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Having friend'd Mike Rayhawk himself on Facebook is glorious. Yesterday, he posted a link to this guy's personal LEGO redesign project. The research and schematics behind it are insanely extensive, and everything looks perfectly functional. The sketches themselves were even really nice...

And thus, feeling inspired, I popped open my shiny copy of GIMP early yesterday afternoon and set to work. I did some extensive study of his style.

By about 2 AM, I came out of the fray with this little mech...

... And while I certainly haven't copied his style precisely, I'm pretty damn proud of the result. Gotta stop saving it as jpeg, though. Damn artifacts....