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Re: Fully motorized sports car
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:04:51 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> This evening, I decided to challenge myself to build a small, yet cool looking
> fully motorized vehicle.  Turned out I had the extra challenge of
> photographing a black model :)
> My previous attempt at a very small and fully motorized vehicle was too tall
> for my taste, and the steering wasn't prototypical.  This attempt, is shorter,
> wider, and longer...ie, it's a not-quite-minifig scale sports car instead of a
> minifig scale truck/van.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2356
> The results: a 8x24x5 black sports car...it ended up looking like a modified
> Corvette, IMO (except that the engine is in the wrong place).  You can see the
> wires for steering (micromotor) and driving (geared motor) sticking out the
> driver side window.  These attach to longer wires from the controls:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=23850
> Unfortunately, I was unable to fit seats inside, so I didn't bother with
> opening doors and instead added some side details.  The rear hood does open,
> though.  Underneath is a big V8.  As always, please LMKWYT!
> --Bram
> 
> 
> Bram Lambrecht
> bram@cwru.edu
> http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
> 
> [FUT lugnet.build]


Wow, that looks Great!!
I wish I could do such realistic looking cars.
How about a dat file so the rest of us could try it?

Gary
The Alaskan Brick



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  RE: Fully motorized sports car
 
(...) If/when I have time and energy, I'll LDraw some of my latest stuff, but right now I should be studying for my physics final... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.build)

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  Fully motorized sports car
 
This evening, I decided to challenge myself to build a small, yet cool looking fully motorized vehicle. Turned out I had the extra challenge of photographing a black model :) My previous attempt at a very small and fully motorized vehicle was too (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.general) !! 

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