Posted this one a while ago, now it’s nearing completion.

Leaned into Titanfall and ended up with Armored Core by way of Michael Bay’s Transformers. Still need to work on the legs as well, I feel they need to be longer overall. I’m not dissatisfied with the aesthetic, though

Edit: reworked the head, it was bugging me. It’s now a detachable spotter drone (I loved 2049):

Final edit (because I’ll never be done with this thing…): updated the cockpit, now has a four-point hatch system, reinforced the legs with some pistons because the balls are wearing out (…), reworked leg armor for more bulk and shape cohesion, and replaced some existing bits (especially around the seat area) to improve aesthetic cohesion. Final glamour shots include My Guy for scale.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      Thank you! It was a long, long… lllong process of procrastinating trial and error=)))

      All I can say with certainty is that this is the centerpiece:

      Used one of these as the seat piece, with the long end pointed upward. I then reinforced around it with several more brackets focusing on finishing up the enclosure. The entire build’s focus was “Technic minifig scale mech suit,” so everything was built to prioritise a functional, structurally sound, and aesthetically coherent mech core design. The limbs are just there, pretty much, cheapest and quickest integration builds I could think of.

      It uses 100% ball joint for the limbs, the newer Bionicle stuff which is designed for single-plane swivel. The arms are connected to two of these (one on each side):

      I placed them vertically and used the lower ball for the arm joint. Initially wanted to use the upper ones as weapon mounts then pauldron mounts, but they’re now vestigial.

      I then built the “hips” as an extension connected to the seat itself, around one of these:

      The arms and legs are pretty basic, it’s the design visible in my first post, on top of which I slapped as many angled slates as I could while keeping the armored plating within 2u of thickness overall. Same principle for the pilot enclosure, that one’s essentially a bracket-based cockpit (lifting canopy included, that one’s two bi-angled brackets on a swivel) and the angled slates are attached directly to that.

      It’s not a 100% “legal” build, I took advantage of flexibility, used those 3u blue studs to force some angles I couldn’t get otherwise, but that’s just for aesthetics. The main structure, the skeleton as it were, is 100% legal and as sturdy as I could possibly make it while also keeping it thin. It’s a very tight fit for my Technic dude, but eh…

      Edit: oh, and the “head” is just decorative, it’s a dirty improv I did to cover up the middle plane on top of the canopy/bi-angled brackets. I may work on it some more down the line, give it a proper mount point and some swivel.

      Edit 2: tried taking some more detail photos, hopefully they manage to convey the pure improvisation which went into this thing=)) Lotsa’ creaking plastic and pinched skin!=)))

  • 0ops@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 days ago

    Squint your eyes and the last photo looks like a rule34 robo-jackal