 | | PentWing Fighter [DAT]
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| Here's the 5-winged fighter I mentioned in .build/.space (inlined and sorted for your convenience). Believe it or not, this model can balance on just one of its wings quite easily (actually, it's probably better supported that way than on two (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| This is very cool, Bram! This ship gives new meaning to the word _star_fighter :-) I had to step through it in LDAOs Editor just to see how it was accomplished. As for suggestions, the only part of the model I wasn't thrilled with was what you did (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| This is really cool! Other than John's suggestion, I'd suggest adding a little more color to it. It is a tad too drab for me. Keep up the good work!! Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| (...) <groan> :) (...) Whatever you do, don't try to build this in the order of the pieces in the DAT file, that's just so you can see what it looks like :) I started with the inside of the pentagonal portion, trying to find the right size pieces to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| (...) Thanks! (...) I accidentally left the cockpit in color 16, so if you run Ldlite with the -cN option, where N is a color code, ie, 0-15, or choose a Main Color in LDAO, you can add some color :) Let me know what color you think would look good, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| (...) He's done it again! I can't really add any more by way of suggestions except to echo the request for color. I think dark green (a 'forest' green - not color 2) would rock with red stripes. BTW, this model forced me to stop being a slacker and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| (...) That sounds sort of Christmasy... Call me color-blind, but to me, dark green doesn't contrast much with red. (...) And I only used one part from the current vote! :) (the 2x4 extr. low slope) (...) Thanks. I had lots of gray wings from (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: PentWing Fighter
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| (...) Well, you'll figure it out. Whatever you do just let us know when it's done. (...) Actually, I had missed a coupla updates so I'm glad I took care of it. (...) Not exactly :) Don't remove them unless you want to make an additional subclass of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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