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Re: New military aircraft: F-117A Stealth fighter and Su-27 Flanker
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Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:40:49 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Magnus Lauglo wrote:
> Ralph,
>
> Wow, love 'em both!:)
Thanks.
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> 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.
> >
> > 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?)
You've got a keen eye. Yes, they rotate through a full 180 degrees. It's not
quite the way it works on the real aircraft, but indeed there simply wasn't any
room otherwise.
> Great use of a variety of slopes and snot to get that unique look just right!
>
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> > 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.
Thanks. For some odd reason it doesn't always turn out right, but on the Flanker
it did. As a rule of thumb I try to never have the boundary between two colours
be a straight line for more than three studs or the height of one brick.
> 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!
> ,
I could probably tile more, but it doesn't really do much for the overall look.
It's LEGO and I think it is perfectly all right for that to be obvious. It took
me a while to appreciate the curved slopes. When I first bought a few a couple
of years ago, I didn't quite know what to make of them. Then one day, I was
thinking of building an F-16 and I realised that they would be great for the
nose of that. Since then I've been using them more and more, on my F-15, on the
Flanker and on the MiG-29 that I am currently building.
> 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!
It would have been fantastic if I could make the wheels rotate on their own in
one fluid motion. I have worked out how to do that, but there's simply never
enough room. When the landing gear is fully extended, they wheels can't rotate.
You can probably see how that works in my picture of my Tomcat:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1762276
I use these attached to the fuselage
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4273a
and these attached to the top of the actual landing gear leg:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4265a
Folding the gear involves folding the leg slightly forward, until I the two bits
can be pushed apart, then rotating the wheel and then folding the leg further
forward. This would be easier to explain in pictures, but I hope you get the
point. It's a bit finicky, but works (most of the time, anyway).
> Inspirational! Thanks for sharing!:)
>
> Magnus
You're welcome. Thanks for your reply.
Cheers,
Ralph
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