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I finally got the pictures of it. So you get to see it. (URL) The shuttle will probably get posted tomorrow. Unless it already is tomorrow, in which case I'll do it today. Adrian (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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(...) Uh...gosh.........wow. Big. You need help Drake. You used a mast from a pirate ship as a surface greeb? Two questions: 1. How did you attach the slanted sides? 2. That ring at the back. How strong is it? I've seen those done before in (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Dude, Adrian, that's sick. It should be illegal to have that many bricks. Thats also <adjective>ing brilliant! The detail is just stunning. And the interior of the beast is just amazing. I love the second level, for example- the piping (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Compensating for something? ~Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I don't even know where to begin... There is just so much here that is awesome, that to go through all of it would take up a lot of my time. So Adrian, all I'm going to say to you is: Great job! BTW, why did you include an armoury in this (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yes I do, and yes I did. What better use for a pirate mast then as an antenna? (...) Which ones? The radiator panels on the spine are attached with a hex-shaped technic beam array. The window panels on the crew section simply rest in place. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Pish. It should be illegal NOT to have that many bricks. (...) That actually is one of my favorite interiors on the whole ship. First is the reactor in the back, but second is all the piping on deck 2. I really love the way it turned out. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I'm compensating for the lack of 12 foot long spaceships on Lugnet. Got a problem with that? Adrian (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) It's a sunday, what else do you have to do today? :) (...) Thanks. (...) The ship has an armory exactly because there are so many threats from EB/IR/3vil to her safety. Without a few weapons on board, even the most pathetic of pirate vessel (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Uh, I'm probably missing something very obvious here but... do they have to be square? -JHK (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) They could if you want the thumbs for your vertically oriented images to match the thumbs for your horizontally oriented images. Otherwise you'll end up with tall/skinny thumbs and short/fat thumbs. (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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That's nice, but where's the, um, Landing Gear? :-) Adrian, that ROCKS! I really don't think I can comprehend the enormity of it without having seen it in person. Congrats. How much did you have to repair once you got it to BF? James Wilson Dallas, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Photograph and put (URL) this> up on my website. But thanks for not believing me anyways. LOL j/k ;-p (...) You're welcome. (...) I don't buy it... (...) Okay, I'll concede this one. Haha :-D (URL) Mladen Pejic> (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I really like symmetry, and differently sized thumbnails offends my aesthetic sensibilities. So yes, they do all have to be square :) I agree with you though, that is one of the (many) things that I dislike about brickfrenzy.com's current (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Does the Enterprise have a landing gear? How about a star destroyer? ;) (...) Thanks. I can't even comprehend the enormity of it and I built the damn thing! (...) The crew compartment and spine came through completely unscathed. The engine (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Sounds like a good time to hire... PHP-Script Man! If you scripted your site, the website could autmagically make thumbs for you (I think you can even crop images in PHP to preserve dimensions) and layout your model pages and category pages. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) You really made good use of all that interior space! There are so many great details, I loved clicking through all the photos. Some of my favorites: the janitor's closet with the mop bucket, the "sneeze guard" on the buffet, the bench press (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) *thud* (that was the sound of my jaw hitting the table) --Bill. (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You might want to get that looked at. Seems like it would be uncomfortable ;) Adrian (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would've put some sort of leg exercise on the Nautilus machine, but unfortunately couldn't figure out how to make one look good with a minimum of pieces. Minifig legs are so awkwardly shaped. Maybe the crew gets their leg exercises by (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Very good. Your building skills are coming along nicely, young one. And here was me thinking your absence must have been because of that new baby taking up all your time. I should have known better eh? Cheers, Allister (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I saw the pics of the big ship while thumbing through the BrickFest photos. Everyone has pretty much mentioned the praise I would give for it, so ditto on the posts. Very nice, very big ship. It has a 2001 Space Odyssey feel to it. I also saw Blood (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Wow!!! Way to go Adrian! I was blown away when I saw the initial pics from Brickfest and I've been eagerly awaiting the official post from the builder. As always, great presentation. This MOC just kicks a** in every posible way. Not only is it epic (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yup, I'm a sneaky little one, aren't I? I started working on this project in November of last year, so a fair portion of the ship was completed before my son was born. Getting the rest done proved tricky, though. Adrian (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) When building a vessel that is this shape (long and skinny with a rounded front) it's quite difficult to avoid comparisons to the Discovery from 2001, so I just accept them. It wasn't my intent to copy that design, it just sort of worked out (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yes! Here is some more science for y'all - this is good warm up to the approaching school year! Pardon the windedness, but you know how teachers can be! The manipulation of gravity (and antigravity) would be a requirement for all ships that (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Adrian, This is one highly spiffy craft. I really like the "tray" method of pulling out the interior; I expect to see that become standard on big ships from here on out. The shuttle is itself a work of art. And the tail ring is probably my (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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What a spectacle this must have been in person. Sorry to miss it. But still very cool to browse through all your progress and final photos. A grand undertaking, and certainly a project well worth the time it took to build. You've impressed us all, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hey, high praise from another big ship builder! Always a pleasure. As for the shape, it turned out that greebling the exterior of the Tribunal was unneccessary. In fact, almost every attempt at greebling I tried just looked tacked on exactly (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) For ships of this scale, the drawer technique works out quite well, though you have to be very judicious in the building of the superstructure to make sure that it doesn't (2 URLs) fall> (URL) apart> during construction :) As for the tail (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Indeed, your presence was missed at BF. It certainly was a spectacle, and it certainly is a relief to have it finally completed too! (...) Yeah. If I ever conceive of a project of this scale again, please try and talk me out of it. ;) (...) (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) You missed mentioning possibly the funniest one of all: The Big Red Button marked "Do Not Push" on the bridge. That was hilarious. Now one is forced to wonder, what does that button do? :-) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I was wondering when somebody would notice that. That's the button that transforms the Tribunal into fighting robot mode. Unfortunately, the designers of the ship and the transforming mechanism failed to create sufficient internal space for (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Darn it - I was hoping that it represented the History Eraser Button from the Ren & Stimpy episode "Space Madness." Bob Of course, Stimpy HAD to push the button, and as a result, no more Ren & Stimpy. :-( (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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