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Re: Ship Power Core
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:50:36 GMT
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Paul Baulch wrote:
> Another nice feature to take advantage of when wanting to make circular
> engine things is the fact that the 4x4 radar dishes fit snugly into the
> studs of a ring of 6 interlocked 2x2 hinge bricks, and an 8x8 dish fits
> snugly into twelve interlocked hinge bricks. I have made such an engine
> based on the 8x8 radar dish in a prototype experimental fighter. Its engine
> bay can be seen here:
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> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5168/galv-eng.JPG
Paul, that's a *magnificent* looking engine. I can almost feel it thrum! I
like the walk-around bottles, but you've definitely followed the jet-engine
evolutionary tree to the fhighest point I've ever seen. Great photo, too! (Did
you use macro?)
> There's also a link to it on my main page. This engine is a BOAC 2G (Boring
> Old Antimatter Containment - Two Gigawatts). This fighter really chews up
> the juice, being about as big as fighters ever get (about 100 studs long at
> minifig scale). Mind you, I don't think the fighter expends energy at 2
> gigawatts - that's just the max output of the engine! BOAC 2Gs are usually
> used for the capital ships and colony ships. I guess that Dominian Ltd. just
> wanted to see how much oomph they could pack into a fighter.....
That reminds me of the way fighters were tested in the 1930s--in racing
situations, as unarmed prototypes ostensibly for "sport". The planes were all
engine, really, and run about as cleanly as possible; no armour, no weapons.
Those links on your main page to the individual .jpgs don't seem to work--are
the main
images not up yet? Those look like incredible ships, though; I'll have my
little Blacktron fighter (joyously named "tarmac") up soon, and it has some
engine detail but I think the ship as a whole weighs less than that monster of
an engine in your new ship.
> It's pretty neat what you can do with the larger radar dishes and hinge
> bricks. A 6x6 dish and a ring of 9 hinge bricks should work too, but I
> haven't tried that yet.
I wonder if you could base an engine on the truly huge UFO sections--I know Mike
Petrucelli has used them on ships, if not as engines. Those would almost
certainly have to be external, I suppose. ;)
I'm trying to work up to a needle-like ship with tan Adventurers balloons (abou
8 or 10 of them) as deuterium globes, for an augmented interstellar ramjet...but
that's a holiday project. :)
best
Lindsay
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| Mr L F Braun wrote in message <3856C9BC.6EEECE67@p...su.edu>... (...) I (...) (Did (...) Thanks Lindsay, and everyone else, for your feedback. Yes, I did use macro. The camera was a Kodak DC215, which is perhaps not as good value for money as some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| Another nice feature to take advantage of when wanting to make circular engine things is the fact that the 4x4 radar dishes fit snugly into the studs of a ring of 6 interlocked 2x2 hinge bricks, and an 8x8 dish fits snugly into twelve interlocked (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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