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Re: Very cool ship
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Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:02:35 GMT
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> From: "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu>
> 
> In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> > I've been out of it for a bit so I don't know if this has been posted.
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2153
> 
> Whoa!  I sure haven't seen *that* before.  I'd remember it!

OK, this is getting silly. I posted it last night, but Jon didn't check
Lugnet before he posted a link to it. :^\

No big deal, tho.

You guys can check my personal website if you want to read the little blurb
I typed up on it.

> 
> > This is really really really cool.
> 
> It's sort of like the anti-Spiffcraft.  Or a vertical-flying
> Old Moon Pie.

Heh. Moon Pie.

> 
> > I'm not sure what that means.
> 
> I think it means that the MOC rocks.  This is easily my favourite
> so far this year--and it's in a LOT of august company.  Mark's just
> handled the 'molluscness' so incredibly well--the 3/4 after view is
> my favourite (neverwhere03.jpg), because it shows off the stepped
> venting, and makes excellent use of the highly banal 4x9 tapered
> biplane wings.

:^) I love those wings!  I don't know why, but I just think they're very
cool. The lend themselves very well to wingy protrusions.

> The engines fill the open quarter extremely nicely,
> and to round the open segment out, it's only fitting that this be
> the first model I've seen that uses the new click-segments for
> landing gear!

I had the idea for this thing a couple days ago, and I thought to myself
"Now if I can get some of those new pieces, I can make some cool landing
gear" So I went to TRU, and lo and behold! They had the new pieces and I
used them!

> 
> Why, it's even enough for me to overlook the fact that I'd been
> planning to re-MOC _Suffren_ with some hemisphere siding next
> year, and agree that this is by far the more impressive effort.

Thanks! :^)

> 
> As for that sliding-panel weapons shield...excellent engineering.
> If it locks down securely when not in use, I'm even that much more
> impressed.

It does, in fact, lock down. The foward edge of the saucer snaps onto the
stud on the front of the laser cannon. :^) That was more by accident than by
design, but it works.

> If you're coming to BrickFest or something, make sure
> you DO NOT TAKE THIS APART.  I demand the right to 'whoooooosh' it
> around, dagnabit, and since I'm almost 30 and should act more
> maturely, I'll slap an injunction on you to preserve it!  Don't
> *make* me call Johnnie Cochran...(BIG grin, in case you didn't know.)

If you guys want me to be at Brickfest you're gonna have to start a "bring
Mark to brickfest" fund. I live in Seattle, after all. :^\

> 
> Anyways, Mark, superb job.  My only possible suggestion would be
> to 'roughen up' the flight profile--get some scaly-detail in the
> section between the saucers so that the neat layering effect aft is
> carried forward to the canopy joints.  But MAN do I love that after
> quarter-view!

Hmmm, I kind of like the smooth forward edge that roughens up at the rear.
Good suggestion, tho.

> 
> Can we make a contest for this?  Just for this one ship?

How would that work exactly? ;^)

~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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(...) Actually this is strange. Mark where did you post the message? .space? This has happened before and I'm at my girlfriend's on a different comp. I am using the newest version of Outlook express (the same on my computer) According to the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) It's sort of like the anti-Spiffcraft. Or a vertical-flying Old Moon Pie. (...) I think it means that the MOC rocks. This is easily my favourite so far this year--and it's in a LOT of august company. Mark's just handled the 'molluscness' so (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space)

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