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Re: New MOC: "Crab" Tank Mecha
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:24:14 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
   Niiiice. I see the influence of your last multilegged mech, in the square body plan, but I absolutely LOVE that red chin sensor turret! The shape is so organic but so, well, square that the net effect is very pleasing on the eye.

Heh, this is why I love reading your replies LFB, you get the reasoning behind the design!

Yes, the “head” was originally a dull block, until I started fiddling around trying to make it “sexier”. :-)

Too bad LEGO doesn’t make pieces that are more suited to making things like this CITV sight for the M1A2 Abrams tank:




   I also like the “bar” across the back--which brings to mind the big rangefinders on seagoing warships’ HG turrets (even though here they serve as HK-style mounts for the autocannon).

Yep, I definitely know what you’re talking about. I have a fondness for big ships as well, so subconsciously I must have been influenced.

In fact, I figure that the “bar” is where the bulk of the electronic equipment (radar, comm, jammers, etc.) is housed. So it indeed has a role in aiming the guns.

  
It’s all good. Very, very excellent.

Thank you Lindsay.

  
all best

LFB

Mladen Pejic



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  Re: New MOC: "Crab" Tank Mecha
 
(...) I smell a challenge. Soren (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
  Re: New MOC: "Crab" Tank Mecha
 
(...) It worked. How free is the movement on those autocannon-- do they tend to flop around, or are they pretty stable in train? (...) I don't know, you might be able to do something with the Technic Driving Ring Extension...in dark grey on the (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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  Re: New MOC: "Crab" Tank Mecha
 
(...) Niiiice. I see the influence of your last multilegged mech, in the square body plan, but I absolutely LOVE that red chin sensor turret! The shape is so organic but so, well, square that the net effect is very pleasing on the eye. I also like (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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