 | | Evangelion construction —Christopher Kalos
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| | | Newbie alert! That's me. Lurker for a while, but I just signed up recently to post. Sadly, I lack a camera to show my work, and I took it apart anyway to retry the design, but I've just started work on a large-scale Evangelion. Mind you, I don't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Borislav Marinov
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| | | | | (...) Wellcome Christopher! (...) Join the club. (...) Fine by me, it is the effort and idea that counts. (...) ooh, goody goody, there aren't many people who build in the 2+ feet range. (...) Sadly, with Eva construction one can not use any tricks (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Christopher Kalos
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| | | | | | (...) Which pieces are the right ones, though? I need strength and compactness in one package, so anything along those lines that isn't too rare would be useful. (...) 1) Gundams rock. I like them a lot. But anything that I do based on that would (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Borislav Marinov
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| | | | | | (...) It depends on the width of the legs and the total weight of the model. If you have thin legs (no more than 4 studs) and a light Eva, using several click hinges in parallel will do the trick. Ebay is a good sources for large numbers of click (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Bryce McGlone
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| | | | | | (...) You can use the old Throwbot gear boxes. Two put together and then click in a technic beam on one end. My Q model uses this in the legs and hips giving it slender and strong legs. Someone suggested to me that the design would benifit an EVA (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Dave Johann
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| | | | (...) Congrats! Welcome to the club! More mecha postings are always welcome. (...) No problem. I'm sure we'll see it in time. Tough design to work on, btw. I've tried it myself and can't get it to work the way I want to. (...) I feel your pain. :) (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Christopher Kalos
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| | | | (...) Well, the skull's about 6x6x4 without the jaw joint or armor plating. I'll estimate at least 8x8x6, maybe a bit larger with the chin :-) (...) Quite large, yes. Up there with Brian Cooper's designs, I suppose. (...) Wait... there *are* purple (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | Re: Evangelion construction —Scott Lyttle
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| | | | <snip> (...) I think some of the Technic Cyberslam has purple technic pieces, and if you dig hard enough, I think there is some sand blue in the Red Planet Protector from the Life on Mars stuff. Purple and Sand Blue might work together. However, I (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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