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Re: Spider Tank
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Wed, 4 May 2005 03:57:23 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
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Doooood! Duuuuude, dewwwwwwwwwd. Oh dang sorry for the late reply. Hang on,
here it comes:
I REALLY LIKE THIS QUAD!
Come on! The feet, the canopy, the stocky leg joints, the color, the shooty
things, the rear mounted optional missle racks!
DANG.
I checked out every picture. I noticed it late on Brickshelf before you
posted. ....and I love it!
Yay!
MORE!
Take this design and beef it up, make it twice, nay three times the size, make
it carry Bots and you’ll have a Terrain Crawler Bot Dropper!
Ok, so I made that new term up, but so what, I know you can do it!
BTW, some questions.
How do you like the click joints?
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I like ‘em! They’ve got a lot of strength for the size, and the technic holes
in the side make snot-ting easier. I just wish they had three axes of rotation,
I wouldn’t have thought that would be hard to accomplish.
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How much more weight do you think you can add or engineer them in to, before
you enter a new joint class?
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They could maybe handle twice the weight, but it’s really nice for once to have
a mech with joints that are stronger than they need to be--it doesn’t fall over!
Yeah, I have an idea for a pose but I have to build something else first.
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What are your thoughts on larger Mechs like this?
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You mean like Chili, or one of Mladen’s MWPs? Well, they’re obviously awesome.
The approach I like to take to mech building is to shrink the limbs down tight
to the joint, using as little “limb” as possible. The mech becomes as compact
as I can get it, given the joints I’m using, so that dictates the size of the
mech. I like to think it’s the Japanese design philosophy of
miniaturization--think Honda or Sony. So if I built a larger spider mech, it
would probably have to use worm gears.
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Will this Mech be featured on the front of a Ceral box?
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I wish!
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Is it clicky? (the sounds of the joints when they move)
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Yes, noise-suppressing stealth technology muffles machinery sounds down to the
level of nearly inaudible clicks!
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How cool would it be if you had an underbody mount so you could attach it to
walls like hanging a painting. ???
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I hadn’t thought of that until you mentioned it, but that would be sweeeeet.
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Can I go for a ride in it?
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You must be less than six studs tall to drive Spider Tank.
Yep, this particular mech’s pilot is partial to the Van Halen channel.
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Did you already have a majority of the parts on hand or did you have to buy
more stuff?
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Had it all on hand. So far I haven’t tried out Bricklink or bought specific
sets to finish a MOC.
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btw, how long did it take to build?
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Arrrgh! Months! I build so slow. I’m totally jealous of your 18-hour
productive building sessions--I don’t have 18 hours in a row, and even if I did,
there’s no way I’d be productive the whole time.
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Thanks, Certain engineers want to know.
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Thanks for the comments and questions, Eric. I’ve felt the need to do a
quadraped for a long time now just to understand the different armature
characteristics.
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