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Re: Rollout of the New Space Shuttle Intrepid
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:48:40 GMT
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Joel Jacobsen wrote:
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> *jaw drops* Crimminy Jickets, man! How many wing plates and plates in
> general did you USE on that thing?! I don't even want to think of how heavy
> must be!
Yes, it is heavy, but probably not as heavy as you may think. Maybe ten
pounds?
The wings are generally 4 plates thick at the leading edge and become
thicker inboard as the approach the fuselage and landing gear wells. I
used 90 wing elements (4x4 and 4x8) to build the leading edges of the
wings and elevons. At one point I thought I had a serious problem. I was
using my dingy 4x8 wings from my old childhood collection to do a layout
study and they would not stack because one stud interferes with the
lower edge lip of the next wing. Houston we have a problem. I already
had a large quantity of these wings on order. When my brand new wings
arrived, I noticed that the Lego Group had made an important improvement
sometime within the past twenty years - they molded a small indentation
in the edge lip, allowing the wings to stack properly. Whew! That really
saved me.
The wings are not solid, but have a crude system of stiffeners
underneath made of lego bricks and plates. This provided the basic
support structure. I then tiled over the upper and lower sides with
black and white plates. They are incredibly stiff. I can't discern
any visible sag, despite their weight. In fact the best way to
lift up the orbiter is by picking it up by the wings.
> Any guesses on the piece count on so far?
I started building in October (my AFOL start) with nine 1000 piece bulk
buckets I bought for $9.99 apiece at Meijer (they had a month long sale
so I bought one or two every week when I went grocery shopping) I used
most of the white 2x4, 2x3, and yellow 2x4s from these as well as
portions of the other black and white bricks. I know I ordered at
least 500 2x4 & 200 2x8 black and white plates from Lego Shop At Home,
plus some tiles and 1x6s. I used most of those. My Brickbay Excel sheet
shows I ordered about 2600 pieces total of which probably only about 50%
actually ended up on the orbiter. I also ordered several hundred pieces
from Sanburn Systems.
My guess is somewhere between 3000-4000 pieces in the model.
> So.... when're you gonna start on the External Tank, Solid Rocket Booters
> and the scale gantry and crawler pad? ^_^
I am starting to think that maybe I could do the tank and boosters if I
can find some good deals on bulk white bricks. It would be a great
engineering project to figure how to mount the orbiter to the stack.
The pad and crawler are way out of my budget!
--
J. Spencer Rezkalla
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