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Hmmm interesting, i have a container full of the plastic BB's in the drawer, right next to the BB gun i got for my Birthday

Go sculpt some heads then, or bust some with the gun either way your choice

Mm i may just have to shoot some random things in the garden tonight lol. That is if its not too cold. *Brrr*

Viktor von Domm wrote:
and a servo arm in the making...do the pistons look convincingly?...


cheers, vik

Great start! I thnk RSJake's sketch is a good direction details wise, but you have a few problems with your pistons (assuming that you're going for realistic, which is a big assumtion when you're building science fiction stuff )

Check out this excavator:

Hydraulics work by pushing/pulling on one side of a joint to create movement. The problem with your arm (though awesome looking ) is that the joints are at the end of a member, which leaves nowhere for the piston to attach to and thus move said member
( no jokes about moving members! )

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Moving members aside, Rawson is right. You have the piston attached at each end to a pivot point. That placement of hydraulics allows for no movement. After all the hydros I have put on my titans I cannot understand why I didn't see that before......

the arm looks awesome. no other comment really

Thin floral wire wrapped around a rod should give you a plentiful supply of springs. Also clicker inkpens

Or, if you're going for a clockspring look, cut strips of cola cans and wind them around needlenose pliers or a piece of wire.

Gah! So much to catch up on... "bolt pistol" looks good, but the ammo doesn't look right- the barrel seems to large for the bullets (Unless it's a shotgun-type thing)
Servo-arm idea drawn up on paint looks good, especially the extra gubbinz to beef it up a bit.
In the group shot, they look great, very unique but similar enough to pass as a squad- will they have an element of the paint scheme unifying them? Maybe the right hands being the same colour, or shoulder plates?
But in any case, great work, keep it up!

WELCOME BACK shrike^^ ...nice idea there with the tie-in element...have to think up a way to do so...might be needed to add something tho...
the way i imagined the boltpistol is that it is more of a shotgunpistol...so you are rather close!

at anvil:

Or, if you're going for a clockspring look, cut strips of cola cans and wind them around needlenose pliers or a piece of wire.

somehow i don´t know or cant picture what you are suggesting...pic might help here...

at dave... wanted to rey that idea out for the next try... the pistons will get to be redone completly...more thicker...

at fatty...lol and thanks^^

at max and rawson...yup.. thanks for the critizism...i try to make it selling the look...it should even if it is fiction look like a real thing... and after looking at this digger i see the error of my simple ways...but i can still fix that... if all else fails i need to restart... it is all in the learning curve^^

at LDD i feel your pain mate... one day i was out with the family and i was in a rusty mood...meaning that i was walking around and looking for rustyness in the "terrain"... when i finally saw some beutiful rusty smoke stack at our local hospital and showed it to my missus i got exactly the look you mentioned..."does this bring food to our table?"... that look...you dreamer...but then i tell her why thank you very much fr that unromantic insight...and after that mental slap in her face she took my hint and she understood me... i think sometimes the ever yelling for romantic femmes have to get their head set straiht by a severe talking to...after all they do that on a day to day basis with us...^^

i do own a smaller drill...cordless one...no dremel tho... so i am eager to see this methode...as i didn´t understood anything about the how to^^

and mordain... shooting the elderly is ok with me... no dogs or birdies please^^


sorry guys... my youngest son needed to get brought home early from the kindergarten...he is somewhat a bit feverish...hope it will get better soon... so no work on the hobbyfront except that i tore the pistons apart from the arms... instead i have built a steam lego tank i want to show you tomorrow^^

cheers, vik

VIK! 4 pages allready! WOW! I'm liking the ROVER man! Very good you should really sell them man, they would look aussem!

thank you hazzer... it is all in the works^^

LOL!

Still amazing all the sized robots and all looking combat ready!

Without going back and rereading, I am wondering whether or not there is a stated intent on a steampunk feel? I think they are legen.... Wait for it.....

thanks shaso^^

at max...lol... but what was it you didnßt want to reread..or did i just kill the joke here?^^

I think Max was looking to make a point of the core values having become legends in themselve.

But steampowered robots are so steampunk And as such very kool too!

DARY...........HAHAHA. SEE WHAT I DID THERE!!!

at max... lol

at alpha...yup...now i see^^...and yep...steampunk robots...how to beat them?^^

Giant Steampunk Robots? Like this http://ultimateirongiant.com/ Could make an awesome Titan stand in

ohoh...now you shouldn´t have shown me that one...ohoh...now i am in deep...creativity is taking over....*argh*

but yep...i know that one...could be a cool thing... i will keep that in mind...! thanks alpha!

oh boy, where we goin now? lol

Hope your boy sweats it out soon Vik, kids are pretty tough, but when they go down.....

Think of the amount of Rivets

It would be interesting and go well with the airship

well he was rather tired today... even went lying on the couch a coupla minutes... for an almost four year old that is pretty hard to do... then he got better...but after watching some telly before night time he was pretty low... so i am hopeing for the best tomorrow... the kids have carnival at their kindergarten, and my wife sewed roman legionnaire costumes for each of them... they go as a team so to say... and they are both very eager to show their costumes and want to prance around in it... if he is really ill and i have to keep him at home...that will be very hard indeed... i cross fingers for that not about to happen!!!


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alphaomega wrote:Think of the amount of Rivets

It would be interesting and go well with the airship

that was a thorntwist to my side^^ yep airship and giant robot...todo list...well who cares for a todo list that has three volumes already^^

Not a thorn twist at all.

An idea for further rivetting madness!

got you there^^

Well, with the logo in our sigs you know that we have rivet-mania

Monkeytroll has also earned Riveteer status IMHO.

Hope one day I can earn such status, huh " turning back towards you all " …..

Vik hope your son feels better ,especially for tomorrow

Well seems a bit of a stalemate here work torn apart bit of banter and every one showing of there banners yes you know who you are ……

Vik glad it's not just me then, the looks I receive from the better half at times well they could kill…….. no really kill

i wish i had roman costumes as a child ...... hope they get better there Vik...
and @LDD, now i havent said much, but at least i have a blog that i DONT post on (vik can conferm this) go get one, but just dont post anything, AT LEAST!!!