Very nice design, I'm still short of pieces to make it true, but really it is impressive. Thanks for sharing this just studying your design is great, I may have to build it in separate parts until I can bricklink everything else.

I personally think you are among the best players on this site, not only because of your MOCs, but also your great sharing. I did learn a lot from you, sincerely thanks! Kindly check my MOC developed on your model: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/402514 Looking forward to more of your brilliant models!

I like how the cockpit opens!

Well, it has been about a year sine you uploaded anything so i say go ahead and upload the MK III, even if it is not different it might inspire you to do something else. Anyways, i have no idea if you will get this message, or if you are even on moc pages anymore. But whatever you are doing i hope you are having a good time.

Amazing mech and nice weaponry!

Heya, Zero! :D Actually, I happen to have a Mark III variant of the Grenadier built. It's got new weapons, a slightly different cockpit, and I switched the mounts for the rockets to Omnihub mounts (with the grey T-pieces) so that different weapons could be mounted there. Unfortunately even with these new features it's not really different enough to post yet.

cant believe i missed you on here for all this time, again great job with it, it may see some combat action soon...

why do you use that wired background it looks stranage nice mach though i think

I wont be able to post any new tech due to LDD being soo laggy : I'll try to post my thing with all my tech on it...

@arik :O they did >:3 imma post some stuffs on your creation than :D

alright, just wondering. :) I'll have to do see your stuff in the Creation Lab. by the way, they brought back the comments on the Creation Lab.

@Arik No you dont know me x3 i saw your work and couldnt comment. But I'm arnas113 on teh creation lacb :D

hi! erm, you don't happen to be someone I know pretty well from the LUCL, do you? it's hard to tell from your name. :P

THIS IS TEH MOST EPIC PEICE OF ART IN THE UNIVERSE!!! :3 Ok now that's out,I saw this on LUCL but I couldn't comment, so I made a account here and found you. :P I downloaded this to look at it and found tremendous amount of detail... i was scared of all the detail :P Over all, great job! :D

I love it! Keep it up :D

I'd probably not involve Star Wars in it, except that I'm putting together a storyline with most of my Mechs, this included, involved in it. personally I think this would be a lot better with machine guns or something. oh well, it still turned out well. and as nice as machine guns would have been, rapid-fire heavy laser cannons are still pretty awesome. and racing stripes? hmm... I'm not sure. this is supposed to be a realistic military-issue unit, and militaries typically don't put racing stripes on their vehicles. I might do sort of a custom unit with a special color scheme, though.

Cool stuff, especially the legs. Hope to see more builds like this soon.

I might try this in real life. this is, at least theoretically, one of my sturdier builds (obviously I don't actually know that, but the construction looks fairly sturdy). there is the slight problem that I have almost none of these bricks in my collection, but with Christmas coming that could change. and I'll look into your MOC. :)

a hatch on the back? that's definitely a good idea. huh, I'll have to think about that. technically most of its key systems (power core, computer, etc.) are located in the back, but I could change that.

I usually dislike LDD builds, but this, this is outstanding, I would love to see this in real bricks. Also, of you have time, take a look at this http://mocpages.com/moc.php/299152

Really cool! I really like the grenade drums on the primary cannons. Very nice details all around.

Cockpits don't typically give me much trouble, but my biggest problem is having all these ideas in my head about how it should look and having to figure out how to implement them in LDD.

Now you're getting the swing of things. Looks good, though again, the Star Wars involvement kind of ruined it for me. Still, good looking unit, decent weaponry. Maybe some coloration? Racing stripes, something. Well, anyway, all my opinion, disregard if need be. ^Blub^

This thing is amazing! You made something very incredible this time. The legs look really nice along with the weapons. The cockpit idea is good as well, tough I imagined something like a hatch on the back or something. The overall design looks a bit like a mix of a Dreadnaught from WH40k and a Battlemech. Oh and there are mobile suits that step on people while blowing everything into dust, but those are mostly the grunts and appear only for seconds :P Nice job!

Nice work

*gasp* the Grenadier got itself onto MOCpages Home!

Love the chunkiness of it. Great work!

ugh, yeah, feet are a pain. that and cockpits are (at least in my opinion) the hardest parts of designing Mechs.

