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Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:37:54 GMT
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Maybe use the star wars low-sloped canopy for the front half, and the Slave I
steep-sloped canopy piece for the back half?  It might be a little blocky, though.
Hmmm

-s


LegoMasterLuke wrote:

> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kyle Keppler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Michael Nelson writes:
> > > I'd build an A-10 out of light grey and use dark grey and black for the
> > > details.  For a canopy I figure there is no perfect way to do one so I'd us
> > > the naboo fighter canopy and then make the back part of it slope into the
> > > fuselage, kinda like they did on the A-wing.
> > > Michael
> > 
> > Or you could take two of those canopies and put one facing forward and another
> > backwards creating a bubble canopie.
> 
> That would work, and it has been done, but not for an A-10 Warthog. The model
> it was done on is Thad Jantzi's F-16 Fighting Falcon. (It would also work on
> most other aircraft in the USAF inventory - The F-15, the F-14, the F-5's
> front piece..)
> 
> I think the best way to do an A-10's canopy would be:
> 
> A) For the front part of the canopy, use the canopy that came with most Star
> Wars sets, such as the X-Wing
> B) For the backpart, hmmm. It would have be square. The friction-hinge pieces
> that are on the back of the X-wing's canopy would probably mess everything up.
> 
> Think think think!
> 
> Drew "Luke" Lawrence
> http://www.netpluscom.com/~drew/lego/



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  Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
 
(...) though. (...) I am assuming that by 'low-sloped canopy' you mean the canopy that can be found on the X-Wing? The biggest problem with that is: A) The friction-attachment pieces on the back of the X-Wing's canopy B) The little midget-bumps that (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
 
(...) That would work, and it has been done, but not for an A-10 Warthog. The model it was done on is Thad Jantzi's F-16 Fighting Falcon. (It would also work on most other aircraft in the USAF inventory - The F-15, the F-14, the F-5's front piece..) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)

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