MECH Quad-Gun Walker MOC

Artillery pieces are to be on wheels and rely on a tow truck to get it to where it need to be deploy. Once deployed, mostly are sitting ducks target. Now it relies on soldiers to prevent enemy from getting into them and blew them up to bits.
The first innovation is to mount the gun onto a mobile chassis and that is when a tank was born - out of necessity and innovation. The next incarnation could be having the firepower on feet. This is how the Quad-Gun Mech concept came about. On feet, it added a further degree of elevation and also to allow positioning on rocky, rugged, angled terrain.
I'd like to think this design is the early beginning of a full fledged Mech suit. Akin to the Mech body on tracks. Crew protection is also an important factor to consider. However, all advancement has to start somewhere.

I did not MOC this entirely. The original incarnation is with a long barrel cannon. The crew compartment was very basic like just a flat plate piece just so that the minifig can be lodged on it. CG also not very balance. Didm't like it aesthetically.
So I took it up to modify the design to a Quad-Gun system. The legs, shield plates and "torso" are of the original design albeit slight modification were also done. ie 1 more stud width was added to either side of the shield plate to extend protection area.
Gun and Pilot's cockpit are totally redesign.

Lego type toys are highly playable and it can stretch your imagination - the sky's the limit. Mech is always one of my favorite subject to want to represent in Lego form. With enough detailed parts thrown in, it can really achieve a sorta "mechanical" form.