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Re: USS Duluth - Hull design innovation!
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lugnet.build.military
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Sat, 8 Mar 2003 04:14:23 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Daniel Siskind writes:
> Partially inspired by Mattias Mårtensson's USS Fletcher, and partly out of my
> own curiosity to attempt a new ship-building technique, I threw together a 1/4
> size version of the minifig scale Cleveland Class curiser I've been dreaming
> about building (it's approx 1:152 scale as it is). Of greatest importance is
> that I was able to successfully achieve the curve of the hull and deck without
> any intrusive stepping of plates or bricks. On larger scale, I think this will
> have an even better effect for flared bows, etc. I just started working on this
> a week ago, but I'm pretty excited about it's progress and can't contain myself
> any longer! I already have plans printed out for an even larger 1:128 scale
> Iowa class battleship to work on next. This may be direction Brickmania's WW2
> kits will be going for 2004. Watch out USS Constellation!
>
> Feedback is appreciated!
WOW! That is cool! I am suspecting that this technique won't work well for
cargo ships, or other hulls that have a lot of bow curvature but for
cruisers and destroyers which knife through the water it works really well.
Bravo for discovering and sharing! I wonder if LFB will switch to this
technique for his next schiffe...
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: USS Duluth - Hull design innovation!
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| (...) I think it would tend to work better than SNOT for wider, more rounded hulls; SNOT works well for narrow and pointy designs with a flattening curve, but gets very 'stepped' if you try to widen the hull too much without adding a *lot* of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| Partially inspired by Mattias Mårtensson's USS Fletcher, and partly out of my own curiosity to attempt a new ship-building technique, I threw together a 1/4 size version of the minifig scale Cleveland Class curiser I've been dreaming about building (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.military) !!
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