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Re: Giant Cruiser and MOC contest
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:39:36 GMT
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Those are great ideas!
BTW, I hate to ask, but I have no idea what MOC stands for.
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Paul Davidson
Patrick Justison <pat.justison@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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> I'm game. I have three large minifig scale ideas floating in my head • right
> now. Whatever you do, give the people plenty of time to create their
> entries, it will result in a much better field. It has been a while since • I
> created a space MOC and up until now my piece count has kept me restrained • to
> smaller 1 or 2 man ships. But now I should have enough. Here are my • three
> ideas.
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> A capital ship in gray and dark grew with red highlights. I have decided • on a
> the general shape of the craft, and it would contain a docking bay as well • as
> storage and passenger areas.
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> A Blacktron Landing ship. I have the shape already drawn out. I also • have
> exciting ideas of for the design of two fighters and one tank that will be
> stored within. I'll need to obtain 1 more msg intercept base and some • more
> black parts before I can start this one.
>
> Explorion sciece vessel. This is a result of trying to use those large • white
> cockpit pieces that come with the lare explorion ship. This project is in • the
> very early stages. I'm still leraning how to use those pieces.
>
> Pat J
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> In lugnet.space, Bill Jackson writes:
> > I was thinking that it would be fun to have an MOC contest judged in a • few
> > areas: Biggest MOC, Most Well-Designed MOC, and Most • Technology-Utilizing MOC
> > (i.e. with motors, lights, possibly some dacta, technic, and mindstorms
> > elements). Everyone could post a link to pictures of their MOC and state • the
> > size (length, width, and heighth), as well as other statistics. We would • then
> > judge the ships. What does everyone think of this?
> >
> > By the way, I'm also building an MO, the Spartan, that I plan to be • around 325
> > studs long when finished. My goal is to be able to fit four capital • ships I
> > made the size of the deep freeze defender in the docking bay. They will • be
> > suspended overhead and technicians will use catwalks to get to the • support
> > releases. I am planning on using four of the alien saucer pieces in a • circle
> > of four (16 total) as the main drive system. The docking bay will have • lights
> > and so will the bridge. The barracks will be able to hold 175 men in • triple
> > bunkbeds arranged in five rows. There will be a full bathroom with 20 • toilets
> > (not much for the crew size) and 20 showers. Working electronic • elevators
> > will provide transportation between floors. Transportation in the • docking bay
> > is via a large electric monorail system; a quick and effective transport.
> > There will be several mini-docking bays along the ship's expanse, • including
> > private ones for the higher-ups. The ship's troops look very cool. They • have
> > grey legs, and grey white-dotted Fright Knights torsos. They have grey
> > helmets and black visors. I have split them up into divisions. Each • division
> > is 25 men, each squad is 5 men. Three men in the squad are armed with • simple
> > T-Rifles (standard issue blaster rifles), one is a bazooka specialist, • and one
> > is either a sniper with a W9-30 Sniper Rifle (black rifle with a short • black
> > antenna) or a grenadier with a pack of grenades. This gives me 35 • bazooka
> > men, 105 riflemen, and 35 other specialists. Those are my ground troops,
> > which are transported to the field by the MOC itself through the use of
> > atmospheric maneuvering vanes. I am also working on 3 squads of 12 • fighters
> > to go in the ship. I'll stop ranting here, lemme know what you think • about
> > the MOC contest.
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| I'm game. I have three large minifig scale ideas floating in my head right now. Whatever you do, give the people plenty of time to create their entries, it will result in a much better field. It has been a while since I created a space MOC and up (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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