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Re: Crashing your Lego creation safely...
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lugnet.build, lugnet.general
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Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:38:25 GMT
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wubwub@wildlink+nospam+.com
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"Marc Cook" <marccook@mindspring.com> wrote:
> While this might be a silly question I am looking for suggestions on how to
> crash a fairly large lego model (Helicopter) on a ground surface while
> minimizing the risk of breaking pieces.
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> The goal here is to crash my UH-60 http://www.netpresonic.com/lego/ with full
> crew and attached SEAL team and then photo document the wreckage.
...Well, I can give some reports from my weekend and crash tests. Both crashes were of
buildings, and were unintentional drops from about a meter up onto hard concrete. I
noticed only a few pieces with stress discolouration. Mostly on the pieces that hit first.
No piece is out of commission or broken, but one corner red slope did bear the brunt of
the hit and may have to be shifted to the back of future models.
...The buildings were semi-solid, not really swooshable, but sturdy enuf to be picked up.
They shattered into several large chunks and a handful of individual pieces, mostly the
decorative pieces. From this I can deduce that a swooshable structure may need a bit of
'pre weakening' (since swooshable things usually are more 3d sturdy... while buildings are
more 2d sturdy) but should smash without much problems :-)
...Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents wurth of recent experience :-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
Jain's Guide (http://wildlink.com/lego/jain)
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