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Re: Of ABS and Lego Hinds
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lugnet.build.military
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Wed, 17 Jul 2002 06:24:33 GMT
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Chris, you did that nice looking Spetnaz SOF Hind that was posted a while
back on brickshelf right? That MOC, along with the afore-mentioned canopy
parts, were my primary inspiration to try and tackle the Hind. The 5 bladed
rotor mounted no your MOC really puts my 6 bladed one to shame. Did you
ever come up with a way to center mount that thing so that it could rotate
freely?
I didn't really think about the interior cabin that much, as all of my MOCs
are really only accurate when viewed from the exterior. The total usable
hollow space within the fuselage is 4 units wide (not counting the walls or
the panel pieces), 16 long and 16 plates high, but I'm not sure if this
reflects the actual proportions of the real Hind's cabin. You seem to know
more about this than I do, so I'll ask you where the cabin ends with regards
to the rest of the airframe.
My version of the Hind could really do with a redesign before its ready to
be tried out in ABS. I'm not particularly pleased with the integrity of the
wings in relation to the fuselage, so I'm pretty sure that these would
require a redesign. Building entirely in MLCAD does sometimes make me feel
like a bit of a smoke and mirrors charlatan compared to people like yourself
who do it for real.
Bryce Rollins
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| (...) It's really much more fragile than it looks, though: forming those plate hinges into inward-pointing Vs around the blades makes the shape flexible when attached but incredibly sensitive to knocks against any of the blades. Even an accidental (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) I still have issues with those canopies myself: they're basically useless on a horizontal mounting, unless they're mounted with the taper forward as on the JSF. And as you've seen, articulating the cockpits at an angle sucks up hull space; in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.military)
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