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    Re: Big Blue Gundam —Mladen Pejic
   WOW! ... WOW! ... WOW! ... Mmm... big shoulders... Yummy head... You rule Bryce! That thing is amazing!!! Excellent job on those, damn huge shoulders and legs!!! Wow, and the head, jeez, your use of those Aquazone Harpoon Guns is just awesome! And (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Big Blue Gundam —Mark Sandlin
      (...) <snip> (...) Yeah, the harpoon guns are nice, I hadn't thought of using those. I like the way you used two Throwbots joints at the hip. It seems to work pretty well... is it relatively stable? Stands up ok? How tall is it? Those sure are some (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Big Blue Gundam —Bryce McGlone
      (...) Thanks. (...) It's actually 3 at the hip and 2 at the shoulder. (...) Yes. I wouldn't make one that wasn't. (...) Of course. And with plenty of turn out. The knees have only two "locked" positions though because of the weight. (...) 22"-24"? (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Big Blue Gundam —Mladen Pejic
     Hey Mark, Your "Colossus" is 23 inchs tall, wow, now I'm even more impressed. Anyways I can't really judge height in the Imperial system well, I grew up using the Metric system. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Big Blue Gundam —Mark Sandlin
     Yeah, so has most of the world... metric is so much easier to figure out. You're not sitting there having to divide Feet by 12, or divide Inches by 8, etc. But imagine the stink it would make if they tried to implement metric in the US. ^_^ ~M (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Big Blue Gundam —Matthew Miller
     (...) They tried in the 70s/early 80s -- it was indeed a big stink. Most of the problem was that they were obsessed with teaching conversion factors imperial <-> metric -- much harder to remember than even the weird imperial system measurements. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Big Blue Gundam —Bryce McGlone
   (...) Thank you. I am blushing. BTW I think both Mark's and my mech are already about 2 feet. Check the picture with the minifig for comparison. And lastly I will always go to your site. Bryce McGlone (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
 

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