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Two assault mechs, one anti-mech aircraft
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Wed, 12 May 2004 02:32:51 GMT
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Inspired by Soren’s admonition, I’ll try to do a more complete job on this post.
I’ve got a couple of new mechs with “chicken leg” chassis based on the technic
click ball joints from the Super Battle Droid set (they’re cheap on Ebay these
days). The ball joints plug into the hips with a couple of the click-boxes like
the ones that mount the tail guns on Jango Fett’s Slave I set.
First, what I call a “high value target” mech, with only eight extra-large
missiles and a pair of gauss rifles, it’s role is to blitz-attack a single
important target, like a dropship, using jump jets, high-powered, limited
ammunition, long range weapons, and then flee. I imagine pilots calling it the
“widowmaker”.
I got the idea for the “sideways can” missle launchers from a comic book called
“Mech Destroyer”, published by Image in 2001.
Next, a version in blue inspired by the Masakari from Mechwarrior 4: Mercs.
It’s main weapons are the four PPCs in the arms, complemented by a pair of small
missle banks. The Mechwarrior PC games are a big inspiration for me. I
classify my mechs into light/medium/heavy/assault based on their scale heights
relative to the mech stats from the game (although Frank Kopanitsanos’ Masakari
is waaaaay bigger than my assault mechs).
Both mechs will fit inside my large dropship, but not at the same time.
Lastly, not a mech but an anti-mech aircraft. If mechs are the tanks of the
31st century, then this thing is the Apache helicopter:
This was inspired by Masamune’s description, at the end of the “Dominion” trade
paperback, of the violence done to tanks by anti-tank missiles and the A-10
Warthog’s cannon. Like many on this board, I love Shirow’s work, although I
don’t know that I’ve ever built anything that really looks like he would have
designed it. Next on my build list is a larger anti-mech aircraft with a cannon
that looks more “A-10 Warthog” in scale.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) GLEEE!!!! This looks Great!! It appeears to be a cross between the direwolf/warhawk legs and a warhammer torso, with catapultmissle racks!! I love it! The Gauss rifles are very simple, but looks VERY nice. This is probably my favorite model of (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | Re: Two assault mechs, one anti-mech aircraft
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| (...) Cool. I like the missile racks, they fit the concept very well. Could we get a scan of the image you were inspired by? (...) Cute (I know, not the word you want applied to a 20-ton clanking death machine). I'm not a big fan of "mechs" as such, (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | Re: Two assault mechs, one anti-mech aircraft
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Kyle Vrieze wrote: (snip) (URL) First of all, I'm really liking those legs. You get some good angles out of those technic click joints. The can launchers are swifty. The single eye thing works so well for this thing, too. Come (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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