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Re: WWII MOC: Focke Wulf
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Wed, 5 Sep 2001 08:00:05 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> This looks fantastic! At first glance I was afraid that you had beat me to it
> ... on my current list of projects (both underway and in the planning stages)
> is an Me Bf 109. Though they look quite different, the visual of a German
> monoplane was enough to strike fear into my heart :)
Hey, I'm in even more fear, because I have a Ta-152--the high-
altitude mod of the FW-190 design spec--on my list. But it is,
of course, a very tentative list; the He 162 and Ba 349 are ahead
of it, which gives you an idea of how far there is yet to go.
That's a great rendering, Geordan--I especially like the work
that went into modelling the canopy. LEGO can never be perfect,
but the urge to slap a Naboo Fighter canopy on every aircraft
is hard to resist!
BTW: An excellent reference, which I swear by, for Luftwaffe
aircraft photos and technical drawings:
William Green, _Warplanes of the Third Reich_ (Doubleday, NY,
1970). Research has revealed more in the intervening 30 years,
but it's still the granddaddy. It was reprinted by Galahad Books
in 1990 and there may be a few copies still kicking around in
secondhand bookstores. If not, it's an almost guaranteed
library denizen (unless it's checked out). The best part is
all the freaky prototypes he's got photographs and drawings of.
Forward-swept-wing six-engined Nazi jet bomber? It's there!
672 pages of techie goodness.
> It does look great, though! I especially like the way you accomplished the
> landing gear ... I've been mulling over ideas in the back of my mind for how to
> best incorporate the folding wheels ... this is a nice idea that I hope to
> steal ;)
Ditto. I've actually done wheels similarly, but rather using
the 1x3 tile base--not the actual complete 1x5 hinge assembly.
How strong is it functionally? Does the gear ever threaten to
emerge from the housing without permission? (Bad landing
gear! Bad! Bad!) I think your solution gives easily the best-
looking closed landing gear I've seen on a minifig plane.
> > Please let me know what you think, this is not the best I can do, I think
> > this could have been improved if I had my whole selection of parts, oh well,
> > the p-51 and the SM Spitfire are on their way.
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> We're holding you to this, by the way.
I'm interested to see how the Spitfire will turn out! Do you
have a specific plan for handling those complex curves?
> Hmm, guess I'd better really get underway on that -109. The Stuka's a sitting
> duck otherwise ...
I'd argue that it's a sitting duck anyways. ;D But I'd bet if
you slung a couple of Pak-37s under the wings and named the pilot
"Hans-Ulrich," tanks would fear you.
Maybe I should change my project to a fleet of brown Sturmoviks...
impishly,
LFB
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| (...) Hmm, wish me luck. I saw this two weeks ago at a used bookstore in downtown Portsmouth, but passed it up at the time. I'm fixin' to head back down during my lunch break, with all intentions of snapping it up. Hopefully it's still there ... (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
| | | Re: WWII MOC: Focke Wulf
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| (...) Thanks Lindsay, It is hard to resist, but some planes (like this one) would look goofy with it. (...) I'll have to see if my library has it, I think I've checked out prettymuch all of the WWII aircraft resource books over the past month or so, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) Congrats! I assume it will only be the first of many :) (...) *snip* This looks fantastic! At first glance I was afraid that you had beat me to it ... on my current list of projects (both underway and in the planning stages) is an Me Bf 109. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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