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Re: The Qwilljox
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:57:02 GMT
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LOL! Great story Brian, and great mecha Eric!
Dang, I really like this one dude. The hands are sooo cool, and the head is
too. While it looks out of proportion I think it sorta works for this design.
I like how Brian's story fits in perfectly with the mecha. I can immediately
visualize the mecha fervently digging through the ice, in hopes of finding the
exit.
Your own suggestions for improving this mecha are good. Although if you add the
wings, the story and purpose of the mecha might change. How about adding some
sort of thrusters on the back, so the mecha can still leap over chasms? Or, if
you stick with the wings, make them retractable, so that they don't get banged
up in the narrow tunnels?
Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/
In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper writes:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie writes:
> > I present the Qwilljox:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=10522
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> Backstory... hmm.
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> The big eyes and light color scheme indicate a dark environment.
> The circular plaque is the mark of the planetary exploration consortium.
> This can only be the mecha used in the ill fated lunar ice expedition of
> 2087. Radar scans detected a new subsurface ice deposit on the moon.
> Water was highly valuable to the lunar colonization effort and a team
> was dispatched to investigate the feasibility of a mining operation.
> It was to be the first field test of a new subsurface exploration mecha...
> All contact with the Quilljox was lost ten minutes after it descended
> into a surface fissure. Despite subsequent excavations at the site,
> no sign of the machine was ever detected save for the characteristic
> claw marks in the lunar rock. Some say this "sign of the Quilljox" has been
> seen in deepest caverns of the moon, as if carved by some mecha ghost in an
> endless search for a route to the surface. The scary thing is that the mecha
> did have an autonomous mode and a nuclear power core so it could possibly
> still by wandering in the depths of the moon, with a skeleton at the controls.
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> "K"
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| Thanks cousin Mladen! I was hopeing to add somthing to the shoulder area to help "hide" or "tuck" the head more closer to the body. I know it seems a little big. The arms help to at least detract from is big pea pod looking head. Ya, retractable (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) The big eyes and light color scheme indicate a dark environment. The circular plaque is the mark of the planetary exploration consortium. This can only be the mecha used in the ill fated lunar ice expedition of 2087. Radar scans detected a new (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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