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Re: Yeah, remember that big white and blue space ship at Brickfest?
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:07:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Adrian Drake wrote:
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I finally got the pictures of it. So you get to see it.
The shuttle will probably get posted tomorrow. Unless it already is
tomorrow, in which case I’ll do it today.
Adrian
http://www.brickfrenzy.com
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Adrian,
This is one highly spiffy craft. I really like the “tray” method of pulling
out the interior; I expect to see that become standard on big ships from here
on out. The shuttle is itself a work of art. And the tail ring is probably
my favorite single feature--it’s an excellent use of the 1x2 brick wiggle.
Did you work out the curvature of that ring first, or was it simply
serendipity?
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For ships of this scale, the drawer technique works out quite well, though you
have to be very judicious in the building of the superstructure to make sure
that it doesn’t continually fall
apart during
construction :)
As for the tail ring, I knew that I wanted to use that technique, and I knew
that it would need attachment points in 3 places (originally it was 6, but the
blue fins on each engine exhaust no longer physically attach to the ring) and in
order to make the attachments work, I needed a big number divisible by 3 (or 6).
So the ring is 128 bricks around, 13 rows high. (1664 white 1x2’s if you’re
counting). That is probably not the smallest ring size you could make with this
technique, but it is certainly the most convenient, since 128 is such a nice
number to work with.
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I wish I could have seen your baby in person...the second largest ship ever
to grace a Brickfest. ;)
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largest SPACE ship, Mr. “I build boring water floating Vessels”
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all best
LFB
PS: And, of course, the payoff question: Is it whooshable? :)
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About as swooshable as the Takao is.
Adrian
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