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Most of my lego agenda:
-Unpack from PDX
-make a moontruck
-design and build a new ship
-keep up with the P-38 contest
-answer a lot of email
-make this post
-post the new ship
-update the moonbase page
etc..
When I got back from PDX I worked on this for about a week. It’s not totally
ready and right now I’m working on a new ship but it seemed like a good time to
show you this.
Racetrack (Moonway) is going to be a vital new part of Moonbase. It looks great
on a layout, is easy to set up, meshes well with modules, monorail and train
tack.
We basically have 3 options for Moonway:
-Pullback motor rovers. These are basic but can be really fun. They’re *very*
fast and were a lot of fun in Portland.
-Capacitor motors. A few people have these from the new race track set.
They’ll make good rovers also.
-And the moontruck...
http://asphodel.org/images/moontruck00.mpg
I’ll make instructions for the core engine build and put them on the moonbase
site. It’s fast, low/small, goes up and down ramps and can push and pull *a
lot* of weight.
One of the issues (I’m also all for adding your rail ideas, Lenny) that’s going
to be adressed in the new moonbase site update is moonway/railway track
clearance. We will have all of this nailed down very soon. Future moonbases
will will be set up, have 3 different track types thrown down and motorized
vehicles running on them without a problem.
Let me know what you think. I’ll start in on the moonbase page as soon as I
have a little more work done on this jade empire MOC.
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| (...) To prove just how much weight and just how stupid I am I made another movie with my giant ancient sony DSC-S50 camera *on* the moontruck: (URL) It didn't do so well on the ramp but you get the idea. You can actually here the moontruck still (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) What's the underlying technology here? 9V battery box and motor? The rtlToronto guys did something like this for their peoplemover a while back. Glad to hear it's powerful! (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) One significant compatibility problem that I see right away is that the Moonway ramp sections rise in 4-brick increments, which means you'd have to string five ramps together to match the 10-brick floor increment of the Moonbase standard (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Did these ever get put up? I can't find them, and I'm more than a little curious. Moontruck/Ditchtrain plans, anyone? Suggestions? (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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