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(...) I thought so too...IMO, "mecha" doesn't sound singular. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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I was sick today, so I got to stay home from school! I was fooling around with Photoshop and here's a little battle scene I made feauturing SWAT bettling a mech. You can see it by clicking here: (URL) those micro-fig scale mecha you made are (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Great Ogre Stuff!!! Has SJ seen these yet? You really, really need to have them on the Ogre webpage for alternate models for Ogre Minis. Now for the other units, Heavy Tanks, Missile Tanks, Howitzers etc. Astonishing work in such small scale. (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Oh man, those are sweet. Can I have even half of the talent in your left pinky, please? James (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) No -- noooo! -- then we'll all go into withdrawal! :) (...) You have the holy gift, IWIT! --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Okay, last time this week, I swear! Presenting the Kreigmacht: (URL) theme represents the last major Lego skeleton in my closet right now, minifig or otherwise. ;-) Some of the models may look familiar; I took inspiration from many sources for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) NO, no no no no... I can quit any time I want... ~M (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Cool, thanks, Karim! I've been checking your Web page every day now; can you tell I can't wait? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! I LOVE the ninja fight scene! And the ninja on on horseback! That's awesome! DaveE (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) LOL Here, you better give me your Lego for safe keeping for a while... :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You should see this: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) is (...) That's how I've always used it. One mech, several mecha. FASA is welcome to come and try to sue me. "MECH MECH MECH!" Anyone with as poor a record of respecting IP as FASA has little ground to stand on. Besides, IMHO, FASA (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Oh. I thought "mecha" was just a sort-of plural form of that other word. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) It's generally a good idea to refrain from using the term "mech" in public postings... "Mech" is a trademark owned by FASA (the makers of the rediculously bad Battletech series of miniature wargames) derived from the word "BattleMech". They (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: Jeremy, Really nice work! very cool... my latest work has been micro-scale capital ships, but these make me want to start another line of mecha :) --Karim (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Yep, U of U. They're an anime club. My friends and I would sometimes go there, but they had a tendency to watch anime that I wasn't particularly interested in (me being the main anime fan in my group). Just was curious with all your interest (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Dude, you are SO cool. I'm not worthy. <bowing> The cool thing is, these don't necessarily have to be microfig scale... they could also be minifig scale combat droids! Some creative use of minifig parts, and they could be power suits, or cyborg (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Those are great! It must have been hard to give them that much detail in such a small size. I especially like the Melee Mech, and how you represent people at that scale is also kinda cool. Greg Majewski (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Hey all, Actually, they've been posted here before, but not everyone speaks LDraw. :-, So they're on my Web page now, indexed from my Microfig-scale page. Microfig-scale Goobermech: (URL) Worker Mech: (URL) Melee Mech: (URL) LMKWYT! Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Short Range Missle. As opposed to Long Range Missile. The number does indeed designate how many. It's from Battletech. Well, unless they took it from someplace else. Mmmm... the Vulture outfitted with 6 SRM-6 Streaks was always my favorite at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Any of the BattleTech manuals (you have to go to a game store). Short Range Missle (amount). LRM is Long Range Missle. Bruce (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Say, is there a good guide around anywhere to mech terminology, especially weapon types? One of the notations I've seen a lot of, for instance, is "SRM##", where the ##'s seem to be the count of rockets (i.e., SRM8 or SRM20). At this point, I can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hmmm, nope. Never heard of it. That's U of U, right? I'll be taking night classes there soon (starting on my Bachelor's in E.E.) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You should check out some of the other Gundam mecha. It's true that many of them are heavily ornamental, but if you scour through some of the 20-odd different series, you can find more "military" looking mecha. Some of my favorites: Zeta (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) There weren't any. There were a lot of spaceships, but no "giant robots" or other mecha. (...) Battletech "borrowed" a number of mecha from a number of sources, not just Macross (I don't remember seeing any Southern Cross/Mospaeda mecha in (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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<ramble> The first anime based show I remember watching was Star Blazers/Battleship Yamato (Though I don't remember mecha, per se.) Later I discovered Robotech and devoured every episode. Then I found Battletech, which at the time I thought was just (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Mecha wise my first big attraction was Robotech, but I had seen (and liked Starblazers years before). I also watched much Battle of the Planets and Voltron (liked the lion series better). (...) Well my understanding from the past is: Robotech (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) When I was a kid I'd build spaceships that would connect like Battle of the Planets/G-Force/I forget the other name of it. I saw an old episode of it on Cartoon Network last week where one of the member's sub/boat landed on shore and out (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Robotech, man! :-, Then Go-Bots and Transformers (blech now), and Battletech later, though since early Battletech stole mucho from Robotech (which in turn stole mucho from Macross and Mospeda) I feel I can't really count that. I also got a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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I was just wondering what anime/manga everyone here is most inspired by when making their own creations. Personally, Gundam first started me in the idea of making Lego Mecha, but Evengelion is also shifting my interests into making more sleek/agile (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Great work Jeff! Excellent model. And the whole idea of this mad Zjerman professor is just brilliantly insane! Hilarious! By the way, are you into Warhammer 40K perhaps? Your robot reminds me a lot of the Ork Dreadnaughts (or any other Orky built (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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In lugnet.space, Ken Takeuchi writes: [...] (...) Ken -- I just bought software called "Bricks" from Knowledge Adventure. (It used to be called "Gryphon Bricks"). It's not as good as lDraw, but it runs on a Mac. You can download the demo from: (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Boy, a scanner like that would sure be something! That would save *everyone* a ton of time. 8) As for your Mac. At this point there really isn't any software for that platform. Hmm...seems like a large part of the LUGNET audience is being neglected. