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Re: Kumo assassination spider
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.space, lugnet.castle.ninja
Date: 
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:52:24 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Tony Hafner wrote:
   Very cool! That’s by far the best use I’ve seen with the angled cockpit piece for the 6x6 octagon.

Hmmm, wait until you see what I did with two of them for a vessel from the Kami Nation (the blue “neutral” Sam-Bot faction).

   The missile pack is a great addition as well.

That was such an accident of design, and the really cool thing is that it doesn’t look like there’s anything inside until you open it up. I believe I did actually have the entire rest of the design hammered out and built (though some parts were substituted in different colors at the time) before I even started thinking about the abdomen, and I was originally thinking in terms of the bulbous abdomen on the Hasbro B’omarr Monk action figure, but then I realized if I built it with studs facing both ends, I could use TECHNIC stud-pins as hinge points for the four end pieces and stuff it full of some sort of missile. I had to extend the length a bit to pull it off, as I pretty quickly settled on a 3-brick minimum missile height, and then realized I’d need to stuff them with lightsaber blades if I ever hoped to be able to remove them (it’s still really tough to pinch one of the missile tips between your fingers and pluck the first one out, but after that you can just rock them to one side to pop them loose).

   The legs certainly do look nicely posable- I’d love to see some shots of this in action with some sort of prey.

I’ll have to see what I can do with that at the next Motor City Comic-Con.

   What’s red and what’s orange?

The only orange parts are the trans-neon orange parts used for the canopy, the guns (lightsaber blades and 1x1 cones), sensor pods (Bohrok eyes), and the lightsaber bar used as a clip mount for the red Ninja flag on top of the cockpit section. All the other visible parts are red or black. There are four yellow 2x2 corner bricks buried in the bottom of the missile pod, and there are 28 light-grey stud-pins holding various parts together, but none of those are really visible in any of the photos I posted (you can probably see the flanges of the hinge pins, but that’s it.

   In the photos, it looks black and orange.

That’s a combination of my camera and my little makeshift photo studio (the camera does much better with colors at shows and such). Basic green parts look teal, and basic red shifts towards yellow, but it’s the light-type setting that produces the most accurate color match (I can never get the green to show up right, but at the closest setting, basic blue looks tealish, and red almost looks yellow; and when I get the red to look correct, the background looks hideous).

   However, I don’t think that the ninja headpiece or the robot body come in orange. So I’m thinking it’s all red... but what about the canopy? It looks exactly the same color, and I don’t think that comes in trans-red...

I don’t think it does, but again, it’s my camera. As soon as I can get DATs for the Ninja wrap and the red Ninja 2x2 flag, I can post the LDraw model that I’ve cooked up. The only problem there is that the transparent orange color looks like a better match to the new non-flourescent trans-orange (aka trans-dark orange) than to the old trans-neon orange (commonly misnamed “trans-orange).



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  Re: Kumo assassination spider
 
(...) Very cool! That's by far the best use I've seen with the angled cockpit piece for the 6x6 octagon. Everything is appropriately-sized, and the overall impression is very solidly spidery. The missile pack is a great addition as well. The legs (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.castle.ninja, FTX)

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