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(...) that the fig sits in there, and the legs add alot of character. I have one small problem with it though. It looks like all of it's weapons are line of site. The police would probably like a grenade or missle launcher, so they can get to (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) WOW! That's awesome. Thanks for the scan, Mark, I greatly appreciate it! (...) Heh, thanks Mark! I'd really like to see what kind of multiped mecha you can come up! ;-) (...) Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thank you Stuart! (...) Actually, I was mostly inspired by his Fuchikoma, which appeared the Ghost in the Shell [1] manga. I also got some inspiration from the six-legged police tank seen in Ghost in the Shell [2] anime movie. (...) Thanks (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks John! (...) I'd love to see this. I've been thinking about making dioramas too, but I just don't have enough pieces... Anyways, I really think you could pull it off. (...) Collaboration... Yeah! That would be awesome. I think our styles (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You beat me to it Mladen. (well sorta, there's a different Shirow "cop bot" that I want to emulate...) (URL) anyone that is interested this comes from "The Promethean Balance; APPLESEED; Book Four" by Masumane Shirow. Maybe I'll focus on doing (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) LOL! I'm not really raising the bar, I'm just building what I like. I'm sure some of the other mecha builders could design a better quadruped police tank... ;-) (...) Thank you! Getting the pilot in there was the biggest challenge, once I got (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Thanks Travis! The mini-gun was a last minute sorta thing. I actually envisioned this mecha having six back mounted grenades which were made of those axle pieces. After I saw this would be too large, I started making it smaller. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Excellent as usual, Mladen. I especially love the underside-- real bug-like, just like Shirow tends to design. It's funny, though-- I know the Shirow piece you referenced, but I don't actually remember a lot of walking tanks actually _in_ GITS (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) form. The whole police thing is interesting.. something i have been wanting to do is build for a long time is a whole diaorama(spelling?) of a semi-futuristic city (ala ghost in the shell or new dominion tank police) And have mecha action (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Mladen, you have got to stop raising the bar on us. Just as I thought I could hurdle it and catch you with another great design, the hurdle goes up another six inches and trips me! :) Seriously, this is one fantastic design! I, too, was shocked to (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Just saw this on brickshelf. Looks good. I like the look of the legs and the mini gun. Travis Dickinson (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) new, (...) work (...) the (...) You're too kind Geordan. ;-) The leg design is actually a sort of preview, if you like, of what I'm going to be doing during Dec.-Jan. The MDP (Mobile Defence Platform) will have very "interesting" legs. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) and (...) of (...) Thanks Borislav! Nah, Shirow's [1] Fuchikoma is much better. Hehe... I guess it doesn't really look aggressive. The "Police" probably likes irony... ;-) (...) Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) Here's the "non-screwed up" (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! Just when I thought it was going to be a while before you show us something new, wham! Beautiful! The greeblies on the underside of the knee rule, not to mention the awesome side mounted cannons, this is superb, the colours work (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) by itself! I have no idea what is the relationship between Masumane Shirow and the PSU, but the PSU looks muck better. You have made an extremely nice use of the jet ski handles and the little Technic piece posing as a machine cannon. For some (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(URL) greatly by works of [1] Masumane Shirow. Also, I had to use all these red and white parts in a model! ;-D Mladen Pejic, over and out! (2 URLs) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military)
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Heh! I agree with both of you guys! BTW Larry, who made you LUGNET's policeman? You just wish you had as much creativity and talent as Eric. :-P (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I agree with everything said here Eric, (...) Truth be told, I only saw this recently, a few weeks ago, I meant to pass on my congrats through e-mail but forgot completely, sorry. :-( (...) Amen! when I was just getting started with showing off my (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Yo! I figure why not make a "Commission" page in the rare hopes of a sale. At my Shows I sometimes sell framed pictures, and I have gotten paid to bring my Mech-bot to schools and libraries, so I'm quasi-profesh at this point. I always say half my (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Oooops sorry. (...) I have been checking over the fan art section of Gundam.com (there are great examples of purposely changed Gundams in order to convey different "traits") and I found this image by M: (URL) person has to love these helpful (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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