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Re: New MOC: "Bushwhacker" Tank Mecha
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:44:19 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Kyle Vrieze wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic wrote:
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After seeing Kyle Vrieze’s Spider Tank I was floored. Naturally, I was amazed at the new bar Kyle had
raised, and I promptly e-mailed him (due LUGNET posting technical
difficulties). His MOC inspired this. Thanks Kyle! :-)
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It’s great that you were inspired by my Spider Tank, and it’s also pretty
cool that within the space of about a day, you’re posting a MOC inspired by
my last post, and I’m posting a MOC inspired by your last post.
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Yeah, maybe now’s a good time to tell everyone we’re really the same person.
Cue Fight Club ending...
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I’ll list my other influences:
- T-90 turret --> I liked the radial, fanning out arrangement of the armoured panels
- RADHA from Patlabor 2 anime --> I wanted to make a wheeled quadruped that actually rolled
- deployed German 88mm Flak 36 --> This leads into the next one below...
- Jeremy Sproat’s Suborbital Defender --> I liked the idea of a offensive and defensive mode
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Yeah, the Suborbital Defender rules!
I love it! It’s cool how it looks more military and less anime than mine,
it’s really your style. That radial arrangment of armor plating using the
hinge plates and wedge plates is very creative, and works perfectly for a
turret. The same configuration would also work well for a rounded-off rear
section of a turret. I’d never seen a T-90 before, and it’s cool to see the
real-life inspiration.
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Thanks Kyle! Yep, the armour plating could indeed be made to fan 360 degrees.
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The way the lower legs taper in the middle, then flare out with the wheel
housings, gives the bushwacker a little bit of a water-strider shape, which
is cool.
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Yeah, the difficulty with making these wheeled mecha is to conceal the wheels so
that they don’t look goofy. I guess the “flare” also provide some degree of
protection for them.
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Other highlights--the hatch, the A-wing pilot minifig (one of my faves), the
tight color scheme (as always), full wheeled mobility, and the innovative
parts use on the 14.5mm gun.
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Thanks again!
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And if I’d seen your missile packs a few days before I finished my latest
MOC, they’d already be stolen. Awesome work!
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Well, in truth those were also inspired by some of your missile boxes. I just
wanted something as cool as your Technic-halfpeg-missile-tube idea. :-)
Mladen Pejic
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) It's great that you were inspired by my Spider Tank, and it's also pretty cool that within the space of about a day, you're posting a MOC inspired by my last post, and I'm posting a MOC inspired by your last post. (...) Yeah, the Suborbital (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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