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Re: Mini-fig scale P-51 Mustang Moc
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lugnet.build.military
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Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:21:23 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Douglas R. Clark wrote:
Congratulations, Doug - this is an amazing MOC!
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Thank you for the complements. I have to admit that I drooled (as a lurker)
quite a bit over your military MOCs over the last few years. Especially your
p-38 and stuka.
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Some of the features I like the best are the retractable landing gear, and the
clever canopy design. Both of these are elements I’ve been wrestling with
on-and-off for over a year on a BF-109 project - I hope you don’t mind if I
abscond with some of your ideas! It’s just gorgeous ... and it looks very
sturdy too. I imagine it is the pinnacle of “swooshability”.
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I would not be offended in anyway if my ideas are “borrowed”. I’ve learned so
much from lugnet in the past... I’m happy to give something back. It is pretty
sturdy for the most part. The outer 2x4 wedge pieces on the trailing edge of
the wings tend to want to fall off at times, and the forward part of the cannopy
is only held in by friction so that wants to fall occasionally as well. When
grabbed by the lower rear fuselage, it is very swooshable.
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Hmmm, I just noticed, though - no rear landing wheel? And do the main landing
gear wheels turn freely, or are they held rigidly? What wheel hub is being
used there?
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No rear landing wheel. This
picture pretty much shows why. There wasn’t enough room to mount tail wheel in
the space where the taper comes together (where the tail wheel is on the real
thing) and I didn’t just want to stick something on after I went though all the
work to make the main gear retract so nicely.
The main gear does spin freely and the wheel hubs come from this
piece. It takes some force to pop the
wheels free from the holder. It also took a good deal of force to get them onto
the keg-tapper piece so I have no idea if I’ll ever be able to get them apart
again.
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I really can’t say enough! Any chance you could post an LDRAW file of the
design? I’d love to put one together ...
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Unfortunately, I am not an LDRAW user yet. I do intend on learning it, so I can
archive my designs. As it stands now, I have way too much trouble
dis-assembling MOCs (but thats good for bricklink merchants though). When I do
learn to use the tool, this MOC will be one of the first to be LDRAW-ed.
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in fact, using some of your techniques
as a springboard, I can imagine a whole fleet of WWII Warbirds popping up.
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I hope so, that would be cool to see. I have ideas for a P-40 swirling around
in my head. I need to start building a prototype to see how they turn out.
Thanks again for the compliments!
drc
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| (...) Congratulations, Doug - this is an amazing MOC! The photos, before you click on the thumbnails, look so dead-on that I imagined it would *have* to be oversized. Yet when I clicked on them, I saw how perfectly sized and detailed it was! What a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.build.military)
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