12-05-2012, 11:06 PM
(12-05-2012, 10:59 PM)Pickle Wrote: A guy tried to sell a hydraulic mech warrior on ebay. You had to use a ladder to climb in if i remember right. Looked just like the transformers. Only wanted 40k.
Hahahaha
The crazy stuff people build.There is a, however, in terms of design a world of difference between hydraulic legs and/or a self contained and able to function non stop for possibly years on its own with just a river and some sunlight creature where one of the easiest components are hydraulic legs...
Still, that does sound about right, in terms of complexity its probably about 2-3 times more difficult to build than a mech from a hydraluics standpoint, so maybe 80-120k for the hull itself (assuming he had no fancy electronics on it) then the interiors (fuels, waters, fire and all that so that it doesnt just use a "you have to exchange butane bottle every time you use the lighter" cheesy fake effect but actual self contained fire. We cant a creautre, not a pair of mechanical legs.)
Fits roughly there, 80-120k for the chassis, another that much for everything else besides the software for movement and such which would probably in the same general price range if actually made well, then the tests and skin like surfaces and what not. I would say its somewhere between 300k to 400k dollars to actually build this, if you get a proffesional team working for you for free like these guys did. I'm talking about if you hand me without a team a pile of money how much i would have to shelf out to various construction companies to get it done regardless of if i have 100 guys working for me or if i'm doing it alone.
Its difficult to gauge how much the group effort was, if they had been working proffesionals, but hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.