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Re: Marsupial Carriers (Was: Re: *BIG* Update!)
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:19:43 GMT
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Wow, thanks for the kind response Linsay!

Actually, I was going to leave it open-frame.

Two problems with it:
1) Too ungainly, couldn't even hold it properly
2) Not too cool looking
3) How am I to do the back (I actually wanted to put a *huge* tail there)

Anyways, I hope someone learns from my mistakes. ;-)

Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/

In lugnet.cad.ray, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Mladen Pejic writes:
> > Thanks Geordan! The Carrier was meant to fail (actually I destroyed it in a • fit
> > of rage). ;-)
> 
>   I've got to agree with Geordan.  I wish you'd kept at that
>   carrier concept--the "traditional" carrier, while still cool,
>   has been done a lot and a carrier that holds its "children"
>   on its frame--I've called them "marsupial carriers", because
>   mine had the fighters recessed a la Suffren [1]--is a very neat
>   idea.
> 
>   Looking at the pictures, though, I can tell your fit of rage
>   was well-founded.  It looks GREAT but closing those very odd
>   shapes would have been maddening!  But, then, those odd shapes
>   *are* something you do very well.
> 
>   Anyways, I'd love to see the concept carried further.  All 25
>   gallons of my grey are in use at the moment (ack), but with
>   enough time I'll put together a marsupial for Suffren's snub
>   fighters.
> 
>   best
> 
>   LFB
> 
>   [1] Maybe they should be "scorpion carriers," but scorpion =
>       sting to most people, not = carrying children on its back.



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(...) I've got to agree with Geordan. I wish you'd kept at that carrier concept--the "traditional" carrier, while still cool, has been done a lot and a carrier that holds its "children" on its frame--I've called them "marsupial carriers", because (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)

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