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Re: New military aircraft: F-117A Stealth fighter and Su-27 Flanker
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lugnet.build.military
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Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:21:39 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Ralph Savelsberg wrote:
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It’s been a while since I last posted any of my models on lugnet, but I have
been building quite a bit in recent months. I would like to present two of my
most recent MOCs.
The first is my F-117A Stealth fighter:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=247149
It has a retractable landing gear as well as an internal weapons bay with
trapeze-mounted laser-guided bombs. The model took a fairly long time to
build. Initially I built much of it using slopes, or sculpting it with layers
of plates. The shape turned out all right, but the overall look wasn’t quite
right. The real aircraft has many sharp lines, and building those required
something different, which is why I started experimenting with plates and
bricks set at an angle -not unlike the F-117 by John Rezkalla. It took me
about two months, with many small changes being made as it progressed. It is
undoubtedly one of the most difficult models I have ever built.
The second aircraft, a Russian Su-27 Flanker-B, came together a lot more
quickly, although it’s been a very long time in the planning.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=264700
A friend of mine has had a Flanker built with LEGO since both of us were
teenagers and we spent hours tinkering with it together. Several years later,
when I first saw medium blue and sand blue LEGO, my initial thought was:
wouldn’t that look good for a Flanker? Several more years later, I have
finally gathered the parts to actually do it. The entire thing was put
together in a somewhat frenzied two days building.
I hope you’ll like them.
Cheers,
Ralph
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Ralph,
Very nice, both of them. I was big into military aircraft in high school (so
many years ago) and these brought back some good memories. One of these days,
I’ll get around to building some modern war-birds.
What did you use for the glass on the Flanker? It looks like scotch tape on the
F117. My only nit on the F-117 is the nose looks a bit too shallow where it
joins up at the cockpit. Other than that, I think you nailed the odd angles very
nicely.
--Jack
AFOL, St. Louis
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