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RE: New MOC: Motorized Viking Longship
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja
Date: 
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 02:48:34 GMT
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Adrian Drake writes:
Here's my latest creation, a Viking Longship with a mechanism
that's used to make the oars row.

I remember you talking about building this on the way home from Brickfest.
Great job!  I want to see this one in action...soon.  Did you add wheels
underneath so that it rolls while they row?  Nice use of widgets on the
figurehead, even though I can't really tell what it is. You very
successfully combined function and form!  The oars really do need to move,
don't they, 'cause the sail doesn't seem to be catching any wind :)

Congratulations to the castleheads, another mostly spacehead
has made the transition, at least temporarily :)

Better be temporary... :)  Can't believe I'm even posting here.
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://bldesign.org/



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  Re: New MOC: Motorized Viking Longship
 
(...) Unfortunately I couldn't fit the rolling in. I was running dangerously low on brown bricks and couldn't extend the chassis any longer to squeeze that mechanism in. The gearbox that makes the cams work took up a lot more space than i had hoped. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja)

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  New MOC: Motorized Viking Longship
 
Here's my latest creation, a Viking Longship with a mechanism that's used to make the oars row. It's also manned by ninja figs. Congratulations to the castleheads, another mostly spacehead has made the transition, at least temporarily :) Check it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja) ! 

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