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RE: Back to the Future DeLorean
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:13 GMT
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A. Mark Wilburn writes:
> Excellent! Dude, you make me want to run out an buy a kit with
> fibre optics just to try something similar!
Heh...they can be fun. But I think their usage is somewhat limited...or at
least, it isn't so easy to think of uses.
> Maybe (to you), but it was instantly recognizable to me as soon
> as I saw the thumbnails, so it can't be THAT far off (speaking of
> which, did you have orthographic references or detailed photos that
> you worked from?)
Photos, yes. Detailed, not very. I started a 16 wide powered version of
the DeLorean back in March or April 2000:
http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=1800
I never got further than what's mentioned in those messages...
So, I had a bunch of photos from then. I had also traced the outlines of
a DeLorean onto some LEGO grid paper in CorelDRAW. It was pretty easy to
find the pictures again and reduce the outlines to the new scale. After
playing around with mechanisms for folding wheels (for a long time), I
finally built the car. I didn't stick as closely to the dimensions as I did
for the Diablo because the smaller scale makes that quite a bit more
difficult.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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