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Re: New Fad?
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lugnet.space
Date: 
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 03:25:25 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
> In lugnet.space, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > 
> > > I'd also want two other minimum criteria - each ship has to have an opening
> > > cockpit and working landing gear. That would make the dioramas look better
> > 
> > Ok. I have to strongly disagree here. In my legoverse landing gear is an • easily
> > exploitable weakness on military ships. Landing gear on my military ships • (any
> > size that can land) is always built directly into the hull of the ship to
> > eliminate it as a (fictitious) structural weakness.
> 
> 
> Whoa! My bad. I didn't mean to imply that fixed landing gear was
> unacceptable, it's totally fine by me.

Um... Perhaps my reply came across a little more argumentative than I intended.

> What I meant was that I viewed the
> presence of landing gear of some kind as mandatory.

I see, that makes much more sense than my original assumption.

> I've made fighters without landing gear at all, it's just that they don't
> land on tarmac or in flat hangar bays - they dock into docking bays on a
> carrier, hence they have a docking attachment.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul

-Mike Petrucelli



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(...) Whoa! My bad. I didn't mean to imply that fixed landing gear was unacceptable, it's totally fine by me. What I meant was that I viewed the presence of landing gear of some kind as mandatory. I've made fighters without landing gear at all, it's (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.space)

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