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Re: Idea Crunching
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:52:17 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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Okay,
Paul Baulch has a well documented distaste of the use of wheels as engines.
And at first I thought he was crazy, but then, the more I hear his words in
my head, the more I think he’s right. They are somewhat un-LEGO-y, not to
mention easy and over-used.
So I was hoping to mine the forum for some ideas on how to achieve cool
engines without resorting to space wheels, specifically in relation to
building large ships and shuttles (not dinky fighters ;) ).
I had one good idea with the
Kushinata, but the
result didn’t look 100% engine to me, so I added the transorange bit and then
it ended up looking more like a giant Bot head.
So, anyone have any cool ideas and/or thoughts on this dilema?
-Lenny
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There’s always the equally trite barrels! ;) I’ve used barrels and wheels myself
before, but have been trying to move away from that. I’ve tried some things
using large dishes built into stuff, and with central protrubrances, and no
trans bits, but they don’t look too enginey.
I’m trying something different with my current project, which is a large trans
plate covered in trans grille tiles, with a light behind it, built into an
enginey housing (if I do say so myself). You can see it
here. Obviously it’s
rather a hideously large project, but I think the idea can be scaled down
reasonably. I was inspired in part by Dan Jassim’s explorer. I went with a
simple square, but any shape can work, so long as you can build it. I tried
something similar with this fighter and would have been happier with it, if I had plates or bricks in
the right shape to make the whole back inside bit of the engine trans.
Another interesting idea is to move away from the traditional thruster mentality
altogether. Give it pods on the the outside, or some kind of crazy internal
reactor, or a solar sail or something else.
Good luck with your next project Lenny.
-Dan Rubin
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