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Ground Units and World War II aircraft
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Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:33:45 GMT
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There hasn't been much message traffic on the Military board as of late, so
I decided to post some new MOCs on my brickshelf folder and see if I could
jumpstart some discussions here. Recently I've tried to diversify my MOC
collection with the addition of a few new model catergories; Ground Units
and World War II era models.
The Ground unit catergory is currently represented only by my HMMWV MOCs
(This is a favorite trick of mine - building a family of vehicles from one
base model. It gives the illusion of massive output with little extra
effort). As with my aircraft MOCs, the HMMWV is built to a 3.06 studs per
meter scale, so I suppose I could in the future do a bit of a combined arms
diorama. I'm not too comfortable yet with building ground vehicles, but I'm
pretty happy with how the HMMWV turned out, particuarly the Avenger Air
Defence Unit. I've got plans for a LAV 25 Light Armored Vehicle (another
family of vehicles) and after I've had more experience with Lego treds, some
tracked designs as well.
My current World War II MOCs are both aircraft that participated in the
Battle of Britain; The Messerschmit Me-109 "Emil" and its rival the
Supermarine Spitfire. These too are in 3.06 units/meter scale, which made
their construction a bit trickier than their modern evolutionary decendents.
I wasn't able to capture the fantastic level of detail that others have been
able to in larger scale models, but these planes were more of a just for
fun, seat of the pants project than my modern aircraft. I should be adding
more aircraft from the Battle of Britain (Hawker Hurricanes, Me110's and
possibly a Ju88) in the future and later on I'll branch out to other
theaters of the war.
I've also done some light houskeeping on my other MOCs so I've posted new
versions of the S-70 series of helicopters using a technique that allows for
2 minifigs in a 6 stud wide space. This technique was inspired by the
flying car on the new Lego Shop at home catalog, but re-reading this message
board it appears that Bill Ward used a similar technique on his excellent
PB4Y-2 MOC and I just didn't notice till after I saw the catalog.
Additionally, I've swapped the clumsy cockpit of my Su-34 MOC for a much
cleaner one, and I've reconfigured my Rafale MOC to represent the 2 seat
Strike variant.
My computer's hard drive recently required reformatting, so I've lost both
POV Ray and L3P. Therefore renders for my new MOCs will be coming after I
set both these programs back up, but until then I'm afraid that its just
MLCAD Jpegs for the time being.
Some of the folders still have to clear moderation but when the do they can,
as always, be seen here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Bryce2501
Bryce Rollins
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