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Hi everyone,
I have made my trip home, and I have good news.
1) My brother, who is entering high school in the fall, has bequeathed the Lego
collection to me. Until now, it has been a gigantic pile of mixed parts of both
our Lego collections, and it has resided at my parents' home... 1500 miles away
from me (doh!) since I left for college 8 years ago. I am now taking possession
of it (hooray!) and I plan to sort it into bins eventually.
2) While I have been home, I have been building fervently, and I have created,
IMHO, the finest Lego creation of my 20 years of building.I want to thank
everyone in lugnet.build.mecha and lugnet.space for all the inspiration I have
gained from looking at their designs.
Recently, I posted a sketch to my website showing my plans for a mecha. This
week, I have built that mecha: The HM-9 Heavy Assault Mecha. I have uploaded one
image to my website, and other images will follow early next week as I have time
to rebuild my website.
So, without further ado,
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
A few notes:
1) Yes, it does stand on its own, though very precariously :)
2) I tried to build Colin's hands, but I didn't have enough 1x4 hinges. I
compromised by using the "thick" 1x4 hinge, and it looks ok.
3) The arms and legs are made from ThrowBots joints. There are Technic friction
pins at the shoulders and ankles. Everything else is TB joints. I managed to
cover them up fairly well, but you can see a bit of blue peeking out.
4) The chest section slides forward to expose the cockpit.
5) The picture on my website shows the HM-9 with the modular PBC-2 mecha-mounted
particle beam cannon. When I next update my website, You will see photos of the
HM-9's internal missile loads and the MT-5 Mecha Booster Unit. (something for
you mecha nuts to look forward to. :) )
Thanks again to everyone for all the advice and inspiration!
~Mark
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| Wow, it's huge! That shoulder mounted cannon rocks! Very Gundamesque. I'm looking forward to more pictures! Ben -- Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:FrJx0H.7D5@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Excellent job Mark, reminds me a lot of the nu-gundam (I think that's the name of it). The feet are really nice, and the shoulder mounted cannon is very cool. My own attempts with large scale mecha have convinced me to stick to smaller scale, due to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| AWESOME model Mark... I also like the cannon, and the head. How tall is that thing exactly. And you even say the operators seat slides out? Too cool. Can't wait to see the missile, cause' you know Mladen likes missiles... <Drool>! (...) Lego (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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