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It's been a while...
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:14:14 GMT
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Sadly, I lack a camera, or else I'd post some images somewhere of the
first mecha that I actually *want* other people to see.
It needs a lot of work, but I finally got a working design for a mech
that transforms into a phoenix (think Transformers: Beast Wars) somewhat
decently. I still want to work in a bit more articulation, but I figure I
might as well try to describe it so that maybe it can inspire someone...
The legs fold up, and the kneepads unfold to work as the bird's talons, so
it walks on its knees. The arms are made of a few long click hinge pieces,
which fold back and together to form the phoenix's neck (typically a crane
style neck) with the hands forming the phoenix's head. The robot head is
embedded in the back at this point.
The wings took me a while to work out, but they essentially fold around to
take up not much more space than a standard 8x3 wing plate. These meet up
in the back, forming the outer torso of the robot mode, and then the tail
piece, the doubled-up wing plate from the M-Tron Vector Detector is designed
to rotate 180 degrees and fold into place as the final portion of the chest
plate.
In case it wasn't obvious, this design used up a lot of hinges, and I'm
looking to scale it up a bit over time to make something around 2 feet tall
or so, using mostly turntables and worm gears for the major components, as
well as adding another degree of freedom to the neck. Right now, it's very
small, and in need of a few tweaks, since I'm not too good with detail, and
lack the proper colored plates to make the piece really shine.
Thanks for reading!
Raptor
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| Well, it sound cool, and seems like it works pretty well for you. Planning to use worm gears and turntables for a scale up! Sound cool! Good Luck! Legomaster www.mylegomaster.com (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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