Shrapnel - Feather Vert Spinner

[Revsmin]

I told myself I'd do more events in 2020 after I'd finished my postgrad


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STUFF 2: THE STUFFENING

Not much to report on the bot itself. Shrapnel as you know it is retiring to go live on a̶ ̶f̶a̶r̶m̶ my shelf as a nice display piece. I could bring her back to events very easily after having a slight massive battery fire at its last event, since everything was still entirely intact bar the battery after the bolts holding the base on tore out their mounts and I got beached on my own arse (I'd always felt that base was too thin but couldn't be bothered to do anything about it, shows me I guess). There are more dignified ways to go out but the fire made it more epic so I shan't complain.

Anyway I took the opportunity lockdown gave me to spend a lot of time working on a redux of the design, since there were a few areas I was unhappy with and I'd been wanting to change up the front end for a while anyway.

I'm broke as hell rn but as soon as I can afford it, this disgusting piece of nightmare fuel will be at an event near you!







It's less of a sequel and more of a redo, since in terms of design the main body is exactly the same, except now it's HDPE instead of Hardox, which saves a lot of weight and should be tougher.

New disc should be more aggressive, same mass, diameter and speed as the original, just MOAR tooth because it was definitely necessary and not just because I can

Internally she's gonna be basically the same, the only difference really is it'll now be two batteries instead of 1 since I can fit more capacity in that way

The main differences are that the front end is totally redesigned, the floaty wedge was very successful as an idea but it wasn't an ideal shape for most opponents, hence the new bent HDPE armour setup which allows for a range of different wedgelets and forks.

The original armour will return with some extra meat and more favorable angles for dealing with those pesky horizontals and undercutters, alongside a few others for drums and those new annoying big wheely bois that do me a concern

I never got round to painting the original and it became the brown spinner, but I won't be pressed for time this time around so I intend to give her a proper fancy theme and paintjob

Hopefully I can make some progress on this soon but don't hold your breath, I am literally skint :cri:

See you all at an event soon hopefully xx