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Re: Unfinished Dropship
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:14:08 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mladen Pejic wrote:
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I started this MOC back in August and stopped working on it by early
September due to school. Unfortunately, I lost interest in completing it, and
have to disassemble it for a new project I am planning for the winter break.
A few notes about the dropship:
It’s crew consists of one pilot and one weapons officer. It was intended to
be armed and carry two APCs. The four drums on the sides are fuel tanks and
also house parachutes to assist in braking the dropship when landing with a
heavy load.
Aside from the overall SNOT construction, I discovered an interesting
new use
for part 30535.
That’s all folks! :-)
Mladen Pejic
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I’m sorry this didn’t make it to completion, but glad you posted it. A dropship
needs a big squarish interior to hold the APCs or mechs or whatever, but a big
squarish interior leads to a big ugly box of an exterior. I like how you used
your unique studless-shell technique to solve this problem, with a hexagonal
cross-section. I had a similar idea with the
Aggressor, and when I
was finished I wished I had set the wider part of the cross-section at the
bottom instead of the top, like you did here. I love the retro-rocket array
mounted on the short leg of the hexagon.
I think you ended up with a very cool and well-detailed main body, but the big
challenge with a tube-style dropship is capping off either end in an interesting
way, and it looks like that’s where the project came to a stop.
Anyhow, I’m glad you posted pics before disassembly. I’d like to do another
cap-ship at some point, and I can come back to these for ideas. Hope your new
project works out great!
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| (...) Thanks Kyle! Yes, doing a whole ship in SNOT helps get rid of boxiness. I still want to experiment with other geometric shapes. I think even a pentagon cross-section would work for a dropship... Just thinking about it gives me ideas about (...) (19 years ago, 22-Dec-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (URL) I started this MOC back in August and stopped working on it by early September due to school. Unfortunately, I lost interest in completing it, and have to disassemble it for a new project I am planning for the winter break. A few notes about (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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