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Re: 3 new spaceish Mocs!
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:30:30 GMT
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One thing is for sure...you wouldn't want the Boar landing in your front
yard. Man, what a bruiser. Often dropships are long an lean...an
interesting take to go the other way and make it more bulky. It makes
sense...able to take a lot of fire and still drop the kids off.
Your inspirations are nicely incorporated....Mladen's colour blocking/SNOT
usage and the Admiral's uniformity of design. I quite like the tri-door
opening of the cargo/troop bay...it's like they just disgorge out of nowhere.
The LPT and Bulldog are nice as well....the sparseness of them works well
with the light airlift nature of their purpose.
Great stuff!
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.announce.moc, Geordan Hankinson writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got my first "real" space Moc under my belt. I've built space before,
> but this is my first cool space vehicle or so I think. ;^)
>
> I present the HLAATV or "T-24 Boar"
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39734
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> For the longest time I've wanted to build a dropship. I've marvelled at
> Mladen's work as well as Mark Sandlinds, but never been able to complete one
> of my own, not for lack of trying though - the number of failed attempts
> have been many.
>
> The boar in my side universe, this replaces the V-22 Osprey as a VTOL
> transport craft. The V-22 was a fantastic vehicle, although it lacked
> substantial weaponry, making it an easy target unless escorted by other
> aircraft. The boar not only is a transport vehicle, able to carry up to 24
> troops or 2 light vehicles, but also a heavily armed and armoured fighting
> platform. The armor around the cockpit is thin, able to only to sustain fire
> from up to 7.62 mm weaponry, but the armor surrounding the main cargo bay,
> is able to withstand the hit of an rpg or up to roughly 40-50 mm machine gun
> fire, making it perfect for low flying insertion and extraction missions.
>
> It's main cannon mounted on the nose is 30 mm and carries 1250 rounds, the
> chain gun below is a double barrelled 30 mm chain gun with 4659 rounds
> onboard. It's main defense and offense though are the twin MRDS (Multiple
> Rocket Delivery System(s)) mounted on the stub wings near the nose, these
> can deliver up to 240 rockets per minute per unit. Each rocket is 30 mm. The
> rockets are stored in the cylindrical canisters beside the cockpit. The Boar
> can hold up to 1014 rockets in total.
>
> Defensive countermeasures are stored and launched from the singtips, as well
> as the tail wings. A radar jamming pod is located underneath the left front
> area of the vehicle. Infared imagers are under each wing, these locate and
> identify targets for the corresponding rocket launchers.
>
> Wow that's the first time I've given an in depth tech report thing for
> something I've made. =^P
>
> Pardon the really really small vertical thrusters, by the time I got that
> far, my collection was completely depleted, that was about all I could come
> up with that didn't look terrible.
>
> I also have two small vehicles, The
> "Bulldog" and the "Light Personnel Transport". But who cares about tech
> write ups for these I'm tired of writing.
>
> Bulldog: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39832
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> LPT: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39831
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> Inspiration for the Boar came mainly from the pellican dropship from Halo.
> http://halo.bungie.org/screenshots/blues.051601/Screenshot-12.jpg
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> The inspiration for the Bulldog came from the Warthog from Halo as well.
> http://halo.bungie.org/screenshots/nextgen.0501/jeepfire.jpg
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> Alrighty, I don't think I've missed anything. I promise better pictures next
> time, I'm still learning the ins and outs of my new camera.
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> Lemme know what you think!
>
> -Geordan
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| Thanks Gil! (...) Yep, I was definitely thinking about blackhawk down-esque missions for this, ie. lots of rooftop rpg's, small arms fire etc. (...) Thanks I was looking for that effect. (...) Definitely. Thanks again -Geordan- (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.space)
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