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Re: BrickMechs: The Ripper and the Jolly Reaper
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:52:03 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Kyle Vrieze wrote:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Peter F. Guenther wrote:
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> At first I didn't have a lot of excitement for this series from a MOC
> standpoint (although the game could be quite cool) because I felt the lack of
> both hip splay and pivot would limit the pose too much to make it very
> interesting,
When I build these 'Mechs (thus far at least), I build them for gaming at cons
and such where I want anyone to be able to use them. It's still possible to
build Mechs with rotating hips... the geometry of mounting them to the 8x8 plate
gets a little tricky but it is possible; I did it with non-modular mechs at a
slightly smaller scale, and I'm sure it's possible (especially for someone more
fluent in Mech) with the modular setup too.
I don't know how sturdy they'd be, but if someone were building a Mech for his
own play, for instance, that wouldn't be much of a concern.
Also note that while these two have big feet (basically maxed-out) with a Mech
with smaller feet you can put them in two positions and add interest to a pose.
A lot of my photos don't show this because I figured it out after shooting the
initial batch, but here are a couple examples:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=925563 (My Blacktron 1 mech,
kinda. Note on the color scheme: I always do shoulders and arms in neutral
colors [grays and black; white balance is off in the photo so gray looks white]
to maximize the possibilities of interchanging things at Cons)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=925578 (a Mech a kid put
together from my components at a Con... maybe I should do legs in neutral colors
too!)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=925576 (another Mech put
together from preassembled components, I think by an adult, at a Con)
But thanks for the feedback... I think I'll have another one to show off in a
day or two.
Peter
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Peter F. Guenther wrote: snip At first I didn't have a lot of excitement for this series from a MOC standpoint (although the game could be quite cool) because I felt the lack of both hip splay and pivot would limit the pose (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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