#tallgeese

[pangur-and-grim]

my nephew is fascinated by the chickens, and knows them all by name

#Tallgeese #Wormbecca #Milkshake #Brown Chicken

[lapsedpacifist]

All done with this project may I present Sinanju Gáns

#gunpla #gundam #plamo #gundam wing #gundam unicorn #tallgeese #sinanju #0gravitas

[thetremblingroofbeam]

#tallgeese 3 #gundam wing endless waltz #tallgeese #gundam #gundam wing

[weirdunclegamer]

Its a beautiful day in the After Colony era, and you are one of four terrible gooses

#gunpla #plamo #gundam #gundam wing #tallgeese #tallgeese 2 #tallgeese 3 #tallgeese fluegal #now i need the rg goose 2 #and i'll have 4 rg geese

[arcadebroke]

#@texasfactory #トールギス #Tallgeese #gundam #mecha #mech #design #gunpla #mobile suit

[kasperl-ruprecht]

#Gundam #COW #Gundam Wing #Tallgeese #0Z-00MS #Y'ALLGEESE

[theogm-art]

Boop

New Lancer mech just dropped. Tallgeese inspired Barony mech.

Commission for @MariusTheOtter on twitter.

#Lancer RPG #mecha #commission #tallgeese #my art

[saresai]

Part of my "Ghost in the Machine" series~

#saresai #saresai art #space #artists on tumblr #stars #fanart #gundam wing #tallgeese #Tallgeese I #mecha #gundam #zechs merquise #zechs #I had an absolute blast with the colors on this one #ghost in the machine

[zazagundam]

RG TALLGEESE FLUGEL ENDLESS WALTZ, REAL!!!!!!!!????

Yea I had an extra rg wing ew so I just glued them together :3

#gundam #gunpla #plamo #model kit #gun plastic #tallgeese #smallgeese #endless waltz #ew #gundam wing #gundam ew #real grade #rg #my art

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going to give the chickens to my mom for the winter 😬

years ago, I had a coop built on her property in case my guys ever needed to be re-located. she's since put her own birds in it, but it's large enough that there's plenty of room, and she's expanded on it since then, adding a fenced off area for everyone to wander in relative safely.

the problem I'm having is rats. they figured out that my chicken run isn't airtight, and they've been stealing feed and reproducing. it's not fair to my neighbours to be running a rat mill out of my yard, and I also can't do much to prevent them so long as there's a food source (believe me, I've been waging active war against these guys all year, trying all sorts of devious things).

so my plan is to remove the chickens, remove the chicken feed, and turn my yard into Fort Knox. really go to town fixing up my fencing, lay down gravel to interfere with digging, etc. it'll be easy to see if worked or not, because over winter any wandering rats will leave footprints in the snow.

and then in spring, if I've successfully made the rats move on, I can bring my birds back into their upgraded coop + run.

#tallgeese #wormbecca #none of my neighbours have complained #but I also feel like I owe it to them to try to fix this

[tinyozlion]

“Tallgeese”: Why Is It Called That?

Okay, so, I have a theory. 

 Bear with me a moment.  As far as I know, I’m the only person who thinks this might be the reason why the Tallgeese is called Tallgeese; I don’t know if it’s the RIGHT reason, but at least it's an explanation I think is etymologically and contextually feasible:

--If I may draw your attention to my man Tallgeese’s shield for a moment: you will see that it is a small, round buckler. Tallgeese is styled with a very fetching crest reminiscent of a Greek hoplite, and hoplites did indeed carry a round shield called an aspis. 

(Image from the Harvard collection)

However! There is another kind of small, round shield that was used in less ancient times called a targe, or targa, or the diminutive target, where we get the word “target" from. The targe was a shield used largely for jousting and dueling– something the Tallgeese excels at!

When full plate armor was developed around the late 14th century, knights switched from using large, triangular shields, to the smaller and variously shaped targe shields, specifically for the sport of jousting¹. If you're looking at shields from medieval Europe in a museum you'll see a lot of fancy-shaped ones labeled targes.

Much later, it became synonymous with the Scottish targe, which is a regular combat shield and not a jousting shield, but it shares the same name and more importantly, is a small, round buckler typically used with a sword-- like the Tallgeese uses!

(A Highland targe exhibited in the National Museum of Scotland)

--Which leads me to my main point:

If you were looking up cool words for round or otherwise knightly shields, you might well come across the word “targe”. And if you pass the word “targe”(especially if you pronounce the final ‘e’) or “targes” through a Japanese phonetic filter, you might well get something close to “Tōrugisu” (トールギス), which is the name of our mobile suit.

…It might not be the canonical explanation for the Tallgeese’s name (to the best of my knowledge, there isn’t one²) but at least it’s slightly more relevant to its theming than is a waterfowl of alarming height-- though perhaps only a tenth as horrifying on the field of battle. 

...Still I hear it in my dreams; the fell slapping of orange feet, the distant honk, the snapping beak...

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1) "The Seven Shields of Behaim: New Evidence": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 30, Nickel, Helmut (1995)

2) The Gundam Fan Wiki states in its Trivia section that: “The name Tallgeese is derived from the word "theurgist" (トールギスト), a ritualist who attempts to channel divine power to work miracles”. This is apparently from one of the SD Gundam games? Anyway, I find this source to be INCREDIBLY DUBIOUS.

#gundam wing #Tallgeese #Mobile Suit #GOUS -- goose of unusual size #gundam wingtionary #parsing post

[thetremblingroofbeam]

#tallgeese 3 #gundam wing endless waltz #gundam #tallgeese #favorite mecha ever #gundam wing

[lapsedpacifist]

Almost there, still working on the propellant tanks and I need to decide if I want to attach the shield or one of the weapons to his right shoulder armature.

#gunpla #gundam #plamo #gundam wing #gundam unicorn #sinanju #tallgeese

[d1rtzilla]

I also build Gundam models. This was my first attempt at painting the pilots and mini figures that come with the kits. Epyon inner frame painting in work 🙂

#gundam #gundam kit #gunpla #gundam minis #custom gundam #figure painting #small painting #minitures #small art account #d1rt #adhd artist #tallgeese #gundam wing #Gundam Epyon #Epyon #zechs merquise #treize khushrenada #lady une #Tallgueese II #OZ-00MS2 #Gundam Tallgueese II #OZ-13MS #anime #toonami #custom gunpla #gundam universal century

[diurnaldaysart]

Tallgeese Corven (Tallgeese Variable Fighter) commission

#tallgeese corven #commission art #mecha art #mecha #mech #tallgeese #variable fighter

[gundamfight]

#Gundam Build Fighters Try #Gundam Tryon 3 #The Witch from Mercury #Chuchu's Demi Trainer #Char's Counterattack #Jegan #Gundam Lfrith #Gundam Seed #Providence Gundam #Gundam Wing #Tallgeese #Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #Schwalbe Graze (McGillis Fareed/Isurugi Camice Custom) #Gundam Aerial #Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam #Hyaku Shiki