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Re: That's quite an extensive backstory you've got there...
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:11:23 GMT
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Building in the passenger capacity was fairly easy; the passengers themselves
were the real surprise. Hasn't anybody else used M-Tron backpack harnesses to
give minifigs customizable carrying capacity? The Adventurers packs were a
beginning, but I dumped them as looking dated...M-Tron was the only other thing
I could think of. The assault team's still on my desk, just because those
little packs make them so much fun to play with: the chestplate even looks like
a bulletproof vest, and that stud in front comes in *very* handy.
I actually got the idea for building a Hind from the old Electronic Arts Strike
games: every other aspect of the series was classic, but you simply cannot put
six passengers into an Apache, "Super" or not. Only one modern gunship really
could...ironically enough, the later Strike games let you fly news choppers,
Cobras and Ka-50s, all with ridiculous passenger capacity, but not once did you
get to fly a Hind.
Now that I've got a camera to work with again this weekend, I'm starting to
collect technical shots and detail items for a technical folder on the Hind.
The wing slant is the result of long experimentation with standard vertical
brick-hinges beneath the wings and car roof plates at the wing roots. The
flange pieces hang from the cabin roof in a 3x4 "keystone" block, offset half a
stud to achieve the effect...the wings don't fit perfectly with the flanges, but
it's more than tight enough to keep them in place. Of course, removing the
cabin roof takes the keystone with it, and the wings swing right down until you
reattach the roof and lift them back into place again.
Aesthetically I'm torn between remounting all the weapons on vertical brick-
hinges to imitate the Hind's pylons, and the fragility of that solution. The
rocket-launcher stickers were a custom job in Photoshop, patterned after
American 19-round hex clusters instead of the Russian two-concentric-circle
approach...if the launcher faces look weird, it's a result of them being mounted
a little under 60 degrees off their originally planned orientations. :)
Right now I'm having trouble with the five-bladed rotor, an imperfectly-mounted
illusion achieved with ten black plate-hinges from my old Technic Supply Ship.
I can get the rotor looking right, but I'm currently attaching it to a 4x4
turntable with single-stud 1x2 tiles, which get it *close* to centered but still
have it offset about a third of a stud. Any suggestions for construction of a
true rotor head would be greatly appreciated.
*considers* You're right: I do need to get my hands on a Jedi Starfighter. Not
sure if I like the currently available colors for that canopy, but it's
singularly well-rounded, more so than the low-slope lip I built around the
cockpit can imply. Of course, I was holding out for a Republic Gunship, which I
suspect will have even more ideas to incorporate. (Ball turrets! Ball turrets!
;D)
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