no matter what I do, I look at something and say "hey, that would be great if crossed over with <insert 20th Century military conflict here>"...

So, in an attempt to vent it all, I'm going to post up some of my on-going ideas, in the hope that it will either stop, or it will be made into something really, really good.

1) In the same vein as my current [/url=http://fichtenfoo.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1835]MS-18F/trop Desert modified Kaempfer[/url] I have also decided to pursue some UC0081 Afrika Korps customs. I have a Dom and a Gelgoog prepped for this treatment - the Dom will be fitted with desert intake filters (a forerunner to the Dom Tropen, so to speak), and some kind of backpack akin to the Dom TROOPER which would be fitted out with a large fluid reservoir, filtration system, replacement thrusters and some other stuff. The Gelgoog would be a modified B-Type, with the Gelgoog C head, modified for use as a sniper unit, using a Dragon K98 sniper rifle as the base for the beam sniper rifle, and with the addition of a hand-carried power pack/coolant unit, desert equipment, and for added measure a rack to carry a large mortar and some ammunition. All of these would feature some zimmerit, scrim netting racks and personel-use equipment, differing amounts of use and abuse, and German WW2 markings to create a very interesting looking unit.

2) Staying with the WW2 theme are two Allied options... my built Ez-8 faces a future either as a custom based on a Sherman, Cromwell or T-34 tank (with added plasticard armour panels, tank tracks attached to appropriate points and a suitable machine gun for good measure), while a recent thought came while looking at the recent Crossbone X-1 release - painting up the anti-beam cloak in the pattern of Denison smock material, painting the entire thing khaki and adding Airborne markings, making the Crossbone X-1 into a British paratrooper Gundam - with either a Sten Gun, Enfield rifle or Bren Gun for a good laugh.

3) NATO 1960s GP-02A - I figured the nuclear age would be a good setting for a custom GP-02A, seeing as how it was a time when flashpoints were so common. I'm considering large scrim netting, Jerry can racks, and US Army markings... unless I go for a 1980s British Berlin Brigade pattern, which is a very odd brown/green/grey/white urban block pattern similar to WW1 battleships. Both would be doable.

4) RX-78-NT1 Merkava custom. An Alex in desert colours, with a shield fitted out with reactive armour padding and the entire thing geared towards anti-guerrila warfare (anti-RPG fencing around the cockpit and a fitted machine gun, gas canister dispensers, added communications antennae, storage compartments...)

5) And as I type this, another Crossbone based custom - this time in a Waffen-SS, Luftwaffe or Fallschirmjaeger camouflage for the cloak and feldgrau/field blue base colour. ARGH! D:

[wreeper007]

Another idea, something that would be fun though.

Germany, during the last legs of the war, painted the underside of their fighters that escorted those rocket kamakizi things red and white stripes to draw AA fire.

Maybe something along those lines, the zaku being the perfect distraction. As for what it is distracting for, I have no idea. Maybe a sniper unit, or heavy artillery. Hell, maybe even that tank from igloo.

What about the guntank? It seems line an obvious choice. Rolling into town with troops on the hood, circa d-day.

I like the idea of a paratrooper, you could even model those leg bags the us troops had during normandy (but make them so that they actually work and not just fly off).

While being a little more modern, what about a stealth take on the suits. Think the f22 or the comanche, with the angled panels. Doing something like that with an f2 might look interesting. It wouldn't be a lot of hard work either.

What about a suit after the german tank, i forget the actual name, that had a naval canon as its main gun. A zaku toting around that gun, with another suit that carried the actual shells, similar to the wwii german rail guns or the (i wanna say british) modern field canon, that is articulated and has an auto loader.

Thats about it for my ideas.