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Re: Getting my own fingers into this mech thing.
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:58:40 GMT
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i love it
those feet are sooooooooooooooo cool
and the body shaping makes it
look aggressive
-p
In lugnet.build.mecha, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi, everyone!
>
> Seeing the general buzz that's always in .build.mecha
> and my desire to continue procrastinating on this grant
> proposal, I've been inspired to risk rendering a 20-year-
> old design into LEGO. It's from a universe I've been
> working on since then, the same one that my .space creations
> (and weird technical descriptions) come from. It's from
> before the era of hypergunned mecha, so that's why it's
> armed lightly in comparison. ;)
>
> That said, please take a look at this:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6466
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> It's actually an *alien* biotek, recovered by the Swedish
> military in 2218 and retrofitted for a human pilot (and
> a Terran-style "armour sidearm"--the original would have
> carried bracer cannon). The designation (LAt) isn't
> alien, but Terran; we just don't know how they classify
> their machines. It's nice when their equipment can be
> captured, because 1) it gives us a chance to look at
> the systems up close and 2) it adds really *good* bioteks
> to the Terran armory, which is a lot better than the
> lousy things that pass for bioteks in human militaries.
>
> The suit itself uses exactly zero Bionicle-balls (that
> sounds a bit lewd). The pilot barely fits, and it's
> extremely cramped in there (the pilot space is 3x4x3.6).
> It's stooped-over very deliberately; I didn't show it in
> full running gait in the pictures, but it's really rather
> quick, earning it the colloquial name "toad" from the
> Royal Army (not frog, *toad* ;) ).
>
> Anyways, this is my first foray into mech-construction in
> three years, so I'd appreciate feedback. I may rebuild
> the hips and incorporate the ball joints so it stands more
> stably, but I like the way the SNOT-mounted sides came out.
> I do like the hands, because the thumb serves to hold the
> "rifle" very nicely. If I get a chance I may scan in the
> original drawings, bad as they are now that I look at them
> 20 years down the line.
>
> best
>
> LFB
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