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Re: NASA Space Shuttle and crawler (preview)
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:06:05 GMT
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WOW! This is beautiful Paul! Looks very accurate and complete. If you want
references, e-mail me and I'll scan some pages from _Look Inside Cross-Sections
Space_ book, on anything you might need.
Again, great job, and I too hope others attempt to build the Space Shuttle.
Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://members.attcanada.ca/~milovan/index.htm
In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
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> A while back, J. Spencer Rezkalla presented a great rendition of the Space
> Shuttle orbiter. Many people asked him if he were going to construct the
> boosters, fuel tank and crawler pad. Mostly, they were joking because of the
> scale he chose (too many bricks would be involved).
> Still, it got my imagination going... and this was the eventual result.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36136
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> It's selectively compressed of course, and minor detail was compromised, but
> minifigs were a requirement...
> Anyway, this scale does have a number of advantages, including:
> 1. The boosters and orbiter attach points can be both reasonably accurate
> and structurally sound.
> 2. The orbiter can attach and detach quickly from the fuel tank with technic
> pins, but stay on firmly.
> 3. The undercarriage properly supports the orbiter when deployed.
> 4. The whole thing sits firmly and stably on the transporter without the
> need for extra supports.
> 5. You don't have to be He-Man to pick the whole thing up (and it wil stay
> together, too).
> 6. At this scale I didn't run out of brown bricks!
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> This is the only picture I'll be taking for a while. I only posted this one
> because I expect other people to be undertaking similar projects but I
> hadn't seen them post results and, hey, I wanted to be first ;-) hopefully
> some aspects of my design might be helpful too.
> I want to hold off on pictures because:
> 1. I plan to buy a camera tripod. I have found that stability greatly
> improves picture quality (in case you didn't know!).
> 2. I plan to present more pictures of the shuttle with other stuff which I
> have yet to build.
> 3. It doesn't have a payload yet! Suggestions are welcome (the payload space
> fits 27x7 studs maximum). I think that Canadarm is a must, reference images
> would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Paul
> LUGNET member 164
> http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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| "Mladen Pejic" <milovan@netcom.ca> wrote in message news:G9qtA5.Jt0@lugnet.com... (...) Cross-Sections (...) Thanks Mladen! Actually, what I really need is info about Canadarm, what sort of module it's attached to and what could reasonably be (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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