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Re: new Mk4 pics are up on brickshelf
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:15:31 GMT
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"Kirby Warden" <inourimage@msn.com> wrote in message
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2376
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> Looking much better. Oh, and look, a color scheme!:^)
Yes, looking better.
> Although I'm not certain what everything is that I saw in the pics, I
> like the clear pieces in the engineering space (did you take the fiber optic
> idea from Mark's Mithrandir?), for me, sci-fi engineering spaces have to
> have clear pieces, it's like...eye candy or something.
Yup, they have to :-) I've both seen and experimented with many different
engineering/engine room designs - it can be done so many ways, but there are
always some common themes.
> Is that the galley under the bridge? Nice captain's chair.
I like the chair too. Brandon and I have used the same captain's chair config
for a long time though - a space 2x3 bracket chair and a 2x4 double inverse
slope 'airplane bottom' underneath. Its hard to break tradition :D
> From the first pics that I saw, I truely thought that the geen brick
> plates were actually the top of your MK4 (there were no interior pics for
> reference at the time) I'm happy to have been wrong.
> Great work. Job well done.
Its impressive on size matters, but I still think its a bit boxy. Ships don't
have to be *enormous* either - devote a little bit more to form and function
working in harmony. Pack it a little tighter. Corridors don't have to be 4
wide, military ships have narrow halls, figs can squeeze through 3-wide
corridors.
I like how you use more colors like red and blue which are common but seldom
used in space. If you have a lot of plates, use them. Star Wars wings of all
shapes along with the space shuttle wings work for sculpting surfaces. On
Brandon's and my destroyer, I used a few of those prefab space shuttle wings
stepped at different stud intervals to create a very subtle difference in the
bottom hull relief. Combine that with the 6x6 corner cutout wings for a cool
effect. I like sculpted bottoms on ships versus flat - gives it more character.
My 2 credits...
> I like Tim's suttle detail better, but your's seems more practicle, as
> though the MK4 was designed in the middle of a war and great pains were
> taken to save money and resources.
Good point. Our Destroyer was designed for battle in the middle of peacetime
(Earth Liberation premise to be written into the history) - no real money saving
efforts either. Its also small-end - its kinda what came out, though we could
probably have done 30% larger. Hopefully this summer we'll have more bricks to
dump into a larger destroyer, but according to Zacktron vessel classifications
(http://www.zacktron.com/alliance/mil/space/) we won't be able to physically
build much more than Destroyers, Frigates, Gunboats, and on down. The rest of
the designs may be pushed back to photoshopped diagram schematics.
--
Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org - Centralized LDraw Resources
http://www.zacktron.com - Zacktron Alliance
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| (...) Yep. I got serious on the capital streak when I saw the Mithrander. I thought: "Gee, that would be cool to build!" Since then I had been searching for the fiberoptic parts to do the job. The transblue /brey 4x4 cylinders in the engineering (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.space)
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