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Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:13:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Mark Sandlin wrote:
> > In lugnet.build, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > > Or have I seriously misconceived the size of the gun? I'm not really an
> > > aviation buff, but I was thinking that the gun was a six barrel 20mm,
> > > which isn't _that_ large... I think.
> > It's a 30mm with seven barrels. But I agree the technic pulley would be
> > too large. sometimes I make gatling cannons with a 2x2 turntable, and a
> > couple of 2x2 round plates with a handful of 1x1 cylinders to simulate the
> > "barrels." you only end up with 4 barrels, but it looks neat. A technic axle
> > would probably be closest, scale-wise.
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> Really? I recently (a few years ago) put my head up to the muzzle (good thing
> it was parked and unloaded, eh? :-) and it was *totally* huge. 20 or 30mm per
> barrel is probably close, but the cannon assembly is much bigger. The 2x2
> would actually be a lot closer in scale. You could probably get away with 4
> technic axles to represent the barrels, or maybe even 7 axles held together by
> a rubber band inside the fuselage.
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> _Smithsonian_ magazine had a fun article on the A-10 a year or two ago, with
> some discussion on the Warthog's new lease on life due to its performance
> during Desert Storm, and on the evolution of the Nighthog. The article
> probably got most of its material from, I dunno, _Stars & Stripes Presents
> Military Aviation and Arms Weekly_ or some such, but it was still a good read.
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
Ah yes --- I like the idea of using 7 technic axels with a rubber band.
While a solution -- I falter back and forth with the idea of using
"other than lego" solutions to model design problems.
it's a moral issue perhaps. =)
- Marc
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| (...) Not if you have a decent Technic set! :-, Lots of them have rubber bands, esp.ecially the recent Star Wars droid sets. The way I see it is, if they're in the box, they're Lego. Which open up the possiblity of using the paper, cardboard, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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| (...) Really? I recently (a few years ago) put my head up to the muzzle (good thing it was parked and unloaded, eh? :-) and it was *totally* huge. 20 or 30mm per barrel is probably close, but the cannon assembly is much bigger. The 2x2 would (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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