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In lugnet.general, Thomas Michon writes:
> Tim -
>
> I built the airport terminal and my dad built the airplanes and jetways. My
> brother added a motor to the small prop plane to spin the propellers. They
> are all minifig scale.
>
> I decided while building my terminal that the LEGO standard 4-wide airplanes
> would look like private jets when compared to the rest of the building. So,
> after many experiments, we settled on an 8-wide cylindrical fuselage for a
> large 757. I designed the wings, and my dad assembled the fuselage, nose,
> and tail. While the structural supports make it impossible for a minifig to
> actually fit inside the plane, it still looks a reasonable size compared to
> the ground crew and the jetways.
>
> The jetways are fully articulated, capable of rotating left and right on
> wheels and elevating up or down. The "mouth" of the jetway can also swing
> left and right to better line up with the plane. Unfortunately, the jetways
> can not extend and contract, since that would require some rather incredible
> feats of engineering. (They look like they can because my dad decided they
> should be different lengths.)
>
> I hope this information answers all the questions you brought up. Stay in
> touch with our website at www.scltc.org for more pictures of our planes,
> trains, and our pretty blue ribbon.
>
> - Thomas
>
> PS the only true minifig scale aircraft are in LEGOLAND Denmark! Ours just
> look big enough...
Hi Thomas,
I'm working on a minifig scale airport (grey + white with exterior glass)
now that'll occupy a large grey base plate and more. The scheduled
completion is when the sucessor to the 3033 comes out in April with the
XTreme Team and Spiderman. Then I don't know how big it'll get :) . I think
I have to stick to the classic lego themed planes, I'm just a stickler for
functionality I guess, so far I have a regular Lego styled Lear Jet 45,
B-727, MD-80, and the Beechcraft 45 along with a small Cessna. Too bad I
didn't figure out the use for the droid escape sets before, they were
selling at Superstore for only $4.00 CDN. For the airport I built last
month, I wasn't too happy with the control tower. Do you have any details of
that? I have an idea to copy the tower at YVR using parts from the new
XTreme Team sets. Sorry for replying late, been too absorbed in the
Spiderman Pics :)
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| Tim - Right now, I don't have any better pictures of the tower than what you can see on our website (www.scltc.org/pages.../air.htm). When I designed the tower, my goal was to make the vertical section as tall and as visually interesting as (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| Tim - I built the airport terminal and my dad built the airplanes and jetways. My brother added a motor to the small prop plane to spin the propellers. They are all minifig scale. I decided while building my terminal that the LEGO standard 4-wide (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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