Dried nut legs

[motorhead fan]

hello one and all! i am currently making a dreadnut but cnat do the legs!

is it possible that someone posts some instructions or sends me a link to some?

[Silverdream]

Well, there are quite a few ways of doing dried nutmegs.





Here's a really cool looking way to do it.





Then there's my way. See what I did?

I would dig up pics of all the other nutmegs, but I don't remember who built them and I'm too lazy. If you're curious, I'm pretty sure Natalya and Zupponn built nutmegs.

[Battlegrinder]

I've also been having trouble getting my walking murder coffins built (luckily I have a huge pile of Bohrok to use in the meantime). My latest prototypes have been using legs based of the exo-force sets, and they look promising. The Sentinel and Iron Crusher have decent leg designs to tinker with, but if that doesn't work, technic pieces are usable (though they lose a lot of the general D-nought aesthetic).

[dilanski]

Simple Dread legs from a while ago.

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Scale comparison.

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[motorhead fan]

ok thanks guys! i'll make some legs and see which design works for me!  

[Zahru II]

I liked dilanski's technique best, tried it myself and even tweaked it a little:

[motorhead fan]

wow that thing rocks!

[Zupponn]

Here's a couple of older pics of my Breadnut:

[Battlegrinder]

My Breadnut is better.

[Colette]

Mine has a little more articulation in the legs.

[Zahru II]

So that allows forward/backwards swivel, right? Is it actually useful? I'm tring to visualize how it works, (away from my bricks to actually build and test it myself) but I can only see it be marginally beneficial because balancing, given how inherently top-heavy the DN design is. Could you provide some 'epic pose' pics mayhaps?

[Zupponn]

Mine swivels too.



It allows epic kicking.

[Silent-sigfig]

I liked dilanski's technique best, tried it myself and even tweaked it a little:

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Damn nice dreadnought, but the back needs to be spiced up a bit.

Oh and Colette has a nice pair of dreadnoughts too.

[Battlegrinder]

Mine swivels too.



It allows epic kicking.

You need to make a red one, and have one of it's melee weapons be a big jug of kool-aid.

[Colette]

So that allows forward/backwards swivel, right? Is it actually useful? I'm tring to visualize how it works, (away from my bricks to actually build and test it myself) but I can only see it be marginally beneficial because balancing, given how inherently top-heavy the DN design is. Could you provide some 'epic pose' pics mayhaps?