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) To record my models as a CAD data takes time... Especially when the model is as large as the spaceship model. If I had a time to digitize the previous models, I rather like to use it to create more new models. I wish for a super x-ray scanner (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Ken, Do you have a way to run LDraw or MLCad? I'm sure there would be a great demand and joyous response to any creations you put into the computer... Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the plastic. "Ken Takeuchi" (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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It was 'Robot Carnival'. And I have to agree with the resemblance! 8) Great job, Jeff! Ben Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the plastic. "Colin R Gutierrez" <crg0194@ultra.ccp.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Or Pallas as in Pallas Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom and combat? (Which is I think the source for the other two Pallases anyway.) J (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Cool. That mech reminds me of an anime compilation called 'Robot Circus' or 'Robot Carnival,' can't remember which. Anyway, in one bit, there's a war in a old-days Japanese city between two giant wooden mechs. One is steam powered, and the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I can't tell from the pictures, is there a whole minifigure in that suit, or is it just a head on top? (...) influence, if any for the design? (Anybody know where/if I can still buy Armored Core II Project Phantasma?) (...) I got some of these (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Way cool, Jeff! I like your ideas, and there's no better accent for a mad inventor than german ;-) I was LOL throughout the interview! Dear Cornelius: Bai mir, bistu shein, bai mir, ostokhain.... (Just some german/yiddish fun! I performed this song (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) jeff ~ castle-mecha!! awesome build!! i especialy enjoyed the interview with the good doctor! what a character! i love the use of technology as another form of majick ~ so true! cornelius's hot temper, thick accent and clever mix-n-match (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Geez ... I love it! That reminds me of : 1) The iron giant ... 2) Something that the Smurfs would make that would go out of control. Ha ha ... that is so pure and fascinating! A mad inventor ... This opens up the window for so many awesome projects (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(Yeah, I know what you're thinking...what the heck is Jeff thinking, crossposting to .castle and .build.mecha? It's not my fault! *He* made me do it! He threatened me with a wrench! OK, the wrench was ABS plastic and about an inch long, but (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Hey! I love this new Discussion Group added! Today I updated my website with one new Mech, and I updated some pictures of The Mach 7 Redbird and the Battle Armor. You can also see a neat preview of a new Spectre picture by clicking here: (URL) also (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks Ben! It has been a long time. I'm currently in progress of a total rebuild of Pallas Spaceworks (as well as all of my other pages and sites) so It will be a few more weeks before I can unveil anything, but you can look forward to a new (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) It may be great if we could share the models in 3D data virtual world. They are the mini-mini sized version of #0020 Defensive fighter ready to take off at the catapult lane. The ship was scaled after the size of this fighter. Ken Takeuchi (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Karim, After what seems to be a long time, it's great to hear that you have new creations we might see soon. I'm looking forward to it! Ben ===...=== Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the plastic. ===...=== "Karim" (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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That's what they looked like to me. Wow! Ben ===...=== Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the plastic. ===...=== "Jeff Stembel" <aulddragon@wamalug.org> wrote in message news:FpHMKH.A7q@lugnet.com... (...) done. (...) festa (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hi Paul, Unfortunately I can't take credit for that idea... I borrowed the technique from Jeremy Sproat. It is compiled of screenshots taken in LEdit. I then took them into Photoshop and compsited them into one image and tuned the color to get (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Robotech/Macross was my first experience with Anime, and I've been a big fan ever since. :) I've always wanted to create a Lego Valkyrie, but I don't know where to start. :( (...) I wish Lego would come out with some real mecha. I'd love to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.mecha)
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How did you generate the blueprint on the fu.html page? Was it LDLite's wireframe mode? or LEDIT? It's a cool idea. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hi Lance, Generally, I've found that my ideal building style varies by the scale of the model. I've explored mecha articulation with several differnt mechanisms, and I've decided that articulation styles can be catagorized into 3 general (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Let's start this one off. Which are the best sets to get for the Technic pieces most folks use to make their models with? More to the point, the articulation bits. Thanks! (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Welcome to lugnet.build.mecha, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.build.mecha (group): Mecha (mechanical warriors): creations, ideas, gaming scenarios, mech-related anime & manga, etc. lugnet.build (group and hierarchy): Good (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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