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Re: hello
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:01:40 GMT
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Very nice! The Cepheus is very original and very cool! Like Bryce said, more
mecha in this endoskelaton style would be awesome! Maybe even one with a
endoskelaton and then a layer of plates on the out side like a 'skin'.
Build on!
--Kyle
http://hvl.cjb.net
In lugnet.build.mecha, Christopher Snead writes:
> Hello! This is my first post on LUGNET, although I,ve been a member for close
> to a year now. I guess I just wanted to say that I really appreciate everyone
> being here, especially in build.mecha. Thanks for building awesome models,
> and sharing them with the world. The creativity demonstrated in building
> mecha been a real inspirtion to me. And those Dark Gundams, those are >freakin' amazing...
>
> I've begun to upload some images on Brickshelf. If you get a chance, please
> take a look and tell me what you think. My flagship creation is Cepheus. It
> came to be last summer, right after school ended. I didn't have a lot of
> money, and my car was dead; so the only thing left to do was build something.
> I was always impressed with the size of the mechs I saw on various Lego
> websites, but couldn't for the life of me figure out how the joints supported
> the weight of model. I tinkered around, and came up with a way to use technic
> gears and springs from exploded shocks to come up with a sort of click-stop
> joint mechanism. When I built an arm, I noticed how much it reminded me of the
> Terminator. So the rest of the model was built as an endoskeleton. The gears
> and springs work really well, and they look cool, too.
>
> Hopefully, this summer, hope to modify this system to build a framework for a
> more traditional looking mech, or something that is at least partially
> armoured.
>
> I've built other, non-mech stuff in the past; but ever since I started watching
> Gundam Wing, I can't stop building mechs. So I'll probably post here mostly.
> Thanks for reading! And thanks again for being here!
>
> Christopher
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=chondrite
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