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| Hey all, Well, I finally did it - I figured out that *I* was the problem at my Brickshelf account (or at least my choice in filenames was...), and now I have my three favorite creations from my "Broken Earth" universe. See them here: (URL) Shown are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Looks like someone has been studing some multi-legged mecha pictures: (URL) mecha Jeremiah, I'm growing more and more jealous of you! ;-) Your SpiderTank thingy is amazing, and I know I'm building a Toad Suit tonight! ;-) BTW I'm kinda sad to see (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) First off, thanks! Wow, to think the great Mladen is jelous of *me*... :) Secondly, yes, I build my models (or at least structural mock-ups) IRL and then LDraw them. The ZOOT Suit was inspired by Jsproat's armor years ago and has been keeping (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Well thanks Jeremiah, but your 4 legged SpiderTank is way cooler than all my multi-legged mecha! ;-) And who cares about the Tyco piece; if I have it, I would use it! ;-) And I really, really like the colour sceme of the ZOOT Suit; it's cool! BTW I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) with it at first, but it just keeps looking cooler and cooler. I'll definitely have to re-think how I do toes now. :-, What's really cool is that the Toad is, like, only 2 or 3 pieces away from being a WH40K Space Marines Dreadnaught -- but (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) Thanks! Yeah, the Toad started out as part of a feeble attempt at making some 40k stuff. Nothing really cool turned out, but I reworked the quasi-dreadnought and got this. I'm pretty happy with it now. -Jeremiah- (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) It does indeed capture a lot of the aspects of the Dreadnaught. Are the arms built on technic pin joints? That would make swapping them out really, really easy. Hmmm. More BrikWars fodder... it's getting to a point where I could field a Space (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) Yes, the arms are built on pins, so the weapons are really modular. I've built these in a bunch of different mission configs with different weapons. Maybe later I'll put some of them up on Brickshelf. I'd love to see some of these guys in a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) That would be excellent! (...) Yessir, that's what I was thinking. (...) Uh... well, really personal armour (like Terminators) is something I've wanted for minifigs ever since I was a kid watching Robotech's "Invid Invasion" series (with (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) Well, I don't know about that. :) And remember that the original design is David White's. In fact, I just recieved this E-mail from him: "AWESOME. I love it, I really do. I had a game company buy the rights to the spider tank design. They're (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| "Minifigs just can't have armor built around them in Lego Bricks, is what I've found." Oh yeah, check this out: (URL) don't know if this what you mean by armour, but it's close enough! (...) built (...) series (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| I don't know about building the Coleopteran just the way it looks, but perhaps you could just capture its feel (or philosophically: essence)! "Oh now! Mladen's using big words again, run, flee to the nearest Mecha Hanger... And prepare for the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) It's funny, I was just looking at pics of that shortly before I posted what I did... I've done exoskeletons like this before, too. For example: (URL) of the type I'm talking about being hard to model in minifig scale can be seen at: (URL) down (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Yeah, that kind of armour (Terminator Squad) is pretty hard to model around a mini-fig. (...) I've (...) be (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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