Ironchoirs: Ironclad Hangar

I was thinking more of a LAM than a mech, but that's because of Starscream



I've been re watching waaay to much Transformers. And most of the Transformers are Humanioid, not Chicken walkers.

But I do agree with you, the rear jointed legs are the most like landing gears, in a sense. least movement to deploy, and least movement to cause forward motion.
The thing is, the curved design would have to make a comeback, in order to make the mech more humanoid. Which might not be what Chattaha is looking for.

 

ah, you finished it!

 

so, where do the shells eject from on this cannon?

 

who want's shells hitting their mech when they fire their cannon? not that anyone would know, but I never like AR-15 shells hitting me when I go shooting with friends. Perhaps they should eject out the other side, or the bottom of the weapon.

 

I don't have any knowledge of artistic or technical skill, but I had an idea for a while:

It would be awesome to have a large autocannon with a 'magazine' (around 7 shells?) that is loaded from the top, which then kinda 'falls through' to the next round every time it fires a shell. Almost sounds like a weird version of an AC20 now I think of it, probably due to the 7 shells and it being large. when the magazine is depleted it falls to the floor and the mech can load a new one with a hand or getting a new magazine from his shoulder or something (move the gun up to shoulder, click in, go).

From a real world perspective it sounds a bit crazy I presume, but it should be clunky enough for some kind of pseudo-steampunk mechs?

tl;dr could you make this for me please no reason but putting my mind at ease ok thanks bye

 

SS, I think you mean something like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_anti-tank_rifle

This thing was actually good at the begining of WW2, due to thin armor on the tanks at the time.

The japanese actually developed their own AC, used mainly in aircraft. it never worked very well, since you couldn't stop it's fire cycle once started, but when it did, it would lay down plenty of fire.

[img width=625 height=450]http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/sons-of-guns-japanese-auto-cannon-pictures1.jpg[/img]

[img width=700 height=521]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/HMS_Dido_gun.jpg[/img]
America had some of the best autocannons on their battleships, a 20mm with a 20 round magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza_HS.404
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_40_mm

most AC of the time were either 20mm, but could be up to 88mm. Today, many tanks use Autoloaders instead of Autocannons, due to the separation of propellant and projectile. This lets you us a larger caliber gun in a more confined space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IjgndIFhgU

but many tanks also use a carousel magazine to save space within tanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jmIVC7yLU0

the thing is, with any of these systems, the shell has to be manually removed by the loader, and pushed out of the rear of the turret. They sometimes have automatic shell ejectors, but they always have a manual backup.

 

The AT rifle on the top describes it pretty well, but imagine it with much larger, preferably explosive rounds. I still drew something bad in MS Paint with a self-discarding magazine.

http://i.imgur.com/61ooPTa.png

As you probably have much more experience with guns than I do (probably has to do with them being legal over there as well) it's not likely to sound plausibly viable, but hey a bit of fantasy is okay right

 

I like it, using a Hex mag instead of a top feeder.

 

I really like it, but where does the pilot go? because the front looks like a cow catcher.