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Re: It's a pod blowout
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Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:30:38 GMT
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Great Stuff Andrew!
I like the Idea of a vertical pod as it looks cool.
Didn't know the Tie Defender was so big though.
HLDITY to build them?
Hasta La Vista, Sean
In lugnet.space, Andrew Martin writes:
> Go to
> http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~martinam/MartianDesign/
> and click on "New Additions" at the bottom.
>
> The first item is my first Star Wars pod. The Pod TIE Defender. I copied
> Jamie's Interceptor pretty closely. I would've gotten it done sooner, but I
> had to wait for a BrickLink order.
>
> Since my goal of making the first B-wing pod was thwarted, I decided to go
> for something a little more obscure. It wasn't in any of the movies. It
> hasn't even been in a book or game. It's Jon Palmer's D-wing. I thought it
> would make a good pod since it's a vertical ship, although the end result
> isn't as poddish as I would've liked. I originally wanted to use the same
> blue as his, but I didn't have all of the pieces that I needed, so I used
> yellow highlights. Maybe I'll do a blue version later. I tried to include
> all of the features. The landing skids retract. The front unfolds, and the
> chair lowers, although it doesn't move very far.
>
> Next is my walker pod. I have better pictures than what I originally
> posted. I wanted the pilot to be enclosed even with the legs unfolded, so
> there was even less room to work with than a normal pod. If it's hard to
> tell from the pictures, the dishes are light yellow, not tan.
>
> Then I made some more pod modules. The first is a warp drive donut. No,
> it's not the same thing as the Jedi starfighter attachment. That's a
> hyperdrive ring, and this is a warp drive donut, so they're clearly
> different. I liked the look of the barrels in the engines on the original
> D-wing so much that I used them here.
>
> I wanted to make some kind of fighter module, but I didn't want to use
> normal wings, so I used my TIE Defender design to make a three-winged
> fighter. I wanted it to look as mean as a pod could.
>
> Finally I made a little module with plugs on both ends for attaching two
> pods back-to-back.
>
> Hope you like 'em.
>
> -Andrew
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| The Defender might not be totally accurate, but since it's a pod, I wasn't too worried about that. The D-wing wasn't totally right either. The shape ended up getting squashed a little. I based a lot of the Defender on Jamie's Interceptor, and I'd (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.space)
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| Go to (URL) click on "New Additions" at the bottom. The first item is my first Star Wars pod. The Pod TIE Defender. I copied Jamie's Interceptor pretty closely. I would've gotten it done sooner, but I had to wait for a BrickLink order. Since my goal (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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