[MOC] Dwarven Mech

[jokerjester]

Bought my first Mixel set since they were on sale in our area. Grabbed the Medivals set since I wanted to create a "mech minotaur" as my first MOC. After a lot of failed attempts I've decided to make an exosuit for my desktop dwarf instead.

Parts were inspired by the Mixel builds of chubbybots and dark_syntax

Version 1

Dwarven Mech 1 by Jon Jansen Campos, on Flickr

Dwarven Mech 2 by Jon Jansen Campos, on Flickr
 

Version 2

I've decided to use as much parts as possible from the Medivals Mixels set to create a 2nd version of my dwarven mech. I tweaked and swap parts all around until I got satisfied with my work.

Dwarven Mech 2.0 1 by Jon Jansen Campos, on Flickr

Dwarven Mech 2.0 2 by Jon Jansen Campos, on Flickr

Dwarven Mech 2.0 3 by Jon Jansen Campos, on Flickr

 

[ZORK64]

Both versions look pretty great!

 

I'm usually not too big on the whole steampunk genre, but your mech looks pretty radical. My only nitpick would be the orientation of some joints (like the hip joints) - if you would swap these around, you could get a greater range of motion. But that's really only a minor nitpick, and other than that, it's a very gerat MOC.

Edited November 8, 2017 by ZORK64

[jokerjester]

32 minutes ago, ZORK64 said:

My only nitpick would be the orientation of some joints (like the hip joints) - if you would swap these around, you could get a greater range of motion. But that's really only a minor nitpick, and other than that, it's a very gerat MOC.

Thank you. I'm working on a new version as we speak. When you suggested to swap the hip joints how can I do it in my build? I'm using this for my hip joint - https://brickset.com/parts/6043656/plate-1x2-ball-cup-friction-middle. 

Edit: I think I figured out what you mean :)

Edited November 8, 2017 by jokerjester