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Re: Welcome to the Building Arena, IRON MECHA
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Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:18:41 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Christopher Snead wrote:
   In lugnet.build.mecha, Mark Neumann wrote:
   Friends, Welcome to my building arena!

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Some more progress pics (after moderation):

frame 1 frame 2

The black frame was hijacked for a future bipedal project, so I built this frame after an order of 20 worm gears came in from Pitsco. I’ve used 18 in this model so far. The joints aren’t really realistic for a quadraped, but they serve their purpose.

The geared turntable should provide clearer views for those who were dissatisfied with previous pics of the top of the turntable.

I am not sure what the final form of this mecha will be, but it will be a less literal interpretation of the source picture than, say, Brian Cooper’s phase one model. I am sure there will be at least some exposed gears. I like the exposed technic look - gears look like mechanical muscle tone to me...lots of detail to see. Besides, this project has been an excuse to experiment with new worm gear techniques...it would be a shame to hide them all...

Later,

Chris



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  Re: Welcome to the Building Arena, IRON MECHA
 
Great articulation. Everything is wormed. It should be able to do some unusual poses that not even the one in the example picture could do, since its legs look like they just have the equivalent of a ball joint at the hip. I like how you did the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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  Re: Welcome to the Building Arena, IRON MECHA
 
(...) <snip> So I've been doing a little building this week, and have come up with a few ideas. I figured quite a few people would be using those exoforce/knight's kingdom joints, and I wanted to do something a little more challenging: (2 URLs) I've (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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