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NOX - Heavy Assault Mech
My first multiped mech, built for the MechaHub.com Exo-Force contest from
last year. This model features hidden cannons that retract into the body.
Some of you may have seen a pic on Flickr before. This was built last
September, but I didn’t get around to taking a full set of pictures until
today.
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Whoops. I should have posted this MOC announcement in lugnet.announce.moc and
not lugnet.build. Putting this in its proper place, and sorry for the extra
post. :)
Adding some extra content to make this post worthwhile:
I had been wanting to attempt a multi-legged mech and wanted to try building
something different than the other multipeds I had seen. Luckily the
MechaHub.com Exo-Force contest had come up, where builders were tasked with
building mechs for either the Human or Robot factions.
I always like bad guys’ vehicles, so I decided to build something for the evil
Robots. The Exo-Force Robots sets I had were alien-looking with black and green
colors, and playing around with the initial legs frame got me thinking about
bugs. This all gave me the idea to build a venemous-looking, black+green black
widow mech, which I thought would fit reasonably into the Robot theme. Once the
frame was setup, I started out with the inset (thanks to jumper tiles) hourglass
shape and went on from there.
One of the more difficult things to figure out was about the weaponry. Since
this mech was turning out to have the characteristics of a large, armored tank,
I wanted to include big guns, but I wasn’t sure where to place them without
detracting from the overall spider shape of the model. The solution I ended up
with was to have them concealable inside the body, although I was really hoping
for something larger and more exaggerated.
Oh, and I initially planned on doing eight legs for a proper spider, but I ran
out of parts. Plus the legs were so chunky that I had no room for an extra
pair. :)
Dennis
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