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Re: Trainhead gives space a whirl
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Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:34:08 GMT
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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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 | | Re: Trainhead gives space a whirl
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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