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In lugnet.build.mecha, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Thanks Sproat! More below....
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Patrick Justison writes:
> > I just uploaded some images of my first mecha model. It is not like most of
> > the mecha designs out there so i refer to it as a walker. The thing it • reminds
> > me most of is an AT-AT though there isn't really much of a resemblence. The
> > model is highly detailed, and very heavily armed.
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> Good golly. Pat, this rocks. I'd definitely call it a mecha. I'd love to • see
> some pics showing the leg articulation. And that's cool how you used the
> coloration on the X-Wing nose piece to simulate powder burns from the guns!
> :-, Way cool.
Yeah the powder burns were unintended but very cool. Sometimes the best
aspects of a model are completely accidental. I'll get some more pictures of
the leg movement and reactor soon. The reactor (and the high intensity flame
throwers that are used to vent heat and waste fuel) can be seen in this pic.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4028
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> > For you spacers out there I also uploaded some pictures of my latest
> > minifig space craft. The ship is designed to be an anti-capital ship
> > weapon. It has a large 'ship-busting cannon mounted in the front as well
> > as 5 articulated missle/bomb arrays that contain 40 mounting points. It
> > has two cockpits and an interior engineering section (no pics of the
> > interior yet).
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> Definitely a gunship. Big one too -- is it a fast-attack craft, or would it
> use stealth and bait-and-switch to bring its guns onto the target ship?
> Anyhow, it looks good. Almost has a Star-Trek-ish, runabout-ish feel to it
> (minus the warp nacelles, of course.)
It would use neither. The ship would rely on fighter support from a couple of
YG-99s assigned to defend the ship. The pilots would have to rely on their
skill to avoid defense fire from the capital ships that it would be attacking.
The ship makes use of 4 massive ion-thrusters both for speed as well as to
counter balance the massive force pushing the ship in reverse when the main gun
is firing. :)
> How'd you get the slant on the plates near the aft?
I was hoping someone would notice that. I used the new click hinges for the
armour plates around the 4 engines and thean a lot of 'brick trickery' to get
the hole thing to stick together. There is one portion of this ship that has
3 adjacent bricks/plates that are each oriented in a different orthogonal
direction. You can see this in the following picture just below the black
anteana. I usually use techinic beams and half pins for this sort of thing.
But in this case I used the new starwars engines and click hinges for
orientation changes.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4040
> Way cool.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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| (...) reminds (...) Good golly. Pat, this rocks. I'd definitely call it a mecha. I'd love to see some pics showing the leg articulation. And that's cool how you used the coloration on the X-Wing nose piece to simulate powder burns from the guns! :-, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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