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Re: MOC: Shuriken
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Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:55:31 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kyle Vrieze wrote:
   I tried to scale down the design of my last MOC, the Pinpoint, to come up with an entry for the one-man category in the Military Hover contest. The result is the Shuriken (so-named because it comes flying in real fast to cause hurt):



At a length of 20 studs, I was thinking it would squeak in to the one-man category, but its 17 stud width exceeds the 10 stud maximum. Actually, I think at least two of the current entries are also wider than 10 studs, so I’ll leave elligibility up to the judges.

The design was not terribly parts intensive, so I did a few other versions in different colors, with some design variations:



Click either pic for the gallery, or go to the mocpages entry for more verbiage.

PLMKWYT. I’d actually like specific feedback, if you don’t mind, on a couple items:

1. Which color scheme did you like best? (If you didn’t like any of them, let me know that too)

2. Can anyone offer suggestions on how to improve the guns?

Thanks!

Awsome mocs! may personal favorite is the bluish one. I like the look of the yellow one a lot but as you said on your mocpages page, it doesn’t look right for a military craft. The black and red look ok, but I do not like the orange and white sherbert colors because it kind of clashed with the black on the guns.

I feel like you should make the barrels of the weapons longer and perhaps add some missle hard points for bigger missles.

I really like how you construct the engines on your craft and I think having the two hover pods on each side look really great.





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(...) Thanks! The sand blue one is my favorite, too. I'm experimenting with using black for the guns on the Shuriken and Pinpoint to set them apart as as separate piece of external equipment distinct from the airframe. I added color-keyed accents (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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  MOC: Shuriken
 
I tried to scale down the design of my last MOC, the Pinpoint, to come up with an entry for the one-man category in the Military Hover contest. The result is the Shuriken (so-named because it comes flying in real fast to cause hurt): (URL) At a (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) ! 

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