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Re: New Mech Hand
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:19:52 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper writes:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Bryce McGlone writes:
> > This is the hand to the new mecha I'm building. It's a cop out way to use the
> > new LOM click hinge pieces, but somebody had to do it.
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=29016
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> I originally made a hand like this for Unit03 with parts from a couple of AT ST
> sets, and another using just SW click hinges for the fingers.
I figured I wasn't the first to do this. Both Dave Johann and Dan Jassim
have told me to make the same type of hand.
> The beefier SW hinge hand seemed more in character with a gundam so I went >with that.
I agree that the beefed up hands fit Unit03's look better.
> The thin fingers looked defleshed, and kind of creepy, like they belonged
> on a tall skeletal mech, a Grim Reapertron.
Yeah the fingers ended up looking much more evil than I imagined :-) And
instead of a tall skeletal mech how about a long skeletal mech...
> Another variation you can do is use
> a hinge piece for the finger tip, but leave the midsection skinny, gives it a
> frog finger suction cup look.
Actually I did the reverse of that leaving the round clickers on the tips.
That hand looked more claw like.
Bryce
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