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Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed
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lugnet.build.military
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Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:38:15 GMT
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In lugnet.build, John Spencer Rezkalla writes:
> Well, after more than 5 months of on and off experimenting, ordering
> pieces, building, tearing apart, and re-building, I've reached a point
> where I am ready to declare my version of Lockheed's F-117A Nighthawk
> (aka stealth fighter) basically complete.
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> I'm not 100% satisfied with the aesthetic appearance of the model. There
> are some gaps and discontinuities between panels in the outer skin that
> have been difficult to overcome - there are only so many angles of
> sloping bricks available! Fortunately working in a black color scheme
> helps to minimize their visual impact. I am sure I will continue to
> tinker with the model to improve the visual continuity. Nevertheless I
> feel I have achieved my goals as far as the model's desired shape, size,
> structural design, and features. I decided early on to use a smooth
> brick scheme for the plane's faceted surfaces, that minimized the
> appearance of outward facing studs on the skin, rather than trying to
> use plates.
Uhhh...uhh...yeah, those are just horrible, inexcusable,
terrible 1/2-mm gaps there...
Good Lord man, that F-117A is *brilliant*! Your decisions
were good ones, and they definitely show in the model. I'm
gobsmacked, dumbstruck, jawboned, etc. Insert your idiom
here.
> The model features a cockpit that seats a single minifig pilot,
> retractable landing gear, and two internal weapons bays with opening
> payload doors. I never bothered to install bomb racks and weapons in the
> bays. The model is 65 studs long with a wingspan of 44 studs (the real
> stealth fighter is 65' long with a 43' wingspan)
We'll have to talk about the non-standard-issue flight suit
on that pilot at some point, though...;)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6826
Wow. Wow wow. Great stuff.
best
LFB
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| (...) Yea, yea, I know... he just happened to be hanging around during construction. Just think of him as some sort of anthropomorphic test dummy the engineers were using for feasibility studies! :) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| Well, after more than 5 months of on and off experimenting, ordering pieces, building, tearing apart, and re-building, I've reached a point where I am ready to declare my version of Lockheed's F-117A Nighthawk (aka stealth fighter) basically (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military) !!
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