I've just started work on a UPIG walker, but I can never seem to get the feet just right on my mechs... Ah, well. I'll think of something. =)

yeah, you can just picture this thing in combat. its laser cannons are pounding away at ranks of infantry in their desperate charge. it unleashes a pair of proton grenades that detonate a short distance away and instantly vaporize a dozen soldiers. then it lifts up its foot and crunches down on a soldier that got too close for his own good. you just can't picture a Gundam or anything like that doing that kind of stuff. :P

nope.

I suppose that it would be typical to use reverse leg joints, but I always preferred the dog-leg style. I might try to incorporate that instead. And yes, big huge stompy western-style mechs usually do look epic. I think it's probably because shoulder-mounted grenade launchers and the like aren't really as believable on a skinnier frame.

Apparently you haven't seen AVATAR....

XD unfortunately I'm not familiar with the RDA AMP-Suit (is it from a movie or something?), but that was still hilarious. I just about fell over when you said "...on Steroids".

the reason I made it a support unit is because, while it can stand pretty well on its own, a single unit can be infinitely useful assisting large numbers of infantry move quickly and safely across the battlefield, and would also do well as a defensive unit. although I do agree, this thing really deserves some bigger guns and bigger jobs. I've already spotted about twenty dozen problems with the Grenadier, so I'll probably post a Mk.III soon that fixes these. and with it, I might make a variant of it designed for a different role.

I Like it! it looks like a Chunk-a-fied, Star Wars-Adapted version of the good old RDA Amplified Mobility Platform*....On Seroids ;P -----*Amplified Mobility Platfom: AMP-Suit for short ----- "Fire Everything!" -Nero

oh, I dunno, maybe it's because the only humanoid Mechs I make (not including mini-Mechs) are Mech Battle Suits, which are really hard to make. okay, I probably don't know what I'm talking about. :P

GREAT JOB ARIK!!! This baby is just so cool looking. But why'd you make it support mecha? I think it could stand by itself in a fight easily. Besides, larger mecha are more difficult to build and cost more money. Personally, I think support mecha should be the mainstay in futuristic wars. Again, great job!

Quoting arik lego: I'd suggest trying a walker. they're typically a bit easier to build than most other Mechs, and usually look awesome too. the key characteristics of a walker are usually that 1. it lacks any human-ish features (like a head, arms, hands, etc.) and 2. its legs are usually reverse-joint (hence the nickname "chicken walker" that most walkers have). if you want an example, think of AT-STs and AT-RTs from Star Wars. those two rules don't always apply, but they almost always do. Really? Personally, I think humanoid mecha are easier to make.

I'd suggest trying a walker. they're typically a bit easier to build than most other Mechs, and usually look awesome too. the key characteristics of a walker are usually that 1. it lacks any human-ish features (like a head, arms, hands, etc.) and 2. its legs are usually reverse-joint (hence the nickname "chicken walker" that most walkers have). if you want an example, think of AT-STs and AT-RTs from Star Wars. those two rules don't always apply, but they almost always do.

umm, not sure. I based it pretty heavily on Chunk's old Stalwart (not the TAM-X Stalwart, his older Stalwart Heavy Mech), and the frames are probably similar enough to be compatible. and the way it's designed should make it fairly compatible with other Mechs as well. I'm not really sure about the legs, though. I tried to make the legs with as much armor as possible, and they're kinda tight. hmm, maybe I should change the rocket pods to an omnihub mount.

Firstly: Woah, what a beast. Secondly: It is CBMC Classic compatable? At first glance I thought it was but after looking closer I'm not so sure (the computer I'm using ATT is too old for anything beyond LDD 3.0 so I can't open the file).

"Any enemies stupid enough to peek over their cover will instantly get pounded into mashed potatoes," and yet, it seems to me that with this mech they don't even have to come out from behind their cover for that to happen. =) Excellent work! And in minifig scale? Bravo!

I should really try my hand at this type of mech... Seems like it would be less hassle trying to get the arm articulation right. All I'd need is a single ball joint (or one of the Exo-Force joints) under each shoulder (like you did) and I wouldn't even have to worry about hands for weapon swapping.

you like my background? :D I got the circuitry picture off the internet, then sent it through some major Photoshopping work such as changing the color and things. I've made several variants, and this is probably my favorite. and thanks for the sword idea! :) maybe I'll give my blastsword another try...

sweet! the mech itself is awesome, and so is the background! love the look of it! (btw, the way I made the sword stable was I put pieces lined up sideways then locked them together with plates. then I embellished the sword.)