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DSL TC Showcases / Re: KupaTec DSL Designs

« on: September 09, 2019, 11:24:46 AM »

Jesus Frickin Christ how.

Welcome to GTM, also now I'm intrigued

Thanks for the welcome, I just kinda threw things together until they looked somewhat decent, to be honest. This is something like the 10-15^th revision of this bot so it just came with time and relentless rebuilding.

Wonderful stuff, I must say.

I noticed that the front angled armour panel can be flipped, then they can run flush with the wedge edges. Oh, and its got some Jilted Lover vibes :^)

Oooh, that may help me neaten up the front end a bit as no matter how I wrangled with the angled corner edge piece it didn't quite work out right. Also just went and checked out Jilted Lover and damn it is a bit similar, isn't it; I hope I'm not going to cause any issues there?

Great work my man. A tiny bit of messiness where the angle corners meet the wedge, but there's bots built by people with 10+ years of experience with worse than that so don't worry about it at all

All in all, it looks well thought-out, and well put together, which is very, very high praise for a first bot. Look forward to seeing what you put out in the future 

Thank you very much! Yeah, as I said up above I just could not get that corner to look right, this was the least messiest version that I was happy with.

I must say I am loving the warm reception and I'm looking forward to creating more bots to show you guys!

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: KupaTec DSL Designs

« on: September 09, 2019, 08:22:01 AM »

That's a great bot for a newbie. A bit plain, but very neatly laid out with a well done weapon system. I really like how you're themeing your showcase too. Keep up the good work!

Thanks Badger, I actually learnt quite a lot from your showcase, what you can do with extenders and armor panels just blows my mind. ^{I'll stop fanboying now}

Welcome to GTM! You're off to a very good start. Midknight looks really clean and well-built, and I look forward to potentially seeing it in a tournament. I also agree with Badger about the theming, it's a pretty neat touch.

Just out of curiosity, how long have you been building in DSL? I get the impression you've been practicing for a while now before making this thread.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I've been playing around with DSL for a month or so now, mostly learning how to make a functional bot, then spent the last couple days really working on MIDKNIGHT in order to get it to state where I was happy to show it off. It is a little plain, which I was worried was going to be picked up on, though I am trying to get my head around skinning the panels to give my future bots a bit more personality.

I, too, am looking forward to entering a tournament once I get my bearings, so watch this space!

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: KupaTec DSL Designs

« on: September 09, 2019, 06:25:47 AM »

Here is my first bot to show off, been playing around with it quite a bit and am happy with both the performance and design so I figured why not show it off?

A pretty simple flipper bot that packs a small punch with a decent amount of armor to boot.
Capable of self-righting in most situations, however the base is covered in polycarb so not the strongest from below.
MIDKNIGHT is the evolution of my first ever extenderbot so even though it may not be the most powerful bot out there it will always have a place in my heart.

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DSL TC Showcases / KupaTec DSL Designs

« on: September 09, 2019, 06:19:00 AM »

Hello and welcome to my showcase for my DSL design bots. I mostly build in an IRL style and
(while I'm not the best) love building extenderbots. Hopefully you guys enjoy my builds and I
can bounce ideas off of you to get advice and feedback in order to improve my building.

Table of Contents:
MIDKNIGHT
TWISTED FATE//REBORN
LAUNCH CONTROL
MORTAL COIL//BULLSHOT
SYZYGY
REBEL RAINBOW//BUZZTED