One January evening Jim arrived home from work early and there were two pickup trucks in the driveway with him. Oh yeah, he had said something about getting a couple of old shipping crates for the kids to play with. He and his friends unloaded the crates and dragged them into the garage. Little did either of us know then that these crates would take over our garage for many months to come and keep Jim very busy for the next seven months.
At first it was going to be a simple little fort, nail the crates together cut a door and a couple windows, throw on some paint and voila the kids have a playhouse. But change had already set in; the girls started talking about a tree house so the design evolved “upwards” to a fort on stilts. Over the next week as the “air fort” design was coming together a shift in paradigm occurred. When looking at the crates, Jim’s Mech-riddled brain now saw two LRM racks. So the question was posed to the children…. How about a “Mech tree house”? They love watching Daddy play the game with his team the ComStar Guard (http://www.comstarguard.com) as part of the Free Universe Mechwarriors League (http://www.fuml.net), and they each have their favorite Mech so the idea was an instant hit. The type of Mech was obvious, a Madcat, the two LRM racks sealed its fate (plus the fact that it is really one of the simplest chassis with more interior room for the playhouse). And so, with some screen shots from the game, the MW4 game manual, a caliper, and a pile of paper, the sketching began. The scale was set by the size of the crates and the height of the garage door resulting in an overall average of approximately 38%. To tell the truth there really aren’t any plans for the thing… more like scrapes of papers with small working sketches and calculations, most of which were scattered around the yard and garage.
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chaddukes wrote:This is what happens when dad is a nerd!
True dat!
I expecially liked this part:
...They love watching Daddy play the game with his team the ComStar Guard (http://www.comstarguard.com) as part of the Free Universe Mechwarriors League (http://www.fuml.net)....
How old is the dad?
