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Re: My God, it's full of stars.
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Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:11:05 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jason Allemann wrote:
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Introducing the Leonov
Another one of my favourite science fiction ships, from the movie 2010, built
to scale with my Discovery. This post is long overdue, since the Leonov has been complete
since last August. It took longer to take the pictures than to actually
build it. :) Follow the link for the pics. For some boring prose, read on.
During the long build of the Discovery, I often thought about building the
Leonov to go with it. At least there were pictures of the actual
studio model to use
for reference! Not the greatest pictures mind you, and it’s missing a few
bits here and there, but a lot better than inaccurate design schematics and
‘scale’ reproductions. Those pictures, combined with the usual technique of
watching scenes from the movie ad nauseam, were enough to get a good idea of
the details and scale.
So every once in a while I would start to conceptualize how the Leonov might
come together. I always got stuck on the lack of an 8x8 dark gray radar dish
for the main antenna dish though, which I ‘needed’ to get the scale right.
One year later, the Discovery complete, facing the reality that a dark gray
8x8 dish would never be made, I finally said, ‘screw it, I’ll just start
building the damn thing and see what happens’.
There was a lot of fiddling to get the angles right, gobs of newly discovered
(to me) SNOT techniques, and several major redesign/rebuilds (getting the
centrifuge perfectly balanced around it’s axis comes to mind). Once I got to
the antenna dish, I decided to go with the black 8x8 dish sandwiched between
two 6x6 dark gray ones. Not ideal, but I figured it didn’t look too bad. At
least it matched the colour scheme of the ship. I’d be interested to hear
what others think about this solution and I’m certainly open to other
suggestions.
Of course once it was pretty much done Jude comes by and says, ‘you should
stick a motor in it’. Such simple words. Another redesign/rebuild of the
main forward section to accommodate the motor and gearing, but well worth it.
Thanks Jude!
Enjoy,
J
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I loved this thing at Brickfest, and I’m glad to see you’ve finally got it
posted online. It was really cool to see it alongside the Discovery too. Have
you tried switching the power to a train regulator for shows yet?
As for your issues with the dish, having only seen the movie twice, I can safely
say that I didn’t notice. The ship looks good, and you’ve gotta work with what
Lego gives you, that’s part of the challenge. Now lets see some more space stuff
out of you!
-Dan Rubin
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