Does Not Illustrate: Ace Custom

The image is of a palette-swapped robot. Also, one of them has a spike on its head. Very poor image if you ask me.

I'm wracking my head trying to think of a good illustration, and I think these guns from BioShock◊ work okay, but there's probably better out there.

Opened...the pic/caption combo is a weak Keep Until Better Image Suggested for me.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested for me as well.

I'm none too keen on the suggestion. While the "<" sign could be understood as meaning better, it does also look like an arrow. Especially given how close they look to one another.

This◊ from Anime.Girls Und Panzer?

"You know who came here feeling like a boss."

Potholing "feeling" to Subverted Trope is optional. Edit: scratch that, pothole to Invoked Trope.

The point is, in the immediate following story, the first ever proper tankery match for the team on the right unfurls. Their tanks are fresh from having been revived and, while they were at it, respective vehicles newbie crews thought they knew better and pimped them out. It bites them in the ass during the match, prompting the rewind of demasking decorations by the next match.

edited 16th Jun '15 3:32:23 PM by SetsunasaNiWa

I don't think Playing with a Trope examples generally make for good images.

What about a stock DeLorean DMC-12◊ as compared to one that's been turned into a flying time machine?◊ That counts as a customization, right?

edited 16th Jun '15 11:13:18 PM by shigmiya64

I think that's more akin to calling the Fallout 3 Rock-It Launcher a customised leaf blower. That DeLorean is more of a time machine than a customised car.

Current's a definite Keep Until Better Image Suggested for me... I'd like something better, but it's a solid illustration, I think. The one on the left is clearly generic stock military, what with being olive drab. The other, even if it's just a palette swap, is freaking pink. It's gaudy enough that it's clearly not a floor model.

The Dozle Zabi custom might make it clearer. The axe is different, and it's certainly more gilded.

Alternatively, M'quve's Gouf vs. the standard Gouf.

edited 17th Jun '15 9:01:34 AM by Larkmarn

Swapping in the first one there would perhaps make it clearer.

Lets see how this works a wiki size.

EDIT: I wish I could find the base Zaku's stats like this, that would be perfect.◊

That's a little on the small side.

Perhaps a comparison between Raynor's armour and a regular Marine's? [1]

edited 17th Jun '15 12:50:32 PM by peasant

Aren't both customs there?

At first glance, I thought the blue guy was the Ace, since it's shinier and Helmet Are Hardly Heroic.

Then I saw the skull and I figured that was the custom. But yeah, not a great image.

Both are enhanced custom armor, one has a bomb inside it too.

Fair comments. Perhaps this◊ then? I just think Raynor works well compared to regular Marines since his armour has custom decals, he uses a different weapon, and he's colour-coded for our convenience.

A perhaps more obvious example would be something like this◊, in reference to the Red Baron.

I like 11. Even when it's zoomed out so much, you can see that the red one stands out from all the others. If we have the original image, it seems like it'd be incredibly simple to crop it into a better size.

edited 18th Jun '15 12:25:43 AM by Clarste

It looks like an Elite Mook and a bunch of Mooks in some space invaders clone.

I like 17, it puts him in the center and puts more emphasis on him.

How does it look at wiki size?

The addition of a second marine in 17 makes it clearer that the blue model is regular and that Raynor's is custom. In 13, you could have made an argument that either is the custom (One has flashier colours while the other has a skull on the visor)

A quick crop gives me this: [1]◊

That works better than I thought it would.