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Re: Shuto Fighter - Prototype Toradoch Systems
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:20:39 GMT
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Very cool ship. I love it. That landing gear is great and I like the rear
entry thing you did. Very different. Glad our ship designs could help you
out. You did an excellent job.
Jamie
www.ozbricks.com/jneufeld
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.
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> Seen with a vetern Toradoch test pilot, this unarmed version has been shown
> only to the top company brass.
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> More to come as it's declassified....
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=18821
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> 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...
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> Cheers,
> -G
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| Thanks kindly Jamie...it was a fun one to build. The rear hatch is actually an experiment in putting together an access tunnel that would allow ships such as this to link up through a common module. Cheers, -G (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Shuto Fighter - Prototype Toradoch Systems
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| 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)
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