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Here it is, my rendition of Lucky Lindy's famous airplane that carried him
on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927. Click on the link below
to go straight to the pictures then read below if you want the info on the
model.
Here is the folder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=12867
I built this model over the course of about a week working for roughly two
hours a night. It has approximately 240 pieces. The real life
version(which is a rainbow warrior model for the moment) is fairly sturdy
and has a few perks that the CAD version doesn't have. First of all there
is an extra few pieces of technic that connect to the landing gear to make
it entirely stable. I would have done them on the LCAD model but it was too
tricky with all the angles and I got tired. The underside panel on the
bottom (the 4 x 9 wing) fell down so I used some hinge bars to hold it in
place, again there was too many angles for the computer version and you
don't even see them from the outside. The hatch on the right hand side
opens almost all the way up, at least enough for the pilot to enter and
exit. The windows are all historically accurate to the real plane. The
extra fuel tanks in the front coverd up the windshield so Lindbergh only had
the side windows to look out of and see the landscape and he used the top
window to set his course by using the stars. Anyway enough jabber about it
from me, tell me what you think. And if there is anyone that wants some
different views of it or the .dat file I would be happy to upload them also.
Just let me know, Thanks.
Michael
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| (...) 1970's. [That one was yellow. I still have the printed yellow 2x3 brick (and presumably, most or all of the other pieces) from that set, which was one of my first LEGO sets I ever got as a little kid.] I look forward to seeing the non-CAD (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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