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Title: Build a Mechwarrior in your back yard.
Post by: Nemesis on December 22, 2004, 10:14:12 am

Link to full story (http://news.com.com/Giant+robots+in+the+backyard/2100-1026_3-5499730.html?tag=nefd.top)

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Giant robots in the backyard

In the back of Carlos Owens' southern Alaska yard, an 18-foot-tall steel robot is taking shape in the dim light of the winter afternoons.

The 26-year-old Owens is an Anchorage-area steelworker by day. In his own time, he's hoping to become the creator of a true "mecha"--not a robot, exactly, but a gigantic exoskeleton that can transform its wearer's motions into eight-foot strides and the devastating sweep of a steel fist.

Sure, it sounds like a cartoon or sci-fi fantasy--but so were moon landings 50 years ago. Owens' mecha project is well on its way to completion, its horned red head and pincher hands towering above its creator under a few inches of snow. He's hoping to finish it in time for a test spin at the local drag racetrack next summer, demolishing a few cars to show off its capabilities.

I guess he needed a hobby.

Title: Re: Build a Mechwarrior in your back yard.
Post by: S'Raek on December 22, 2004, 03:42:32 pm

Ohhhhh, I wonder if he would take an order for another one!  :D

Title: Re: Build a Mechwarrior in your back yard.
Post by: J. Carney on December 22, 2004, 03:48:17 pm

Take a look at this one- guy built his kids a MadCat for a treehouse!

(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mechwarrior/images/build2.jpg)

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mwdarkage/mw_article.asp?cid=36984&frame=news

Title: Re: Build a Mechwarrior in your back yard.
Post by: S'Raek on December 23, 2004, 04:06:55 am

Now that is awesome.  I wish I had the talent (and the money) to build something like that for my kids.