How Could I Improve...

Can someone look over this, please?


Name: Blue Sparks
Shape: Box
Colour: Red, with blue sparks painted on the back corners. If youve played the Mario Kart games, think the ones you get when you drift-turbo
Weight: 110kgs
Dimensions: L: 90cm W: 45cm H: 30cm
Speed: 13mph
Turning Circle: 0
Armour: 6mm Titanium all round
Ground Clearance: 7mm
Movement: Tracks, powered by a couple of S28-150 magmotors powered by 2 NiCad Battlepacks at 24 Volts.
Weapons: A 30kg Titanium horizontal spinning disc powered by a S28-150 Magmotor. The 2 teeth are Hardox, and curve to a point to rip as well as bludgeon. The disc spins at 5000rpm and deals out 94kjs of energy.
Scrimech: Invertable

Stating what the tracks are made of may help, otherwise it looks pretty good.

Danny,

3 points:
A: the body length vs with makes it pretty narrow, which especially with tracks makes cornering a problem.

B: Titanium is a good choice if you want something that is strong as regular steel, but for less weight. In discs that is not needed. You would be better off with a high grade steel like toolsteel, Hardox, Creusabro and the likes of those. The impact resistance and hardness is way higher than that of Ti. 30kg is 30kg, whatever the material.

C: You stated 2 24V packs for drive with the S28-150s thats doable (although you will run them hot in 5 min) but nothing for the disc.


(Message edited by leo-rcc on May 16, 2008)

Danny,
Unless youre doing something very clever with the minimag, your disk will take about two minutes to get up to speed and since its not a massive weapon motor, you cant say but it will be deadly in 5s cause it wont.

I would either change the weapon motor or reduce your maximum speed (and energy).

i would say 2 24v battle packs isnt doable and wont last long at all. tracked machines have a lot of friction to deal with which drains the batteries quicker. trax had 5 24v nicad packs and only just lasted a full battle. that was with c40 mags the s28 150 will overheat and damage something.

Please tell me if there is anything wrong with Side Swipe:


Side Swipe
Weight: 110kg
Shape: Barberous 2 with tracks
Colour: Silver
Dimensions: 39cm x 90cm x 39cm
Drive: 2x TWM3R Team Whyachi gearboxes connected to 2x C40-300 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 59cm x 10cm x 39cm titanium tank tracks.
Armour: 7mm Titanium/Vanadium alloy
Speed: 16mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front due to Sheer Heart Attack 2 style wedge, at sides due to skirts over the tracks. 5mm all around without wedge and skirts.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon 1: the Barberous 2 shaped body spins at 760rpm, powered by an S28-400 Magmotor.
Weapon 2: An 7kg Terrorhurtz style axehead, for use as a thwackbot weapon.
Srimech: Invertible

Its a Laertes clone

If its got an axe, it wont be exactly as long as it is high...ffffff>and you blatantly stole the design.
this is not a hidden arse

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Ive skipped three lines to say one thing:
If I were you Mark, I would stop copying vapours. Your vapours are better than your tourneys anyway, so if you were to try very hard and not copy anyone.

ffffff>It works a lot better when the colour matches the background :P

Hehe, unlucky Liam - your post co-incided with a grey background so that your secret message shows up :)

(Message edited by K_C_R on May 16, 2008)