Mechanical Arachnid

[Box]

A bit of a work in progress, it's been through several iterations so far and a long way to go.
Hopefully it will eventually become a real thing about 1 metre across. I'm not intending it to function but it should all work and be manually poseable.

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[tuna1957]

Not sure what impresses me more , your modeling skills or your imagination ! Not enough bravos to do it justice. Did I mention I hate spiders?

[Box]

I can assure you don't want to be inside my head.

Here's an earlier attempt at working out how all the legs should work, just needs a dolls head and you've got the creepy one from toy story.

[Rich O Brien]

That's just yummy. Steampunkish

[Bryan K]

Wow! Very cool!

[Box]

Thanks Gents.

Not quite steampunk, not enough fripperies for that, more sci fi/terminator/robot wars type of thing. Can't decide if the 'fangs' should be guns or nasty implements rather than just bighty things.

[Mike Amos]

Extremely sharp and a great subject imho. I have some recent immigrants from europe in my kitchen. Fake widow spider which are related the the black variety but less harmful with a bite similar to a wasp or bee sting. Spiders are very useful keeping flying bugs under control so I like to protect mine.

[Box]

Another step along the path, no time to work the geometry but able to fiddle the textures.

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[ntxdave]

All I can say is WOW!

[Bryan K]

Wow indeed!

[Rich O Brien]

2 things this reminds me of...

The robot thing in Wild Wild West...

The other is a french based technical performance group that make crazy robots...

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[Box]

Yep, those frenchmen are complete nutters.

[Box]

I've used a bit of Clothworks to give the spider some weight.

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[Bryan K]

Better and better and it was impressive to begin with.

[Box]

Cheers Bryan,
I'll have to leave it for a bit now, other things I need to work on.

[Mike Amos]

Magic.

[Box]

Had a bit of time before bed.

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[Mike Amos]

[ntxdave]

@mike amos said:

:thumb:

Agree

[Box]

I know you've been waiting for me to animate the spider.

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