Mech Creation!!!!

[xenocrisis0153]

[malfen]

mecha designs like how battle tanks are designed, should be based on 3 factors: firepower, mobility and protection

Play around with the ratio and you'll get different category of mechs to suit different roles in the battlefield.

So, what do you think of your mech design on mobility? Should it be
bi-,tri-,quad-ped or caterpillar tracked mech?

Powerplant design? Gas turbine, diesel engine?

[Cybershark]

My main energy supply for now is solar energy and huge baterries packs, but if someone read my last reply i found an interesting warp type engine to look at, an for now 4 and six leg desingn are in top of the list cause are easier to balance for starters in high level desings with small budget.

[malfen]

Hmm...solar power is an interesting idea. If you need some other or more info. you can go to this site :
www.mechaps.com
I obtained some of my materials[forum] from there when I was doing my reading on mech designs many years back. Drop by and check it out.

By the way, what is the objective of your first prototype design? or What are the issues that you would like to address in your first design?

[Doomsought]

you realy want alcohol or hydrogen power if you can budget it
they have the highest yield

[Cybershark]

Gas and Alcohol are good but not really nature-friendly and it doesn´t make much trust in the sence of perpetual movement,cause the best idea is tomake a self poweredmecha,of course is notpossibleknow but as i post earlier there is an interesting warp truster desing being developt,which make very curious.And also i already make a desing for a pair of mantis robots with the ability to make "Gatai" ( don´t know if that is writed wrongso don´t complaint just make a constructive jugment) by their own or triggered by me,aldoi haven´t get an idea of why tomake them do gatai execp createa high speed mode (from legs to weels)

To answer my motives to create a mech i think cause is just fun to create someething real practical and use energy in the process don´t know i am atractted by fire and electricity. I also base mainly in bugs and humanoids forms cause is more common to deal with physics. And i guessmy main projectidea is to make a medabot or something like a chibi like robot (base in superrobot taisen/super robotwars)

[Doomsought]

legs to weels wouuld be best attempted by puting the weels on the bottom of the chasis and raising the legs, than using a gear shift swich the motors from the hydrolic pumps to the weels

the engians i suggested would have great durrabuility and bring this project into the possibuility of actuly happening.

If i remember tomorow I may draw up some ideas on graphing paper.

Edit:
Sketch
here it is
under turret would be controled by the co-piolot
the claw would alow it to climb

[Cybershark]

Your design looks prettygood but on it you use the wheels as feet or raise then up with the pump,and I migth use a variation in my smaller desings as test subjects. Thanks for the idea

[Doomsought]

not azzactly
mine has weels on the bottom of the chassis atteched to the motors
the leggs are on the sides and powered by hydrolics

this is a bit big
I'll think about smalle, possiblyunmanned designs
but climbing (the min advantage of leggs) will be harder
the sketch would simply smash windows with its foot-claws and use as them hand holds

[Cybershark]

Now i get it you have both wheels and legs at the same time but use independely and parallel but they replace each other at the same time,cool but as i post early i made my own adaptation is not the same but give me a great idea for a desing on transformable wheels

[Takasan]

I don't know why i never thought about puttin up such a thread as this >.<
Stupid Takasan!

but anyways. yea. I want to create one and plan on doing so. using hydrolics and electric motors.
no worries about power, i don't know why people keep bringing that point up. We have generators and a thing callled gas engines and nuclear power is almost limitless =P

If anybody wants to create one in real life hit me up baby!
-Takasan
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The hardest person to forgive is yourself~

[Doomsought]

unless any one can get the favor of a tin pot dictator or an oil rig refitted with hydroponics to stay out of claimed waters
nuclear power is out of the question
also unless the pilots, engineers and just about anyone near the thing don't plan to have children and are imune to cancer
the thing will have to be huge to hold enough shielding
the smallest thing even being planned its three stories high
nuklear may wok for helicariers though

now how are we aranging the skeleten

[Cybershark]

By the way examples of why the nuke engine is not good read the first part of the posts