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  HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
Instead of pushing the maximum size limit, I decided to push the minimum. The hover kit-car is propelled by three turbofans and two compressed gas canisters. Its range, speed, and hover height are limited, but it's light weight and maneuverability (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
 
  Re: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
heh heh that's sweet, very COOL use of the steering wheels -p (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
(...) Very nice! It shares a lot of aesthetic qualities with Joel's also very cool mini-hovercar. Those steering wheels are quite useful as mini-turbofans--I've only ever used them as landing gear or machinegun legs. ;) LFB (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
NOOO...OOO!!!!!....DOH! Now I have to redesign my hover vehicle because it looks too much like yours....no steering wheels for me the next time around...grrr....I guess it's true what they say- 'great minds think alike'. It just doesn't usually (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  RE: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
(...) Seems like such an obvious usage to me :) (...) And steering wheels? Although now that I build out of standard minifig scale they're usually too small for that. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  RE: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
(...) And here I thought I was being somewhat original :P (...) Heheh...If I had finished my truck in progress before moving on to the next thing, you probably would have published first. (...) I've got another idea too...so far no one has published (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
(...) I second that. -Mike Petrucelli (who hasn't posted in about a month and is now going hog wild) (...) The (...) canisters. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: HoverThing Contest Entry #1: Kit-Car
 
(...) Now someone just needs to make a "millipede" craft...;) (...) Today I bought my first "Jack Stone" set (the little cop car), and God help me, I actually like some of the parts (gotta brasso the logos off the side fairings, though)! The reason (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)

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