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Re: Tribute to Masamune Shirow
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:57:20 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Kyle Vrieze wrote:
   In lugnet.build.mecha, David Rabadan wrote:
   As a fan of Masamune Shirow and Appleseed I always wanted to build a Landmate. It was a bit tricky to keep it close enough to scale. I am mostly pleased with the results but I will keep trying to improve it.

-snip-

Hello Kyle, thanks for responding.

   I’m seeing Shirow cues all over this thing. The feet, the AV sensor “wings” in the back, the head and “ears”, the rifle that looks “Swiss”, like the rifles Deunan and Bri had in book 2...

‘sob’ I have tears rolling down my cheeks. You noticed all the Shirow signs which makes me feel that I accomplised what I set out to do down to the riffle with AP rounds. Thanks. I put that gun together in 2 minutes just for the action pics but I have modified it a little more to match the book version more closely. I will post pics on my Weapons section soon.

   I think your prototype without the slave arms looks like one of the Israeli landmates with the internal slave arms that Yoshi was playing with (in book 4? or was it Databook? I can’t remember.) Aesthetically, I’m not a big fan of the potbelly/skinny-limbed proportions, but there’s really no other alternative if you want to match the scale plus fit an entire fig inside. In addition, it’s true to Shirow’s more practical visions, and probably closest to what an actual landmate would look like (from an engineering perspective, it’s probably not necessary nor desirable to have bulky appendages compared with the torso assembly).

You are right yet I would have loved to come up with a way to do the shoulders more true to the GUGES but the ways I tried did not work well. A minifig helmet looks really good on each shoulder but poseability and range of motion was not good at all.
   Okay, that was kind of a long-winded post. Cool mech, David!

We like long winded. Take care Kyle.



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(...) -snip- I'm seeing Shirow cues all over this thing. The feet, the AV sensor "wings" in the back, the head and "ears", the rifle that looks "Swiss", like the rifles Deunan and Bri had in book 2... I think your prototype without the slave arms (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)

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