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Hello, all! Mostly a lurker, life's been busy -- a career position at a busy hospital in the Baltimore area? Maybe, if I'm lucky. Odd, then, that I'm building military MOCs. Well. Introducing the UIW's Improved Combat Superiority Fightercraft: (I (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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"Jeff Benson" <Malsnay@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:Io27tF.1tzt@lugnet.com... (...) Looks okay so far :) (...) The front of the craft doesn't fit in with the rest of it, it is way too blocky and needs something extra to put the angles (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Not bad at all. Looks to me like an improved Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper. I like the color scheme. It's a bit chunky in spots, like the fins on the back, but sometimes you're limited to the pieces at hand. Jeff (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) looks like a spaceship that you'd see as a non-LEGO toy. (I mean that as a good thing.) I think it would be neat, if you have enough pieces, to make 4 or 5 of them, each with a different colored stripe down the front. David "Fuzzy" Gregory (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Geoff, Thanks for the comments! I took them to heart. I think this photo illustrates what I did to smooth out the nose. Wanting to keep the vent/access point in the nose, I actually wound up extending the length of the nose one peg. I'm going (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks Jeff! This fighter was an improved design on a fighter I built last winter. That gallery can be found here: (URL) design began life as an attempt to model a Colonial Viper Mark II from the new Battlestar Galactica. As you can tell, it (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) David, Thank you for the kind words. I have modified the craft since posting this thread, you can see the new photos in the gallery through the link below (once moderated). The modifications, I think, enhance the design -- I lengthened and (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.space)
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