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Re: Small Mini's contest
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:17:18 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Didier Deses wrote:
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Thnx alot for the models, i really like the first one!
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I wasn’t really happy with that design at first, due to its tendancy to slide
around inside the canopy, but then I discovered that if you place grille tiles
two studs apart, the rails on the sides of the shuttle will sit right in the
inner grooves of the grille tiles.
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seems this post has been forgotten - or no-one was interested.
However i will use the ideas in the future. That’s the advantage of this
design of launching bay, it can be adapted to almost all ships.
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The biggest problem I found with this is that you have to stick to a very flat
design if you want to build something large. The four vehicles in this image:
...all fit inside the canopy with room to spare, but they don’t look right
unless you put more than one inside. It really looks best if the vehicle is
large enough to really fill the inside, but the edges of the canopy are low
enough that it really limits what you can build without preventing the canopy
from closing. Building up the base to be thicker than a single plate would
really help with that, but I wanted to stick within the original confines of
space. I did cheat a bit, though, by modifying the interior space in each one.
For the two military cruisers, I used 4x6 plates that have studs around three
edges and none in the middle, so the ships wouldn’t lock down and be completely
unremovable. I also built the side-walls with the same shape wedges that I used
for the wings, which wasn’t strictly necessary, but it looked a bit more
visually interesting when the ship isn’t inside. The cargo transport got a lot
of pieces added to make sure it didn’t slide around, both below the rails (the
grille tiles) and between the ends of the rails. It seemed less like cheating
to fill in parts of the interior to custom fit the bay to the vehicle it was
meant to hold.
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| (...) I see what you mean, the space is limited, luckily the rules and pieces are not. I solved some of the problems by putting many ships in 1 canopy using folding wings building the ships, with the right pieces :-) here are some pics ... sorry (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Small Mini's contest
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| (...) Thnx alot for the models, i really like the first one! seems this post has been forgotten - or no-one was interested. However i will use the ideas in the future. That's the advantage of this design of launching bay, it can be adapted to almost (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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