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Re: My latest venture into trains: 4-6-4 Locomotive
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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:51:58 GMT
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It is impressive. At first I thought, “that’s a good train, for a non-train builder”. Then I saw the robot mode and said “ooo!”.

My eyes focused on the joints that glued it together because that’s the hard part of transformation. You generally need to trade off articulation and strength for making things all fit together in a concealable way. In the anime fantasy world, transformations don’t even need to be practical, from an engineering standpoint, so they take liberties. I can see in your hip and leg joints how the motion is restricted, but that doesn’t really matter as long as it can stand up. The arms have plenty of movement. Excellent engineering.

And the green color makes it sort of a sleeper. You don’t expect it to become a monster mecha. I think though in your pictures you need a swarm of engineers and cranes to effect the transformation. I don’t buy the “parts flying around and assembling themselves” gimmick. ;-)

Now I want to make something that transforms! The last one I made was a Danguard Ace, years ago.

K



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I'm rather proud of this creation. I worked very hard to make the locomotive look as cool as possible. Many thanks to Shaun Sullivan, whose designs were my inspiration. (2 URLs) Enjoy!> Adrian (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX) !! 

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