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Re: MOC: Gunstar from "The Last Starfighter"
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:33:03 GMT
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"Tony Knaak" <tknaaker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I must commend you on your dedication to this project! It is easy to • create
> a space ship from your imagination with LEGO because you usually limit
> yourself to the brick constraints. But with previously non-LEGO created
> ships, you really have to push the brick to work for you in strange • angles.
> Your Gunstar is a perfect example of this concept. You spared no detail • and
> everything looks just like the renders! You rarely see a creation of this
> caliber.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! The wings were one hell of a challenge,
but exciting and inspiring at the same time.
> Now enough praise,
Oh no! Don't stop now!! :-D
> questions and comments!
> The tri-axis seat could be done, but I am guessing you had to limit it to
> one due to size, correct?
Exactly. I'm sure that such a gimble could be built, but I shudder to think
of how big the ship would have to be for it to the proper scale!
> Do the hatches open behind Grig?
Alas, they do not. I was hoping to do this, but there were several
problems. The minifigs are a little too big for the ship (I think they
should be about 25% smaller to be in the proper scale) so they wouldn't fit
through a door at the proper scale to the ship. Besides, the door in my
model is behind Grig. In the film, the door is underneath his chair. I
couldn't fit that in because that area along the bottom of the fuselage
needed to be extremely strong because of the weight of the wings really
bears down there.
> The canopy I think is friggin' great. It is the best way I have seen to • make
> a custom formed cockpit without molding your own out of ABS! I think I
> recall one of your posts about it before, but I didn't get what you were
> saying until now.
Yeah, it was kind of hard to explain without pictures. Works great, though!
> Anyway, good stuff. Are you oing to make the car / shuttle next? :P
It would be fun, but there's very little visual reference available other
than the film, and I like the Gunstar way more than Centauri's galactic
Ferrari (hey, I rhymed!).
Dave
> t
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