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Subject: 
Re: Finally!!!
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lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space
Date: 
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:13:39 GMT
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Yeah I already did that: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~milovan/HardSuit.htm

And so have many, many, *many* people here on LUGNET. But it is still not
*true* armour.

Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~milovan/index.htm

In lugnet.build.mecha, Mark de Kock writes:
> How about modeling the armour and placing a minifig head on it? That way, you
> won't have to build around the minifig.
> That's the way I build all my big, evil positronic invaders from Alpha
> Centauri...
> Added bonus: shooting them to bits N' pieces does not involve mutilating a
> minifig body...
> 
> Mark "still wondering 'bout them Paperclips" de Kock
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Mladen Pejic <milovan@netcom.ca> on 08/18/2000 04:23 PM
> 
> To:   lugnet.build.mecha@lugnet.com@SMTP@TCEXCH,
>      lugnet.space@lugnet.com@SMTP@TCEXCH
> cc:
> 
> Subject:  Re: Finally!!!
> 
> Yeah, that kind of armour (Terminator Squad) is pretty hard to model around a
> mini-fig.
> 
> Mladen Pejic, over and out!
> http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~milovan/index.htm
> 
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Joslin writes:
> > In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic writes:
> > > "Minifigs just can't have armor built around them in Lego Bricks, is what • I've
> > > found."
> > > 
> > > Oh yeah, check this out: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~milovan/XRQHS.htm
> > > 
> > > I don't know if this what you mean by armour, but it's close enough!
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > http://www.people.thirteen.net/~eric/lego/exo.html
> > 
> > Armor of the type I'm talking about being hard to model in minifig scale can • be
> > seen at:
> > 
> > http://www.games-workshop.com/warhammer40k/40kforces/Space_Marines.html
> > 
> > Scroll down until you see the bit about "Terminator Squads".  Pretty much
> > impossible, given the constraints of the minifig and Lego bricks.
> > 
> > eric



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How about modeling the armour and placing a minifig head on it? That way, you won't have to build around the minifig. That's the way I build all my big, evil positronic invaders from Alpha Centauri... Added bonus: shooting them to bits N' pieces (...) (26 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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