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Now THIS is classic space!
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Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:29:49 GMT
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Finished at last - a new MOC and my entry for Paul Hartzog's non-violent space
contest:
United Earth Space Force Rocketship X-74 "Pathfinder"
Pictures on Brickshelf (& hopefully more in the next day or two):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4180
The Pathfinder is designed for long voyages of exploration within our solar
system. She features working and living space for a crew of six.
Thanks, and LMKWYT!
- Paul
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Construction note:
I have nowhere near enough gray bricks (or any other color for that matter) to
build this ship the way I wanted to. My wife - who was horrified at the prospect
of me buying all those gray bricks - suggested that since I was planning to have
the photos be black and white anyhow, it didn't really matter what color it was
built in. Blue, red, green... they all look the same when converted to
grayscale.
So I built it in a hodge-podge of colors. In real life, it looks ghastly - but
the photos turned out OK. Valid construction technique, or heresy?
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| (...) VERY NICE!! I downloaded each pic so that I can examine each one in fine detail. I really liked all the detail and the way you worked out the confined space so well. One question to the general public: Why do we never see excercise rooms? (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Superb job Paul! The ships is beautifully streamlined and well designed. I really thought that the interior space would be small, but wow, was I ever wrong! ;-) You managed to fit everything a space crew would need to survive during their long, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I dig that classic 50's style. Well done! <snip> (...) Uhhh.... well... I think the end result looks good, but something about building it in rainbow warrior fashion just offends my sensibilities. Oh well, it's still got a great form. :^) ~1st (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Argh! Three days! That's all I needed to finish MY pulp sci-fi ship for Captain Crash! ARG! Actually, now that I think about it, it's nice to have some directly comparable competition for the Space contest. :) Excellent job with the lines on (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Brickshelf is acting funky, so I'm only getting glimpses of it, but it does look great. A lot of people are making these now, (of course, I want to make one too, in homage to all that 1950's SF). I can't wait until brickshelf stabilizes. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| That's awesome! You know what? When you take pics of it in B&W like that it works out BETTER to use other colors because then you have a wider array of "grey" to work with. I love it... (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) running out of words, so when I'm coherent again I'll speak up. :-, (...) Definitely valid. I dodge this issue by using CAD to get uniform colors. Hey, just for kicks, after the contest could you publish color pics? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Hey Paul, Stupendous! I have to say that I'm a *huge* fan of retro-scifi. I love the way you've capture that 50's-G-Rated-News-Reel feel. The whole thing reminds me of all those cheezy Creature-Double-Feature sci-fi movies I grew up on. I still love (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Not heresy! Beautiful job, it really does look like something we'd end up seeing on MST3000. As long as it's black and white, the multicolored bricks do their job well. -Harvey (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) No more so than rendering in LDraw or something similar. And Flash Gordon would be proud! (Ya know, I think we're going to start seeing more 'rainbow warriors' with greyscaled photos, since it worked so well here). A suggestion (not a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Gee, that's swell! It really has an art deco appeal to it! Actually, I think your idea to build it with every different color is clever and practical. I'm glad you shared that detail with us. Since it's going to be in B&W anyway, why limit yourself (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Hi Everybody - Thank you all for the great feedback I've been getting! As promised, I've uploaded some more pictures to Brickshelf: (URL) cartoon bubbles this time, but these may give you a better idea of how the whole thing fits together. I wish my (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Not only do I absolutly love this ship, (I half expect Marvin the Martian to be in there somewhere) but I really like the real color scheme. Rather than accept the fact that you were going to go black and white, you made a very consious effort to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Paul, I'm sure I won't be the last to say that you did a wonderful job on the ship model. This is the type of building I aspire to. I don't know if you were going to be displaying the model to the public, but I had a brainstorm I thought I would (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Paul, great stuff. From the sounds of things, you've hit upon a whole new side to space Lego and beat the rest of us to making something of it. I just came up with the idea of a big, campy red-and-white-checkered rocket ship (kind of like the Tintin (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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