AAV-12 "Anubis"

[Saberwing40k]

Location: Kubrick UNSC Base, Earth's Moon.

Time: 1944 Hours. Date: 31/5/2032

"Enter.", I said, after I heard a knock on my door. In came a young, female lieutenant. She saluted, then handed me a thick sheet of papers. "Intelligence wants you to look at this. Do you recognize this machine?",she asked. I looked at the picture, and gasped. It was very dark, but I could still make out the distinctive head shape. No doubt, it was one of my designs.

"It's impossible, it can't possibly---",I trailed off. I felt a major headache coming on. "What's wrong?", asked the lieutenant. "I can't believe this. I personally destroyed the only prototype, and hid the plans. The only way they could have--",I trailed off again. It just dawned on me. The random computer glitches for the past week, it wasn't a coincidence. Someone had hacked my computer, and stolen the design. "What is it, sir?", asked the lieutenant. "It is a rebuilt AAV-12, Lieutenant Eris." "Is it dangerous?" "If they managed to work out the kinks, then yes, very. Lieutenant, inform the commanders immediately. I don't no what Tabgha is planning this time, but we'd best be ready. In addition, have Tech scan all the computers. I want to know how my plans got out, and if whoever took them left us any unpleasant surprises." She saluted, then walked back out the door. This was a really troubling development, I could tell from the magnitude of my headache.....

Ha Ha, yes it is Technic, but you won't get more information until tomorrow .

[DLuders]

Sounds mysterious! According to Wikipedia an "Anubis" is a "is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion":

[DLuders]

Ha Ha, yes it is Technic, but you won't get more information until tomorrow .

@ Saberwing40k: Aren't you going to tell us more?

[Saberwing40k]

@ Saberwing40k: Aren't you going to tell us more?

Yes, I am. As soon as I have acess to my computer, you'll get more pictures. For now, I've got to batten down the hatches, there's a tornado warning in my area.

[Saberwing40k]

Finally, an update. It's not going to be in story format, maybe next time.

Before you get the pictures, you're going to need a little back story. This project started life as something I did for my speech writing class in school. It is a model of Mech I designed, based off of current and near future technology, including electromotive polymers, and carbon nanotubes. It is loosely based on a fictional class of mecha, called Arm Slaves, as seen in the anime Full Metal Panic!

However, when I say loosely, I do mean loosely. Aside from similar size and capabilities, the AAv-12 shares nothing with any of the Arm Slaves in the show.

It is a roughly 1:24 scale model, and would stand about 30 feet tall in real life. Sadly, the model itself cannot stand on it's own. and it has no hand held weapons to speak of. Ah well, that's for Version 2.0.

Anyway, enough of my prattling. Here it is, without any armor.

Now, if you're wondering why this is in the Technic forum, and not elsewhere, it's because of the fact that it is mostly made out of Technic parts, and is a detailed representation of a (potential) real world object.

The legs, up close.

Each knee joint has 2 friction elements, in addition to being made out of ratcheting joints. The ankles are double ball jointed, and have one friction element each.

The hands, used almost completely unchanged from another lego set.

Also, this counts as a close up of the hip joints, which proved to be the undoing of this model. It's not that the joints themselves are weak. Because of the fact that the legs were made to be easily removable, the connection to the torso is weak and sloppy. That, combined with the worthless torso joint and heavy topside, means that it tips over quite easily.

The hand, again.

The arm blades.

These twin blades are the only built in weapons the AAV-12 prototype has. They are based on one from an old Bionecle set, and can deploy individually, or together.

Deployed.

The head.

This was without a doubt the hardest part to design. As to why it has no eyes, i just could not find a way to have visible ones, and make it look right. Also in this picture is the cockpit. It can seat one Technic figure, though not very well. the two bent bars seen to either side of the neck are the motion readers, which would strap around the arms of the pilot.

Another perspective of the hip joints.

Only a double pin holds each leg to the torso.

A gas turbine engine.

This is a pair of gas turbine engines, which would power the real thing. This is only one of two sets, making for a total of four engines.

The armor.

This is the armor that will go around the mech. starting at the left is the tors armor, then arms, then legs. Off to the side is the back and hind waist armor.

The seat of the pilot.

This is where the pilot would sit. on the right are the control pedals, and on the left are the arm motion readers.

Armored up.

All armor except the back has been added. I kind of like the red, titanium metallic, and lime metallic coloring, but the other colors throw it off.

The back.

This shows the twin spinal cords, and the back of the hip joints.

Engines in.

The lower waist armor and the gas turbine engines have been installed. But what's the mystery device in the middle? It's actually a Lambda Driver. fuel tank, yeah, definitely not some piece of of classified technology with godlike power.

All armor on.

Yeah, more Bionecle parts. 3MTA3

The back of the legs.

Not much to say, other than pay attention to the knee joints.

Weapons.

The sucktastic weapons I threw together for this thing. It was originally going to have much better weapons, but the due date came up, and this is all I had.

Overall.

Sadly this picture came out sideways, for some reason.

The chest.

An up close view of the chest armor. I really should have covered the shoulders better.

Cockpit open.

Inside.

It's really quite snug in there.

Goofing off.

"Whadya want, meatbag?"

Anyway, there isn't a whole lot else to say. If you want to read the whole speech, let me know and I'll edit this post to include it.

Thanks for reading.

Edited June 7, 2012 by Saberwing40k