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| | | Well, after more than 5 months of on and off experimenting, ordering pieces, building, tearing apart, and re-building, I've reached a point where I am ready to declare my version of Lockheed's F-117A Nighthawk (aka stealth fighter) basically (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military) !!
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| | | | | Re: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Robert Fay
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| | | | | Great piece of work. My favorite view is Stealth11 showing the front_side view. Looks like the real thing. Congratulations! -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Spencer Rezkalla" <srezkall@peoplepc.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | (...) I agree, the way the smoothness of the aircraft has been captured is exceptional. It's cool. Carbon 60 (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Kyle Keppler
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| | | | | Wow! That is very very realistic! Amazing man. All the angles and SNOTtyness is great! Well done! (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Mladen Pejic
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| | | | | Beautiful! Simply terrific! Great work John, I love the SNOT construction. Nice landing gear too. ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) Uhhh...uhh...yeah, those are just horrible, inexcusable, terrible 1/2-mm gaps there... Good Lord man, that F-117A is *brilliant*! Your decisions were good ones, and they definitely show in the model. I'm gobsmacked, dumbstruck, jawboned, etc. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) Yea, yea, I know... he just happened to be hanging around during construction. Just think of him as some sort of anthropomorphic test dummy the engineers were using for feasibility studies! :) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Mark D. McKean
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Gary E. Blessing
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| | | | | | You said it! I'm double big time impressed!! Gary Mark D. McKean <qpanda@quantumpanda.com> wrote in message news:qpanda-17430B.2...net.com... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Geordan Hankinson
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| | | | | AHHHHHHH! I never thought it possible to do this! but you've done it! I've always stared at the pic in my room of this and thought how ugly it would look in lego, cuz of all o the wierd lines, but you did it! Yeow! this is so cool! Very nice, Love (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Oh my, that IS amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a model that's so, well, *smooth*. Wow. I think I like stealth2.jpg the best. I like that you nailed the proportions so well too. So when are you going to do a B2? :-) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | | (...) GRRRR! Upstaged again... I too have been experimenting with 3-D lifting body shapes that don't suffer from the "jaggies." I wanted to be the first to display one, and you've beaten me to the punch. FANTASTIC work, John! -- John J. Ladasky Jr., (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) Well, I don't think being first means much - the reward is all in the execution of each model. I'll be interested to see what you come up with for your lifting bodies. I'm sure there will be some new ideas that will inspire me to improve my (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | | | (...) No, yours is *great* the way it is! However, my approach to the problem of a lifting body is quite different. You may find it interesting, even if you don't use the ideas to improve your model. How's the mechanical strength of your Stealth (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) The stiffness of the model seems OK. I can pick it up by the wings which seems to be the natural way to handle it anyway. I didn't reinforce the side engine intakes because I didn't want to tie everything down while I was still moving (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —George Haberberger
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| | | | | (...) build a canopy. Thanks, George (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Jason Spears
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| | | | | (...) <CLIP?> (...) That is VERY cool. All those surfaces going in crazy angles to each other. It is simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing. -Jason Spears (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | (...) Hi John, I know this has been said before, but this looks amazing! The thumbnails look indistinguishable from a photo fo the plane taken out on the tarmac. I think most of us would have looked at this plane, considered it for a moment or two, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —A. Mark Wilburn
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| | | | | (...) Wow. Skunkworks would be proud (can't wait to see your rendition of the B-2 Stealth bomber ;). You really captured the faceted look of the F-117, and an especially brilliant job on the nose. Heck, I even like the scale! Mark W. (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) Well, the B-2 is Northrop right?! My next projects will be the Lockheed SR-71 followed by the U-2. My goal is to build all three of the Skunkworks famed planes. (...) The front nose wedge was the hardest part. I couldn't get the rest of the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —A. Mark Wilburn
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| | | | | | (...) Doh... true, it's not a Lockheed... ironically I was going to say an SR-71 blackbird, but then I figured you'd try to do that in the same scale, which would end up a monstrous over 100 studs long! And the U-2 spyplane just doesn't have the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) It will be a large model (but still smaller than my space shuttle) I have tons of black parts leftover. When you have no idea how you are going to build something, you always end up ordering lots of parts just to simply experiment with. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Morgan J. Steele
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| | | | | I absolutly love it. If possible can you post some close up pictures of the landing gear, if you don't mind me borrowing some ideas. (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) I've added a few pictures of the aircraft's underside showing the landing gear and the internal bomb bays. The gear are simple in design - built with some technic elements. They are raised and lowered using click hinges. (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Mattias Martensson
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| | | | | Hi John First when I saw the thumbnail pictures I was very disappointed. Why has somebody put up pictures of a plastic scale model of the F-117. Then I realised it was LEGO. Truely a fantastic model. Is it possible that you will tell us more about (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) Gee - isn't that like asking a magician to reveal all his tricks? j/k ;=) Actually the construction isn't terribly complicated - it just involved a lot of trial and error to arrive at it's final form. It's kind of hard to describe with words. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Chris Leach
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| | | | | (...) Great job on the wobbly goblin! (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) I remember you refreshing my memory about that nickname a couple of months ago. I read that early on in the development they had a couple of minor bugs to work out in the flight control systems - hence "wobbly goblin" - although it was really (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Chris Leach
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| | | | | | (...) Wondered if you remembered:-) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Richard W. Schamus
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| | | | | (...) A wonderfully done model. I don't think I could spout enough praise for this one. Just makes me feel inspired to do some MOC fighter jets for myself (though I deffinately don't have time at the moment to even think about it. Rich -- Have Fun! (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Tim David
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| | | | | The most realistic Lego MOC i have seen, the smoothness helps a lot but the proportions and the angles are what makes it. Any chance of a DAT of it? I always feel that the people that can make models like this should be headunteed by Lego asap! Tim (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | (...) I wouldn't even begin to know how to make a DAT of it... I may temporarily dismantle some of the primary components and take a few pictures if people really want to see some of the internal construction details. (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed —Derek Hawkins
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| | | | Congrats! Very well done! makes me want to run out and build a scale SR-71 Blackbird to match it. (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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