Rice Weevil

Hexapodal assault vehicle and landing craft used primarily by the U.S. Army during the late Flea War. The name is a long, roundabout play on words. I was thinking of the Grant “Short Bull” tank, and came up with a mech design I called the Bull Weevil (as in Boll Weevil, ha ha). This amphibious variant deployed in the Indochina theatre thus became the Rice Weevil.

There are flaws in this drawing, even for a “scrap.” The perspective on the “head” portion (the forward cabin) looks screwy, but could we be charitable and say it’s an articulated segment pivoting on a swivel joint, perhaps…?

I don’t usually employ this much surface faceting in my machine designs, but I kind of liked it at the time.