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Re: Fighter Launch Rack and other Hangar Bay Questions
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 04:29:35 GMT
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Bob Jackson wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas for a fighter launch rack? I saw one onboard a
> huge microfig carrier on this Japanese site and it looked very cool. It
> consisted of a weird technic contraption with the fighters attached to it.
> I'm building a carrier for my microfig fleet, and I need this launch rack
> design.
I was actually kicking this around earlier today, as I sorted five copies of
7161 Gungan Sub. My new starship will probably carry only four, but they'll be
on a "rack" and the pilots will clamber in from the bottom, which faces into the
ship. They'll launch straight down, and will be held in place with a
click-hinge mounted dropaway panel.
The functional problem is setting aside the room for the pilots' walk in the
centre of the ship; it will effectively have to be a giant airlock, but I have a
design in mind that will allow partial-squad ship recovery (but not
partial-squad ship launch). Another thought I had was to design this fighter
bay as a standard module conforming to some of the design specs I've seen here,
so that a large ship could carry 20 or 24 fighter craft or only 2 with a minimum
of structural rebuilding. It's sort of like this:
Door
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F-+-F
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Door
...so that the fighter bays would have to be mounted ventrally and in series,
with the doors facing fore and aft. I might include a hatch on top as well, but
that would necessitate an open space on the mothercraft, something I'm just not
very keen on.
> By the way, do you think capital ships should be able to carry other capital
> ships? The larger ship would have to be a truly great size and the smaller
> ship would have to be a frigate or gunboat class, but is it feasible? The
> Eclipse Star Destroyer could hold an entire Star Destroyer in its docking
> bay. Is it reasonable to build a very large capital ship with a small force
> of strike cruisers inside the hangar?
In microfig scale? Sure, if you have enough pieces. :) Someone has been
playing too much "Homeworld." I remember the old Traveller High Guard rules;
anything carrying fighters is classed as a "carrier," but anything carrying
larger ships is a "tender." IIRC, most of these tenders were basically large
shells. The problem with a huge Eclipse-type ship carrying strike cruisers is
that, in order to be itself a viable warship, it wouldn't carry enough strike
cruisers to be able to protect itself from something suitably huge to cause it
fear; by the same token, the strike cruisers would be little more than pickets,
because any serious target would be better served with the full fury of the
mothership. :)
Anyhow, just my thoughts.
best
LFB
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| Hi, Sorry, need to clarify the diagram: (...) The "doors" are for crew; "F" indicates the position where fighters are mounted vertically. There is no need for any fighter bay door for the ships themselves, as they are held flush to the hull. best (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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| Does anyone have any ideas for a fighter launch rack? I saw one onboard a huge microfig carrier on this Japanese site and it looked very cool. It consisted of a weird technic contraption with the fighters attached to it. I'm building a carrier for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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