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Re: Displacement Tonnage for Spaceships?
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:00:29 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John P. Henderson writes:
I hope someday that I can build a ludicrous big ship.  Most of mine are
sorta small, fairly small, and diminutively small.  :)

(The Terrorformer and the Armegeddon being two exceptions of course.)

In lugnet.space, Jordan D. Greer writes:

Anyhow, since all of our ships are built of the same materials, I think that
for comparitive volume would be the best measurement of ship size. Plus, for
very large ships it's often difficult to ascertain mass.

In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
Why not take a picture of the space craft, that way, we can all enjoy your
work?  We are all anxious to see what it looks like so please feel free to
show us your work.

Haha!  Sounds like a challenge!  <grin>  Well, even if not meant as such, I
shall do my best.  I may talk faster than I build.  And I may build faster
than I can photograph & scan.  But one way or the other, I shall deliver
onto you that which you ask.  I declare that I shall have quality photos of
my starships and updated webpages regarding such, and they shall be made
available to this community no later than the last day of this month.

So shall it be done.  :)


Jesse further adds:
Mine may be crummy but at least I am going to be proud
of what I did with my diminutive collection.  Unlike some of you, I do not
have six-digit incomes so that I could afford all of these nice, huge LEGO
sets, so I have to work with what little money that I get over the years.  I
am sure that it is a nice space craft nonetheless.

Yeah, I don't have a six-digit income either, which is partly why my option
for photography is not quickly remedied (i.e. no digital camera, and what
some think is inexpensive for cameras is indeed too much for me).  I only
have a lot of elements to work with because I have been slowly collecting
for over 24 years without any Dark Age.

I am somewhat busy with
my attempt at a capital ship, capital, at least to most of LUGNET, anyway,
so I can not show you what mine looks like for the moment, anyway.  I plan
on getting me one more of those 1,200 piece #3033 LEGO tubs soon as well as
possibly getting a 1,000 piece LEGO Creator (the tub WITHOUT the people) tub
at my new Wal-Mart SuperCenter for my upcoming birthday and maybe one or two
of those $10 LEGO FreeStyle red buckets after the 1,200 piece LEGO tub (I am
23 already?  Time sure does fly.).  The LEGO Creator set has a lot of nice
pieces, as do the other LEGO sets that I mentioned, besides, I need some
windows on some other parts of my space craft.

I look forward to seeing your final design.  I find the tubs are the
cheapest way to dramatically increase your piece-count.  They don't offer
much for specialized space elements, but they can be invaluable to have the
base pieces to give form and structure to a model.

I wish to have more experience in making wider space craft but then I would
not have such long space craft....:(  Decisions, decisions....are they ever
easy in life?

Yes.  I have the same habit of making long, usually linear ship designs.
I've tried to make a few that are wider than long, but it is a tough habit
to break.

Good luck!

-Hendo



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(...) Why not take a picture of the space craft, that way, we can all enjoy your work? We are all anxious to see what it looks like so please feel free to show us your work. Mine may be crummy but at least I am going to be proud of what I did with (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)

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