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Re: FlyBot, MothBot, and Ma-in-LawBot
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:40:33 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John Henry Kruer writes:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Tony Hafner writes:
> > http://www.hafhead.com/lego/myspace/robots

> Hey, I love those!  The flybot just has a great 'spindly' look about it.  I
> love the personality it has... the head and the position off the legs makes
> it very easy too like.  The Ma-in-Lawbot is great, too.  Very funny.  And
> the moth is just plain weird... but a good use of the flybot chassis.
> 
> I love these!  Hope you make more.  How do you start designing your bots,
> Tony?  Do you just start tinkering, or do you write down some inspiration?

The design process for each of these robots was different- and I rarely use
pencil/paper except for really large MOCs.

The FlyBot came from fairly random tinkering with limited parts available.
He actually started out looking like another robot that I saw here recently
(it was "spotted" on brickshelf, and had chainsaw blades for legs).  But
successive incremental changes eventually replaced every original part
except for the single-stud 1x2 plates for feet.

The MothBot was supposed to be a color adaptation and minor refit of the
FlyBot, but my wife kept picking nits until it turned into this design.  For
the record, she still doesn't like a couple details...

I'll probably regress the MothBot back to one of the earlier versions and
post that as well.  Grenade launchers GOOD!

The Ma-in-LawBot was fairly intentional- she came out as part of a character
study for a series of illustrated stories I'm working on.  Oh yeah- and she
was heavily influenced by the desire to use a very rare part.

Anyway, thanks for the kind words!

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com



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  Re: FlyBot, MothBot, and Ma-in-LawBot
 
Hey, I love those! The flybot just has a great 'spindly' look about it. I love the personality it has... the head and the position off the legs makes it very easy too like. The Ma-in-Lawbot is great, too. Very funny. And the moth is just plain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.space)

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