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Re: New MOC: "Prowler" Autonomous Battle Tank
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Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:15:41 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Soren Roberts wrote:
   In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic wrote:

(Snip coolness)

   Heh, I finally made use of the precious few sand green elements I had.

Finally, the long-awaited sand-green Pejic mecha! Boy does it look tasty. Reminds me of something, hmmmm...

“It’s a U.S. Army battle robot, wire-controlled. Once you cut the cable, they’ll fire on anything that doesn’t show a friendly IFF signal.”

Not an exact quote, but you remember, right?


Yep, I forgot to mention the cable connection was inspired by those sentry labours seen at the end of Patlabor II.

  
   I have none of those nifty, wide Technic treads, so my only option for building anything close to a futuristic MBT was to make a multiped mecha with a turret.

That’s fine. I’ll take a steel crab with a 105 anyday, especially this one.

Here’s a link to the PITSCO site, if you want to try tracks: They’re expensive, but I guarantee they’re worth it.

http://www.pldstore.com/pld/catalog.cfm?dest=itempg&itemid=145&secid=77&linkon=subsection&linkid=216


Thanks for the link, but I really don’t like ordering LEGO. If I can’t find it in an official set then that’s my loss I figure. :-)

  
   The turret proved too small for a minifig, so I sort of copped out and made this an “autonomous” tank. Bah, one day I’ll make a turret that can fit those chubby minifigs. ;-)

Yeah, a cupola is about all I can fit on a turret right now, too. Still cool cool cool.

Yeah, the only way I see of solving that is designing the crew compartment from the start, instead of making the exterior of the turret first. I’m think 1x2x3 thin walls placed horizontally would work best.

  
Soren

Thanks for the reply Soren!

Mladen Pejic



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  Re: New MOC: "Prowler" Autonomous Battle Tank
 
In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic wrote: (Snip coolness) (...) Finally, the long-awaited sand-green Pejic mecha! Boy does it look tasty. Reminds me of something, hmmmm... "It's a U.S. Army battle robot, wire-controlled. Once you cut the cable, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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