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Re: Big ship and Blood Moon
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:43:37 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Bill Pfund wrote:
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I saw the pics of the big ship while thumbing through the BrickFest photos.
Everyone has pretty much mentioned the praise I would give for it, so ditto
on the posts. Very nice, very big ship. It has a 2001 Space Odyssey feel to
it. I also saw Blood Moon pics; I didn’t realize she was still together!
That ship is still one of my favorite lego ships I have seen, and I didn’t
see the skull upgrade on the dorsal wing till now. It adds some character to
it. Is the skull just a pirate symbol or some kind of 3vil alliance?
Anyway, the science ship needs the guns to defend against Blood Moon!
Great work!
Bill Pfund
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When building a vessel that is this shape (long and skinny with a rounded front)
it’s quite difficult to avoid comparisons to the Discovery from 2001, so I just
accept them. It wasn’t my intent to copy that design, it just sort of worked
out that way.
The Blood Moon has been minding her own business sitting on a shelf in my
basement. I skullified it for Brickfest DC so that it would be a part of the
3vil alliance. Basically, 3GA subcontracted the Blood Moon for 3vil services
rendered, so they added the skull to the ship. The Blood Moon had always been a
pirate vessel, they’re just newly affiliated now ;)
And the Tribunal does have defensive weaponry. Since she has artifical gravity
capabilities, there are mechanisms to convert said artificial gravity into
defensive weapons. Besides the standard tractor beams, she is capable of
creating a gravitic shield that would normally be used to protect the front of
the ship from micrometeorite strikes during flight. Boosting power to the
gravitic shield would provide her with the capability to block larger incoming
weapons. Whether it works on Frap rays and Freem cannons remains to be seen.
There, is that scientific enough for you? :)
Adrian
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 | | Re: Gravity Shields, Frap Rays, etc.
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| (...) Yes! Here is some more science for y'all - this is good warm up to the approaching school year! Pardon the windedness, but you know how teachers can be! The manipulation of gravity (and antigravity) would be a requirement for all ships that (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| I saw the pics of the big ship while thumbing through the BrickFest photos. Everyone has pretty much mentioned the praise I would give for it, so ditto on the posts. Very nice, very big ship. It has a 2001 Space Odyssey feel to it. I also saw Blood (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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