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Re: Mega Assault Truck
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:38:36 GMT
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The 1x7 technic half-beam was released in 99-01. Part 32065.
Steve
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:25:22 GMT, "onyx" <onyx@flash.net> wrote:
> Terry Keller writes:
> >
> > This is a way cool vehicle. Especially when POV rendered.
> >
> > -- Terry K --
>
> wow!
>
> now THAT is a compliment... it's definitely a benchmark day in my lego life
> when i get a compliment on design from Terry K!!!..
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> i guess i should have pointed out a few more details when i did the original
> post...
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> it has 4-wheel steering, via a slightly different setup than normal... i didn't
> want a big wheel or gear laying horizontal on the top.. i had already finished
> the design and nowhere on top would anything like that look good.. so instead i
> used a vertically-mounted gear that gets translated down via other gears to the
> rack and pinion... so you roll the two big gears (near the front-top) forward
> or backward to initiate steering.. that was probably the most difficult part..
> funny thing is, the whole thing started with the big gun... the truck was just
> a platform to carry that gun on... and the gun started with the cross-mesh of
> technic half-beams... i just wanted something that looked structurally
> complicated and rude... one of the cross-mesh beams is supposed to entend
> out and have a trans-blue small radar dish at the end (right in front of the
> face of the minifig who sits in the gun chair, for use as his targeting
> viewscreen)... but i'll have to wait for the 1x7 technic half beam for that....
>
> thanks again ter!
>
> J
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