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Re: Horodris the mech
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:36:14 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mark Neumann wrote:
  

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

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?

   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.
Link to hand pic

Unequal length fingers, rotating thumb, the hand flattens out, sweet!

  
There is a cockpit and engine. The red thingys on the back of the shoulders are supposed to be jet packs.

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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