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Re: SF convention
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Wed, 16 May 2001 21:21:21 GMT
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Trevor & All,

> I plan to bring the following:
> - My destroyer
> - My frigate with modules
> - My food processor
> - At least one freighter for the outpost setup.
> 
> I plan to work on building the following buildings for the small outpost:
> - An atmospheric processor installation (small)
> - A Tokomak Fusion reactor. (small)
> - I have 3 trans blue qtr domes (my fourth is in my Frigate) that I can use
> along with Rick's two and Scott's four to make hydroponics bays.  Both Scott
> and I have the white side walls that come with the Explorien's base.  I'm
> suggesting these because they are a snap to re-arrange for fast build and
> tear down.  Peter Guenther has 4 qtr domes trans green I believe.

Whoa, what do I need to bring? Those trans-blue domes from Exploriens, etc?
Where are they at?

> The following things we could try to include besides the usual military
> stuff for the outpost:
> 
> - waste processing and water reclamation facility
> - barracks/messhall/gymnasium

Question: Is the outpost on an atmospheric planet or not? I can arrange to
design the water reclamation facility.

> The following would be cool on a *small* scale only and would be:
> - *small* refinery for synthetic fossil fuels or chemicals. (acutally, this
> would be mosty 1/2 cylinder light grey pieces of which both Scott and I have
> quite a few of)
> - *small* steel micromill.  I know how to do this, it will take some space
> but I will not have the pieces after what I plan to work on.
> - electronics fabrication and repair. (this is actually not a hard one to
> build - I've done a couple in the past.  High speed surface mount technology
> and chip wafer fabrication is ok and esy to do at minifig scale, while resin
> encapsulation would be a bit tougher to show at minifig scale)
> 
> In my mind, all of the above can be fit onto 1 table, not including feul
> dumps, landing pads, repair bays and defense installations.  I really do
> think a small outpost is possible with little effort and little space, while
> acheiving a lot of detail. If we use only two tables for the outpost, but
> really build the outpost up like a good town layout (not spread everything
> out like LEGO catalogs do) then we could really have an interesting layout
> in very little space.  Much smaller than the train show for sure since the
> buildings will tend to be smaller.  Comments?  Critisms?  :)

Indeed. We need to arrange it at our meeting.

> Finally: Military
> 
> Well, this one is a plethora of goodwill because most of us have tons to
> show.  What to choose to show in the small outpost?  There is nothing really
> that inspiring in my mind if we just have a couple of no-name buildings and
> a whole bunch of little vehicles at a show where some people want to see
> other technological representations.  I think we should worry about the
> facilities and the military filler will take care of itself.  And from what
> I have seen of their work, we have such an extensive collection of structure
> building experience from Amy, Chris, Peter, Chris, Scott and Rick (forgive
> me if I have forgotten anyone) that we can make a really good layout in a
> very short period of time.  It just depends who is coming.
> 
> I think that we will all have a couple of fighters to show, Rick has one or
> two *good* troop dropships that I would personally love to see if at all
> possible, Scott has excellent mobile defense installations and units that I
> believe he still has assembled and would cover missle defense (that right?),

Yup. I have them, somewhere among the plastic containers.

> and Scott and I each have a "countdown" corner that can be converted to
> conventional heavy lift launchers/planetary defense/planet buster missles.
> :)  I am open to many ideas since my military stuff will not really be part
> of the outpost.  I think that we should focus on making good buildings and
> facilities before we worry about the military contigent because given our
> experience in military MOCs then it becomes easy fodder to fill in at the
> last minute.

Right.

Scott S.
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(...) Guys,not sure what i can bring/provide for this show other then my monorail.I really havn't bought a space related set since the futron monorail came out.Again i guess this is something we can discuss when we get together. (25 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> I plan to bring the following: - My destroyer - My frigate with modules - My food processor - At least one freighter for the outpost setup. I plan to work on building the following buildings for the small outpost: - An (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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