Topic: My Scratch-built Mecha! (Read 10,966 times)
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My Scratch-built Mecha! « Thread Started on Jun 28, 2008, 3:25am »
Hi all, I just want to show you guys this Mecha I built, it's mostly cut from styrene of various thickness and some PVC. the only thing that was premade are the ball and socket joints that came in a kit. the whole thing is about 13 inches tall, I dont have any ideas for a color scheme at the moment, coloring is not my forte.
but if you guys have any suggestions, it's all welcome.
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Re: My Scratch-built Mecha! « Reply #4 on Jun 28, 2008, 9:37am »
Holy Sh*t!!! Those are some mad skills my man! My only suggestion would have been to give it a more human face witha nose and a mouth but that still a awesome piece of work!
Joined: Apr 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 611 Location: Bay Area, CA
Re: My Scratch-built Mecha! « Reply #10 on Jun 28, 2008, 9:47pm »
Are you an engineer?! Or a sculptor? Maybe a doctor?!
'Cause that's TIGHT!
All I can think of to add might be some decorative pieces here and there.....as long as it doesn't mess with the AWESOME engineering. Damn. For color? I dunno....I'm too blown away to think about that right now.
Re: My Scratch-built Mecha! « Reply #12 on Jun 29, 2008, 12:44am »
Glad you like it:) I'll post more pics soon, including some of the details like the missile pods, verniers and some size comparisons with some of my SOCs/Gundam/etc (which what I took inspirations from)
all in all the materials probably didn't cost more than $50, mostly on styrene, PVC and glue. but it took a while to build, maybe about 3-weeks total . and since I was just making things up as I go along, I had to keep redoing some stuff over again.
no, I'm not an engineer:) but I do consider myself an artist.
The ball joints I got from Hobbylink Japan, they come in packs of different sizes. here's a link to one: http://www.hlj.com/product/YLS09301
I originally sculpted a much more humanoid head at first, but it looked a bit too femenine. I'll post pics of it as well later
again, thanks for the kind words:) I'm already planning on doing another one. maybe a fully transformable one next time.
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