Shinigami Mech

Description: This is a mech I designed for the Cooler Master 2007 contest. I call it the Shinigami mech (mechwarrior has a mech for every word in the dictionary it seems, so I went with a Japanese name.)
I loosely designed the weapons after real word weapons. The right side gun is supposed to be a double auto 8 inch artillery gun, the missile banks consist of 16 SAM and 6 SSM per side, then you have the Auto cannons that sit directly below those that I was inspired by the Bofers auto cannon in the spooky-2 gunship, last is her BFG gatling gun on her left that was inspired by the gau-8 gatling on the A-10 warthog’s.
Right below the missile bays (which are basically the blowholes for the 4 in 3 devices) are the optical drives; they can be hard to see.
The front canopy sports a ¼ inch heat bent piece of Plexiglas.
The camo is based off a navel concept that doesn’t necessarily conceal as much as disrupt the shape. This is to keep unguided weapons from hitting weak points. I just kind of adapted it into an urban look. My Daughter’s and Wife’s names are hidden in the camo, the rear exhaust fan grill looks like camo but is actually my initials ( DS ).
The top holds 2- 120 mm blue fans that flip up for easy access to the mother board, which is on a tray that the back door holds in place. The 4 in 3 devices are easily removed by removing the grill and sliding the whole device out the rear.
She’s articulated in 9 places, and the best one I like is the head moves 90 degrees total from left to right.
The missile bays are held in with rare earth magnets so you can easily hook up power and such to the HDD’s and optical drives.
The mech is built with 1 inch pine and some cherry veneer. It has been glued with gorilla glue then screwed together. Most holes have been filled with bondo then sanded.
I have about 480 hours labor into it with 55 of it for the paint job.
The individual pieces are held together with ¾ in threaded rod.
The dimensions are 4 ½ feet tall by 42 inches wide by 39 inches deep. It weighs in at around 120 pounds.

Cooler Master Products used;
1. 1000 watt real power pro
2. 4 in 3 device module x 2
3. 120 mm blue led fans x 9
4. GeminII heat sink
5. High performance thermal compound
6. CM 281 vfd and control panel (not really a product but part of a case.)

The Rest;
AMD 3500
1 gig ram
gforce 7600 gs
150 gb sata WD Raptor
3 – 250 gig WD IDE HDD
MSI 550 theater pro
SB x-fi
2 lightscvribe dvd’s
Zerotherm gx 815 gamer edition vga cooler
MSI K8N-Neo 4 mother board
worklog is here http://forums.pcapex.com/project_worklogs/114268-shinigami_mech.html
Need bigger pics? http://www.flickr.com/photos/13593952@N03/sets/72157603173096243/

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