True English Army "Lobster" UGCV

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The Lobster is an unmanned ground combat vehicle used by the True English Army. Standard armament is a heavy minigun, but it can also be fitted with grenade launchers, a 20mm cannon or a long range sniping cannon.

Inspired by the exceedingly awesome ROBOT MINIGUN TANKS from the beginning of Appleseed.

Robot. Minigun. Tanks.

Very Happy

Pic is link; PLMKWYT

Subject: Re: True English Army "Lobster" UGCV Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:32 pm

awesome! nice detail on the gun!

For some reason the front wheels reminds me of The Tumbler from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Subject: Re: True English Army "Lobster" UGCV Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:55 pm

Looks good!
My only complaint would be that you said "Gatling Gun." It should be Mini-Gun, a Gatling gun would imply that it is hand cranked.
But other than that, It looks good!

-Stormy

Subject: Re: True English Army "Lobster" UGCV Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:58 pm

It's very nice, but every time I look at it, it appears to be a mini-scale tank, not a mini-fig scale robot.

Eh.

Posts : 303 Skrillas : 3656 Join date : 2008-05-18 Age : 24

Thanks very much, everyone! Very Happy

Stormleader wrote:: My only complaint would be that you said "Gatling Gun." It should be Mini-Gun, a Gatling gun would imply that it is hand cranked.

From my understanding, that's not entirely true: a true gatling gun is the Civil War era hand cranked version, but a minigun is a miniaturised version of a gatling style gun. The Gau-8 Avenger is considered a "gatling-type rotary cannon", so gatling-type or gatling-style would be more accurate- but since minigun sounds better, changed to that anyway. Wink

Dr. J wrote:: It's very nice, but every time I look at it, it appears to be a mini-scale tank, not a mini-fig scale robot.

Eh.

heh, that would be a big tank if this was mini! P: Naw, I see what you mean.

Subject: Re: True English Army "Lobster" UGCV Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:52 pm

Shadow Viking wrote:: From my understanding, that's not entirely true: a true gatling gun is the Civil War era hand cranked version, but a minigun is a miniaturised version of a gatling style gun. The Gau-8 Avenger is considered a "gatling-type rotary cannon", so gatling-type or gatling-style would be more accurate- but since minigun sounds better, changed to that anyway.

Good point, though I've always heard of the Avenger as just a "Rotary Cannon."
I think that a Mini-Gun fits the size of this 'Bot nicely, I also love how you SNEEZED the front part. Smile

-Stormy

Subject: Re: True English Army "Lobster" UGCV Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:13 pm

T.E.A.

/facepalm

Otherwise, a pretty decent MOC, though I agree that it's tumbler-esque and looks more like a mini tank.

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Posts : 303 Skrillas : 3656 Join date : 2008-05-18 Age : 24

Haha, thanks.

Also.
Different colours: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowviking/3447476083/
Comparison: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowviking/3448295114/

And three different weapon attachments.
20mm cannon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowviking/3447479885/in/photostream/
Mortar and smoke/grenade launcher: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowviking/3448292684/in/photostream/
Sniper cannon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowviking/3448291482/in/photostream/