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Re: Beautiful ship on Brickshelf (sort of)
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:46:52 GMT
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Welcome to the fray, William!
As Jon was saying, this is really a beauty you have on your hands here. I
think one of the nicest touches is the interior detailing right inside the
hatch. The rails and the valve (steering) wheels in matching tone carries
the clean design of the exterior, inside.
A question about the interior hatch: Is it one piece or two that intermesh?
I imagine with your posts you can likely consider youself de-lurked to the
denizens of .space (so to speak):>
Again, welcome!
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.space, William Vale writes:
> Hi there Jon (and everyone else)
>
> This is sort of a de-lurk, although I have posted once or twice
> before on .loc.uk. I've been waiting for my work address to get
> posting confirmation, which has now arrived, but I was tempted
> to lurk a little longer to see if your detective skillz noticed
> my post to off-topic.test...
>
>
> Quick intro: I'm 27, married, and work for Particle Systems in
> the UK - if you're of a games mind you might have heard of
> Independence War 2? I've been a Lego lurker since I heard about
> Mindstorms, and despite acquiring piles of stuff I still don't
> have an RCX.
>
> Having finally found a decent way to store my Lego in sorted form,
> I thought I ought to build something to introduce myself. It's the
> first ship I've made since my dark ages, although I did have a
> brief dalliance with the Aquanauts a few years back.
>
> And now the construction notes:
>
> I wanted to build something using the new Jango Fett Slave 1
> cockpit piece, since it's the right width to put a proper walk-in
> cockpit inside. I started off thinking about dropships and gunships,
> and I think I'd have ended up with something like the amphibicopter
> in AI. Instead I went for something a bit bigger.
>
> The tug is basically a box with a cockpit on the front and lots of
> nurnies, and there was a little inspiration from the Nostromo in
> Alien, especially in the feet, engines, and cramped interior...
>
> I think that at some point I'll have to rework the roof - the
> two 8x6 panels are detachable, and the rear section behind the
> drive ring unplugs (technic pegs) but you can't really see enough
> of the inside like that because the hatch framework divides the
> cabin from above. To take the interior pictures I had to remove
> some of this. Originally I built it like this for strength, but
> the underframe is now strong enough that I probably don't need to.
>
> I spent most of the Jubilee weekend here building and tweaking it,
> but didn't get around to taking any pictures until last weekend.
>
> Gil, your comment about the Sighthound Recon was not misplaced -
> I think it was that which showed that the humble hatch could be
> the core of a model, (plus the whole thing is amazing.)
>
> In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> > My apologies if I stole your thunder on this, I just had to mention it.
>
> No worries. I meant to post this last night, but Brickshelf must
> have gone into maintenance mode soon after I uploaded the images.
> I wanted to wait until I could link to them before posting to Lugnet.
> Then I had to go through the whole sign-up rigmarole again at work.
> Is it bad to have posting rights from 2 email addresses?
>
> Finally, do I need to do anything formal to de-lurk properly, like
> the old RTL form?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
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| (...) Thanks! I prefer Will though - probably filled in the wrong thing in the wrong box on the form... (...) I assume you mean the hatch between the cabin and the bridge? (URL) front wall of the ship is a double skin with a one brick thick space in (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.space)
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| Hi there Jon (and everyone else) This is sort of a de-lurk, although I have posted once or twice before on .loc.uk. I've been waiting for my work address to get posting confirmation, which has now arrived, but I was tempted to lurk a little longer (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.space)
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