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Re: Announcing PB4Y-2 "Privateer"
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lugnet.build.military
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:21:51 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Geordan Hankinson writes:
> Wow great job Bill! I love all of the hatches and the landing gear,
Thanks! The main landing gear was probably the hardest part. After much
banging of head against wall I realized that it was not working because the
wing was too thin. I was working with a wing that was not quite 2 bricks
thick, so the base of the landing gear was too far from the ground, which mad
the engines too far apart. I saw a documentary on the History Channel that
showed B-24's and I realized that the wings are quite thick. So I rebuilt the
wing to be thicker, and this allowed me to make the gear shorter.
> The model as a whole is very realistic, great job! I love the way you did the ball
> turret up front and in the rear, very clever.
I came up with that design Friday night, the night before I brought it to the
club meeting. For weeks I had a completely different design on the front, that
would rotate but not tilt up and down. And the back was just a gun that went
left and right through a slit, like the "blister guns" on the sides of the
fuselage. But then inspiration struck, and I thought of a way to to do real
ball turrets. They came out quite well. The nose should be redesigned a
little to give the nose turret more room to move, but other than that...
> Great job Bill! Look forward to more creations from you!
Me too. Hopefully I'll get a job soon, which will unfortunately cut back on my
time for LEGO however... The only reason I got this done in only a month was
being unemployed.
--Bill.
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| Wow great job Bill! I love all of the hatches and the landing gear, The model as a whole is very realistic, great job! I love the way you did the ball turret up front and in the rear, very clever. Great job Bill! Look forward to more creations from (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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