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(URL) Click on Image Finally! This mecha took way too long to complete. I started it after Christmas, and only got it done yesterday. I guess age slows you down. Heh. :-p Anyways, this mobile platform is similar in some ways to my (URL) MTP>, which (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) (URL) LOOKA DAT WOW ==== (...) (URL) OH NO WAY DATZDABBOMB ==== (...) (URL) GET OUT DATZSOKOOL ==== (...) (URL) WHATS THE OH MAN ITS A ==== (...) DOOODE. nice. real nice. e (URL) REPEAT THIS PICTURE IS THE STANG BOMB DANG ==== (18 years ago, 21-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Thanks Eric! Your use of bold text is inimitable. :-) (URL) Mladen Pejic> (18 years ago, 21-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Whoa man I didn't see this before our recent discussion. I am absolutely gobsmacked - although gobsmackedness doesn't seem to have as wierd an effect on me as it does on Eric ;) (...) Hah you're still miles ahead of me when it comes to build speed. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hello Mladen, (URL) (...) I think thats fast for such a creation. (...) I like all the details you did on this one and on your other plattforms. Your Mecha look so realistic. One could think it's a model of real war machine. (...) I did, like (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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It's nice that the pilot can rapidly eject, but the topside armor seems a little thin, considering that the top down attack is a favorite of smart munitions. (URL) cockpit> I like the white cockpit. I've been in an M1 tank simulator, and they are (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Zac! (...) I always start in this order: Make one leg Multiply that leg six times Build the chassis/thorax Build the upper body Figure out placement of cockpit, weapons, missiles, and sensors Attach the weapons, missiles, sensors (...) (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) :-) (...) Thanks Marco! It only looks realistic. I doubt it would work all that well IRL. :-( (...) Thanks again. (URL) Mladen Pejic> (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Yes, you're absolutely correct about this, and it's a problem a lot of modern MBTs have as well. However, those hatches were the only pieces I had that could solve this particular design problem. Blame LEGO. Taking this one step further (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Mladen, As always, a magnificent piece of hardware, looking so much the utilitarian part and warming the cockles of my heart for so being. I pretty much just lurk now but I had to come out and comment on this--seeing new ones is always (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The vertical-launch system between the smokethrowers is also amazing--a detail I may try to develop further at some point. Also, I meant "LAMPS/sensor turrets", seeing that the chin and dorsal units are the same... LFB (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) That is really something. As its' been said, very utilitarian looking. To be honest I didn't like the look of it at first, but the more I looked it over the more it grew on me. I esepecially like the inclusion of the knee-joint armor plates; (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I always love the military look of your mecha. This one doesn't disappoint. I like the beefy thighs. As always your guns are second to none. You could almost get away with saying this is your Iron Mecha entry. Not much else to say, really just (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hey, I always look forward to new mecha from you; this one is no exception. You have a real talent for adding detail so that it looks clean and deliberate. I especially like the gun turrets, and how you used those round slopes to create a full (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thank you LFB! I always look forward to reading your replies! :-) (...) The railgun turrets are connected to the body with my (URL) joint-stiffening technique> that I've been using since the MWP. However, I had to modify it sideways by using (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Awesome new weapons platform, Mladen! Others have commented on the "hammerhead", the gatling gun, the missile doors, the sensors--in other words, they didn't leave me much. But they left me something! I love the hidden "inset" colors--the (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Anthony! I get what you're saying about the guns. I would love to make long, round-barrelled guns, but LEGO only makes 1x1 or 2x2 rounded tubes. 1x1 is IMO too skinny for the primary cannons, and 2x2 is too fat. I really wish there was (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Heh, thanks Bryce! I've been following the Iron Mecha contest very closely. I just love how inventive all the entries have been so far. I also like how a lot of problems I have encountered in building large multiped mecha have been revealed, (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) As always, thanks Chris! You're right; I'm now far more concerned with making things flow together smoothly and making each detail, as you say, "deliberate". Oh, and I was going to use your smallest worm gear joints for each gun, but (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Kyle! I use the orange for the missile wells as a kind of "warning" colour. The orange looks better against the greys than red or yellow. Glad you like it. (...) It's absolutely shameful that I still haven't seen it. The next time I (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Mladen, you never fail to bring the heat. Everyone has already hit on the great details, all I'm going to add is that it is highly arousing. No Brickfest will ever be complete until you bring one of these things to devastate the train/town layout. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) LOL! Thanks Keith. I would love to bring one of my MPs to Brickfest, but I'm not sure they will last till then. See, I LDraw all my models and then take them apart, to free up the parts for other works. A big creation like this puts a sizeable (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) OK--I'd wondered if you were using the soft-plastic-rod stiffening technique in this somehow. Is there no way to use the 4x4 round brick, which also has a center axle groove? It might hold the guns better, though I don't know what effect it (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Actually, sometimes the whole turret, including the 2x2 round brick, slips off the axle peg. So, I don't know if the 4x4 round brick would work any better. But it's a good suggestion nonetheless, and I regret not trying it out. The real (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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snip (...) snip why not use the 3l axle with stud (with the stud part) sandwiched between two 1x2 technic bricks. very stiff and gives you a 2l worth of axle to attach to. Mark (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) That's one of the techniques I picked up from Chris Snead. Unfortunately, that combo is still not strong enough to hold the guns up. Believe me, I tried it. :-) (URL) Mladen Pejic> (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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