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Re: USS Okazaki NCC-1960 WIP
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:22:16 GMT
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Wow, A huge Star Trek Lego ship that big in minifig scale would be really
cool (and really challenging!). I look forward to following your progress
and let us know as soon as you get some sketches up!
Since we're on the subjects of Star Trek ships, a few years ago I made a
small minifig-scale ship based heavily off the designs of the Enterprises.
It was pretty small, (only 78 studs from front to back) but it was the
biggest thing I had built up to that time and it was pretty cool. If you
want to check it out I just finished putting it up on my site and you can
find it here:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~pakbazsc/otherlego.html
"I have never encountered anything that could not be modeled out of Lego."
-Stephen Pakbaz
In lugnet.space, Jeffrey Benson writes:
> Hi guys & gals! I want to say first, "long time reader, first time poster."
> In brief, the Star Wars line reawkened my Lego craze from its dormant stage,
> although I haven't been active in building (I did build an E-Wing and an
> 8-middle-section Pirate ship -- both on my Brickshelf account), I have been
> following the community on Brickshelf, Lugnet, and FBTB for quite some time now.
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> Recently, I was struck by inspiration. Well, not inspiration so much as a
> table -- I bumped into one of those folding leg tables at Office Depot. I
> thought, "wow, when I move, I could build something big on one of these."
> Why when I move? Well, at the moment I'm in a VERY small studio apartment
> north of Baltimore -- in June, I move to a two-bedroom (so I can actually,
> you know, walk around without tripping over stuff).
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> So anyways, I thought about the table, and my desire to build something big
> out of Lego. And so these thoughts festered through my brain as I endured
> the beginning of the spring semester, and countless snow days ... and then
> something happened. Star Trek IV SE came out on DVD. And I bought it, and
> I watched it, and inspiration just sort of struck me ... that is to say, a
> Lego Starship flew out of the wall and cracked me in the head (well, no).
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> But I was, and am, inspired! A Lego "Star Trek" starship, in mini-fig
> scale. My goal is to build as accurate a representation of a TOS Movie Era
> starship (of an original design) as I can. So I started brainstorming --
> okay, what do I need? Well, the obvious ones came to mind: I need a Main
> Bridge, Main Engineering, Transporter Rooms, Sickbay ... I need crew &
> officer's quarters, I need science labs, I need a turbolift system! The not
> so obvious: I need a computer core, life-sciences monitoring, water tanks,
> shuttlebay, cargobay, cargo transporter, morgue, brig ...
>
> --Jeff Benson
> jbenso1@towson.edu
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| (...) I'm very much looking forward to those challenges -- I enjoy large scale projects which take time to develop. I'm enlisting help from some friends in California, and in addition to making decals and the such, I'm going to try to get someone to (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.space)
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| Hi guys & gals! I want to say first, "long time reader, first time poster." In brief, the Star Wars line reawkened my Lego craze from its dormant stage, although I haven't been active in building (I did build an E-Wing and an 8-middle-section Pirate (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.space)
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