Clockwork Mecha

February 28, 2009 in Building
Tags: lego, mecha, simon

After recieving my bricklink order in the post, I banged out this little guy. Quite different to my usual style, it’s a clockwork mecha. It won’t see combat in our current campaign, but it’s making me look forward to the next one.

Campaign: Second Battle

February 27, 2009 in Playing
Tags: actual play, campaign, craterworld, malcolm, richard, simon

To refresh the memory, you can check out the campaign backstory, campaign map, campaign goals and the account of the first battle before you get started. As you may recall from his post on using a moving table in Mechaton, Simon had the choice of battlefield, restrictions and special objective for this particular game. The [...]

4-DR

February 26, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, lego, mecha, peter reid

Robot 4-DR Originally uploaded by legoloverman The second campaign game was last night. Photos and report to come in the near future. In the meantime, why not enjoy this great creation from Peter Reid? The scale is slightly larger than Mechaton, but the creative use of parts and the extremely clever design are well worth [...]

Convoy!

February 24, 2009 in Playing
Tags: campaign, rules, simon

It’s my turn to decide on objectives and limitations for the campaign game, and I’m using the opportunity to try something a little different to the regular Mechaton scenario. Back in the day, I played a bit of the (now defunct) GW game “Gorka Morka”. The game itself was average, but there was one scenario [...]

Skewbot

February 23, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, frame, j5n, lego, mecha

Skewbot Small Originally uploaded by J5N Two pictorial posts in the one day? Here’s another design from J5N. This time it’s the Skewbot, which showcases some interesting and useful articulation design. The choice of orange and old dark grey for the colour scheme looks nice as well. Cheers Malcolm

Hardy har har

February 22, 2009 in Building
Tags: frame, j5n, lego, mecha

Quick & Hard Originally uploaded by J5N This little hardsuit by J5N is ripe for the picking. replace the minifig head with something more mecha-like, and you have a perfectly scaled Mechaton unit. Cheers Malcolm

Mechaton… …in SPACE!

February 19, 2009 in Playing
Tags: actual play, onosendai2600, simon, space

Originally uploaded by onosendai2600 (Also check out Onosendai’s awesome interpretation of Malcolm’s MgN 302) I think most of us have contemplated playing Mechaton with spaceships instead of Mecha at some point or another. Seeing all the amazing microspace stuff out there (such as the delightfully boxy fighter above)certainly got me thinking about it. Now, it’s [...]

MgN-303EX

February 18, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, frame, lego, mecha, mgn-302, soren

Soren has, as usual, gone one (or possibly two or three) better than the rest of us and produced these delightful variants on the MgN-302/303 frame. Great colours, great design. Go take a look. Note: You have to be logged in to Flickr to see the photo. Cheers Malcolm

Scrappers!

February 18, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, frame, lego, lego_mancer, mecha

IMG_4705b Originally uploaded by lego_mancer Check out these little quadrupeds by lego_mancer. Including the tasty Neopolitan ice cream camouflaged version, complete with banana split gun. Cheers Malcolm

Campaign: First Battle

February 16, 2009 in Playing
Tags: actual play, campaign, craterworld

To refresh the memory, you can check out the campaign backstory, campaign map and campaign goals before you get started. As per the campaign rules, Richard chose the site of the battle, the special objective and any restrictions that would apply to our forces. He choose to have the battle take place at the Scattershot [...]