The Walking Base!

[Martin0]

This is a wip, i have to fix a few things and figure how to send it to minmus.

Currently a bit under 300 parts, i have no idea how much heavy it is.

If anyone have a good idea to launch it in spaaaaace let me know

EDIT: Ive landed it on minmus

Edited June 29, 2014 by Martin0

[The Destroyer]

Attach boosters. Lots of sls boosters.

[icemonkey]

Not that this isn't one of the most awesome things i've seen in ksp to date, but... erm... Why?

[Martin0]

Not that this isn't one of the most awesome things i've seen in ksp to date, but... erm... Why?

Well because... umh... i can and.. erm... its cool?

Also Star wars, Wild Wild West, and Arms Forts Spirit of Motherwill and huge walking machines. Cool. Awesome.

And there is really no reason to NOT do it

Or are you shocked by the music?

You should check out my Bug Rover

[Voculus]

That is frakkin' awesome! I love the deployable rover, too! You know what would make it even better? Changing the walk speed to 50. And posting the video.

[Martin0]

That is frakkin' awesome! I love the deployable rover, too! You know what would make it even better? Changing the walk speed to 50. And posting the video.

Done

[Castille7]

too cool!!

[icemonkey]

Done

http://youtu.be/ucuYqy_RhAQ

That worked surprisingly well. Almost more smooth at 50 than at 10!

[Robotengineer]

Awesome, reminds me of the AT-TE from star wars.

[Voculus]

Look at that thing move! Ramming speed! I hope you find a way to get that to the Mun. I'd love to see how your base would navigate the steep slopes.

[Martin0]

UPDATE: the base landed on minmus and started dancing.

[Sparker]

I haven't seen this thread before...

Great!

There is no such big number on the awesomeness meter, really

[Parallax]

how did you get it to walk on its own when you were in the rover?

[Kerbayashi Maru]

Imagine seeing that coming over a ridge right towards you on the Mun, after landing in the dark. . .

[Martin0]

how did you get it to walk on its own when you were in the rover?

I just activated the IR docking washers with an action group and switched craft

Unfortunately the new version of infernal robotics is save-crushing, so i'll have to rebuild it again

[O-Doc]

Love it. Now make a centipede.

[prophet_01]

This is cool. Its amazing how well it behaves at high speeds. I was realy surprised how awesome it looks at 50. I expected a total desaster and not something like this I wonder how it works in rough terrain like cratees or small canyons. Would be interesting to see its performance compared to a rover. I think this kind of vehicle might hafe an actual use, although maybe in a emaler scaled version.

Btw it might be able to go even faster if u use quantum struts or something else to fix the whoble by strengthening the structure while u walk straight vorward and dont need to turn.

Anyway a great design

[Martin0]

I already made a smaller thing, the Bug, you can see it here The-Bug-Rover