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| | | Hello all, I've finished a few new MOCs, and after I wrestled with the computor for a few hours, they are finally up. A futuristic mail truck: (URL) Skystreak: (URL) my December 2002 Bot Odyssey: (thanks for the idea, Jon!) (URL) and don't be afraid (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Erik Schroer
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| | | | | (...) postal bots are! (...) like your weapons they have a realistic look to them. However, if it is built to fight its light armament would not fare to well against your "big ole laser cannon bot". :) (...) \\//,DedmanWalkin (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) Shh... That's top secret! :) You never know what those bots do in their spare time... (...) Yeah, well... Hey, big ole laser cannon bots have to do something... :) (...) Thanks! The Really Primitive Naming System(tm) is fun to think up, and (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Mark Nelson
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| | | | | Wow, JHK!! Some very nice models there! My favorite is decidedly the Skystreak, and my favorite picture of that is the second one on the top... Really a great shot, I think. I really like how the two 'arms' on it carry different weapons. I wish I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | Hey, thanks Mark! Glad you liked the Skystreak. I'm a really big sucker for asymmetry, mostly because I don't have multiples of the same part, or don't want to bother looking for them. Thank's for the compliments, I can't wait for updated renders of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Chris Maddison
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| | | | | (...) black kind of take away from it - it's hard to pick details out. Cool greeblies tho. (...) the best. Neat idea - I need to do something like this. Hmmm.. -Chris (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I always tend to build small, probabbly because I only have 1-2 years collection of gray and white. But I really like making neat and interesting things. (...) I think that might be the picture quality more then anything... my old (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | Hey nice, I like the way you show your MOC on your Web-Site, they look cool. I gotta say I'm nuts over your bots! really neat! Good work. e (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | Thanks, Legomaster! Bots are always fun. I'm an amature website builder, but I still try to make it look cool. On a side note, the server bandwith appears to of been exceeded. I've uploaded the mail truck and Skystreak on brickshelf. The Skystreak (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | (...) space colony. In fact, I can envision a hypothetical TLC sub-theme based completely on this style of building: "Future City 3000"!! ...And of course, my favorite part: Your use of the Futuron fig. :). On a more technical note, I like your use (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) Future City 3000: That would be cool! :) Can't wait for TLC to do it... As long as it dosn't take that long... (...) Hey, that's a Cool Idea. (tm) Thanks for your compliment on the greeblies: I wanted a 'less is more' approach but I could not (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Travis Matheson
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| | | | | (...) never trust those damn computers, they fight dirty (...) It looks so busy and powerful and yet sleek and compact. Trav (-|-) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) Yup, they do. But I won! Fwahahah... (...) Thanks! That's what I intended. It started out as a study on the cockpit, but quickly grew into something bigger. I still wanted to preserve it's looks while adding stuff on. -JHK (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | Interesting stuff John....some good designs with a sense of practicality. Mail Truck: I dig space MOC that have a real life purpose. The stout shape of this one goes well with it's present day counterpart. Skystreak: This is definately on the right (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) With my utilitarian MOCs, I wanted to represent a future version of a well-known vehicle today. The mail truck was fun to do. (...) Thanks for the critisisms! I think they shall be very usefull. My next model will be using this idea a lot. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | (...) Haha. Well John, you know all those people who responded to your thread about replying by saying that looking at how many hits a MOC gets is better than reading replies here? Well, I guess you got plenty of hits on these ones, because I've (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —Jon Palmer
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| | | | At first I didn't think too much of the mailtruck, but on closer inspection some of its nice features came out. Gotta say I'm not a real fan of the Skystreak though. Might be the colors. Great to see you're makin' some cool bots. This is one of the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Mail truck, Skystreak, and my 2002 bot odyssey —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | I've noticed that a few people have expressed dissatisfaction with the Skystreak. What don't you guys like about it? The color? The style? The greeblies? As I'm currently adding modules to it, I might as well redesign it with your help. Any feedback (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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