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Re: German Halftrack, Armored Car, etc. etc ...
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Date: 
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:22:56 GMT
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Oops!  Sorry, Fredrik, I forgot to mention you - I've been good up to this
point, but it seems I skipped over appropriate crediting this morning.
Anyhoo, the Willy's MB is borrowed heavily from Fredrik's design, detailed
in other posts in this thread.  He came up with a great system of hinges
to effect the flat-fenders, and an ingenious front-wheel-chassis-axle
system.  Using his ideas as inspiration, I've also managed to model a Jeep
M38-A1 (round fender Korean-War vintage jeep) and a Jeep TJ (the current
models ...), though none look as nice as the MB.

"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:

Shaun Sullivan <sullis3@mit.edu> writes:

I just loaded a whole cartload of new pics onto
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=sullis3 .

That jeep looks familiar:

    http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/models/?n=834

Actually, I modeled it after a Vietnam era jeep, not a WWII one.  But
they are quite similar!

Also, I don't care much for minifig scale, so I didn't model it for
the minifigs.  But it appears to work pretty well anyway.  Probably a
bit too large, though.


The rear bed is a little too large, but you would only need to cut about
1/2 stud off its length to bring it into line, I think.  Anyways, it's
great looking, and I just think of it as an extended bed model for a gun
mount ;)



I also skipped the glass windshield and headlights because I liked the
more "rugged" look.  I also liked the somewhat non-LEGO look it gave!

Here's a Land Rover at the same scale:

    http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/models/?n=806

I'm not so happy with that one, though.  But the one I'm making right
now at 1/10 should be better...

Fredrik

Thanks again for your design, Fredrick.  Sorry again for forgetting to
mention your work ....

shaun



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  Re: German Halftrack, Armored Car, etc. etc ...
 
(...) No worries! I'm happy to see that you liked it. Especially since you appear to make so extraordinarily great models... ;-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
  Re: German Halftrack, Armored Car, etc. etc ...
 
(...) Having looked at the jeep a second time, I had kinda forgot why I used that somewhat strange setup for the front axle. But I believe that I needed a lot of half-stud offsets for the bumper mount and the grille and the headlights, and that was (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)

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  Re: German Halftrack, Armored Car, etc. etc ...
 
(...) That jeep looks familiar: (URL) I modeled it after a Vietnam era jeep, not a WWII one. But they are quite similar! Also, I don't care much for minifig scale, so I didn't model it for the minifigs. But it appears to work pretty well anyway. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)

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