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Re: Small Mini's contest
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:29:03 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
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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 about the bad quality
more on http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=51896
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| (...) There's absolutely no reason why you couldn't make the base deeper if you want, but like I said, I wanted to see what I could produce going strictly within the confines that you defined. If it weren't for that, I probably would have come up (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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