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Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update: Another Good Day for Mecha
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Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:51:24 GMT
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Not necessarily true.

Check out:

Brian Cooper's Mecha:
http://www.members.aol.com/_ht_a/Klaupacius/Lego/DarkGundam.html
Christopher Snead's Mecha:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=chondrite

Those mecha offer tons of articulation and look cool to boot. ;-)

Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://members.attcanada.ca/~milovan/index.htm

In lugnet.build.mecha, Mark Sandlin writes:
> in article 3B595017.D543A04F@interlog.com, Immonen wrote:
> 
> > Beautiful! Really inspired work! Excellent colour and sense, and
> > creative head designs. Simply great!
> 
> Thanks. :^)
> 
> > The Helldog ][ appears to have two ball joints at each knee-- is this
> > right? This would restrict movement to two dimensions, if I'm thinking
> > straight-- but aren't they one in front of the other? How does he swing
> > back and forth? It must be me...
> 
> He doesn't need to swing his legs back and forth since: a) He won't be
> walking and b) I don't plan to make him sit down. My Hardygun mecha utilizes
> the same construction, which is enough to move the legs around a bit for
> interesting action poses. It doesn't allow universal movement, but I don't
> require universal movement. The more movement you design into your mecha,
> the less stable they are, and tend to fall over. So I decide what amount of
> movement is required and then design for that. :^)
> 
> ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head



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(...) How is it not true? Chris and Brian have come up with some ingenious ways for strengthening their joints, but I don't see how that disproves my assertion. They have created ways to conbat the instability is all. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (25 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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(...) Thanks. :^) (...) He doesn't need to swing his legs back and forth since: a) He won't be walking and b) I don't plan to make him sit down. My Hardygun mecha utilizes the same construction, which is enough to move the legs around a bit for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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