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Re: The Slick Brick
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lugnet.space
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Date:
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Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:51:39 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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Tony,
You seem to have found that building wind. This racer is quite nice - both
its studlessness and all the interactive features you built in - stuff like
the lockers and the neato landing gear.
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The studlessness is something I’m forcing myself to do. I don’t think I’ll do a
ton of 99% studless vehicles like this one, but I wanted to go to the extreme
and then back off to find a good balance for future models. And the play
features are a must!
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I also enjoy the implied violence of the racing circuit - how each racer
either has hidden weapons or a place for a blaster rifle - but also how
each racer feels like it is the other racers who make it violent, and they
have to have the weapons just to protect themselves.
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I built these all with the feel of Speed Racer in mind. There are supposed to
be good and bad guys, but that isn’t made very clear in the galleries.
Hm, my one bad guy that I’ve posted isn’t shown with his handgun. That’s kinda
lame.
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Much fun! Are there specifications as to what the racers should look like,
etc?
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They all should fit these criteria, though the Teardrop misses some:
- engines are oversized and/or overdetailed
- opening cockpit and the pilot can sit with airtanks
- folding landing gear
- at least some SNOT work
- the pilot matches his ship, and looks like a character, not a random fig
- storage for required accessories (somewhere for hair or a hat at minimum)
- roughly the same size (so far they range from
Grace to the
Slick Brick in mass)
Beyond
that, they should have an unusual look to them. I don’t want to do a bunch of
variants on basic classic space construction like all my
Dark Futuron stuff.
Thanks
for the kind words!
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| Tony, You seem to have found that building wind. This racer is quite nice - both its studlessness and all the interactive features you built in - stuff like the lockers and the neato landing gear. I also enjoy the implied violence of the racing (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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