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So I was going through the White Dwarf Gorkanaut issue, and soaking in the Gorkanaut. One of the things that came to my mind is how it can walk with its belly practically dragging along the ground. And then it hit me. Maybe it uses both of its giant feet as a single step, thrusting its giant hulk forward to step into the ground itself---providing enough leverage with which to lift both its legs into the air and plant them ahead of the belly again, thereby repeating the process of using both its legs for one step, and then the frame of its torso as the other. Reminiscent of a dog dragging its but against the floor except in this case to walk.

A friend has recently finished assembling his Gorkanaut and it is possible to model it so that the "belly" isn't touching the base.

 Wilytank wrote:
A friend has recently finished assembling his Gorkanaut and it is possible to model it so that the "belly" isn't touching the base.

If you look at it it's belly isn't touching the base anyways. I'm just trying to mentally animate its walk cycle and came up with that and thought I'd share it.

This is exactly how I pictured it, and I can't get it out of my mind.

Now imagine it "running" or trying to move as fast as possible across a battlefield.



Edit:
No wonder it's not an assault vehicle! Think of the passengers!

The BUNNYNAUT!

"hop hop ... erm, BEEP BOOP"

Great, now I can never take that thing seriously ever again. Thanks Quarterdime.

Considering there's no way for it to get its center of mass directly above a single leg, that's the only way it could actually move, yes.

Put a tricycle wheel under the front of it's belly.

Wait! Killer idea!

Instead of Gorkanaut legs, model it like those huge dragline tractors they use in quarrys. The ones that have the big rotating pads? Ugh, better way to describe it... think!

Almost like tracks but, instead of rolling along on them it's like... ugh I don't know...

Mine doesn't have his belly touching. I imagine he waddles along and plops his belly down every so often.

Love that model!

There many models in the Games Workshop line up, that if you really explore them as you build them, you realize that they cannot move effectively. The dreadknight is another model that has such issues. I found this out after reposing three of them...

It's best not to think about it too hard.

 Quarterdime wrote:
So I was going through the White Dwarf Gorkanaut issue, and soaking in the Gorkanaut. One of the things that came to my mind is how it can walk with its belly practically dragging along the ground. And then it hit me. Maybe it uses both of its giant feet as a single step, thrusting its giant hulk forward to step into the ground itself---providing enough leverage with which to lift both its legs into the air and plant them ahead of the belly again, thereby repeating the process of using both its legs for one step, and then the frame of its torso as the other. Reminiscent of a dog dragging its but against the floor except in this case to walk.

I could see that. Something like this:


...but faster, obviously

 insaniak wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
So I was going through the White Dwarf Gorkanaut issue, and soaking in the Gorkanaut. One of the things that came to my mind is how it can walk with its belly practically dragging along the ground. And then it hit me. Maybe it uses both of its giant feet as a single step, thrusting its giant hulk forward to step into the ground itself---providing enough leverage with which to lift both its legs into the air and plant them ahead of the belly again, thereby repeating the process of using both its legs for one step, and then the frame of its torso as the other. Reminiscent of a dog dragging its but against the floor except in this case to walk.

I could see that. Something like this:


...but faster, obviously

Yes! Just like that! But 100x faster. Imagine it being fast enough to look comical and you're there.

I like to imagine (as with most Ork walkers FWIW) it waddles around like Tik Tok from Return to Oz

 Grimtuff wrote:
I like to imagine (as with most Ork walkers FWIW) it waddles around like Tik Tok from Return to Oz

This is the only way it could even conceivably walk. Well, that and what I came up with.

Also, what an obscure reference

 Quarterdime wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
So I was going through the White Dwarf Gorkanaut issue, and soaking in the Gorkanaut. One of the things that came to my mind is how it can walk with its belly practically dragging along the ground. And then it hit me. Maybe it uses both of its giant feet as a single step, thrusting its giant hulk forward to step into the ground itself---providing enough leverage with which to lift both its legs into the air and plant them ahead of the belly again, thereby repeating the process of using both its legs for one step, and then the frame of its torso as the other. Reminiscent of a dog dragging its but against the floor except in this case to walk.

I could see that. Something like this:


...but faster, obviously

Yes! Just like that! But 100x faster. Imagine it being fast enough to look comical and you're there.

Well that video crushed a bit of my dreams of a mech-driving future.