Brickdoctor Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Deployed by Terran forces in urban environments, the K-130s Infantry Fighting Vehicle is designed to navigate cities with ease, keeping the peace and dealing with smaller threats. Finally made a sci-fi military vehicle I'm happy with. I designed the whole thing around an eight-wheeled variant of Legohaulic's Steering Technique that I used in my previous MOC, except instead of tilting the whole vehicle, only a central rod is rotated. A gear assembly allows the model to be steered by turning the turret. I believe I first saw the ammo chain technique in an MOC by Karf Oohlu, but I don't remember which one. The K-130s has a rather small cargo hold that is open-topped, so the vehicle is not ideal for transporting sensitive and/or highly explosive materials. I don't pretend to be an expert in military vehicles; this MOC isn't meant to be extremely realistic. It's not an SPII vehicle, either, despite the minifigs. I did the color scheme first, and the minifigs sort of followed. Hence the dk. grey hips and black visors. The K-130s' hood protects a military-grade sensor suite that provides the main computer system with data to regulate the nitty-gritty details of the vehicle, in addition to supplemental targeting information that's fed to the targeting computer. The K-130s mounts a single multi-purpose rapid-fire rocket launcher designed for use against aircraft, armor, and infantry alike. Standard crew of a K-130s is two, a driver and a gunner. Only a driver is needed to operate the vehicle, as the vehicle's two computers can fire the gun, albeit with much less effectiveness. K-130s's traveling away from a base for more than twelve Terran hours are also accompanied by an engineer. Finished July 2011, C&C welcome. Thanks for looking! Quote
Legostein Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Hello! It's great to see those space police figures back in business here! The vehicle is a really tricky built! Realising those angles requires really tricky assembling! Cheers, ~ Christopher Quote
Hoboman Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Very Nice. I like the undercarrage. Nice work. The ammo strip was good too. Quote
lightningtiger Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Nice SNOT work 'Brick Doctor', that's one mean gun ! Brick On Police On ! Quote
Brickdoctor Posted July 14, 2011 Author Posted July 14, 2011 Thanks, guys. It's great to see those space police figures back in business here! The vehicle is a really tricky built! Realising those angles requires really tricky assembling! Indeed it is. They fit in really well with the color scheme of this vehicle, which, yes, was rather tricky with it's angles. It turned out a lot sturdier than I thought it would, though, even with all the angles, so I'm happy about that. Quote
brickmack Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Nice military vehicle. The steering looks nice. The ammo chain is awesome also. The wheels look a bit small though IMHO. Quote
Brickdoctor Posted July 14, 2011 Author Posted July 14, 2011 The wheels look a bit small though IMHO. They probably are, but they needed to be in order to add the steering. Any larger and they'd touch whenever the model turned, in addition to forcing me to make the vehicle taller. Quote
Masked Builder Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Very nice Brickdoctor! It has a very unique shape that I like. I'm always happy to see new MOCs from you. Quote
CommanderFox Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Sticking to your snot i see. Nice work, I really like the gun and how your've roped the technic pieces together. Keep it up! CF Quote
Julandrius Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Though the green is not very appealing in my opninion. I have to say that this is a very good space-ish vehicle. I'm sure I couldn't do it better. But maybe try to change the green to dark or light blue. Quote
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