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Re: my three MOCs, the redtail, the sentinel and EVA unit 00
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Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:19:30 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Brad Klee wrote:
Here are my three new MOCs:
First off, Faye Valentine's Redtail mono craft. The mono pod design is stolen
from Jonathan Mizner. There really isnt a way to improve on his wonderful
design, but I added different seating and control. And now, the Redtail -
<link>http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53214</link>
  Thanks ;)  Personally, I strongly prefer your seating design.  To be really
honest, at the time I built mine, getting it 100% accurate wasn't as important
to me as just making it seem "right".  Which probably explains why my guns look
nothing like they should ;) someday I might just go ahead and do a re-build,

Since the posting of those pictures I've added the hoses from the T3-trike to
under the arms, and I've switched out the cone on the very end of the propulsion
system for one of the wheels from the T3-trike.
  I, too, like the trike hose.  If you ever get the chance, you should try
ordering some droid bodies and 2x6 curved slopes in light grey, it'd really make
your model complete, IMO.  I'd say you've got the most accurate rendition of the
Redtail to date, in all likelihood (yours has much more accurate porportions,
and you used curved slopes which are a real improvement).  According to the
Scale Converter, a perfect model would be 24.69 studs long..  I should probably
consider doing a re-build...though I'd need much more parts to do so :)
  I'm very curious to ask you, what were your thoughts on the landing gear?  I
found it to be the most pesky aspect of the stupid ship, trying to fit a folding
gear-wheel into a 1-stud-wide space there on the bottom of the pods.  Also, I
noted that some of the screenshots of the actual ship show a third wheel-one on
either pod, and a third wheel coming down from somewhere behind the MONO pod.  I
absolutely could *not* figure out any way to put gear into there...just figuring
out some sort of collapsable system to get the gear to go down about 5 bricks in
height would have been an enormous challenge.  And I couldn't see any way to
house the gear either, since the fusilage is so thin behind the pod.  The 1x2
plate with handles on the bottom of the MONO was just a cheap way of getting the
ship to sit flat on the two click hinges I put on mine. ;)
  In regards to your planned Hammerhead, according to the converter, it needs to
be 61.72 studs long, 35.31 wide, and 22.10 studs tall.  Personally, I've never
found the Hammerhead very appealing of a model..although certain other unnamed
CB ships would make for very interesting models IMO (Martian patrol craft, ISSP
ships, etc).  It should make for an interesting model, however.  Good luck with
it, I hope to see it posted soon! ;)

My next MOC is a matrix inspired sentinel. There isn't all that much to say
about it, but I think it looks neat.
<link>http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53223</link>

My final MOC is my version of Gla Gla's awesome armature. It is Evangelion Unit
00 aka the blue one. It comes complete with an n-2 mine, plus it is fully
posable (even though my pictures dont show it; i'm not much of a photographer.)
<link>http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53217</link>
Since the posting of those pictures I've added a few details and I redid the
thing coming of of its knee, whatever that is.


constructive criticism welcome and appreciated.
-Brad Klee



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  Re: my three MOCs, the redtail, the sentinel and EVA unit 00
 
(...) Before I started building mine I calculated scale with a 1 foot to 1 stud ratio so that it would be fairly accurate. I stuck to that pretty religiously. I forgot to mention I also stole the design for the red part of the ship from you (just (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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