At the end of July, there's going to be a weekend-long display in the centre of Ottawa featuring two giant robots - a spider and a dragon. At the moment, they are being tested out at the Aviation and Space Museum, a few minutes from our house, so this morning, Graham and I went out there to have a look.
The spider was in the main museum area, but we got a look over the fence.
The dragon was being tested out by the storage hanger.
The dragon blows smoke out of its nostrils, and has red glowing eyes, so the displays should be pretty impressive!
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They both look amazing!
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Very spectacular indeed, especially with the smoke from the dragon's nose!iggie wrote:They both look amazing!
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They really look impressive. I admire the people who obviously put lot of work in to those.
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Good Lord! Those are pretty spectacular - what's the occasion?
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It's part of the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation.PaulBradley wrote:Good Lord! Those are pretty spectacular - what's the occasion?
A nice bit of large scale scratchbuilding on these robots.
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Needs more weathering...
Very impressive work indeed, thanks for sharing Andrew. That's a pretty cool museum to have near your house.
Very impressive work indeed, thanks for sharing Andrew. That's a pretty cool museum to have near your house.
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Wow. Although he Dragon looks a lot more like a horse!. In the first picture is the creature standing in front of or behind the fence? At least the Spider's covered his legs!!!!
(Sorry, not meant in any horrible way! )
(Sorry, not meant in any horrible way! )
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My legs are shorter, fatter and hairier than the spider's.MarkyM607 wrote:Wow. Although he Dragon looks a lot more like a horse!. In the first picture is the creature standing in front of or behind the fence? At least the Spider's covered his legs!!!!
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