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Re: It's been a while...
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Sat, 29 Jun 2002 06:02:36 GMT
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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 they have a
scanner and a good film camera to work with, but even that would take maybe
a week or two before I got anything going.
All that said, just be patient... I'll get to posting it long before I go
out and get my own camera, honest!
Raptor
"Tim Rice" <blackstarbricks@juno.com> wrote in message
news:20020628.221359.-980031.6.BlackStarBricks@juno.com...
> 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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| 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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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