cool JR. It is actually the foot of a free tutorial at 3D-Palace to model a Warhammer Dreadnaught mech.

I finished the model but never rigged it because although I could get the pistons figured out I just could not figure how to do the rest of the rigging and I cannot find any good tutorials that cover rigging a mechanical thing like a mech.

From the looks of Kurt's Maya 8.5 mech tutorial the mech has simple joints that can be simply parented. All the mechs I have built have pistons and things that have to be rigged.

I guess it would have some bits I could learn, but I'd love to see a tutorial on rigging this mech.