 | | Re: lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide - Completed
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The lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide has been completed. lugnet.build.mecha (URL) News Group User Guide The goal of the User Guide is to familiarize new and current readers with the norms found in this newsgroup. Tips on posting, tips (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: A newly discovered part that may be useful to trainheads, et al
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In lugnet.build, Ray Sanders wrote: Images are now located at ... (URL) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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(...) Hello, regretably I did not promote the contest and respose was low because it was not executed properly. Thusly I must cancel the contest. Many thanks to those who did participate as well as offered to donate the prize. Please undertand with (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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| | Re: lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide
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(...) The (URL) "What-is-Mecha?"> section of the lugnet.build.mecha User Guide is 90% completed and I am writing the remaining sections now. Parts Library images and other revisions are fourth comming. Eric Sophie co-curator lugnet.build.mecha (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: wishin' on a star
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(...) This thread has stuck in my mind for a while. First, a better link to the picture I meant to show in my original reply. (Bad form, I know... replying to my own post, but I'm fixing a poor FTX posting and adding new info... and using a new (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Eastern Block Mecha
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(...) It's been awhile since i posted on here but I just had to comment on your bot. Very Cool! You have become an expert. And I also have to ask what was the inspiration for using the dino bodies as shoulders and legs? :) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) but how many Clickits will there be? (...) Esoteric, hardly It's from the Simpsons. the episode where the B-Sharps feature. Barney decides to take Babershop to "Strange new places". In Moe's Tavern his Japanese conceptual artist girlfriend (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) It's good to see that I'm still known. (...) You are definitely right, I think I'm gonna lurk around a bit more... although I've moved on to an art form that isn't limited by Gravity. Oz (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) Nice Mech man. Have you done this before? (...) I'm glad to see you're getting back into pneumatics. I'm hoping to buy a Star Destroyer at BrickFest for cheap. I hear it's got 435,231 T's, 237,465 switches, 4 pistons and 2 2" hoses. Awesome! (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) You got it all right. Except for the 29,003 right side wedge plates. Ok the hips are a simple worm gear set up using technic triangle plates and worm gears paired to 24 tooth gears. 2x4 plates with technic holes secure them. See here: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) Hey wow, Oz, good to hear from you! (...) Thank you, thank you. (...) I do! Don't go away! This group needs all the support it can get, we make this place what it is. Nobody ever forget that! (...) e (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) Thank you! I always enjoy hearing from you TM. Mecha on the brain. Really, I enjoy looking towards the future. So that is why I build Mech. I believe in a time when we learn to master this kind of technology. Lego, puts the raw essentials in (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) You got me, I fluffed it a little. But really its seven feet tall! Really it is. Ya-huh. (...) The Mech is straight forward. I think there is a bit of elegance involved in making it functional yet estetic. Using 790,000 left monkey arms is no (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: What to call this scale?
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(...) If they were the same size as the real thing, I'd label them as 'lifesize' scale. Based on your comments I'd call them 1/2 lifesize or 1/4 lifesize. (...) I wouldn't. I have always thought of macro as lifesize or more often even larger. Based (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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(...) Well... *if* this contest is still on, here's my entry. Name: Tony Hafner Web Page, Brickshelf Gallery, MOCpages, etc.. Where entry can be seen: BrickShelf: - (URL) MOC Name, James Bond Mission Story: The ship is Friendship 2004, and the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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| | What to call this scale?
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Check out this really neat folder on Brickshelf: (URL) creator calls it "microscale" but I think most would agree it's not really microscale (smaller than minifig scale). Instead these animals are sculpted at a scale much closer to real than minifig (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) snip (...) You did a great job with the (URL) photo> e. It was like a clinic in big-mech joint-tech. I could make out what looked like a worm gear-large gear pairing for the "jumping-jack" movement of the shoulders, throwbot gear boxes for the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | New 2x2 Round Plates
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Hey All, I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I noticed this when I grabbed a few white 2x2 round plates for a project I'm working on: (URL) (the left being the older version) I think this has been brought up about some Technic (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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Great Job Sir Eric. It's always great to see what you do with the good brick. (I wonder if anyone remembers who I am... well, time to disappear again). Oz (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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(...) Dude, you've got the fever. the Mecha Fever. And frankly, I don't think you should be cured, for if you were, we would never see creations such as this. I really liked the World City train head, and the light-up eyes. Not that Mecha design was (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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