War is On!

July 17, 2009 in Playing

Last night Malcolm and I met up to fight the first battle in a mini-campaign we’ve been planning for a little while, inspired by Maschinenkrieger mechs.  We’d both built sets of WWI/WWII styled mecha and hover tanks, and I was very eager to pit my little guys against Malcolm’s forces.  My dudes were styled as [...]

Ahoy!

July 14, 2009 in Building, Playing
Tags: chandlerparker, flickr, lego, ships, water

Frigate Originally uploaded by chandlerparker Chandlerparker posted this very streamlined frigate at the tail end of last year, but as we’ve seen aircraft and land vehicles so far today, it seems appropriate to have something that floats. Bonus reading: games under (and on) the water. Cheers Malcolm

Maikuro Gunner

July 14, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, fredoichi, lego, tank

Maikuro Gunner Originally uploaded by Fredoichi Utilising a lovely blend of bright and dark shades, this drone/tank/something by Fredoichi is small in scale but big in character. It could be Ghost In The Shell tachikoma scale, it could be the size of a Challenger tank, it could be even bigger. The design, however, works well [...]

Airborne

July 13, 2009 in Building, Playing
Tags: aircraft, chris b, flickr, lego, rule changes

Micro junk Originally uploaded by <(Chris B)> Today we look at some non-mech vehicles. First off, aircraft. Particularly these neat little designs from Chris B. Scaled nicely for Mechaton, too. When playing Mechaton in Japan with Simon, we came up with a little rules change when using airborne vehicles. They got an automatic green D8 [...]

This Is Frasier Crane, I’m Listening

July 10, 2009 in Building
Tags: civilian mecha, flickr, kyle vrieze, lego, mecha, multipedal mecha

crane01 Originally uploaded by bermudafreze I can scarcely believe that we failed to blog this marvellous microscale mech crane from Kyle Vrieze. It was created as part of the Civilian Mecha Contest a couple of months ago and I was astonished by it back then. Who knows why it wasn’t blogged. Not only is the [...]

Droid Bodies: The New T-Piece?

July 7, 2009 in Building
Tags: bricklink, simon

When I started buying lego for Mechaton, the pneumatic t-piece was all the rage.  It showed up in everything, its distinctive little hollow ends poking out of every nook of the best mechs, mocking me.  It mocked me because I didn’t have any t-pieces, but I could see that they were fantastically useful pieces.  After [...]

Dynamic Destruction

July 3, 2009 in Playing
Tags: terrain

Back in the days of my youth (which recede ever farther with each passing day), I used to play a fair number of SF wargames: Battletech, Dirtside and Warhammer 40,000 to name three. They provided differing levels of fun and different experiences. The 1/300th scale SF armour of Dirtside was always a favourite. One thing [...]

Insectile

July 3, 2009 in Building
Tags: Chrispockst, flickr, lego, multipedal mecha

Scout Originally uploaded by Chrispockst The last design for today is this wonderful, insectile looking robot by Chrispockst. I particularly like the use of the old, Classic Space minifig ‘metal detectors’ for the lower legs. They aren’t a piece I see used that often, but they are really effective here. Cheers Malcolm

M-32 Scout droid

July 3, 2009 in Building
Tags: Alex E.2, flickr, lego, multipedal mecha

M-32 Scout droid Originally uploaded by Alex E.2 An Alex E.2 creation, this scout droid makes nice use of minifig hands a legs to a create a compact ,odel that is full of character and detail, Cheers Malcolm

Let’s Talk About Legs

July 2, 2009 in Building
Tags: fredoichi, highlights, multipedal mecha, photography

iito v23 Originally uploaded by Fredoichi First up today, we have this delightful multipedal robot from Fredoichi. Not only do the purple and lime accents look wonderful with the overall white colour scheme, but the blue background and crisp photography really helps to highlight a great little build. The theme of all the designs I’ll [...]