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(...) -big snip- Wow! I hope I haven't used up all my superlatives on your excellent previous Mech Bays, because this one is now my favorite! I love the red/dk gray/gray/trans blue color scheme, fully articulated upper and lower maintanence arms, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) <good stuff snipped> Eric: MOST Excellent. Emphasis on MOST. I particularly like the dark grey rendition of your 'little bot', and against all the red and dark grey back ground, it looks particularly good. My favs: The robotic repair arms that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07 - 1x3 Base Plate - Little Dark Grey Bot Repair Facility - The light transport Hover Fish and SV3 wheeled vehicle supply the Little Bot Bay with new parts and electronics. (2 URLs) Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07 Hey gang, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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(...) Oooooo-tay. (...) Strange is good as it is beautiful. (...) Heck ya! That rocks! I asked Peter Jennings and he said it was the biggity bomb bad too! (...) drool. (...) Sweet, That pair of hands helps add to the synergy of the Mech. You could (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Oh wow, I checked out the construction great job! (...) Fine choice I'd say. (...) Excellent. (...) I agree. It big, That's why I like it too! (...) Efforts for the next round? Incorporate in to future attempts? (...) LMAO, I get that too. hee (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ha! Ok, that is kind of scarier knowing the orgin of that. Ouch. I managed to find in a Ukrainian dictionary that Horod is a kind of battlement on a hill. But nothing on Ris. Probably means light. Therefore the staff'd be a stoplight and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Worm gear count is eight. three in each leg, and one in each shoulder. The rest are mostly the new rotational click hinge. (...) I may be taking some more pics here, for my b-day I got a photography screen! No more taping the white sheets of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ah-ha! Hear that Sophie! You're going down, buddy! I got that supply of left monkey arms coming in from BL, you best be sweating bullets now. Thanks for the commentary on the arms. I was looking at that and the shoulder had to go through a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) That goat critter was Pan. The hand did go through about five rebuilds for this mech and was the origional inspiration for this mech. (repositioned fingers, shortened overall hand, wrist redesign) I started by fooling with hand designs and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hey Mark, I did a Google search and I found that Te Horo is the name of a beach on New Zealand and DRIs is the Dietary Recommended Intake. Sooo...this beast was obviously created to search the beaches of Te Horo to take the DRIs of unsupecting (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I like that gear-ratio reduction assembly to reduce the stress on the worm gear--tricky! Out of curiosity, what's the total worm-gear count? (...) Unequal length fingers, rotating thumb, the hand flattens out, sweet! (...) The black shoulder (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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I really like the leg design and gearing. Gears are like muscles for mecha. The more gears, the more powerful the machine (appears to be). The spindly arms could use a gear infusion to beef them up... But I know you haven't made a lot of armed (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) It's a good mech (if it weren't for the legs, I would be forced to call this one "mecha"). I like how clean it looks - very nice indeed. I like the hands; many have used those joints before, but it looks like you put a lot of time in to the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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SNIP (...) OH MY GOD! Did you see the other stuff the guy's made???: (URL) actually surprised they made the brickshelf mod, especially this one: (URL) need to make one of these for myself. He has a bunch of other neat stuff too: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Nice. So... black (URL) palm tree segment> for the ankles, (URL) fruit-cherry> for the shoelaces and minifig-neck-bracket for the sneaker-tongue, sand-green (URL) dino neck/tail> for the arms, silver (URL) mugs> for hair ornaments, spigot-knob for (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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I found a low res preview of this magazine (looks like it uses Flash): (URL) to pages 18-19 and 20-21. Nice. :-) My MS-02 from about four years ago looks so ancient! I'm working on MS-11 now and I can't think of one structural design that I've (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(URL) Dis here is Horodris. Treat him real nice and he'll do the same. Some points of notes: I made the neck move on all three axis, if the head looks funny, it probably because it is at a strange angle. mucho gearing in the legs. This is what is (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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(...) The pics were provided by the artists. Nah, no photo shoots for us in Einfield. (dang) (...) yeeee HA! (...) Cool! That'd be much appreciated. (...) yeah, I'm sort of with you on that. (magazine quality) For those that didn't get the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) snippity snip (...) Hey Mark, Congrats to all of you guys that were featured in the article. It was pretty awesome seeing all the mechs in a double-wide fold out. Rad! Question: Did you guys have to bring your MOCs somewhere to be photographed (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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It's not mine, I just found