Tank and walker designs
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:24 pm
I am starting a brickwar army using my collecton of legos, but am having trouble coming up with mech designs. How do you build yours?
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:38 pm
I throw bricks at eachother, then look at my favourite RTS games, see what looks cool, and try to fit that into my army. Aslo......NEVER ENOUGH DAKKA.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:50 pm
Depends on visuals; I'm usually inspired by 'anime-mecha' per say, so I there's a design that catches my interest, I'll start experimenting with it and work out something.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:55 pm
Try to build part of a mech(Chassis, Legs, frame) first, and then try and complete it.
I was never really good at building mecha though.
I was never really good at building mecha though.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:00 pm
related: does natalya's dreadnut actually have instructions?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:01 pm
Mech building is on the most difficult things to do with Legos. You have to take in consideration weight, balance, hinges, etc... Its not an easy challenge to make a good mech. I'm making a "Guide" soon for Lego mech building, you might want to take a look at it when Its done.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:47 pm
The one I built has been ported into LDD, though the designs differ in some respectsmy floppy penis wrote:related: does natalya's dreadnut actually have instructions?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:34 pm
link.Rev. Sylvanus wrote:The one I built has been ported into LDD, though the designs differ in some respectsmy floppy penis wrote:related: does natalya's dreadnut actually have instructions?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:43 pm
it's in his Space Knights thread, I believe. As to my method, I generally look for inspiration on Flickr, find a style I like and try to emulate it. It takes a lot of practice, and finding which techniques you like to use and can pull off. More exposure to better builders will help tremendously.
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:03 am
I made a mech using mostly bionicle joints, and it keeps its pose rather well and stands maybe 7 or 8 inches high? I started it from a single hand.
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:22 am
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:56 pm
I just made a dread-styled mech last night, and I'm also halfway done with a walker-ish mech. They should go up with my faction's backstory/descriptions later tonight
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:35 pm
I prefer building tanks, and I generally shoot for playability. I try to incorporate a good appearance into them as well, although sometimes it doesn't work out too well...
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:59 pm
You make them look as much like this as possible.
Or die trying.
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:18 pm
