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Re: my three MOCs, the redtail, the sentinel and EVA unit 00
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Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:46:54 GMT
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> 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,
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> > 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 :)
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 thought of that sorry).
> 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. ;)
I thought and thought and thought about Landing gear, and decided to abandon it
for structural integrity. In regards to the pod landing gear, it is possible
that it isn't actually pod landing gear, but landing gear closer to the fuel
tank. Here's a drawing i found:
http://www.catsonmars.com/faye/redtail04.jpg
> 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! ;)
I would love to do a martian fighter if only I could find some nice pictures on
the internet. I don't want to mess up my projection TV by leaving the CB movie
on pause all day. I want to make the Hammerhead and Swordfish for a display with
my DVD's. For the swordfish I'm going to use the cones from the republic gunship
as the front. I wish school wouldn't start for another month or two...
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