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Re: Mark's Lego Creation Update! 1/5/01
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:55:06 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > in article G6sH52.HIE@lugnet.com, Kirby Warden wrote:
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> > > By the way, does anybody know if Dan Jassim is working on another big
> > > moc or has he simply slowed down for a while?
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> > I chatted with him on the phone Friday night and he said he'd designed a new
> > carrier with an interesting way for the fighters to dock. I'm looking
> > forward to seeing it.
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> What I'd really love to see is something akin to the way the Star Furies
> launch from Babylon 5. They're mounted on pivots, and when deploying, a
> door opens below them and the Star Furies swing down and shoot straight out.
> That way you don't have all your ships launching from one or two bays, they
> spew forth from all over the ship. They're returned to their launch
> platforms through a typical launch bay though. I can already see the
> technic girders and rubber band spring loaded mechanism that makes this
> work, but I've no chance of getting enough pieces together to build a
> carrier. But to dream...
> Anybody want to build a minifig scale Babylon 5? It's only 5 miles long.
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> Adrian
> --
> www.brickfrenzy.com
Actually, I was just thinking about that a couple days ago. The two
fighters from the Deep Freeze Defender are very compact. Why not mount a
squadron of them on the underside of a large carrier, and modify the rear of
each one so the pilots can enter from the back/above (a dorsal drop launch).
They could be mounted in rows of 4, and stacked together. Pilots climb into
them, large doors swing open, and as a group they drop out. Weapons could
be mounted on the side of each fighter, and they would dock to the carrier
via Technic pins that attach to the engines. I have already created a
fighter similar to this, but have not taken pictures yet... What is the
collective opinion on this idea?
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| (...) What I'd really love to see is something akin to the way the Star Furies launch from Babylon 5. They're mounted on pivots, and when deploying, a door opens below them and the Star Furies swing down and shoot straight out. That way you don't (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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