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Re: Gladius - My First Mech
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:59:22 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Marco Tagliaferri wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Tim Ayres wrote:
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Greetings! This post marks several firsts for me, my first LUGNET post, my
first Brickshlef folder, and my first mech! Anyway, here is Gladius, a
heavy assault mech:
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Pardon me for beeing so late! Welcome to .mecha. It’s only a few days I
posted my first mech here, getting a fantastic and warm welcome. So I feel a
bit strange writing this right now.
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Thanks for posting. I’ve gotten a very warm welcome as well!
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Tim please tell me you were building for several years and just never tried
to build a mech. If it wasn’t that way, I beg you, tell me how you got that
skill.
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I’ve been building for about 9 months now. My collection is just now getting to
the point where I can try bigger things. I have learned a great deal just from
looking at all the great mechs posted here and reading the tips from the
masters. Of course, I also learned a great deal from building this guy!
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Gladius is an eyecatcher.
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Gladius sports the following features:
- Stands approximately 14” tall.
- Large air intakes (those heavy mechs get hot)!
- Antenna array for communications and targeting.
- 2 adjustable missile pods with 25 missiles apiece (reach out and touch someone!).
- Pulse laser cannon mounted on right arm (be the light of your enemies life!).
- 4 barrel Gatling gun w/ ammo drum mounted on left arm (for when you absolutely have to kill every motherf****r in the room!). I especially like this gun, it incorporates a knob on the back and gearing inside so the barrels will turn when the knob is spun.
I am fairly new to this hobby, this is my largest and most detailed project
to date. It was a great learning experience for me. I constantly found
myself running out of required pieces, but hey, that just helps spur
creativity right? I also was able to try out lots of different techniques,
this MOC is simply covered in SNOT (ewwww;). For example, the torso is
almost completely SOB (partly out of necessity, partly just to try it).
I’ve been lurking on this group for several months now. I’d like to thank
everyone who posts here for inspiration, I’ve probably taken a little bit
from all of you. I’d like to especially credit Mark Neumann, as the
resident master of chicken leg mechs he probably provided the most
inspiration to me (Hammer in particular). Other inspiration came from
Battletech mechs, especially
Mad Cat.
Anyway, hope you like it. Comments and criticism welcome!
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Most points I’d like to comment are allready commented by others.
So I’ve only two things I wan’t to say:
- The middle part of the hips looks tiny to me. A bit more mass in there would look better I think.
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Looking at it again I think you may be right.
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- The back side seems too flat. There I miss detail or a few points which are some kind of spotlight.
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Yes, I definetily agree with you here.
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Don’t get me wrong! I DO like it. Could be you find a variation of your leg
construction on one of my next mechs. The overall shape of the legs is my
fav.
Gladius is a no. 1, not only as it’s your first mech!
Marco
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Thanks for replying!
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