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| (...) Oh not at all. They're a good time waster. =^) (...) I'll have to disagree, I originally had fins, but it didn't look right. I like it with the guns as the only protruding item from the main "shape". Just my opinion though. -Geordan (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Thanks Allister! (...) I spose I could, but then there'd be no proper way for the pilot to get out. I don't mind the lack of landing gear personally, although it would be cool. I like retractable (...) Thanks. and (...) It most definitely is not (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Thanks Austin, it's moderated now. It seems like stuff is getting moderated faster than it used to. -Geordan (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: The Eastern Block's Newest Weapons
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| (...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) the new creations vill greatly bless the mother country, space comrade Jeff (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New MOC: 'Archer I'
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| (...) Hmm...that's a good idea. I'll add that to one of my updated probes. (...) Hey, that's a great idea! (...) Wow, thanks fo all this info. This'll really help me later with other probes. (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| I usually don't venture out of .castle much but I have a ship to show ya'll. It's a 1 man fighter with lots of cargo space. It could be a smuggler ship cuz of speed and firepower, but it could also work as a small drop ship. The jango fett boxes can (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc) !
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) You and JHK had a pretty valid point about the lack of roundness, so I did he best I could on the neck (which is a marked improvement) and found wedge parts for the body. The great side result was that I was able to put a plate on the bottome (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) While everyone already pointed out that Babylon 5 is the best mainstream sci-fi at actually obeying physics in space, I would like to point out a few additions to the above statement. The Star Trek "science advisor" has an Art degree. Half of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) Thanks! You're right about the canopy, and I just ran out of those pieces :( As for the greebs, I tend to think of myself as a feeble greebler:) But ths ship was mostly fun. The legs are very cantankerous, so if you breathe on it the wrong (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | The Eastern Block's Newest Weapons
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| The Eastern Block is Proud to announce its two latest achievements: ======= Our first creation deals with question: What happens when you mix two parts Spaceman Spiff, two parts VW Bug, and one part evil Soviet dictatorship? (2 URLs) It is the 2056 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) Joe, This edition makes an excellent ship superior. ;) As Gil said: (...) I totally agree. I see the sphenoid could not be rounded out but I think the other new parts help shroud it's boxyness; plus, the repetitious grill texture in that area (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) Thanks! I was surprised at how the model worked itself out in its final form. The top fin worked out much better than I expected, but I originally was going to array the spines under their opposite neighbor, so you only would have seen half as (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) Thanks! Your suggestion to make the top fin like the siide fins I originally was not too keen on, mainly because I was thinking of doing only one plate and all the spines from that, which meant that the studs would be seen on one side. I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: One improved Lionfish, two new MOCs...
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| (...) Thanks! I found some wedge parts that I didn't expect to find. (...) I really didn't expect to build this one, as I was building a ship. The idea of landing gear became legs as I continued to build...they just looked right:) (...) There are (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) I'm on dial up here, and I can't slam the site cuz it doesn't load. I have the newest flash and 98 too. It starts the loading progress bar and then stalls out. I'd love to see it when it gets changed. (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) -snip- While he could have been more tactful, he is right. The pop-up is annoying, and websites that require the user to have the newest software and/or hardware are poorly designed. My initial experience (dialup/windows 98/newest version of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: MB Onimak medical Research
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| (...) Thanks and the design concept for this was based loosely from a much more recent film with a cloning facility. Regards, ACPin & Sons (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) Not at all. In atmospheric fighter combat, if I drop in on your six, you've got to shake me long enough to swing around and point your forward-facing guns at me before you can shoot back because you can't fly backwards. Thus, whoever gets (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) Good luck on your latest venture! One thing though you missed out on posting it to .market where I think this should belong. Or at least all FUTs should be there rather than flooding all the other newsgroups with the announcement. Regards, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) The Hyperion (URL) lists> at about 1200 meters. Assuming the center of rotation is the exact center of the vessel, you're swinging 600 meters of steel around the point of rotation, and that's the critical point (after all, you want to make (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) I hadn't really thought about this problem before, but I can see how it would be a problem. If your propellent has an exit velocity of 2mph, it shouldn't ever be able to make you go faster than 2mph. Once you've hit that point, the propellent (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) While a couple people have stated this might be a bit of a harsh reply, I find my self in the same boat. I would like to see the new castle stuff and probably buy some, but your page has requirements that exceed my setup. If you want to make (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| I am on a Cable Modem and had no problems at all with your site. If he wants to complain, then he should at least show a little more restraint and tact. After all, you are not responsible for their connection speed/internet settings. Anyway, glad to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) I was under the assumption you would accelerate after the direction change. Actually, the way this all started, spinning the ship to shoot behind you, is a bit foolish. Unless in a little fighter, there should be guns all around, like a modern (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| In lugnet.build.ancient, Richard Marchetti wrote: Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer... (...) First of all, I think that was a little harsh. Second of all, great site Jeff, I had no trouble with anything on it. I might order (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) I like the design of the weapons and most of the page works fine for me. However, i have 3 questions. First, how do the droids hold their robot blasters? Secondly, are the handgrips on the castle weapons and blasters round? They look a bit (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) Bruce Thanks Bruce. Specific pics have or will be fixed this evening. I don't know what to tell you about the "view details" thing. It works fine for me, as well as MANY others. Jeff (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| Hey Jeff, Congratulations on the new site. It looks great! I really like the "in situ" photos especially. I also noticed that on several of the space weapons, when you click on "view details" you just see the detail of the robot blaster. These (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) Er... uh... yeah. That's Richard. He needs a nickname like "Mr. Sunshine" or something. I will agree that it might be nice if the portal page didn't spawn the popup, but everything else worked ok for me here at work (MSIE 5.0 on NT) other than (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) You must be joking, right? (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer... Things that suck about your site: 1. You have a useless portal page that forces a pop-up (and therefore forces me to change my "quick preference" browser settings to see your stupid (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| Very nice work! I love your space weapons! God luck with this business. Terry (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) I did have a bit of trouble when loading detail pages for different weapons. Sometimes pictures of other weapons would pop up in the sidebar, even though the description was correct. -Grand Admiral and Keeper of Fleebnorks (URL) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) LENNY, It might be your computer. This site requires updated flash stuff. Well, that and a decent modem speed. (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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| (...) the site looks pretty cool. I clicked the 'load catalog' link, another window opened that said "loading catalog" but nothing happened after that. -Lenny (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Official Website Is Launched!
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| Well folks, here it is. Some of the pics are being tweaked as I write this, but 95% is complete. The last minute changes will be finished by this evening. (URL) Thanks, Jeff (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) !
| | | | | Re: MB Onimak medical Research
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| (...) Whoa! I really dig the shape of this thing! I don't know what it is, but it makes me think of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series book covers....hmmmm.... Trev (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) Yup. But even a ship like the Hyperion could probably spin in place relatively quickly - certainly not at starfury-like speeds - but I imagine it could still do a 180 within a couple minutes. I strongly suspect, given the shape of Earthforce (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) He does have a point as far as capital ships are concerned. A Starfury is a one-man ship, and everything I've seen suggests that when a Starfury rotates in flight, the cockpit is pretty darn near the center of rotation, so the pilot can (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Another one rides the BUS...PCSBUS that is.
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| (...) I believe wearing it the "right way" leaves a bigger gap. It's a prob, yes, but the fig heads like Jango Fett and those from the race sets with "racing stocking" on their heads make it work and close the gap of exposed skin :-) (only have (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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