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Re: Announcing: The Mecha Factory
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Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:58:23 GMT
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That's some really fine work, David. The presentation of the site's quite
nice too. I don't really like the images opening up in a separate window,
but that's a personal preference on my part. Otherwise, fabulous mecha!
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
In lugnet.build.mecha, David Thomas Jr. writes:
> Hi all! It's been quite a while since I've had anything new to contribute.
> Well, I have been building, but I'm certainly not as industrious as some of
> you. One project that I was working on I decided to scrap. I love Gundam
> mecha, and I had it in my head to try to reproduce most of the main mecha
> from the series, starting with the RX 78 GP01. The problem I keep running
> into with Gundam though is that to make a really good looking gundam head,
> you've got to build pretty big. Each Gundam I built would get bigger and
> bigger, and I find that when I build mecha in large scale, the results
> aren't generally as polished, and I don't have as much incentive to build
> because it takes so long to accomplish anything. Well my GP01 was coming
> along nicely, looking very accurate, but I didn't like working on it. So,
> after a couple months of slow progress and generally not enjoying building,
> I decided to scrap the whole idea and try something completely different.
>
> Enter The Mecha Factory. First, I built the LM-001 Warhammer heavy mecha.
> I am very happy with how it turned out, a completely original design not
> based on any particular anime series. Well, I had a new mecha, but I needed
> a way to display it that would really stand out. So, I began building a
> diarama. It took pretty much all of my gray plates and bricks, and uses
> probably 50 or more castle walls (all conveniently hidden in the exterior of
> the walls). I think you'll like it.
>
> With a new mecha, and a cool diarama to photograph it in, I made the
> decision to start a completely new lego site, The Mecha Factory. I
> originally thought to only incorporate new original mecha, but realized that
> I needed more content, or it would have been pretty dull for a while. So, I
> pulled out my images of my best mecha, many of which are larger than
> previously posted, and began incorporating them into the site as well.
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> I want to thank Sun Yun for giving me permission to use the name: The Mecha
> Factory. I had much of the graphics already done, when I discovered that he
> had already used that name as one of his brickshelf directories,
> coincidentally a trio of mecha based loosely on my own Zaku design. Sun was
> nice enough to let me keep the name, and I appreciate it.
>
> Please let me know what you think of the new site. Be patient, the images
> are large and take a little while to download, but I think you'll find
> they're worth the wait. Of course, the down side is, MGLM (my other lego
> site) had to be taken down. There's only so much webspace on the server. I
> think the new site more than makes up for it though.
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> Here's the URL:
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> http://soli.inav.net/~thomas/mfactory
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> I hope you enjoy it!
>
> -David Thomas Jr.
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