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In lugnet.space, Tony Hafner writes:
> In lugnet.space, Paul Hanson writes:
> > Recently declassified photos may be found at:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9258
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> Beautiful ship, Paul! You did a great job of working with the pieces on
> hand (your glass solution). And the color scheme is spot-on.
Thanks!
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> The modularity looks suspiciously akin to the ship you entered in the
> classic space contest last year... not that I'm faulting you. It makes for
> a wonderful model and is very consistent with the Blacktron design
> philosophy (as I see it).
I was hoping no one would notice that :-) A Blacktron ship just HAS to be
modular, and the configuration I used last year worked very well, so I decided
to reuse some of those ideas.
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> By looking at the ship's overall size, I'd say that could be well within the
> 400-piece limit for large ships... *if* you are economizing on pieces and
> building like a Lego set would be built. While the greebly bits (such as
> your extra cones and tiny cylinders on the engines) make the model look much
> better, they very quickly drive up the piece count. They aren't very true
> to the look of Lego sets either, though it seems like that aspect isn't
> being emphasized as much in this contest as last year.
I agree - with the details I've included, it's probably well over the 400 piece
limit. I wanted to use yellow cones for the engines (a'la the Renegade) but
don't have any of those, so I came up with something different. Just cones for
engines are boring anyhow :-) My rationale is that this is an engine design that
the Blacktrons were trying out before settling on the design they ultimately
used. And if you notice in 1 or 2 of the photos, they can be pointed forward and
make for some powerful-looking weapons, too :-)
- Paul
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> --
> Tony Hafner
> www.hafhead.com
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