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Hi there, With a load of thanks to Terry. My plane is finally publicly viewable. The address is: (URL) to remind you what I am rambling about: This plane helped me to get my job as Lego technic designer. Happy building, and let me know what you (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Whoa! So, when do we get to see this released as a set, Jeroen? :) -- Mark Koesel koesel@umich.edu Jeroen Ottens <ottens@get2net.dk> wrote in message 01be6743$de1d8960$28...@ottens... (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sonofa-! I'd have hired you too! I hope that that sort of creativity will be reflected in kits TLG releases later. If they can do it with a SuperCar, why not a jet? Wow. ........ don't mind me, just staring. (wiping drool). Ben V. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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holy sh.....that is about all i can say right now...im too stunned!!! (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Jeroen, Awesome! Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) *sigh* ;') *sniff* *tear dab* After seeing that, my faith in TLG has been refreshed. Simply a wonderful model. I need to build a spaceship like that sometime. Then I could call myself a builder. Two questions to you Jeroen, that you can (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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To answer your questions partially: My Tomcat helped me to get the job, so people in here do look at that. The advertisement I answered to asked for young people... Jeroen Ottens (private mail) Tom McDonald <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it's interesting to see that the model is built in the LEGO Technic style, meaning that the body is not "full", but rather outlined by beams and so on. Making a full body would be cool, but would undoubtedly weight too much and also (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Even if I had the pieces I still wouldn't make a closed surface model. It simply doesn't look good. This plane has been build on a scale of 1:24 but to get the round curves right in Lego I should build it much larger. The other problem is that I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Jeroen Ottens <ottens@get2net.dk> wrote in article <01be68a1$7908dd40$e...ottens>... (...) but (...) ^^^...^^^ That is valuable space of course;) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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As a technic freak and a mechanical engineering geek, lemme' say POST IT TO DEAR LEGO!!! I would stand in line waiting to buy this model, if released by Lego! Thanks for the photos (more! more!) Eric Jeroen Ottens wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's OK Jeroen, in English "Invaluable" means so Valuable it's beyond value: so you were right in the first place <g>. Kevin (25 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm the little one...I'm the poor one..(1) WOWWWW!..(2) Selçuk (1) I felt that beofre, the first time in my lego building life, when I saw Erector's minifig scale, 18000-pieces Titanic, but even it is not worth talking about now, comparing this (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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SPECTACULAR! An incredible work of art. I'm completely blown away. Has this model ever been considered by TLG as a possible commercial release? I've always wanted to see more jets and spacecraft in the Technic line. TLG could start a new line of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You just can't write off the Titanic model. The F-14 and the Titanic are both great models, just on two completely different levels. The F-14 is a mechanical wonder and the Titanic is more of a WOW factor. IMHO. (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would like to see a detail of how you did the main landing gear. When I started my (aborted) attempt at an F-14, that is what I started with. Mine worked very well, rotating 90 degrees as it moved up into the wing root, but it was not (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Two (not so) different opinions of course, but I'll stick with mine...:-) There is always a difference between "technical elegance" and "brute force", IMHO as being an engineer. But you are absolutely right about greatness of both models. Titanic (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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-- Mark Koesel koesel@umich.edu David Simmons <alienbuz@concentric.net> wrote in message F89Hw1.M27@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) Pictures of Star Wars Technic (well, not strictly Technic, since it is not 8XXX) have already been released. See (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Plus, don't forget about models which may not have technical/engineering elegance, but are design marvels and are visually beautiful and elegant. I'm thinking of most of Ed Boxer's creations; wonderful architectural models. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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The main landinggear movement is controlled by three gears, 2 24 tooth normal gears and 1 24 tooth cam-gear (if that's the name of it). One of the 24 tooth gears is locked, the other is the driving one. They are placed opposite of each other with 2 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:05:57 GMT, klom "Jeroen Ottens" <ottens@get2net.dk> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Jeroen (1), this is one of the best models I've ever seen, a truly 'desighn'.... Any chances of LDraw? 8-))) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:02:39 GMT, "Jeroen Ottens" <ottens@get2net.dk> wrote: I think I have a hazy idea of what you described. Or perhaps a "foggy" idea. :-) It sounds simple, anyway. My version is really quite simple, and I will try to do a mostly (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Trying to do such a model in LDraw would be _extremely_ difficult. Especially since many of the pieces are not available. But if he did, I would have to bow to the master. :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I nsee you're using MS Internet News. Doesn't that have a facility to automatically incorporate a ".sig" after your post? You could just have the usual disclaimers: "all opinions expressed herein my own view not those of my employer blah (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Unfortunately I already destroyed the model to begin on number two :( Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in article <36e4d770.6380036@lu...et.com>... <snip> (...) Jeroen (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, you're lucky you took pictures of it. I would have been really bummed if you hadn't had any photos. For the number two model, please take _more_ pictures, OK? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Way Awesome !! thanks for sharing the picts. I like the "engine" cylinders. Reminds me of using the gray hubs from the old auto chassis wheels as outboard jet engines. Really neat Model, Jeroen and Good luck with the new one! John (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Jeroen, I have posted an LDraw file to lugnet.cad.dat - "Design study - F14 Main Gear". It shows it pretty well. You do have LDraw and LDLite installed and configured to view .DAT files from the server, right? :-) If you don't, I can toss a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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