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Re: Space is fantastic......
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Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:59:42 GMT
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Greg Majewski <citrusx__@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.space, John VanZwieten writes:
> >
> > Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message
> > news:FIF5vC.M90@lugnet.com...
> > > I´m so happy this newsgroup came...
> > > I love space and I want to disscuss it alot, *a lot*, A LOT!
> > >
> > > Futuron, M:tron, Classic, Blacktron.......
> >
> >
> > Tell us what you've done with M:Tron. Has anyone designed an M:Tron base?
> > What did you put in it? I've worked on several M:Tron projects, but • finished
> > few. I built a "Magma Miner" using lots of the parts of the MCM. It had a
> > huge drill aparatus on the front, and a trailer for carrying a Celestial
> > Forager. The three sets of giant wheels had semi-independent suspension, • so
> > it could go over large uneven obstacles while staying level.
> >
> > Another project I got half-way through was an ore refinery. Lots of pipes,
> > silos, vats, and a cool control room.
> >
> > The only project I finished was a large (~48 x 48) M:Tron corporate
> > headquarters building. Picture a 3-dimentional "M", then picture 4 of them
> > arranged in a square. At the base it was 8 separate 1-story buildings with
> > corridors leading to an open space in the middle. Then all four sides • formed
> > the 3-D "M" shapes (colored with white, red, and black just like the logo),
> > and at the top it became 4 towers. I wish I had pictures to share, but my
> > wife got sick of it sitting in the living room and took it down, then the • kids
> > got to it before pictures could be taken.
> >
> > What about others?
> >
> > -John Van
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> Though I never actually built it, I had a very cool dream about an M:Tron
> base. It was on a 32x32 green baseplate. The back half of the plate was
> covered in a wall of BURPs, and the front half had a forest of palm trees.
> Behind the mountain of BURPs, there was a small hangar that let out a
> miniature MCM. There was also a waterfall made completely of clear bricks • that
> went down the mountain and served as the window to the control center behind
> it. The inside was kind of a control room done in MT colors. It was very • cool,
> but I have not been able to duplicate it to make it as cool as it was in the
> dream.
My son and I have just such a mountain base under construction, only much
larger. The M:Tron base is also a secret rebel base, with landing space for
about 5 X-wing sized fighters (up to 10 if I can buy some more baseplates for
a second tier). The mountain is being constructed with red bricks and is to
be as wide as three of the x-large baseplates, and about 40 bricks tall. In
the center about 2/3 of the way up are bay doors using large quarter domes
which open onto a space landing pad. We've used an RCX to make the doors open
by themselves when a ship approaches, and we're working on making the space
landing pad lower to the bottom of the mountain, where the hidden rebel hanger
is.
Three stories of space station rooms are being built into the inside of the
mountain--even a trash compactor :-)
This project is taking _many_ more bricks than we initially anticipated, so
its going slowly while we accumulate more red bricks. Even now, though, it
makes a great place to land our SW ships.
-John Van
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| (...) Though I never actually built it, I had a very cool dream about an M:Tron base. It was on a 32x32 green baseplate. The back half of the plate was covered in a wall of BURPs, and the front half had a forest of palm trees. Behind the mountain of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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