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Amongst the newest designs and maybe the most complicated one I ever did when it comes to the legs and the mechanics behind them.

Fluff: The Turia Militech TA67 Tarantula 1.0 walker/tank hybrid for all terrain operations is the first and so far only post war Turia Militech design. It's prototype was build shortly after the end of the terrible initial Robot attack in the last remaining Turian underground facility by surviving members of the design and montage teams and they continue producing a small number of this powerful warmachines alongside it's well known precursor- the SP66 Spider- in the few capable mobile manufactures of Seeker and Scavangers.
The- for its size and mass- remarkable mobile TA67 is extremly heavy armored, from the one-pilot cockpit to the massive mine- and blaster-resistant full-ceramic tires and leg joints.
It is equiped with a phasing radar system and usually armed with a devastating arsenal of weapons, including most of the typical Spider armament- a 57mm rapid fire projectile cannon, Hailfire anti personal blaster array and external rails for two heavy armor piercing missiles, only the Spider's support blaster is replaced by a rapid fire dual laser cannon. The basic version also includes a multi missile launcher with eight chambers, a pair of vertical launch missile racks, a heavy blaster for close combat, two long range gattling blaster and a deadly heavy Venom Cannon.
However, even the Tarantula is not without some design flaws: Unlike the Spider's, the Tarantula's cockpit can not be rotated, putting a strict limit to its direct firing weapons arcs and the phasing radar dish has to be brought into a fixed position before it can fire its VLM- still it is one of the most powerfull battlemachines ever fielded by any faction.

Description
Amongst the newest designs and maybe the most complicated one I ever did when it comes to the legs and the mechanics behind them.

Fluff: The Turia Militech TA67 Tarantula 1.0 walker/tank hybrid for all terrain operations is the first and so far only post war Turia Militech design. It's prototype was build shortly after the end of the terrible initial Robot attack in the last remaining Turian underground facility by surviving members of the design and montage teams and they continue producing a small number of this powerful warmachines alongside it's well known precursor- the SP66 Spider- in the few capable mobile manufactures of Seeker and Scavangers.
The- for its size and mass- remarkable mobile TA67 is extremly heavy armored, from the one-pilot cockpit to the massive mine- and blaster-resistant full-ceramic tires and leg joints.
It is equiped with a phasing radar system and usually armed with a devastating arsenal of weapons, including most of the typical Spider armament- a 57mm rapid fire projectile cannon, Hailfire anti personal blaster array and external rails for two heavy armor piercing missiles, only the Spider's support blaster is replaced by a rapid fire dual laser cannon. The basic version also includes a multi missile launcher with eight chambers, a pair of vertical launch missile racks, a heavy blaster for close combat, two long range gattling blaster and a deadly heavy Venom Cannon.
However, even the Tarantula is not without some design flaws: Unlike the Spider's, the Tarantula's cockpit can not be rotated, putting a strict limit to its direct firing weapons arcs and the phasing radar dish has to be brought into a fixed position before it can fire its VLM- still it is one of the most powerfull battlemachines ever fielded by any faction.