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Re: Friday's Meet
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 01:23:22 GMT
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robinsather@hotmail.!nomorespam!com
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> "Robin built a ... er ... structure that took us all back
> to what we were putting together at the tender age of 5".
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> Heh. I know the feeling; There have been many times when I thought I worked
> out something in my head but when I got to build it, I end up with "Darn, I
> didn't realize that part would be in the way". That's why I just furrow my
> eyebrows when I see people like Dean and co. working on Technic... it's just
> beyond me.
Me too! I used to build with Technic, but haven't for many years.
Now the options available just plain scare me!
> > Actually, to be precise, an F-15 Eagle, and it should be mentioned
> > that it was approximately UCS scale!!! That's "Ultimate Collector
> > Series" scale, which would put the plane at about 2 1/2 to 3 feet
> > long. It was all white (well, yellow, as it was built in '89), with
> > working landing gear and under wing stores. Extremely cool.
>
> Wow, that's very observant... I wasn't there more than 20 minutes but you got
> all that right. For the record, though, Xandria is partially correct because I
> actually started it as a Model Team scale F-14 but decided I couldn't do the
> swing wings justice in the thickness I had to work with, so although it is my
> Rendition of an F-15 there are F-14 holdovers (the nose gear has 2 wheels like
> an f-14's instead of the F-15's single wheel... that's because the model was
> so heavy it snapped the poor single wheel I had there originally) and the
> vents above the air intakes are actually on F-14's only, but I thought they
> looked neat.
I am a bit of a aircraft buff, and I actually did notice the air
vents, but wrote them off as artistic license ;-). I was wondering
about those poor landing gear. Although I didn't actually pick up the
plane, a few calculations in my head put some fairly significant
weight on those puny little wheels, not to mention the rest of the
gear. Do you think they actually survive a landing? ;-)
> And yes, at 98 studs long it's about 31 inches long, good eyeball estimate!
> (What, do you survey property for a living?). Hey, it was sorta white. Ish. (I
> need more white plates... as you can guess, that pretty much sucked all the
> white plates/low slopes out of my collection).
I'm not a surveyor, but it sounded about right to me. Luck guess, I
suppose. Sure was a ton of plates. If you're going for realism,
however, you have no choice!
> p.s. Dave H? I hope you bring your 5571 Black Cat again... my miniature one
> will be finished by next time, I swear.
Can't wait to see these two together. Very cool picture.
> Btw, I wasn't even planning to do a
> Black Cat Rig just yet till I saw an actual built one, then I had to do it
> ASAP. I hope he doesn't bring anything else huge and cool that might cause me
> to go off on another tangent ;)
Speaking for the rest of the VLC, we all hope you do ;-)
Robin
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| (...) Well... Don't let my looks of calmness fool you. I get get high off of lego building. 4 hours to get a tread assembly made right isn't what I would call 'Gifted' heh heh. As a kid I only had one tecnic set. a Blue Motorcycle with a Side Car. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| (...) Heh. I know the feeling; There have been many times when I thought I worked out something in my head but when I got to build it, I end up with "Darn, I didn't realize that part would be in the way". That's why I just furrow my eyebrows when I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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