Gaudy and Lethal

March 30, 2009 in Building
Tags: Mǝmory, mecha

This guy by Mǝmory of the Young Spacers Association is a pretty simple build, but great posing and photography make it look very nice here.  The arm joint is a pretty cunning combination of two lever bases around a lever.  It makes a remarkably flexible joint, though it looks a little unusual.  There’s a whole series [...]

Frame Page

March 29, 2009 in Building
Tags: frame, joshua newman, lego, malcolm, mecha, mgn-302, soren, squieu

The astute amongst you will have noticed that we have yet another new page on the site. A small, but destined to grow, selection of the very best in Mechaton frame design. You’re welcome! Cheers Malcolm

Dogs Of War

March 29, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, lego, techniques

war droids Originally uploaded by Alex E.2 Sometimes there are builds that make you take a look because of their unusual parts usage. Just such a thing is this war droid diorama by Alex E.2. Droid bodies, droid heads, minifig arms, they’re all in there. Traditionalists may not approve, but the effect is quite stunning. [...]

War Bot

March 26, 2009 in Building
Tags: Chewk, mecha

War Bot Originally uploaded by Chewk I missed originally that the Surveyor Bot I posted earlier was based on this much more mechaton-appropriate little guy. Check out the photostream for a whole series of them.

Weepy Sun Children

March 25, 2009 in Playing
Tags: actual play, campaigns, vincent

Vincent’s posted another installment of their Mechaton campaign here (On the off chance you’re following this blog but not Vincent’s). Follow the links there for some pretty interesting mech designs, and some interesting uses of the campaign rules.

Surveyor Bot

March 25, 2009 in Building
Tags: Don Solo, mecha

surveyor bot Originally uploaded by Don Solo I love the use of minifig helmets on the shoulders on this thing.

Breathtaking

March 24, 2009 in Building
Tags: mondayn00dle, techniques

Creations by builder mondayn00dle (A.K.A  Brian Kescenovitz) are a frequent sight on well-known lego blogs like The Brothers Brick.  We’ve seen a lot of his larger mecha creations, and vast dioramas.  In this post though, I’d like to highlight some of the smaller things in Mondayn00dle’s photostream, which have got a lot of interesting ideas suitable [...]

More Adventures in Space

March 23, 2009 in Playing
Tags: actual play, one off games, richard, simon, space

This weekend saw Richard and I embark on another adventure into the world of Mechaton in space, or “Spaceaton” as I’ve rather unfortunately taken to calling it.  Our chief change to the rules thus far has been the use of “vector movement” indicated by a couple of d8s at the base of each ship, and [...]

Unconventional

March 23, 2009 in Building
Tags: Moko, techniques

This page of ideas by brickshelf user Moko includes a number of techniques that, while somewhat heretical, fill me with ideas for mech designs.   While you’re there, check out some of Moko’s builds.  They’re much too big for the usual game of Mechaton, but you’d have to agree some of the robots Moko builds are pretty incredible.

Tiny Violence

March 22, 2009 in Building
Tags: chicken walker, mecha, simon

I was very impressed with Mr. Buildy, by Mǝmory, which was posted along with a bunch of other neat little mechs over on No B.S, Just A.B.S. I decided to have my own crack at the build, substituting some heavy weaponry for building equipment.  Here’s what I came up with: EDIT: I don’t know what’s [...]