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Re: Still fiddling with HES Sirius
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Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:30:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons writes:
Can't help myself.  Bad habits.  :-)

http://www.ozbricks.com/portblock/yar/017.htm

Now with extra Starfuries, bigger engines, and an energy shotgun that will
make your enemies' eyes pop (just before their heads explode).

Might have gone just about as far as I can with this hull now.

I hope to have her along for the October fest at Hornsby.

Richard
Still baldly going...

Dude, that's pretty sweet!  The starfurries look good, but I agree that
there should be some form of inclosed docking arm for the pilots.  But given
the size of the Sirius relative to the fighters, that may not be possible.

Love the configuration of the main engine, and the ribbing all along the
side of the hull.  If you ever do another one, I would double the size the
main hull to be more compatible with the size of the bridge.  I had a
similar configuration on one of my corvettes and it looked a bit awkward:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDFOsiris.html

Sweet design overall.  I think you have integrated the clone brick very
well.  I like!

Say, where does the shuttle attach?  On the side of the ship?

On other question: having vertical thrusters positioned on airlock arm would
be a lot of stress, would it not?  Just a thought.

~Trev
Da ALC guy
http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/index.html



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(...) Mmmmm. Tried a bunch of different ways. Next best is to dangle them below a docking arm, underneath the ship, which is cool, but means the ship can't land. I'm not really attached to landing per se, but since the ship has to sit around on a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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Can't help myself. Bad habits. :-) (URL) with extra Starfuries, bigger engines, and an energy shotgun that will make your enemies' eyes pop (just before their heads explode). Might have gone just about as far as I can with this hull now. I hope to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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