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Subject: 
Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug
Date: 
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:39:27 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Joel Jacobsen writes:

> The only point that I don't really prefer, is the landing gear. After being
> chastised by Grand Admiral Muffin Head over using similar gear on my
> freighter, I've crossed lines to join the ranks that prefer the click hinges
> for gear.

At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple
design for landing gear.  Here are some picture links:

<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40433>
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40434>
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=18614>

Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down.

The basic idea is to put together two pairs of part 2880, the rod with
hinge-fingers at each end
(<http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=2880>).  mount the paired
arms at right angles to each other.  This gives a very compact gear that
retracts straight into the ship.  The bottom of the gear-pad can be used as
the cover to the hole.  It's really cool.

Unfortunately, I don't remember who did this very cool ship, so I can't give
proper credit!  So I'm crossposting to MichLUG--who brought this ship?

Steve



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  Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
Steve & All, (...) Hey, I took those pictures! ; ) I wish I would have gotten more! Scott was having too much fun to worry about pictures! : ) (...) That ship is Mark Koesel's creation, an M-Tron MOC, which I loved to death. I took the picture of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
  Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
(...) <snip> Yes, those are quite nice. I used the same parts for the 'gear on my Space Police Viper. I do like the ones in the pictures, however, because they use the parts in two directions, which would give the ship a bit more stability than just (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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  Re: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted)
 
(...) There's a nice array of weaponry and I like the side by side cockpits, especially. The silhouette is very good, too. Nice and narrow from the side and the front. I would have to think it would be quite difficult to visually spot in space, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.sealug)

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