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Re: It's been a while...
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Nice! Sounds purty cool. In fact, so cool that I've thought about buyin'
you a digi camera just so I can see the thing. I've thought about makin'
a morphin mech, but never tried it.
May the Brick be with you!
* Tim *
P.s. How many mega-pixels do you want ; )
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:14:14 GMT "Raptor" <raptor@NOSPAM.bway.net>
writes:
> 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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| LOL... much appreciated, but I'm also a complete camera snob... as in I've been looking at the Canon D60 (6 megapixel SLR, aka, way too pricey) so I have a solid general purpose camera. Lacking that, I may just bring it out to my parents place, as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | Broken threads (was: Re: It's been a while...)
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| Hey, Tim-- The responses are great, but you're breaking all the threads! It's hard to follow the whole thread that way. :) Is there something up with your newsreader? Just a heads-up so you can check, just in case. best LFB (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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