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Hi all, After some comments on my Lionfish, I revised it to be more organic: (URL) and here's the (URL) Folder> MOC 2: PCS Walker: (2 URLs) Folder> This is a multiterrain scout vehicle capable of flying to a destination, then deploying its legs to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.disney, FTX)
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| | Re: Hypothetical design question
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(...) If you spin anything around without curving or coming to a complete stop, you'll be sorry. Inertia still applies in space, and at the speeds probably used, a 180-degree spin will turn the entire crew into little puddles on the back of their (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Video games will rot your brain, mmkay? (...) to me. It sort of looks like a cockpit section that still is awaiting some engines, or fins, or antennas or something. -Grand Admiral and Keeper of Fleebnorks (URL) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Smooooth. Studless is good. I like the open and shutty bits. Can you make that underside opening panel into a retractable landing gear? I like retractable landing gear? Either way, it's a cool little ship with an interesting shape, and the JS (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: I think I'm almost a space head.
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(...) -Austin (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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Wow three space things since christmas and only one mecha! egad. I had two failed attempts at building a mecha and space was begining to look like alot of fun. So I built space. (not to say I'm leaving mecha, but I'm gonna build space for a bit more (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The Selendian Scout
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"George Haberberger" <George.Haberberger@...xerox.com> wrote in message news:HGzKwq.112p@lugnet.com... (...) sometimes (...) home PC (...) more (...) Whatever you did fixed it. Everything is readable and no horizontal scrolling. I also proudly use (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Another one rides the BUS...PCSBUS that is.
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(...) Thanks Paul... and thanks for making a nicer lookin' graphical post than I did :-) All Hail Paul, master of FTX. (wouldn't it be cool if postin a link to brickshelf automatically put the thumbnail in?) (URL) Admiral Giddens <>< (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Another one rides the BUS...PCSBUS that is.
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(...) It is so. I'm waiting to see if a connector will hold is up if it docks without supports underneath. If not, the right height can be achieved by adding this to the landing gear [LDrawPart 3940:7] (...) That idea is being attempted by a few (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: Microscale Ship
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(URL) Ship>> (...) Make sure you let me know when you do. I'd really like to see a version 2 of this ship with a more detailed underside! Maybe you could even post some instructions or partially deconstructed version. -Jr.Mar.Hoffman (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) Hmm..okay, I'll try that on my next one. As I said, I was bored when I built this and just knid of threw the bricks together. Thanks for the comments, (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: The Scoop and a new/old MOC
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Chris, Thanks for sharing this lil guy! Hardsuit sweetness. I have to echo the Grand Admiral here in that the chunky- and tough-ness of this is great. (...) Exactly. I too would like to make one eventually. I do have a question about the ankle (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I like it. Looks like the rear hatch conforms to the Classic Space Moonbase Project's corridor specifications. Is this so? If so, has anyone thought of creating an extending, articulated corridor, so that spaceships that land can sit still and (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New Moonbase Std Door
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(...) speaking of which, is there going to be a revisit/evolution of the MoonBase standards at BrickFest this year? -paul (2 URLs) Paul Hartzog (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> (custom sig image courtesy of CGidd) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) (URL) great bulky landing gear and nice tube on the front (URL) luv the inset greeblies. always luv those technic steering thingies. (URL) dig the MoonBase standard connection and maybe its just me but I really like the side panel w/ the white (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Nathan, This looks good, but I have a few comments. You might want to add another power source, solar panels don't work great far from the Sun (Galileo and Magellan used little plutonium pods and thermopiles, IIRC). How about adding a few (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: The Selendian Scout
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(...) Tom, My html skills are pretty basic, optimized for notepad and vi, so I sometimes have trouble getting the pictures lined up right, what looks fine on my home PC doesn't always look good in other browers and PCs. I need to do a little more (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hypothetical design question
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(...) Jonathan, The craft would indeed contact a lot of particles (about 2.85x10^14 per second per square meter of frontal area at 0.95c) but the energy per particle is very small. So the total energy of those particles seems manageable in (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) But you're going at .95c, which means you're hitting lots of particles per second. If your ship has a frontal area of 9 sq meters, and 90000 square centimeters, that's 90,000 molecules you're running into for every centimeter forward in space (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The Scoop and a new/old MOC
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I've got to echo what most of the others said-nice lil' mecha hardsuit you've got there, Chris! Not too beefy, but it certainly gets the point across what you don't want to tick off the suit's operator. Sorry to hear about the job loss. I hope you (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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