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New MOC
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 03:47:14 GMT
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The U.C.T. Quasimodo
(commonly referred to as...)
-The Platypus
-the "Tricky Dick" (the original ship was the R.M. Nixon)
-The Hephaestus
-U.S.S. Ughmo
-The Canker
-"It was Born to be That Ugly"
-The Lusty Jabberwock
-Spacevan
-U.S.S. Cr*ptastic
-The Mule
-The Bumhouse
-The Blunderbuster
-The Hobo's Galleon
-U.S.S. Baglady
-The Scrapheap
-H.R.M.S.S. Delapidated
-U.S.S. Sh*tbrick
-The Cobble's Lament
-A Patchwork Orange
-"All in a Day's Recycling"
-The Colossal Wreck
-Carpe Garbage (Cr*pus, Refuse, etc.)
-U.S.S. Chunk
-"I Hope That Works"
The Quasimodo began it's life as a short-range patrol craft. it's service
record was unremarkable, and passed quietly on to the scrapyard. before it
could be melted down it was bought, at a considerable discount, by
then-exile J.R. Dobbs XXVIII. it's long transformation to the U.C.T.
(Universal Cargo transporter, thus far the only ship to bear that
designation) Quasimodo happened in fits and starts. the captain first
scrapped the internal engine/fusion module, which had taken up most of the
space behind the cramped cockpit. in it's place he installed a Galley, with
two cupboards and a fridge (usually filled with cold drinks of questionable
nature). next was the addition of a second, lower deck. a new Linear-Fusion
reactor was installed at the back of this deck, with engines mounted on the
roof. for a time the lower deck was rented out to a planetary survey team,
who installed sensor packages in the forward support column. when they left,
they left the sensors behind. until the addition of the crew's quarters,
Captain Dobbs and any crew he might have slept on the floor of the lower
deck and galley. he claimed the interior of the ship was too dark at one
point, and began chopping holes through the walls as soon as they were in
drydock. the result was a conglomeration of windows about the hull, which
are set into deep wells on the first deck (except the aft-facing windows,
since they don't drive backwards), but are on the surface of the lower deck
(because it can be sealed off from the main deck. when he finally tired of
sleeping on a bed of compressed titanium, J.R. ordered the grandest
modification to date. after sawing a doorway through the hull of the main
deck, at the rear of the galley, he aquired a bunk section from an abandoned
military Barracks ship. heavy duty welding secured the barrack to the side
of the Quasimodo (which was now beginning to grow into the name) and began
re-routing reactor power to brackets slung underneath. a new engine array
was aquired (the captain won't say from where) and bolted to those same
brackets. next came a vast tangle of conduits and pipes as Drive Plasma from
the reactor was pumped around the ship, eventually arriving at the engines,
where it was reacted with interstellar hydrogen to propel the ship.
The Crew: J.R.Dobbs XVIII - Captain
Reginald Van Morten - Engineer/communications
2G-767-KXC - Ship's Droid/Cook/Assistant Engineer/Fleebnorker/Cargo
Loader/Maintenance Unit/miscellaneous
Systems: one "orion" class Linear fusion reactor (salvaged from ???)
one three-engine plasmadrive array (salvaged from ???)
one "Archimedes" type main computer (standard equipment on original
vessel)
one deep-space chemical toilet (part of salvaged barracks)
one Space-SavR combination Stove/Sink (salvaged?)
one deep-freez refrigeration unit, with cupboard space below. (salvaged?)
two planetary scanner arrays (left behind by survey teams, converted for
ship scanning)
Weapons: none (yet?)
The U.C.T. Quasimodo is one of the more unique ships in known space, and is
almost universally agreed to be the ugliest thing moving under it's own
power. Captain Dobbs is always willing to listen to requests for transport
of cargo, and the bay can even be fitted with seats for transporting
passengers, and he will even haul hazardous cargos for exorbitant fees. the
only complaint ever heard from the crew regards the food, since the Droid's
built-in secrecy systems prevent it from telling people what's in the food
it creates. the current theory is that the meals consist of Fleebnork
prepared in a variety of new ways, since nobody has ever seen the Droid
burning Fleebnorks off the ship, as is standard procedure.
(P.S.: I'd like to thank the residents of the Sinfest Forum for supplying
the names for the ship, Mark Sandlin, for creating Fleebnorks, and of course
TLG itself.)
(P.P.S.: I apologise in advance for problems with lighting in the pictures.
I've just moved into my Dorm here, and am still figuring out how best to
light my models when I take pics.)
(P.P.P.S.: here's the link:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6399 now you have no choice
but to read the backstory... wait...)
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Great backstory, and I love all the other names for the ship (The Lusty Jabberwock? Bwahaha!!) The ship looks exactly like you'd expect such a heavily modified ship to be, though with Captain Dobbs punching that many holes in the hull, I'd be (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: New MOC
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| In lugnet.space, Anthony Babington writes: <snip> (...) Hey! That's a pretty good MOC there! :^) Neeto features including the swing out under carriage, and the way you placed view ports everywhere. Interesting in how you handled the airlock! Just (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
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