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As promised, I looked for my old microscale models in the basement this weekend.
I came up empty.
Where I thought I had put them I found only gutted remains. I now remember
disassembling them for parts for the first ISCC and another contest. I
don't think there are any pictures :( but maybe they still lurk somewhere on
one of my hard drives. At any rate...
... both because I didn't want to return empty-handed and because I have
long thought about re-interpreting the whole line of Lego creations from the
'glory days' of the late 70's/early 80's, I dashed off two quick creations.
I picked two of my favorite classic space sets because I recently saw Robin
Harbron's mini-6950 Mobile Rocket Transport on his page at
http://www.tbaytel.net/macbeth/lego6950mini.html and thought it was a great
piece of work.
When moderated, please visit:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=36753
There you will find a 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base (a.k.a. 920 Launch Pad) as
well as a 6861 X-1 Patrol Craft.
For the impatient, please visit:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bkmuzas/microspace/a_display.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bkmuzas/microspace/astronauts01.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bkmuzas/microspace/alpha04.jpg
[You can also try 01 and 01 instead of 04.]
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bkmuzas/microspace/x-1_06.jpg
[You can also try 01, 02, 03, 04, 07, 09, and 10
I am quite happy with the mini-483. I have no trans-yellow plates of the
correct size, so I used trans-clear instead. Nevertheless, I think it is a
decent effort. The tower and the dish antenna move as they do in the
full-scale set. I tried my best to make appropriately-scaled astronauts. I
wish I had more gold 1x1 round plates: I tried to use the one I have to
suggest the old "planetary swoosh" logo. Aside: does Lego make 5-stud
1x1x1's in white and red in current sets? I would have liked to have taken
the time to model the crater. Maybe when I make the 493 Space Command
Center....
I'm reasonably happy with the mini-6861. Actually, I'm delighted with the
top of it (I even managed to give the wings the correct notches :), and I'm
particualarly pleased with some 'invisible' use of SNOT and
fractions-of-a-stud offsets. The underside, however, is bulkier than I
would like. Any suggestions?
All comments and critiques are welcome.
--Muze
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| Brian...these are awesome! I can't believe you were able to pull off a mini-minifig! The rocket base was my first plate base...this is a wonderful representation of it. Next Christmas I was thinking of making a mini scene of classic space - these (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| (...) (2 URLs) (...) Brian, these are outstanding. I have both of those sets and I immediately recgnized them when I saw the page on Brickshelf. I especially like the Alpha-1 as that was always one of my favorite sets. Your micro spacemen are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| "Brian Muzas" <muzasbri@shu.edu> wrote in message news:HBM8Au.21wH@lugnet.com... (...) weekend. (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Those are some great sets you chose to work with. 6861 was my very first lego set ever (back in the day). I lost the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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