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(URL) used a lot of new construction techniques for this evil, corrupted version of Giant Robo. It's an anti-robo robo, a Monstrobo. It was all about rounded shapes and gigantic concealed weapons - so giant that it looks like they couldn't possibly (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha) !!
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I poureth over thy gallery. My thoughts to follow. For now, OMG! WOWOWOWOOWOWOW *faint e (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hey Brian! I have not seen you post for a while. Incredible Gundam. I think all your other Gundams need to join forces to take on this guy. Can it do any poses? How is its articulation? I would like to hear about the new construction (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Like the shoulders? WOW! (...) Very, very sweet. I particuarily appreciate how the doors close once weapons are deployed on the back pods. The main gun looks seamless once all the way deployed. Too bad that front panel can't get stored inside (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You'll have to excuse my lack of words, I just found out my jaw dropped on the floor somewhere. I... I want one! Terry (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Here are some technique tidbits: The torso is built around the main gun and the structure needed to extend it. This was a very fun part to design. The gun is mounted on a backing which is two bricks thick. Little 1x2 slider tabs extend horizontally (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) dang! it's about time you showed up with another moc (or perhaps, GIANT moc)! not that i was getting tired of looking at your dark gundams, but i wasn't sure if you were still building mecha--it's been so long. i was truly floored by your (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Monstrobo....sounds like a Hungarian Gulag....devourer of souls, and solar systems... Brian I can finally use the adjective Epic in the truest sense of the word. This thing is quite the Trojan Mech, you could fit a small army in there, or any (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Wow!!! This is an awesome mech. The concealed weapons are a nice touch and the detail is great. I was wondering if you have any pics of the jointtech used to build this mech? I would enjoy seeing that if possible. Marcus Clancy (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Get down before the concussion wave hits! (URL) This effect was fairly easy in Photoshop. There are really only two shapes, each in its own layer above the base image -the energy blob coming out of the muzzle and the ring (particles trapped in a (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Yes. I'll post some pictures of the inner workings this weekend. I have a feeling though that if I peel off some of the skin I might find a few minifig skeletons, workers riveted inside the hull... K (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks. Maybe more epic like "Jason and the Argonauts"(?) that had the metal Colossus with the vulnerable hatch in his heel that when opened spewed out hot liquid, bringing down the metal giant. Junk mail stuffed in GR's mailbox also defeats (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) My 2-yr-old son is three feet tall and 38 pounds, and it looks like Monstrobo is about the same size! (How many Krispy Kremes does it eat at a sitting?) What a truly astounding feat, to make something that big look that good. All Keith can say (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wowed LUGNETters: (...) Does Bo know Monstrobo? (Squish) Monstrobo's toe knows Bo. Let's set it to music: Who's bigger than a breadbox? Built of giant plates of steel, With guns in every cranny; Who gets mail in (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. The GR-D is 30 inches tall exactly. I don't know how much it weighs, but just mating the torso to the body during construction made me wish I had a gantry crane. It needs to cut back on the doughnuts. ;-) K (19 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Nice. You wrote the Gigantor theme song too, didn't you. :-) (...) The toy has even freakier proportions than the animated version, with that teeny tiny pin head. I made mine proportioned somewhere between the original Giant Robo from the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Great!! Thanks for posting the pics of the gearing and frame. I am currently working on a geared mech (along with many other projects) and am doing all the studying that I can to make it easier. Marc (19 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Is that an unintentional Macross 7 parade? :D Great job. Do you have any photo with the eyes lighted up? Right now it looks like it got no eyes. (19 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Brain, Sweeeeet mecha! Nice to see you are at it again. That is one of the best I have ever seen. It even rivals the Gundams you have built. I have one question....How tall is that thing? The biggest I have built was maybe 12", and that thing looks (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I tried but my camera couldn't quite manage it, not enough light. The eye, um, aperture, sort of glows red, but you can only see it in the dark. K (19 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. It's 30 inches tall, not quite three feet, but on the minifig scale that's about 110 feet tall, coincidentally the same conjectured height as the Colossus of Rhodes, a virtual minifig tourist attraction, when it isn't on a destructive (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wrote: (...) Only if I traveled through time to do it. ("I have been all of history's great acting robots: Thespomat! Acting Unit 0.9! David Duchovny." --Calculon, "Futurama") (...) Okay, the latest set (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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