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Re: Ship Power Core
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:22:26 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
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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 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
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> 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.....
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> 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.
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> Paul
> [ My page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5168/ Update postponed
> until my January vacation ]
Where am I supposed to get an 8X8 radar dish? That's a sweet power core, and
I'd like to try building one, but would anything besides an 8X8 radar dish
suffice?
Z
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| (...) I haven't tried this, but you should be able to build an 8x8 circle out of four 4x4 quarter-disc bricks (plus some pieces to hold the 4x4's together). It wouldn't look as good as the 8x8 dish, but it probably wouldn't suck. BTW, the 4x4 (...) (25 years ago, 15-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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