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Re: Giant space ship links site idea
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:39:40 GMT
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From: "Jon Palmer" <jpalmer@oklahoma.net>

I'm thinking that a ship should have a minimum length of about 60 studs.
General mass and large size will be good too. Like if the ship is large but
is tall or wide instead of long.

60 studs? That's kind of short, IMO. For instance, of the ships on my
website, the Mithrandir is the only one I'd consider to be a "capital" ship,
and a small one at that. Some of my other ships are more than 60 studs long,
and certainly not capital ships:

(Most of these numbers are approximated)

Mithrandir: 152 studs

Spaceplane: 99 studs

Lightnin' Jack: ~90 studs

Osprey: ~75 studs

Angel: ~75 studs

Of course, the Spaceplane is long mainly because of the length of the
forward fuselage, and the Angel is sort of long n' skinny too. The Osprey is
fairly wide, to accomodate the APC, however.

I'd say 100 studs minimum, unless you're talking about microfig, and then
it's sort of up in the air (or in space? ;^) )

I understand that a lot of people don't have the brick resources to make
spaceships longer than 60 studs, but that's what microfig scale is all
about.


What do you think? If I make this-- It might even go up tonight--I would
ask that participants send me  there favorite picture of their ship
(complete or incomplete) probably no larger than 320 by 240. Also the link
to the site and a text description.

Some things I would like some feed back on:

-Do you think the main list should also have small thumbnails next to the
links within the site?

Yes. Wading through text links is very annoying. If the thumbs are sized
reasonably, it shouldn't be much of a problem for people who have slow
connections.


-If this gets going I'd like to make a specific section for
nano/microfig large ships. Any ship that is designed as a capital size. What
do you think?

I think that would be good. The casual observer would likely be confused by
the term "microfig" and they'd wonder what all these teeny globs of bricks
are doing next to the big spaceships. ( The casual observer probably
wouldn't realize at first that they were supposed to be viewing them as
"large" spaceships)


-Also, later I would love to make a section for large space land
vehicles. Like anything bigger than the 6989 Mega Core Magnetizer. Maybe
this section could just be for non flying vehicles. I'd love to see some
large aquazone subs in here too.

-Another section idea would be large bases.

Would a Space Donut Shop fit into this category? It's 2.5 baseplates long.
Built on an asteroid.  ;^)


-I might even consider an area with links to massive mecha.

-Lastly I'm still excited about the idea of space world (or whatever its
called) and would love to make this site compatible with that idea. for
instance the site could have a shipyard/station/diner theme with stats of
all the ships that have docked there.

Space World is sort of bogged down in the "where the heck are we gonna get
webspace" part of the planning. Personally, I despise free hosting sites
because of all the advertising/popups/slowness.


Anyway I'm sure there is more I can't think of now.
Please tell me what you think!!

Maybe you could call it Jon's BIG BIG BIG Shipyards?

:^D

~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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  Re: Giant space ship links site idea
 
"Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B5FF3DBC.4D23%s...ink.com... (...) ship, (...) long, (...) is (...) Yes this is probably going to be the trickiest area of this site. I'm going to have to think about this some more and see (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Giant space ship links site idea
 
"Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B5FF3DBC.4D23%s...ink.com... (...) My E-43 Transport system - 2 module length rail model - is 105 studs long. (URL) Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Giant space ship links site idea
 
(...) I disagree, I think it has more to do with overall size and capacity than it does stud length. The Behemoth on my site is 90 studs long, which doesn't sound too impressive until you note that it's also around 60 studs wide and around 18 studs (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Giant space ship links site idea
 
(...) It also helps if the thumbnails have height, width, and alt-text attributes. That makes it easier to read the page, while the images are still downloading. (...) Call it "microfig scale", and give a link at the top: "What the heck does (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)

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  Giant space ship links site idea
 
Ok I've been throwing this around for a while now and would like to get it up and running. I want to make a site specifically for links to large mini fig scale lego space ship Mocs out there. I want to keep it simple.I'm thinking it will be (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)

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