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RE: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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lugnet.build, lugnet.general
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Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:17:15 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Cook [mailto:marccook@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:14 PM
> To: lugnet.build@lugnet.com; lugnet.general@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > _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.
> >
> > 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
An easy way around this...use one of the elastic bands from a lego set...It
must be lego, as it's part of the set and required for the model. [and I
doubt lego would include something that wasn't at least authorized by the
company :) ]
Hope this helps :)
[Sorry about this not threading.]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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