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Hi Jack,
You present us some very nice creations!
I especially like the idea of a standard container going along with
the MoonBase background. This will allow more people to build MoonBase
related stuff, without building MoonBase modules.
Any MoonBase builder would have a word / recommandation to say about how
should a standard container be?
I know the rendered container picture you link to is clear enough for us
to make our own, but would it be possible to have some instructions as
well (for the lazy ones..... :-))?
Cheers,
JP.
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In lugnet.space, Jean-Pascal Rignault wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> You present us some very nice creations!
Thanks!
> I especially like the idea of a standard container going along with
> the MoonBase background. This will allow more people to build MoonBase
> related stuff, without building MoonBase modules.
.spacetrains, baby!
> Any MoonBase builder would have a word / recommandation to say about how
> should a standard container be?
Yeah, any help in coming up with a standard (you listening Mr. Palmer?) would be
much welcomed. I'm also not sold on that particular container design. It's
modified from another one I found online (no idea where now).
> I know the rendered container picture you link to is clear enough for us
> to make our own, but would it be possible to have some instructions as
> well (for the lazy ones..... :-))?
Yeah, I'll knock it out later in the week. I also posted the LDraw file too, so
you can download that and use it in MLCad to view it.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Webmaster - BIP
http://www.bricksonthebrain.com
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I envision a remotely located moonbase evolving slowly. As more
equipment and supplies arrive the cargo containers are re-used as parts
of the base.
I made these a while back and hauled examples to brickshelf last year :
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=426119
It's a cargo container that can actually be used to connect moonbase
corridors together. The end caps come off and the body of the container
can then attach to standard moonbase flanges.
I looked at the existing train cargo containers, but decided that they
were too small. I tried to model this on on the TEU "twenty foot
equivalent unit" cargo containers used by international shipping
companies like Maersk, etc.
It's as I could get to the correct dimensions in Minifig scale. and
still work with the 48x48 baseplates. With the endcaps removed a TEU is
16 studs long, so 3 will span a moonbase plate. With some simple
adapters and removing the knockouts in the sides of middle TEU, two more
can be added to make an X connector.
Here's a few more pics :
An X moonbase connector
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=426149
A single-floor habitat super module
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=426120
I also had some cargo-cabs and engine modules at brickfest that
would be used to bring containers up/down from interstellar barges which
stay in orbit. I'm not sure if I have any pics of those : (
-JSM
JP RIGNAULT wrote:
> Any MoonBase builder would have a word / recommandation to say about how
> should a standard container be?
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