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(multiple images linked above, keep clicking “Next”)
Builders Notes:
At one point I collected a bunch of shiny, black and rounded parts, because they
had a unique shiny, black and rounded quality. It took quite a while to develop
a mecha skin design that did them justice. It’s a lot easier to make a large
angular mecha than a rounded one. This one is halfway between round and angular
- roundular. It evokes the super robots of the 70’s.
Pseudo Reality:
Super Robot 12 seems to be somewhat of a retro style machine, but this belies
its true sophistication. Its primary weapon, a chest mounted High-Powered
Microwave (HPM) beam (juiced up with superconducting components and a nuclear
power core), gives it far more versatility than conventional weapons.
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Unruly mobs rioting in your cities? Use low power microwaves to disperse them
with painful, but minor, skin burns, or insidious psychotronic
effects.Terrorists lobbing mortar shells and rockets over your borders?Detonate
them harmlessly in the air, then irradiate the launch sites to take out the
belligerents. Cruise missiles, smart bombs? Fry their electronics at long range,
explode them at close range.
But destruction isn’t all you can do. You can also bombard computers with
modulated signals carrying control viruses. Take command of any computer guided
machine, and therefore any enemy robot or weapons system. Turn the enemy’s own
weapons against them, then cook up a batch of microwave popcorn and watch the
battle from the sidelines. You could even pre-empt a war by destroying the
enemy’s economy and means of production - simply a matter of taking down all
their computers with a maximum power microwave pulse, an easy afternoon’s work
for Super Robot 12.
The robot is armored with reinforced composites, formed in large curved plates,
providing ballistic and thermal protection without excessive weight, making the
machine relatively agile.
Since it was deemed too costly to create a cockpit environment that could
protect the pilot against g-loads, Super Robot 12 has no cockpit, just a systems
maintenance bay. The machine could be controlled from within the bay, but under
combat conditions the pilot would be turned into a bubbling puddle of jelly.
There is a floor grating to collect the residue in the event this happens.
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Super Robot 12 is semi-autonomous, responding to the vague voice commands of its
human controller. Much work was put into making the machine able to resolve
ambiguity and generally “do what I mean”, figuring out for itself all the
implementation details.
Acceptable voice commands:
“Help those people!”
“Protect the city!”
“Defeat the enemy!”
“Show them what you’re made of!”
“Don’t give up!”
“Super Robot 12!”
The last is a catch all, and the robot will interpret any situation based on
past experience and do what you probably want it to do. (It’s generally prudent
to specify a verb, however.)
K
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| Heh. "Super Robot 12". We all know it's Getter Blacktron :). Cool skinning options you've shown so far, but I'd like to see you do a (URL) Zaku> on a Teknomeka frame. The generic Wing-esque Gundam thing, while neat, was getting a little old, and the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| OOO...OOOHHHHHHHH MY GOOOOOODNESSSSSSSS!!! ==== SUPER ROBOT 12 is GO! ==== Superb! ==== e P.S. Dear K, Kiiiiiyyyyaaaaa! Hiiiiyaaa yuuuh yuuuh Hyyyyhhuhh Hiiiiyaaaa! SUPER ROBOT 12 Chest Blast! Sing ending pop song. (19 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I remember you once declaring you would never build another mecha out of black parts because it was too hard to photograph... Glad you changed your mind... This mecha does feel a little like a Blacktron Getter Robo...mostly because of the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) -snip- only cause Lugnet makes me Very very well done. One of only a handfull of models that really have blown me away in the last year or so. "Blacktron Geeker" says it best. The worstest part of all is that now I must admit K's superiority, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Fantastic Work! Nice story! Both made me think of getting some instructions (and much more bricks!). Pleased you shared it (URL) Marco> (19 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Once again, your creation succeeds to impress! I like the rounded evolution of the Teknomeka. I feel a little dumb commenting specifically on such a small detail on such a huge mecha, but I liked the little AT-AT viewport printed slope you (...) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Well, I dont have too much to chime in, beyond that I definately liked it, and I definately can imagine the awful theme tune engrish to go with it all too well... Its nice to see a robot with a real comical touch - for example the fact that it (...) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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