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Re: New mecha: DoomBringer
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:49:34 GMT
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Frank, your stuff just keeps getting better! I know nothing about the Front
Mission game, but I have a couple of Front Mission II figurines. I found
them at a comic book store on a clearance table, and I have them standing in
my building area for inspiration--they lend themselves well to rendering in
Lego.
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Cool. If you do have a PS2 and enjoy a good old fashioned turn based mech combat
game with excellent movies, by all means pick up FM4.
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I likewise spotted Sugegasa’s stuff on Brickshelf, but I like your bulkier
rendering of the design better, and a very trick hip joint! I still haven’t
figured out the ankle.
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The ankle is my favorite part. So easy to build, yet so well concealed to give
it the good “tough” look. Just take a close look at some of the closeups of his
mechs legs and you should be able to find it out
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Other stuff I liked:
-very space-efficient cockpit solution
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The cockpit was actually mostly an afterthought. I had the legs done first, and
began the body from the bottom up. I had the lower torso and arms done, when i
finally realized i was going to have to fit a minifig inside. After some slight
modification i managed to make space, barely.
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-the shaping you did on the chest/head area • Kind of a side effect of trying to fit a minifig in the torso as well.
-the big baton--reminded me of when the Simpsons had a family therapy session
with those foam-rubber bats
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“Hey, these things work better if you take the padding off!”
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Suggestions:
-I think it might help the proportions if you could add some height by
extending the calves.
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I actually had the mech in a sort of battle stance. It was basically halfway
crouched, with the legs fully extended, it is much taller, but loses the cool
leg shape, i will definately try out your suggestion however.
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-I know the Front Mission mechs have hands, but I think a version of this
mech with much shorter upper arms and cannons in place of the lower arms
would look sweet, especially since you have the head/chest area working so
well.
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Actually, the front mission mechs are all customiseable, ALA Armored core, and
you can have weapon arms. I was planning on making different body parts for this
mech so it could be part of a second line of modular mechs (hopefully) and will
most likely add some machine gun and cannon arms to the mix!
Thanks for responding!
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