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Subject: 
Re: First "real" Mecha, v1.1
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Date: 
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:16:28 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Bryce McGlone writes:

Hips are the hardest joints to make. I'd have to say shoulders are a close
2nd. Here's a link to a mech I think Eric may have been talking about:

http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1953

That's definite the type of construction I meant- two or three, who's counting?

I think that it might work because there are ball joints at both ends of the
throwbot piece, but that can still be done (and fairly easily, really) with the
new ball-with-axle-hole piece, although it begins to require a shocking amount
of those horrible sets.

Jeff wrote:

Rofl.  Everyone loves the gun.  I spent 5 minutes slamming it together out
of my parts bin so the guy would have something to carry.

I mostly like the way you used that big technic piece with the turbine/fan
thing on one end... it's very evocative of gundam-style-mech guns.  I am always
trying to figure out good uses for that piece, too.

eric



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(...) Hips are the hardest joints to make. I'd have to say shoulders are a close 2nd. Here's a link to a mech I think Eric may have been talking about: (URL) more specifically (Using three) (URL) a shoulder (Using two) (URL)All of that said... if (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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