On Wednesday, July 26, 2006 22:26, Dr. Core wrote: > -Z- wrote: > > was, in fact, such a cutaway view that revealed to me that what I'd > > previously though to be a vertically-mounted "drum" for the gravity > > block were, in fact, merely shields for the side gun turrets. > > I hope you are happy to be proven wrong... that is, to be > right originally. It's a bit hard to interpret at first > (it's all kanji, but kanji isn't exactly Chinese) anyhow... > comparing page 117 and 118 carefully, I am pretty confident > with the following translation: > > "Behind the round shield, in the main body of the ship is > residence area (equipped with artificial gravity)" > > If you find your 3/4 view diagram again, look carefully: the > gravity block is inconspicuous but it's there. > > On page 118 there are many detailed reference line art for > most of the interior scenes, including two small diagrams > with captions that I would translate/guestimate as "gravity > block corridor interior" and "elevator in the gravity block"
Actually, that 1980 Roman Album cutaway drawing was the very one to which I was referring and, yes, I had noted the same things that you did. What I failed to do here was express clearly what my original misapprehension was and how seeing this diagram dispelled it. I had originally thought that the vertically-mounted "squirrel-cage" gravity block ran side-to-side through the entire beam (width) of the ship and the dome-like structures on either side were akin to hubcaps covering the motors that turned the wheel. What the cutaway revealed that the gravity block is recessed within the interior and is fully enclosed on all sides, the decks to either side that house the port and starboard defensive gun batteries and that dome-like structures are, in fact, gun turrets that also serve as shields for the residents of the gravity block. I had previously puzzled by the apparent drastic reduction in size of the "gravity block" of the Albion as compared to that of the White Base but, once I realized that the external structures were NOT the sides of the g-block but rather gun turrets, all became clear. The Albion design had been rationalized and the external structures rescaled accordingly. My apologies for any confusion that my earlier imprecise explanation may have engendered. -Z- -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
