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Re: Rebel Transport?
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:29:24 GMT
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Jon Palmer <[jpalmer123@oklahoma]nospam[.net]>
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Patrick Justison wrote in message <38B83D50.E1C2F223@mail.utexas.edu>...
> Has anyone ever tried to build a rebel transport? I'm about 60% done
> with one that I started about a week ago. It is about the same scale as
> the Tantive IV that I did a while ago. I'm asking because the ship is
> rather difficult to model because it consists of a large smooth, curved
> hull.
I've never tried to build one myself but I have the original Kenner
toy (its decent). I think that this would be a cool SW ship to make. I think
this ship is actually one of the more creative and cool looking ships in the
SW universe. It often seems overlooked by fans. I tell ya that shot of it
flying off of Hoth with the X wings when they say "the first transept is
away..." -- that part still gives me chills...
I would imagine that this would be very tricky to make out of Lego due
(as you stated) to its curved hull. I imagine after you get your initial
angles set you could build up and add more curves with plates. A while ago I
was playing around with the idea of beetle shaped fighter that would deploy
its wings from the back much like a real beetle does by unfolding them from
underneath the carapace. I wanted the back of it to be nice and curved. I
used some click hinges to angle plates along the length of the beetle and
then I added plates to the top of those and to the bottom of the angled
plates at the back of the beetle to give a sloped look. It looked fairly
good. I also added a few sloped here and there on it to throw in some noise.
The bottom areas are some of my favorite parts of the transport. All
those exposed containers..
Very cool! Can't wait to see yours.
Jon.
web: http://www.geocities.com/legotiel/Bardiel.html
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