DE-05-49 Desert Terrain Search and Destroy Heavy Walker

This is my second shot at a Lego minifig-scale mech, and shares a few minor elements with the first one, but I would consider this better than the other in every way.

Front shot:
http://i.imgur.com/UDuKI4Y.jpg

Back:

http://i.imgur.com/VcOwU7K.jpg

Opened cockpit:

http://i.imgur.com/iYFFZ0g.jpg

Random poses:

http://i.imgur.com/qSCCi80.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bZGOOsY.jpg

I hope you all enjoy my first real mech. Also, the Stormtrooper is just a placeholder, this is in no way connected to Star Wars.

Critique is welcome!

And I hate my lighting…

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Nice.

:thumbsup:

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The arms have technic holes visible, and I’d reccomend attaching some system plates here and there to fill in the gaps. But looks coolio.

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These would all be easier to do if I had random system plates lying around :laughing:

But I’ll see if I can at least do something.

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This is pretty neat

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I like how you armored the upper legs. Sweet :skull::thumbsup:

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Dude, you’ve improved so much in such a short amount of time.
And that’s cool, because you were still really good before.
And I still haven’t… (improved)

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I should clarify, the name has a meaning.

Desert Exploration-5th squadron-49th unit.

I’m not the biggest fan of the exposed technic but otherwise this thing’s pretty great!

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The exposed technic in the front looks a bit odd, but other than that, the MOC is really well done!

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It looks great but i feel in place of the technic on the front it needs like a sloping dome thing

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It looks great but the smoothess of the body armor does sorta conflict with the “greeblyness” of the “jet armor”, the “skull armor” and the technic beams. But I it looks real cool

Triple thumbs up!

i see too many gaps and the armour from general grevous doesnt flow as nice maybe some more armour to fill the gaps and some dark trans blue on the legs. and what is with the red pis showing, maybe if they were hidden but they stick out like a sore thumb.

Lose the red pins and add more gunmetal armour, dark trans blue studs and fill in the gaps

Here’s the thing, this isn’t supposed to look fancy. A lot of the framework is exposed for a militaristic, industrial vibe.

Also, I will not add any more trans blue, as it is only there to appear as a sort of sensor for the cockpit.

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so you want to step on people

What does that have to do with anything?

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What?

No, I’m just saying that what you recommended doing may contradict the original design intent.

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Which is fine, except for your limbs don’t fit that vibe at all. I’m going to take the seemingly unpopular route and say that the torso is fine, and that you should add more technic to the legs and arms to match.

IMO, the lower arms are weak, and the upper arms aren’t much better. Also, I think using these feet instead of the beast feet would be a better match, both in style and color scheme:

Otherwise, this is a pretty good and solid MOC. :smile:

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I wish I owned those feet.

I can understand the issue, and I will try to add more technic to the upper arms (the largest priority for me) and see what I can do with the legs.

The arms in general are really just weapon mounts.

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