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Re: Fly-Bot
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lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:08:23 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Jason Coronado writes:
> 3 days??!!!  3 days??!!!  that kind of mecha would take me a year to design
> and another month or two to build.  holy cow!  this looks fantastic!  great
> color, great design, and wow--what a whopper!  this is one fly i would not
> want to land on my sandwich!  o.k. (calming down) what i like most about
> this mecha are the legs, head and tail.  i always thought those dark grey
> 45-degree landing legs (a la mars mission) were pretty crappy looking (i've
> got a few and they just take up space), but you just know how to incorporate
> almost any piece in your work and make it look good.  the tail and head look
> very insectile which i assume was your goal.  sophie scores again!  nice job!


Hey right on JC, those Big Insect Legs, I just had to ahem, how shall we
say, Rock them! When I was building the GG Mech, I was playing around with
them on the Feet section, but I also thought they would be cool if they
could be used as part of a wing structure. Like one of the webs in a Bat's
wing. So I hope to try it sometime.

The head at first looked really weird. I had to re-do it's position and
rebuild the back of it. I almost opted to not add the Technic fig so the
head would have been more stream lined if it carried a minifig instead. I
also had to use that Technic fig since it was Red and has been wandering
around my collection for too long. It needed a Home.

Lastly, I wanted to mention that I was or wanted to make the tail bendy and
segmented. But I went for the Stubby stinger look.

BTW, the wings when used like that are really easy to mount on a Cam and
motorize the flapping motion. Try it sometime.

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Fly-Bot Gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=30998

> In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie writes:
> > > > In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie writes:
> > > > > Oh boy I did it now. This one is really strange.
> > > > > It was fun to make. {3days}

> > > > > I got the itch to make something.
> > > > > Whoa, what did I make?

> > > > > Born of the Macro Bot Platform.
> > > > > Legomaster
> > > > > www.mylegomaster.com



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  Re: Fly-Bot
 
3 days??!!! 3 days??!!! that kind of mecha would take me a year to design and another month or two to build. holy cow! this looks fantastic! great color, great design, and wow--what a whopper! this is one fly i would not want to land on my sandwich! (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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