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Re: Horodris the mech
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:36:14 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mark Neumann wrote:
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Dis here is Horodris. Treat him real nice and he’ll do the same.
mucho gearing in the legs. This is what is holding it up basically.
Link to pic
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I like that gear-ratio reduction assembly to reduce the stress on the worm
gear--tricky! Out of curiosity, what’s the total worm-gear count?
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The hand is good. The fingers I know you seen before, but the thumb rotates
as well as bends, the result is a thumb that can touch all four fingers and
can lay the hand flat. Sweet. I had a really, really hard time capturing
the hand, here’s the shot.
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Unequal length fingers, rotating thumb, the hand flattens out, sweet!
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There is a cockpit and engine. The red thingys on the back of the shoulders
are supposed to be jet packs.
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The black shoulder sections remind me of Mladen’s bipedal mechs.
Two feet tall? Pictures wouldn’t do it justice, it’d be cool to see it in real
life. I miss the trademark guns and missiles, though. And the arms could use
more bulk to balance out the torso, IMHO. Twenty hours actually seems like a
quick build time for a mech this size.
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| (...) Worm gear count is eight. three in each leg, and one in each shoulder. The rest are mostly the new rotational click hinge. (...) I may be taking some more pics here, for my b-day I got a photography screen! No more taping the white sheets of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (URL) Dis here is Horodris. Treat him real nice and he'll do the same. Some points of notes: I made the neck move on all three axis, if the head looks funny, it probably because it is at a strange angle. mucho gearing in the legs. This is what is (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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