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Main armaments aside, I like the chair-support thing the villager can sit in. The stud colours clash a little, but that's the only downside I can think of.

 

(Still not enough dakka, though...)

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The stud colours clash a little, but that's the only downside I can think of.

 

(Still not enough dakka, though...)

It just occurred to me that I could use three colors instead of all six, since the Protectors each came with 12 studs. Then the colors wouldn't clash at all.

 

Maybe I'll make a 72-barrel gun if we get another round of stud launchers. :P 

 

Looks like fun. Though reloading it afterward would probably be considerably less so...

You're quite right - about two seconds of launching fun...then two minutes of reloading.

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This is pretty nice! May I ask  - how smoothly does it operate? I tried making a compact 42 barrel gatling cannon (I put a gatling gun in the middle of mine also) myself not too long ago (with full intentions of hooking it up to a PF motor :D ) but I gave up after finishing it since some of the barrels wouldn't fire and the gear mechanism had so much friction it became less fun and more frustrating to turn, often getting stuck and not firring at all.

 

Maybe I should try a bigger one of my own after seeing this - I certainly have enough gatling guns from buying loads of 75% off Protectors  :P

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This is pretty nice! May I ask  - how smoothly does it operate? I tried making a compact 42 barrel gatling cannon (I put a gatling gun in the middle of mine also) myself not too long ago (with full intentions of hooking it up to a PF motor :D ) but I gave up after finishing it since some of the barrels wouldn't fire and the gear mechanism had so much friction it became less fun and more frustrating to turn, often getting stuck and not firring at all.

 

Maybe I should try a bigger one of my own after seeing this - I certainly have enough gatling guns from buying loads of 75% off Protectors  :P

It's actually really easy to fire, you can kind of see in the video that there is some friction, but having a large gear for a handle makes it really easy to turn. I'd be surprised if a motor could operate it though, especially one with 42 barrels!

 

If yours is jamming up, you might just have to secure the gears better. Mine are locked very strictly in place so they don't wobble and slip on one another.

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Oh man that looks fun!
A few seconds of crazy firing it off at Skull Spiders and Villains galore, and then a few minutes of irritation picking up the pieces again.. but worth it, I'd imagine.

I know the Okoto villager isn't orange, but seeing him(or her?) in the seat reminds me of a certain Onu-Matoran villager from way back when... ;)

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I know the Okoto villager isn't orange, but seeing him(or her?) in the seat reminds me of a certain Onu-Matoran villager from way back when... ;)

You're not the first to notice - Nuparu was the inspiration for that little guy.

 

So yeah, this is pretty much perfect. I really appreciate the little details like the handlebars. And you can aim it! It's an incredibly impressive machine that you've built, here.

Thanks, glad you like it so much. First it was just a huge launcher, the whole cockpit thing came later, after I decided it was just way too massive to be hand-held.

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Is that Nuparu piloting it?

Yes - or rather, a G2 reincarnate of Nuparu. Too bad I don't own any orange shells.

 

Someone sends this to Gatanui, Chocolate Frogs or Aanchir so this can get featured.

-Windrider- already featured it on BZP's Facebook.  ;)

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Looks like fun. Though reloading it afterward would probably be considerably less so...

You're quite right - about two seconds of launching fun...then two minutes of reloading.

Or four minutes of reloading; it takes a little longer to reload than to fire.

 

I'd imagine the more you added, the less workable it would become, because of more resistance and being farther from the center.

 

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Imagine if this thing fired Zamor Spheres!  :o

 

Anyways, this looks really cool. The Villagers wouldn't need the Toa to defend them if they had these on Okoto. And the fact that it has a seat for Villager to sit in makes it even better IMO. 

 

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Thanks for the comments everyone! Did not expect this old thing to see the front page.  :ahhh:

 

I'd imagine the more you added, the less workable it would become, because of more resistance and being farther from the center.

You're definitely right about that; resistance was one of the things I had to overcome when I built this, compared to the 18-barrel gatling gun I built previously. In this case a rigid structure for the gears and a large enough trigger-cog was enough to make it work, but on something more complex I'll need a creative way to make so many gears work together.

 

Imagine if this thing fired Zamor Spheres!  :o

I did make a huge Zamor Sphere gun a while back, just by adding a couple dozen Inika ammo clips to a Zamor Launcher. I think I'll share that here actually, it was a funny-looking MOC.

 

Hook up some power functions to this thing and your'e good to go. ;)

 

I actually tried power functions with three launchers, and it fires so fast it looks like one shotgun sot.

That sounds awesome! I wish I had a power function to work with.

 

"No cats were harmed in the making of this video." :P

 

Interesting how the cat in the background just slept through it all!

She's very good at sleeping.  :sleepy:

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I'm always a huge fan of intuitive functionality, and this gear system is really nice and plus, the rush of unleashing all your studs quickly followed by panic of never retrieving them is surely an experience. Good to see you got Nuparu there still building. 


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