Subject:
|
Re: Shuto Fighter - Prototype Toradoch Systems
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.space
|
Date:
|
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:01:29 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1235 times
|
| |
|
|
Woa, that is a really interesting little ship. That angle it is at, the
intakes, and the little pods at the sides, very nice. Quite original.
--Kyle
http://lego.kepplah.com
In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes:
> Greetings!
>
> A victim of serval techraids on it's Terran and offworld development sites,
> Toradoch Industries has developed it's first defense platform...the Shuto
> multi-role gravfighter. Made for short range atomospheric use, it's design
> is to be used for a variety of as yet undisclosed defense tasks.
>
> Seen with a vetern Toradoch test pilot, this unarmed version has been shown
> only to the top company brass.
>
> More to come as it's declassified....
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=18821
>
>
> Originally I wanted this to be the platform for a small battlegroup, but as
> with most things, it got larger the more I worked on it. I hope to produce
> a simplified version for mass production. Both hate and love the half round
> canopies. Interesting for the back access option as used here, but often
> miserable to work with the angles and relatively short length..ah well.
> Kudos to J. Palmer's D wing, LF Braun's AMX fighter and J. Neufield's
> Tigershark for solutions to these problems...
>
> Cheers,
> -G
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Shuto Fighter - Prototype Toradoch Systems
|
| Many thanks Kyle...it came about after seeing the trailer for that upcoming Tom Cruise/Spielberg future cops n' robbers flick. The pursuit vechicles have that Slave 1-ish, semi-vertical orientation. Looks like a good movie actually.... Cheers, -G (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.space)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Shuto Fighter - Prototype Toradoch Systems
|
| Greetings! A victim of serval techraids on it's Terran and offworld development sites, Toradoch Industries has developed it's first defense platform...the Shuto multi-role gravfighter. Made for short range atomospheric use, it's design is to be used (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.space)
|
18 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
