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| Ever since I started reading lugnet and brickshelf I have looked at the mecha that the Japanese builders produce with what can only be described as awe and reverence. It has been my goal to build like those guys, but after a year and a half I (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: White Patrol Mech.
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Allister McLaren wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- I have been building Mecha Designs for 18 years now. That sir, is beautiful. Not only are there inovations in this design. You really made the smallness and the functions (joint (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) (snip) Well I think it's COOL. Very elegant design, with an understated, effortless application of really interesting bricks (esp. the complex slopes). The mini-fig pod is masterfully done. I'd definitely pay ten bucks for this if I saw it at (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) snip (...) Very cool! And a brand-new mini-hip design too! When I first looked at it, I thought, "why didn't he taper the waist down more", but then I saw you had a minifig pilot in that torso! Some parts are a little too thin for my taste, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: White Patrol Mech.
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| (...) Zoinks! (...) One of the few things that didn't change much as the design progressed. (...) Yeah, I know it's similar to what's gone before, but it fit, and I've never built one myself. (...) I wanted to use those dome pieces somewhere. I was (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Dave. I haven't done a piece count, but I suspect it'd probably be a bit high to hit that price point. Cheers, Allister (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: White Patrol Mech.
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| (...) Yeah the upper arms and upper legs are thin, but that's deliberate. I've got a theory about mecha proportions: It doesn't matter how much you exaggerate the scale of the various parts, but as long as the arms are in proportion to the legs, and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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