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Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing
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lugnet.cad.dat.ideas
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Mon, 17 May 1999 00:36:23 GMT
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On Sun, 16 May 1999 16:24:36 GMT, Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote:
> Here's the landing gear I added to my X-Wing. The studs on the rear
> landing gear should go in the middle of the engines, and I attached the
> front landing gear on the nose right before the body gets wider. (If
> only hull bricks were only 1 brick wide--then you could make the landing
> gear retract all the way into the nose.) As it is now, the landing gear
> is still mostly visible when retracted. Please LMKWYT.
> --Bram
It looks simple, and easy to do.
Now why couldn't TLG have made the effort to do something similar, instead of
the el-lamo hack they used?
-- Terry K --
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 | | Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing
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| because they seem to want to use the "bridge" piece as much as possible :) i am surprised that lucasfilm let them use such an awful landing gear. probobly because TLG used the argument that to make anything good they would need to make a new piece (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing [DAT]
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| Here's the landing gear I added to my X-Wing. The studs on the rear landing gear should go in the middle of the engines, and I attached the front landing gear on the nose right before the body gets wider. (If only hull bricks were only 1 brick (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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