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Re: .Spacers...to the Time Warp!!
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Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:17:52 GMT
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Crimey sir...if those backstories were your childhood ones, my hat off to
your inventivenss at such a tender age! My most complex scenario was
'Johnny Rocket rescues Space Crystal'!
Good stuff! If you get a chance, indeed cobble something together and post
it or e-mail me the links.
For the moment, I'm just doing one entry (and update if wanted) per person.
If the response is not that much and I have the space, I'll open it up to
multiple submissions for those who are interested.
Thanks for your interest Hendo...if I may call you Hendo ;)
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.space, John P. Henderson writes:
> In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes:
> >
> > So, may I present.....The .Space Time Warp!
> >
> > http://home.cogeco.ca/~gtoradoch/Timewarp/Timewarp_main.htm
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> Ooh, I absolutely love this idea. I am not certain about the color scheme
> you chose for the website though. It seems very Paradisa... ;)
>
> I certainly never took photos of my models in my youth. I think I didn't
> take photos of MOCs until about 1990, so there's 12 years of building before
> that was not documented. For Space, I recall four distinct models from that
> prehistoric era...
>
> 1. Outpost A12. The workplace of one of my signature characters, and the
> place of the opening scene in the first saga of Valyance, Outpost A12
> represented any of a number of smaller research facilities on the gray
> desert of Valyance's first moon. (Presumably, there were many Outposts, a
> few larger bases like oversized Beta-1's, and three civilian colonies, but
> in my youth I only had pieces for an Outpost.) This model included a
> mission control facility in blue (with yellow windows and inverted angled
> windows as entrances), several landing pads, refueling stations, and a solar
> power core (which could be charged by wandering SPTs). At the time, most of
> the visiting spacecraft were TLC models like the Stardefender and the
> FX-Star Patroller.
>
> 2. Outpost B08. (I think that was the number.) Like A12, this was a small
> Outpost. In real-life, I built this one first. Part of the pre-story of
> Valyance, it was used as a target by the Darknians during a test-run of the
> technologies used by the Battrax, Invader, and Renegade. The model included
> a three-story control tower that flowered open at the top and an assortment
> of landing facilities similar to the A12. It was a lot of fun enacting the
> destruction of this old Outpost with (what was then) new BT1 sets!
>
> 3. Unnamed Billundian Exploratory Class 3 Craft. I never named it this FSPC
> vehicle, but very early on in my space building I put together a Classic
> Space style ship that was basically a series of independent modules (each
> basically a box with a few computers) that were interconnected by short
> catwalks (plates) that were exposed to space. The different modules
> included cockpit, communications lab, bio-research station, solar data
> collector, and crew quarters. None of these modules were any larger than
> the old TLC Mobile Lab, and the doors used a similar construction style.
> One reason this model is remembered is because I kept walking over to my
> Town display and "borrowing" special elements like railings and lights in
> order to complete its construction. I don't think the Town ever got all its
> pieces back.
>
> 4. Unnamed Billundian Cruiser Class 3 Craft. I never named this FSPC
> vehicle either, but I recall designing a ship using elements similar to
> early Classic Space spaceships, but wider than long and with lots of slopes
> on the underside. I think this one was destroyed with the aforementioned
> Outpost B08. The truth is, and this is relevent to the current subject, my
> vague memory of this model was a big inspiration for the basic shape of one
> of my most recent MOCs, the FSPC Garnet...as seen here:
> http://www.valyance.com/starship/myships/GT_Fly_Up.jpg
> (Other pics at: http://www.valyance.com/starship/myships/garnet.htm)
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> So, I guess what I need to do next for this idea is to actually try to
> recreate some of these things. It will take some doing, given my current
> schedule and time available to build. But I hope this project takes off and
> I will try to contribute to it at some point.
>
> Cheers,
> -Hendo
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| (...) Uh oh. I sense a long babbling Hendo-Post coming on... ;o Yeah, the story of Valyance has been developing in my head since I was about 12, when I finally had Lego models of three different themes. The setting grew out of my childhood need to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) you chose for the website though. It seems very Paradisa... ;) I certainly never took photos of my models in my youth. I think I didn't take photos of MOCs until about 1990, so there's 12 years of building before that was not documented. For (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.space)
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