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Goliath
On Easter weekend 2005 I was sitting in my sons room playing round with gear wheels and technic turntables. I remembered the hip design of Marks Shogun and thought it would be fun to build something similar with the parts I have. So I started. After quite a while I had an ugly looking hip that was much to wide and really wobbly.
During the next weeks I reworked it again and again. I checked out Marks gallery, Erics gallery, Brians gallery and a lot of pics I had printed out of the net over the time. I found a lot of good ideas. Most of them based on parts I didn’t have. So I tried to adopt the joints I saw to the parts I had on hand. Then I finally was satisfied with the result. I found a mech fitting this hip would be far bigger than what I could build.
The time I had invested on the hip kept me from disassembling it immediately. So it lay there for some time.
When I thougt about what mecha I could nominate for the MPC this big mech came back to my mind. I began to direct my work towards a frame at last. Covering something that big wouldn’t be possible with my bricks. I built Tori and Shiko to enter the MPC, refined Drake. Tried to cover a ZRX1 and ZRX2 (to have also a large mecha in MPC) but failed.
After posting the final refinement of Drake I began to work on the frame again. Mid of june - after some unsuccessful attemps - the hips were standing quite stable on two legs and feet. The proportions still were a bit off, but the joints worked good. While trying poses the proportions got better.
When I started covering one leg it was mostly to find out what would work and look good. Finding out which bricks I was missing was second thought. I found out quick that my amount of bricks was quite suitable. The new covers interfered with the frame design. So I reworked them. A few times I had to adopt the frame. Which resulted in a lot of work with only a small effect. Several times I got stuck. The building was replaced by thinking, rethinking, trying and fustration. Sure many of you know such phases. I switched to smaller projects from time to time. This had a very possitive effect. After getting a certain distance and success my mind got free again.
The most difficult part to build was the upper body. I had no idea what the upper part of this frame could look like.
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| | The first attempt was to slim and never got finished. The second didn’t look good.
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| | The third one I completed fully. It was too bulky. As it wasn’t able to compensate the tilt created by posing the lower body I disassembled it after taking some photos.
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The forth attemp was a success. I borrowed the waist gearing with shock absorbers from Erics Little Bot.
| | Seeing the completed mech for the first time made up completely for all the work and fustration. I decided to keep it for a while before posting just to do some more refineing. Then more than half a year after I had started with the hip I took more than 150 pictures on one weekend. Reviewing, selecting and reworking the pictures for the net took me another month. But now it’s done.
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Some specialities I want to point out:
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| | The gear wheels on the back opperate the rotational movement of the shoulders. The weapons can perform a horizontal movement. They are connected to the upper arm/shoulder through an axle with stud on one end. This stud is fixed between two technick bricks with hole. This very common and simple joint works perfect here.
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| | The hips
Just have a look. Yes I am proud of it! This is what this whole project started with.
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| | The feet
First the feet were flat. They could only compensate for the side action of the hip. The frame came to no realistic stand. I added a technic rotational click hinge in the middle of the foot. Later the hinge had to be replaced by a doubled ball joint as it was torne apart under the weight of the nearly finished mech.
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| | The knee joint
The first picture shows the naked knee joint. In the final version a gear wheel mounted on the axle with the gear screw is opperated by two small gear wheels completely integrated into the lower leg design.
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2005-12-10
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