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Re: Destroyer sneak peek
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lugnet.build, lugnet.space
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:33:50 GMT
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J.D. Forinash at foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> In article <B6A09A19.C918%sandlin@nwlink.com>,
> Mark Sandlin <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote:
> > I know I haven't made anything new in about three weeks, so just in case you
> > think I've been idle, I took some quick pics of my Bricriu Class Destroyer,
> > currently under construction
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> If you keep posting these, people are going to start thinking I'm copying
> your designs when I keep borrowing ideas from them. :)
Heh.
> The trouble is, I haven't figured out how you do some of them. Bricriu has
> an interesting size: it's not that big, but it's _huge_. The main hull is
> only a dozen or so studs wide, and I'm guessing 60 studs long,
It will probably be longer yet. I still need to add an engine room and the
engines, as well as an upper deck for crew quarters and mess.
> but it does
> in two decks what I needed four decks to do in the conning tower for the
> capital ship I'm building.
What did I do? Is it the bridge? Or the gunner dude?
> Couple that with whatever magic it is you're
> doing to elegantly graft stuff to the sides (or in many cases, not graft
> it in but make it part of the design) so it doesn't look like a brick
> wall, and... Those are the two that really boggle me. I've only gotten
> them right once, and that's on a ship that's not really my design. :)
Ah, well, it's not really magic. Just randomly put in some headlight bricks
here and there with stuff sticking off them.
One of my more favorite techniques I also used on the Gazelle: use inverse
2x2 slopes, leave a one or two brick space, and then cap with regular 2x2
slopes. Fill the space with all sorts of hoses and minifig tools and 1x1
cylinders and headlight bricks.
I took inspiration from Bob's SW-inspired freighter:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1012
Tanks for the compliment. :^)
~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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| (...) I'm not entirely certain. It just seems like there's more stuff in this ship. Much of it is the size of things-- the two-wide staircase up to the gunners' turret takes much less space than the ladderways I'd put in to my ship. The bridge is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| (...) If you keep posting these, people are going to start thinking I'm copying your designs when I keep borrowing ideas from them. :) The trouble is, I haven't figured out how you do some of them. Bricriu has an interesting size: it's not that big, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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