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Re: New Mecha- The Gladiator
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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:11:32 GMT
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Much appreciated Eric! It was so much fun trying to use seemingly strange
pieces on a mini mech to make it look cool. Red does indeed look good.
Thanks!
Geordan
In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie writes:
> Awww wow look at that, and look at the way you use those pcs. your a good
> builder! Red looks good right!
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> This is a step up for you, I must say, very cool.
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> Eric
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> In lugnet.build.mecha, Geordan Ballantree writes:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5105
> >
> > Here it is, as promised, my red mech. It's a origami mech, I think that's
> > what you call them. Anyway, I dug deep and found all of my red detail pieces
> > and went to work and the result is: Gladiator.
> >
> > As you may have guessed from the name this mecha was not made for the battle
> > field. It was created for " Gladiator fights." Somewhat similar to the
> > fights in the movie "Gladiator." Except without the humans and the flying blood.
> >
> > This is a medium sized gladiator mech that goes one on one with other mechs
> > in fight to the death gladiator wars in an arena. It is not remote
> > controlled, but instead uses standard AI to do battle. It has a little
> > styling from Japanese samurai, Roman GLadiation( is that a word?) and a
> > little gundam wing in the rockett boosters.
> >
> > This mecha is armed with A 17mm shoulder cannon which is used to "stun" the
> > enemy before it lunges forward and stabs the mecha with one of 13 extruding
> > "sharp" points.
> >
> > Gladiators shield is used obviously for blocking shots or stabs by the
> > enemy. It has a mini spear on the end as well for stabbing. Turning a
> > defensive item into a offensive item. The head of Gladiator has four sharp
> > mini spears that can be used in a head butt to spear the enemy throughthe
> > middle four times.
> >
> > It has fairly heavy armour( by that I mean strong armour, not "oh this rock
> > is so heavy") with a armour cape covering it's rear joints and three smaller
> > capes covering the front.
> >
> > It has twin mini booster's on the back that allow for about thirty seconds
> > of hovering at a time.
> >
> > I'm not too terribly happy with the feet, I might do up another version with
> > new feet. Overall though I'm pretty happy with the model. Inspiration from
> > of course, "Gladiator" the movie. And some minor inspiration from Pete's
> > mecha that use hitting weapon's instead of just guns as offensive weaponry.
> >
> > Please let me know what you think nomatter what you think of it. Which is to
> > say That I should get a reply from everyone who reads this post because they
> > all have an opinion (Haha just kidding).
> >
> > PLMKWYT!!!
> >
> > Geordan
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| Awww wow look at that, and look at the way you use those pcs. your a good builder! Red looks good right! This is a step up for you, I must say, very cool. Eric (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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