it. I thought I made that clear? Soren (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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OMG... LOL. Very anime though. Absolutely hilarious. Execpt you usually have some kind of kick A$$ gun with your mecha. So where is it? Mark (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(URL) New MOC from "ayucow". Sooo cuuuute~ Soren (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) snip Mark, congrats to you and the other featured mech builders! If the photo spread appears on-line anywhere, would you post a link here? I don't get the magazine, but I'd love to see the layout. Thanks! (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Hello friends, We’ve sort of been keeping this under our hats, but now that I just got my “Brickmasters” magazine in the mail I can’t hold it in any longer. The Mecha Hall of Fame is a centerfold! A small selection of mechs from the LMHoF were (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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Welcome! Wow what a first Mech to post! I know this is not your first Mecha Construction, but I still want to wlecome you to lugnet.build.mecha! Yikes, this Mech is super cool. I think the style and form are great. The colors are all new and the (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I have been thinking about Tatsumaki and I plan to make some changes soon, but for now I am working on a new mech and I hope to have it done by the end of the week. Pics and a post on that mech soon. I also plan to add more pics of the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | New and old to lugnet at the same time :-)
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Hi Everyone, I'm Samarth Moray, and I'm 16. I've been playing with Lego, like most of you, since I was a kid. I'm new to lugnet because this is my first post, but I'm 'old' to lugnet because I've been lurking around for a year now. That basically (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) The MS-18E alone is worth the price of admission just for the great piece usage. I would have never thought to pop the rotating part out of the 2x2 turntable plate if I hadn't seen it used on this MOC. (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(URL) Gundam with detechable armour, Kampfer, GP-01 etc. All great works. The MS-14A Gelgoog and MS-18E Kampfer are very small but still have great details and proportion. (URL) is the precursor of Five Star Stores. This model looks perfect because (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Well done Mark, those Freddy Krueger hands are a nice touch. I know, they are for clawing through ice, or giant snow-mice or something. This one reminds me of your Hammer mech a bit, but thats a good thing. Congrats on winning the awards as well. (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) mark, my man! i was wondering when you would post another of your reversed- knee mech masterpieces. apparently, you aim to please your fans. this is the most organic-looking mech i've seen you create. the overall form is vintage mark newmann. (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I'll agree with both your pros and your cons. The backpack looks great, I like the hands, and the upper body is exactly right. I don't think the legs need to be longer, but I think they would be improved if they were "beefier". If you built up (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) This is really nicely done. I appreciate the in-progress shots, but with the black skeleton, it's a little hard to see the details. That's a lot of ball joints! Looks like an articulated "spine" too--he can do sit-ups? My suggestion--this mech (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I was bummed when I tried the BS link and it didn't work--thanks for re-uploading. This thing won an award for best medium mecha? Would it have won for best large mech if you hadn't brought the Hammer along too? I like the light blue/white (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) up any of the ball sockets, like in the knees for example? That blue is a very nice color. This is just fantastic. Great shape and scale, love the facial expression. I got no real critique save wondering how the joints hold. Maybe also (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) wow! an excellent lego translation! i knew it was the aile strike from gundam seed without even looking at the folder discription. though i've never seen the series, i am quite familiar with the various gundams just from studying pics from the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Wow, wow, wow, (...) If you could get those flat techic plate click hinges, those would probably suit you well for the knees in this scale. (SW AT-AT or AT-TE joints) I should say though, I think you captured the Gundam quite well! (...) Don't (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Well, there are no pictures of creations to post at the moment--they are either in a disposable camera or waiting to be completed--but I wanted to say "Salaam waw layquum" and a belated "Happy Halloween". I too just moved across country, more or (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.people, FTX)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Ka-On Lee wrote: <snip> (...) This thing is friggin' awesome Ka-On. There's so much SNOT hanging off it I feel a sinus cold coming on just looking at it. :) Seriously though, the SNOT work is phenomenal. The head is a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam
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(URL) Brickshelf Gallery: (URL) First some links for those unfamilar with this design: (2 URLs) After accumulated enough bricks, I decided to start one of my dream MOC projects a large scale, highly detailed Gundam. I picked Strike because it is one (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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