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Re: New military aircraft: F-117A Stealth fighter and Su-27 Flanker
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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:50:22 GMT
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Ralph,
Wow, love 'em both!:)
In lugnet.announce, Ralph Savelsberg wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
Very nice, your bomb bay and landing gear all look so neat! Do the rear whels
rotate as they go in (otherwise how do they fit?)
Great use of a variety of slopes and snot to get that unique look just right!
> 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.
Very nice camoflague, I'll need to take a look at your work to figure out how to
get that done a little better on some of my own MOCs.
I really like how you use curved slopes for the noses on your planes, and your
aircraft are all good examples of how you don't need to tile the hell out of
every MOC to make it look awesome!
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Do the rear landing gear rotate on their own or do you manually have to rotate
the wheels befor tucking them in? Cool to see one of my favorite Russian planes
rendered so nicely!
Inspirational! Thanks for sharing!:)
Magnus
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