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Re: Large Intrepid-class Space MOC - Never seen as big a ship posted yet
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Sat, 15 May 2004 00:51:08 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Lee Meyer wrote:
> I've posted some pics of the most detailed, heaviest, biggest ship I ever built.
> It is a 7-deck model of an Intrepid-class (I believe) starship, the kind Voyager
> was - for you Trek fans.  Yes I know the real ship has 16 decks.  I can feel the
> mental corrections coming to me right now by the Trekkies...
> 
> The warp core is two decks high and 'ejectable' through the bottom hull.  There
> are two land crafts that can be launched.  The shuttle bay can hold a number of
> ships.  The nacelles are positional, although I have them in a fixed position at
> the moment because they are pretty heavy themselves.  There are escape pods in
> both the saucer sections and engine sections.  AS I get time I will post more
> internal shots.
> 
> The external 'stats' are:  over 7 ft long, over 2 ft high, and over 3 ft across.
> Weight of the craft estimated at about 200 pounds.  About 130 minifigs as crew.
> 
> The link is here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=82917

Wow. One question - how did you build the internal structure to keep the ship
together - especially on the saucer section which cantilevers out pretty far?

-Tim



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  Re: Large Intrepid-class Space MOC - Never seen as big a ship posted yet
 
In lugnet.space, Tim Courtney wrote: SNIP (...) Hi Tim, what I did was structure the inner wall rooms to generally overlap supporting plates and bricks where the floor/celing plates met. For example, main inner corridors were either 8 studs across (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.space)

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  Large Intrepid-class Space MOC - Never seen as big a ship posted yet
 
I've posted some pics of the most detailed, heaviest, biggest ship I ever built. It is a 7-deck model of an Intrepid-class (I believe) starship, the kind Voyager was - for you Trek fans. Yes I know the real ship has 16 decks. I can feel the mental (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.space) ! 

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