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Re: New MOC: deep-space exploration SHIP "Beagle"
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Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:54:51 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Hanson wrote:
> Hey everybody -
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> Finished at last :-)
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> She's a medium freighter that's been converted into a long-range exploration
> ship and outfitted with everything a crew needs for those long trips.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=63728
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> I've posted far too many pictures. There's a second page:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=63728&n=48
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> Credit where credit is due. I've been inspired by/stolen ideas from the
> following folks:
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> 4D/8D radar dishes, chairs - Paul Hartzog
> toilets - Steve Runnels
> gonk droid - Eric Kingsley
> fleebnork - Mark Sandlin
> salad bar, general inspiration - Dan Jassim
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> ...and probably others.
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> Let me know what you think!
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> - Paul
Paul,
I can but echo most of the other posts, this is a wonderful MOC, full of
playability and everything a scientific team could need for exploring. I would
have loved to make something this good to play with as a kid (now I'd love to
have the time to make something like this).
I can see you spent a lot of time outfitting each room and lab with lots of
details, that really helps. Great work on the droids, too, I rarely see droids
on capital ships, but I think they would help a lot. Great work on the tentacled
space suit/hard suit, too.
One quibble, navigating the shuttle onto the landing pads while avoiding the
tail fins makes me uneasy, especially if it was during a brutal asteroid storm,
the kind that tend to spring up when you need to make an emergency landing.
A second question, I didn't see any firearms or weaponry, what if bug eyed
monsters attack?
Great work, thanks!
George
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| (...) No, thank you! <geek> Landing the shuttle is tricky business - which is why it's entirely automated. In this picture... (URL) you can see a black dish on the gray part just below the tailfin. This generates the tractor field that draws the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.space)
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