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This is the Savage VT an AN medium sized mech fitted for antivehicle and infantry work.

The Savage is heavily armed for a mech its size.

The savage is equipped with a pair of heavy gauss cannons which while having enough punch to pass right through tanks, have a rather slow firerate.

Its also equipped with a pair of chest-mounted anti infantry infinite-repeaters for use by the VT while the cannons cool down and reload.

As you can see its rather flexible although mecha yoga is out of the question.

the torso can twist and turn to track infantry via a balljoint that connects the pelvis with the torso.

Heres how the legsand arms are built up and attached to the body.

woah calm down there mister VT!


So thats it folks!
sorry for the hurrible pictures, my camera has a thing for blurring and washing out colour unless the photos are taken outside with sunlight no matter how many lights I turn on.
And well its january so either its too wet outside to photograph or the sun is hiding behind the clouds.

That is a pretty bad-ass build you have there.

i can dig it man, keep it up!

Nice work. I love the guns on this, but feel like there is always room for moar dakka. Shoulder mounted missile launchers perhaps?

Hooray for more kickass AN mechs!

Also:

Alex wrote:Nice work. I love the guns on this, but feel like there is always room for moar dakka. Shoulder mounted missile launchers perhaps?

This is what you're supposed to do with ball joints. Wonderful addition, this looks great!

Thanks for all the comments!
And yeah I might add a missile box or five.

enders_shadow wrote:This is what you're supposed to do with ball joints. Wonderful addition, this looks great!

Thanks but theres only one balljoint in this build and thats the torso

All you need is one ball joint when making a mech and that's only if you want to. But getting back to my praise of your destructive creativity; I love the simple design concept behind this unit and I must say that while missiles are fun I don't think that they are as affective as they should be but that's just my opinion, I could be dead wrong.

PrimalAge wrote:All you need is one ball joint when making a mech and that's only if you want to. But getting back to my praise of your destructive creativity; I love the simple design concept behind this unit and I must say that while missiles are fun I don't think that they are as affective as they should be but that's just my opinion, I could be dead wrong.

...Why does everyone hate ball joints?

Whiteagle wrote:...Why does everyone hate ball joints?

Because they're awkward and too many points of loose articulation tend to make a creation slump over into a pile more often than not. *shrugs*

Do you have any group shots?

People hate ball joints because they attempt to build mechs entirely out of them, or attach the technic bits in really ugly ways.

If you're not a total n00b, they're actually fun and effective in the right places, ESPECIALLY when complemented with other bricks.

I could see ball joints working well for things like hips and point-defense guns.