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Re: Question for large-scale builders...
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 02:29:11 GMT
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In lugnet.space, James Brown writes:
> How do you deal with model flexing?
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> I'm working on a 6' ship right now, and would like to be able to support it
> from a single point, but I don't think I can without having the ship look
> like it was left in the sun too long. :(
The Gibraltar is 5 feet long and sits on 6 landing struts, though I found
out that the 2 front struts are not needed. The ship avoids flex by being
light weight itself and having relatively even weight distribution. The
biggest part of the ship (hangerbay) is hollow and made of BURPS, castle
walls and large baseplates. Long plates sandwich regular bricks along the
bottom to create "super-beams" running the length of the hangerbay, along
the bottom right and left sides of the ship. The superbeams connect the
large grey baseplates. All that is reinforced from above with technic cross
beams, pegs and more plates. Today I picked up the whole ship from the
middle and rocked it back and forth and side to side. It creaked of course,
but there was very minimal flexing, and nothing a few more beams and pegs
can't fix.
But, this is a hollow carrier so I don't how it would be a a destroyer with
the weight of more rooms and bulk heads in the former hanger area. The
A-Wing Carrier killed me as far as flexing goes because the technic beams
weren't built into the frame like they are on Gibraltar. The A-Wing Carrier
flexed right where the take-off strip meet the hangerbay.
Dan
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