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Although this has been completed and shown publically (NWBrickCon Oct.
2002), I have just now gotten around to posting some of my pics of it.
These show some of the details and the construction process.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25801
It is seven feet long, two feet wide and two and a half feet high. It
required 35,000 pieces, mostly bricks, plates and slopes. It has taken me
several years to acquire the parts. The most difficult part was the 1x6x3
Panoramic windows. These have not been in production for 25 years and there
are 44 of them in the model.
It was necessary to enter the entire model into MLCAD in order to make sure
I knew what pieces I didn't have. As I was building the finished model, I
was constantly running back to my computer to verify the location and
arrangement of some of the pieces and to modify the data file to record
changes where I had to provide better structure.
There were many surprises as the model took shape. The major surprise was
that the deck flooring, or "sheets", made of two layers of plates tended to
curl.
I am not quite sure I understand why this happens, but I believe that it is
caused by the upper plate being stretched to cover the lower plate. In large
sheets, the upper plates pull the lower plates toward the (geographic)
center and lift the edges. After building the ISD, where large sheets were
also used, I learned that the best way to keep the sheets flat is to use
only strips of plates on the top layer. Unfortunately, in my design, the top
layer is the "show" layer and needed to be solid.
I am grateful for LEGO Direct, Bricklink* and eBay for providing a means to
my ends.
* Amazing Brick, thank you Carol!
* Ozparts, thank you Darren!
* Pyrite, thank you Brett!
There are too many to thank all of those who aided me, but the orders I made
to these three were critical!
PLMKWYT
Wayne
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| (...) <snip> (...) Very sweet to look at. I loke how it looks like it's just made up of basic lieces, but still looks exceptionally good! Now get it to the water and see if it floats :) Nice job! Dave K (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Remarkable! I saw this thing on brickshelf a couple of days ago and wanted to post about it, but I figured I'd wait until you publicly announced it. The pictures of all the structural reinforcing that went into building this is quite (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| Very cool! I just wish I could have been at NWBrick to see it in person. My favorite details: These curving ramps built of stacked plates: (URL) insectoid leg as crane: (URL) kitchen: (URL) wall that's hinged to give a sloped shape: (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) and it's nice to see it here now. The ferry is very impressive in both scale and design- you've captured the ship quite nicely. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I also noticed a similar phenomenon while building my bridge deck, and surprisingly, it didn't only bend downwards (URL) but sideways too! (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) construction process, and you obviously did a lot of planning with this one. (...) It happens with bricks, too, and with 1x3x4 panels it's pretty extreme. A major bummer for some designs. This is something MLCAD doesn't prepare you for, and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) This is awesome to see (whether online or in your living room). I still think that we should have a Sealug meeting where we fill the ferry with minifigs and cars, and the such... kinda make a miniland scene out of it. Anyway, very cool to see. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) WOW, what a way to make a sailor's heart skip a beat. My son will be inspired by your model. Of course you know I will have to borrow (steal) a few of your design concepts for my ship model. :-) You have also helped me to understand that I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.build)
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