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Re: Medium freighter
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Sat, 3 Mar 2001 00:45:35 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <G9KpHI.BD8@lugnet.com>, Joel Jacobsen <jacobsen@oar.net> wrote:
> > After a bit of a delay I now have my medium freighter, the Taranis, completed.
> > I don't have a web page for it just yet, but I have the pictures on brickshelf.
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3560
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> I need to pay more attention: here's where I stopped reading.
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> Then I tore into the pictures on brickshelf, starting at the stuff that
> looked the most interesting-- the hydroponics garden.
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> And I poked about a bit more, finding really cool stuff, seeing a pair of
> figures in heavy spacesuits with lights and I thought that I knew what
> the webpage on it was going to say when you made it. These two guys in the
> spacesuits have run across this derelict ship, see. The normally contained
> plants in the hydroponics bay had taken over that whole area of the ship.
> The area starboard of engineering had fallen into disarray (not noting
> that that was simply the medlab to port that had the hatch open...)
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> Then I came back and read about it, and went back and sure enough, there's
> people on there, and a description, and it's not a derelict with a pair
> of explorers, and...
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> I get an overactive imagination sometimes.
Hehe.. That sounds SO much better than what I have. Where were you when I
was working on this?? *laugh*
I'll have to save that plot device for something in the future!
> I particularly like the hydroponics area. I'd mentioned in my comments on
> another Joel's creation that the plants in the staterooms lent a necessary
> "frivolous" air to them, but the hydroponics area here more looks like
> someone took over what little space he had and tried to make it look a
> little more like home; the huge pile of green in the cramped space makes
> it work.
As I mentioned to Jeremy, that was precisely what I wanted. It's practical,
in that they are fruits and veggies, but it's not so antiseptic as a ship
without anything at all.
> The hoses running under the floor are gratuitous. Keep it up!
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> If someone had told me the color scheme of the ship was grey, red, and
> trans-blue with black engines, I'd've said "ug." I was pleasantly surprised
> in that respect. It looks quite excellent.
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> -JDF
Actually, thinking back, I /Believe/ Dan "The Man" Jassim, has used gray and
red, or maybe it was white and red, on a freighter he made a while back.
That was where I got the idea. I knew I didn't have enough of any one color
and the Falcon Saucer bits have just enough red that they compliment the
brick and I've always like red and trans-blue together.
Thanks for the ideas and the feedback!
Joel
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