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(...) Oh, yeah! I'm paying really close attention to his joint system. I would love to build one of those one day; unless, that is, Brian wants to make a donation to the "Christopher Needs a Large Scale Gundam" fund ;-) Chris (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Oh that's just some armor plate and a motorized lego machine gun from my dismantled RCX combat robot, wreckage in the lego scrapyard, nothing to be concerned about, unless I reassemble it. Then run and hide until it empties its ten shot (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Actually all of my gundams represent advancing levels of technology rather than the mass production of the same design. I typically don't take models apart until the designs become sufficiently obsolete and unlikely to survive in battle (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Since I had to destroy my old black gundam to make the new one, I took some pictures of the obsolete joint technology: (URL) S2, S3... up to S14 to see all the pictures. (...) They are about 28 inches tall. The hip joints dampen the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) The picture of all three is awesome. (...) Put a big fat me too here Christopher. I'd love to steal (I mean use with full credit ;-) some of K's joint ideas). I have a feeling that we'd both be blown away by Brian's joint systems. I've stared (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Hey I'm famous! <blushes> Thanks for the props! For a first mech that is very tall. Looks good. You have a handle on how to get it to stand and hey that's 3/4 of the battle with mecha. I like the upside down boat hull for feet. I was trying to do (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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This is a question to Brian (K) and actually to all mecha builders: "Why are you still building 2 to 3 feet tall Gundams and mechs?" Especially you K, you have more than enough pieces to create a 6 foot Gundam with opening armor/wings, huge guns, (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hi Geordan! That is one great first Gundam (my first mobile suit was a walking trashcan). It is really refreshing to see something different than micro fig scale mechs. In the future, however, have more confidence in your building skills and (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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(...) bandits", (...) These are so beautiful! I was hoping you would post a picture with all three gundams. I would love to see these things IRL. I could spend hours examining your joint technology. How tall are these? Do they have a significant (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I was on a trip to Las Vegas. There are mechs there called "one armed bandits", very dangerous, good at desert warfare, unpredictably blasting out streams of hypervelocity metal discs. My plane barely made it out as the bandits stormed the (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Hi! I'm trying to build a large fully articulate lego robot and I need 40 black 2x4 hinges. I am willing to pay $$. If anyone can help me out, I would appreciate it. I have been searching things like ebay and the likes for several months have had no (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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I finally got pictures up of my first gundam. I can't say it's bad but it definitely needs work. My ninja fortress is my favourite. three levels with living quarters beneath and inter changeable roofs. the gundam was styled after bryce's big blue (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Your stuff is incredible! I built a pneumatic hand once, but jeeze, a whole torso? All you have to do now is work out a gyroscopic stabilization system and some legs, and you can give Honda's P2 a run for it's money ! ;-) (...) Oh, Cepheus (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks for the kind words. I have this folder of your mech renderings - I've been admiring this stuff for a while. Everytime I get stuck when trying to make a head, I check out your site for ideas. Hope you don't mind... (...) A website is on (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Wow, this has gotta be the most posable Mech I ever saw (or heard about) your on for dinner! I like BBQ! Seeing IRL will be a great thing! Somthing I intend to happen, after I save a little! C-ya Eric (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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WOW! Why didn't I find out about this before. I've seen those pictures of your mecha, and I was IMPRESSED, but I didn't know that the Cepheus had clicking-joints. Any chance of a small set of pictures explaining how this works... Actually, you (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Right on, build as you can, Hey my stuff took a long time too, so I know where your comming from, I guess it's almost enough for me to know that someone is out there doing this. So I'll wait. Keep at it, Cepheus came out great. So I of course look (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Whoa, I just totally freaked out! I've got a Wing Gundam about half done, and I just saw "Gundam" and "Oz" in the same sentence. Then you have all the After Colony dates in there, but it looks like you gundam was built after Endless Waltz. (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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Eric, I can't tell you enough about how awesome Chris' mecha is! All the joints "click" into place like a big 360 degree click hing. It's like a big toy. We had it set up on its knees with its hands raised up like Defoe (sp) in Platoon! You just (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) make a gundam-like mech; but, as soon as I finished the arm, I thought "Terminator". One thing about Cepheus that is hard to tell in the pictures is how its click-stop joint mechanism works. People seem to like it alot, which pleased me, (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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