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Woah. Ok, studless cool factor going on there. (ok, a few studs here and there I know, but I'm calling this studless.) I like the head, plenty of personality in a compact space. It seems a trifle small but that is the Mecha style. (huge bodies, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Wow...Simply Wow. I can definitely feel the Geiger influence, and the use of pieces in this is beyond inspired. From a distance, I doubt it's recognizable as Lego, and looks more like a ready made sculpture. Simply amazing techniques and design. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Sorry, about the broken MOC pages link. Here is the correction (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) (URL) (...) Amazing. Visual overload. Black MOCs are the hardest to capture with a camera. I would love to see this in real life. (...) Time Restrictions? Is that a joke? Dude you put 60 hours into this MOC. That alone should win you the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Lenny, I am sincere. I love your style. As a newbie to Mech and bots, your work is so vast that I cannot comprehend it all. You have to realize in my mind, a joint is a round gear with a worm to hold it in place. However, your joints run the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Emtech Enterprises proudly announces the z24 Minifig version of the PlatforMech ABD-I class Razor. (URL) The Mech 120 Total Missiles – BRING IT ON! 48 Long Range Warheads 48 Short Range Warheads 24 Fireball Warheads Dual 4 Barrel Gatling Guns Dual (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.org.us.cedarlug, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) The design came partly from looking at Tim Deering's (URL) Chesty MacBarrels>. Actually, now that I look at it, I used exactly the same arm design as he did. Well, I thought that was original. Someone shoot me in the pants and call me Sheryl. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Haha.. I think you are being fascetious. But thank you anyways. -Lenny (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) When I saw this on brickshelf I thought, "almost nightmarish perfection, except they head doesn't quite seem to have the right evil aura". It needs a reworking in the future to do the rest of the model justice, or would that be injustice. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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WOW! This thing is SO cool! First time that I saw it on BS I was floored. I immediately noticed the Giger influence. It's amazing how close you are getting to recreating his style, and how nicely you are integrating some of your own ideas into it. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) (URL) Best. Bionicle. Ever. [1] I still can't quite figure out some of it-- just above the little row of hard-plastic tires in this picture (and all throughout the MOC): (URL) It looks like there's some sort of cord, laced with protruding (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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As some of you know I've been building mostly Bionicle stuff the last couple years. I know it's the lil' red haired stepchild of the Lego community but whatever; I'm sure you can get over it. Anyhoo BZPower (a Bionicle duh fan based website) is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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Nice, Kyle. This is a huge improvement over an already excellent mech. I love the missle racks and the feet are just perfect. It looks like something you would actually see out on the battlefield, not some frilly anime mecha. Very clean, nothing (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) (snip) (...) Hey Jas, I love this guy! The beefyness is great! The head/face has alot of character too. My favorite part of your mech is definitely the legs. Solid. My least favorite part would be the forearms. I would add a little length on (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ummm. Now I better see why everyone wanted me to beef up my Kalate. For me a newbie, the Kalate leg design was very new but for everyone else they could see where I needed to go. Nice, thanks for the input. Brian (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the feedback, Brian. The framework underlying the legs probably looks a lot like the bionicle legs on your Kalate OmniDroid--I just attached some bricks with Technic connections, and built the armor cladding from that base, which (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Nice brown work there, Lenny. Where'd you pull this design from? (...) Mr. Ham is cute. I want to pet him. (...) Squidy is cute too, but I want to shoot him. (2 URLs) Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Soren's work is so far out of my league. As a newbie, it blows my mind. I remember just staring ( wink, wink) at his skank bot. It was so life-like. Now he has another realistic model. I love the thumb tack pictures, it makes them look like (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Jas, Well, it looks like the time off has not hindered your creativity. Gerraint is great! You really need to change his oil more though, he just looks mad! :) I love the face expression ... The eyes with the squared jaw gives him a really (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Lenny, You are a creative genius. Your mind works in so many different ways, I am amazed. Everyone of your bots are completely different from any other. That kind of creativity is, is, is ... AWESOME. Then we have your joints!!!!! Do you just (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Kyle, This is a great Mech! I really like the compactness of it. It just has a look of sturdiness and that translates to power. Good job. I really liked the rounded missile bins. I think that is quite inovative to use half a cylinder. It may (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) snip Wow! You've got some great surface textures there, with the variety of parts you used. Great color scheme, too, I like the use of the black for the feet. Very solid and imposing--looks big too. (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Medieval Bot looks like its thinking, "Where's the ball field? I want to play ball!" Either that or, "Chop heads, chop heads..." I love the Silver Squidy. Looks sort of like a fat Cylon. -Jeff (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) OOH YEAH! I had a lot of fun learning from Soren's Skank bot when I reverse engineered it, but this one looks like something I might want to keep around to creep my mom out some more! You've captured the look perfectly, as always. It really (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(URL) I'm posting this for Soren. Enjoy! -Lenny (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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Hello all, Its been quite a while since I've posted here and its been ages since I built anything. Its good to see some of the new builds out there, some truly awsome work! The latest project from D-Bloc, which is nearly completed, is "Gerraint". It (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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(...) After a night of pondering, I have found more parts that create movement. I have also thought (any suggestions) that we should have a separate speed and strength number. Some parts are faster than their weight or visa versa. Here is the new (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Behold teh p0wer of teh BOOM SMACKY! (URL) Medieval Bot ====== (URL) Mr.Ham ===== (URL) Silver Squidy ===== -Lenny (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) Okay, so maybe, I am a little interested in this project and Sundays are great relaxing days for me. So I wrote a perl script to calculate the ideal speed and strength variable for each mech type: Humanoid, Reverse Knee and Quad. Here are the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hah! Hey, I do squared off missile boxes too, ya know. But yeah, when you look at actual military hardware, there aren't any round parts unless there's a specific reason for them to be round, and there's no reason for a missile box to be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Sweet, three woofs and jumping catfish! I acknowledge your critique about the proportions--the new feet added more visual weight, with really nothing added up top to balance it. But yeah, I'm starting to get into the studless/greebling style. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks for the feedback, Marco, especially about the photography, which is always the hardest part for me. For Christmas, my brother got me a lamp with an Eiko Photoflood 250 watt bulb. Despite my poor understanding of camera settings and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I am back with more information. Speed and Strength ===...=== IMO these two are really inverses of each other. A speedy mech is not strong becuase it lacks the ability to carry enough armor. Now on the other hand a strong mech, because (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) So I am back with more information. As I have started to think this through I have determined, IMO, that what we are trying to do is score our Mech/Mecha against the figurative "Perfect" Mech in the areas of Articulation, Speed and Strength (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I have some webspace that we can develop and test the initial software on. I can't really imagine the initial server load would be too heavy. Adding it to the LMHof is a great idea. (...) Great point and noted. I have started to develop a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well that's exactly what I think of it. I'm so glad about the progress I made driven by the replies to the original post. Thanks again for your statement on the feet. I gave a big step forward. (...) I've read a lot about that but couldn't (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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<snip> (...) Hmmm, yeah. Should be easy enough. Seems to me we create a series of look up tables, populate them with wieghts and keep a data dictionary handy for modification if needed. Then another table where mecha creations can be entereed with (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) This is a wonderful improvement Kyle! I just love the new, cold, hard look of the Widowmaker now. It's almost like and Iron Reich mecha, but even more evil. :-) The rounded missile launcher boxes still bother me. I've mentioned this to you (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Jumping catfish! Where to start. Studless. Big bitchin beefy legs, with greebling Integrated weapons that enhance the look pivoting cockpit Woof. Look, I don't have much for you save that the arms and body look just a touch (and only a touch) (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Wow, that looks so much better Marco. The whole feel and balance is great. Big kudos on showing the dismantled pic. Almost noone thinks of it but a big issue if you ever want to transport your creation. Cool man. Mark (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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