Mecha Help!

[Carrnevil9]

Alright, your first step to building a mecha is to get a Japanese blood transfusion, which can be very tricky as a majority of their blood is lighter than air and under extremely high pressure...
Oh, wait, you want instructions? Well, there's most of the Exo-Force line which is slightly less then savory... The best thing about them is the large number of sloped parts and those clicky-hinge things. I'd also suggest that you narrow down exactly what kind of mecha (or mech for the matter) you want to emulate, as there are a great number of sites (see brickcommander.com Brickshelf.com etc.) that cater to a variety of tastes. Above all, you should look at it (the mecha) and ask yourself:
1. WHAT AM I FIGHTING FORRRRRR?
2. Is violence the only way to peace?
3. Do you really want to know what Shining Finger means?
4. Does the Lambda Driver only work when you really need it to?
5. Is your pilot's first response "I'm going to kill you" and second is to self destruct your costly machine?
6. Is it truly a mecha or is it actually an organic creature of questionable origins that will lead to an unsavory conclusion?
7. Is the only time your mecha is remotely useful is when you assemble the five different animal/vehicle like sections together and create a single multi-colored unstoppable justice machine?

[Yak]

WHATS A MECHA?!?

[Carrnevil9]

Decent question. I'd suggest using Wikipedia, but It's a largish robot, usually residing in Japan. Typically, they fall into the category of "Real" (robots that, with a little imagination and a lot of booze, are somewhat capable of being made is the far flung future) and "Super" (Insert most of your shiny colored magical giant that will spend the first half of the episode being pushed around and the last half screaming out attack names.)

[Yak]

HAHAHAHAHAHA O.K thanks.

[Captainhusky]

Ironicly The best exo force set for mechs isn't a mech.
Its the new (8117) Storm lasher.
It looks like a giant dragonfly bug , but its VTOL wing Props have 24 articulation peices alone .

you could easly make a couple mechs from this set alone

[DarkWolf]

Ironicly The best exo force set for mechs isn't a mech.
Its the new (8117) Storm lasher.
It looks like a giant dragonfly bug , but its VTOL wing Props have 24 articulation peices alone .

you could easly make a couple mechs from this set alone

Yes, but they'd be skinny, pathetic machines. For mechs, I've built a few over the years, out of a total of 10 joints. They're from the old (no later than '05) Lego Mech set, you know, the ones that have a 2x2 brik for bases plus the extra 2x2 space taken up by the joint, so one joint is about a 2x6, or maybe it's 2x8, whichever, and I've always ended up making a reverse joint mech with giant machineguns for arms and a crapload of interchangeable back weapons/equpiment (grenade cannons, rocket launchers, more machineguns, extra ammo (+1 attack per turn), radar (+2 Skill against all targets within 20"). And to be honest, any one of those could have flayed any of the Exo-Force mechs, no problem (the Exo-Force cockpits are pretty much open air, and pilot+open-air cockpit+grenade cannon=pilot/mech parts scattered for a hundred feet in all directions)

[Captainhusky]

To behonest I was gonna give the swords to my melee squad
and use the joints in series of 4 so I could have fat walker legs ,
I wat to make something amoung the lines Of A "GDI Titan"

[Jemulov]

We need to see a picture of that mech Darkwolf. It sounds incredible.

[Leonardo812]

Yes. Mechahub has some awesome tutorials on their how-to page.

[Olothontor]

Yes, I've tried there. Unfortunately, all I get are pictures of how they did it, and not any text on the subject. Thanks for trying, though.

[Carrnevil9]

If you want, I could show you the basic model I've been using. It's mostly Exo-Force parts, and the frame is visible. End result is about 3 stories tall but fairly pose-able, with the pilot encased fairly well. *Still, if I do this, I'd be better off posting them in their own forum topic and I'll be damned if I don't have a stat sheet with it.*

[DarkWolf]

If you want, I could show you the basic model I've been using. It's mostly Exo-Force parts, and the frame is visible. End result is about 3 stories tall but fairly pose-able, with the pilot encased fairly well. *Still, if I do this, I'd be better off posting them in their own forum topic and I'll be damned if I don't have a stat sheet with it.*

Nice mechs, mate. I need to see them take apart a city. And, thanks to Jemulov, I've started rebuilding my mech. I hunted for about ten minutes to find the joints I was talking about, and I've finished the legs so far, and I'm about 30% done with the torso. However, due to a lack of red right arms to denote RAA personnel, I'm going to be making the pilot a merc (isn't that what most mech pilots are in the end?) Mostly because the pilot I've chosen is totally kickass, and I've been waiting for a chance to use him in something.

[Red Clay]

Like the mechs super cool

To behonest I was gonna give the swords to my melee squad
and use the joints in series of 4 so I could have fat walker legs ,
I wat to make something amoung the lines Of A "GDI Titan"

good idea i have that set actually and I think i"ll make asquad using the swords this weekend LOL.