LDD SOmewhat Robotech-ish Mecha

[Bragallot]

If you work out those joints I'd say that's a darn fine mech.

[Whiteagle]

Link works for me.

Use two tile-modified clips on a sing P-t. It's amazingly strong, plus you get another degree of freedom where you plug in the T.

A really, really strong, dense joint is this knee. Its the same as this one.

Ok, the link's working now and yeah, I can see that you meant the upward facing clips, which are probably a bit stronger then the vertical clips.

...But, I can't really tell what your referring to in the next two pics, most likely since I can't make out where the second ones knee joint is...

[Keldoclock]

You're also going for a shape of leg that doesn't exist in nature. I recommend going to the master (evolution) if you want something to work well and look "right".

With those feet, you could do a bird leg kind of thing, with reversed joints.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Bird joints aren't reversed. You're looking at the ankle and thinking they're knees. Birds walk on their tiptoes.



Without a hip and thigh, it'll look awkward and artificial. You know, like a Mechwarrior mech.

(Why are the Glaug and Regult so cool then? Because they're weird alien things. It's ok to be awkward and artificial for an alien. )

[Soren]

Okay, since I built the knee joints J's referring to, time I chimed in.


This is it - both strong and scalable, although if you're not careful you'll snap a whole fucking lot of those technic bits in half before you learn to treat them gently. They make tremendously good joints and you should use the shit out of them.

(Why are the Glaug and Regult so cool then? Because they're weird alien things. It's ok to be awkward and artificial for an alien. )

I keep telling myself I should build a Regult. Also, important to note the qualities the OP's design is missing, like... well, aesthetic sense, taste, sanity. A butt that doesn't look like some kind of terrifying shit-canoe.

[Keldoclock]

I love the mechwarrior mecha, dude. They're so badass.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

I love the mechwarrior mecha, dude. They're so badass.

They're badass the way female East German weighlifters are graceful.

I watched Battletech go down. I was there, man. I built the original model kits that were unlicenced resellings of Crusher Joe, Macross, and Dougram mecha. Then I watched FASA's designers completely miss what was cool about them and construct an aesthetic that just piled shit on top of each other.

Battlemechs are badass in the way that mounting a gun on a gun on a ninja that dual-wields the gun-guns that each fire ninjas, each armed with more gun-guns is badass.

[Soren]

I love the mechwarrior mecha, dude. They're so badass.

They're badass the way female East German weighlifters are graceful.

I watched Battletech go down. I was there, man. I built the original model kits that were unlicenced resellings of Crusher Joe, Macross, and Dougram mecha. Then I watched FASA's designers completely miss what was cool about them and construct an aesthetic that just piled shit on top of each other.

Battlemechs are badass in the way that mounting a gun on a gun on a ninja that dual-wields the gun-guns that each fire ninjas, each armed with more gun-guns is badass.

Not that we didn't both stall out on Dougram because the art was SO BAD. Some of those scenes looked like they were painted with a dog-chewed penis.

Which is probably the lesson: when the source material is dodgy, don't hire a spastic 13 year old to trace over it and add more guns.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Is that a dig against my dog-chewed penis art show?

[Soren]

Maybe a little.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

VOTOMS almost lost me during the clown vomit episodes, but what kept me there was the fact that the events were so fucked up — with the national anthem playing over Chirico's atrocities — that it just added to the surrealism. I'll get back to Dougram. I'm really into it, I promise. But man, the painting is not the show's strength. Still, better than VOTOMS.

[RunsWithLegos]

you know what kinda mechs are cool? WH40K Titans.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Primarily because they're their own, BBC-inspired thing. They look like they belong in a pointy, angsty version of Thunderbirds Are Go or Doctor Who. I like the walking castle versions in particular, and I think the Ork ones are funny. But for aesthetic refinement and total economy of form, they don't come close to Studio Nue or Kunio Okawara's work.

[Tzan]

Kunio Okawara

I put his name in Google Images and found this:

This toy came from an anime called Tondemosenshi Muteking (High Roller Muteking). It is an old anime that aired from September 1980 through September 1981 for 56 Episodes. The anime has the same spirit as the Time Gokan series - it’s a gag anime. The story itself is about Rin, who can transform into a roller skate wearing super hero, fighting the Crodacow Blazers to protect Earth. Muteking is aided by various animal-based robots. One of the robots is Saizance, a rhino that can transform into a plane. The person who is responsible for the mecha design is none other than Kunio Ohkawara of Gundam fame.

The man is clearly a genius!

[Whiteagle]

Primarily because they're their own, BBC-inspired thing. They look like they belong in a pointy, angsty version of Thunderbirds Are Go or Doctor Who. I like the walking castle versions in particular, and I think the Ork ones are funny. But for aesthetic refinement and total economy of form, they don't come close to Studio Nue or Kunio Okawara's work.

Robotech and Gundam?
I figured you'd defend that weeaboo shit!

Nether feature designs any more practical for combat then Warhammer 40k's walking war cathedrals...

...Unless it's of the Guntank line, since Guntanks kick ass!