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Re: Mini-fig scale P-51 Mustang Moc
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:21:23 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, Douglas R. Clark wrote:
   I’ve finally finished my newest P-51 MOC.

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http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=68295

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.

   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”.

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.

  
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?

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.
  
I really can’t say enough! Any chance you could post an LDRAW file of the design? I’d love to put one together ...

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.

   in fact, using some of your techniques as a springboard, I can imagine a whole fleet of WWII Warbirds popping up.

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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  Re: Mini-fig scale P-51 Mustang Moc
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.build.military)

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