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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): (URL) Pathfinder is designed for long (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space) !!
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(...) Great stuff. Perfect look with the Empire-State'ish exterior hull. DaveG (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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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? (...) (23 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, (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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. (...) (23 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... (23 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 (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Exercise rooms: In all of the 50's sci-fi books I've read, or in the movies I've seen, they've never even mentioned excercise. I don't think the concept of muscle and bone deterioration due to weightlessness had even occured to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks! (...) You forget - this ship was built for a /non-violent/ themed contest. Any aliens this crew runs into would have to be the friendly kind :-) (...) I don't want to hear about it - we don't even get the Sci-Fi Channel where we live (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks! Sorry I beat you to the announcement - I've been working on this for quite a while. And may the best rocket win... (...) Like I said when you posted your rocket, it's tough to make those smooth shapes. I made an earlier, smaller (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Wow, thanks! (...) That's how I rationalized it - it's no more cheating than building a CAD model is. (...) I've got some more pictures I hope to get up in the next day or so, and that includes one or two color ones. - Paul (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks! I wouldn't have built a ship like this, or made that newsreel-thing, if I weren't a huge fan of 50's sci-fi myself. It's good to know that I'm not the only one! (23 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 (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Cool! (...) I considered this - using the colors in a more structured way - but for certain sections (the engines, in particular) it wouldn't have worked. All the special parts I needed to use were in all sorts of different colors, so I ended (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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Yes, I like it! It feels like I am seeing a movie trailer, I want to see rest of the film now!! good luck! Eric (...) (23 years ago, 18-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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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I am tempted to stop building for it! this one takes the Frazner! NICE model. Rick (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Don't do that! I really dig your microscale fleet! (that new colony ship was expecially cool) (...) I'm not familiar with this term, but I assume it to be Something Good :-) (...) Thanks! (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I don't know that I'd go so far as to say it's better in color, it's just... different. I did really make an effort to choose colors of similar vales and to keep the pattern as random as possible - I'm glad you appreciate it. And you make some (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Actually, I've been itching to take it apart already - I need those bricks for a couple of new MOCs that I'd like to work on. (...) I love it! This really would be a fun idea - of course it would have to be a pretty large screen (...) (23 years ago, 22-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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) There are at least a couple of other people working on this style of rocketship, too - Sean Forbes & Wayne Hussey. I started working on this before I saw either of those, however. There must be something in the air that we all get the same (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Or in the water. Or maybe it's subliminal communist messages on T.V.? I'm actally glad that you posted your before I finished mine. As mine is the smallest of the three I've seen (did I mention that Wayne's is SIX FREAKING FEET TALL?) I was (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Yeah, that's it! (...) Wayne's is indeed impressive - but I think a cleverly designed smaller model can be equally impressive. It's harder to have a nice shape or to fit all the features into a smaller model. For these reasons, I'm really (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, maybe if you count the antenna, but yeah. Here's a pic: (URL) in mind that I'm 6'3", that's a big rocket! ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I saw Wayne's, and was astounded. I hope to make something similar in the future. George (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Awesome. I can't wait for the comic! I made one also, but mine is much smaller (and funky colored 8-)... -- dataAndrew (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ah but you're wearing SHOES! adding at least four inches to your height :*P Besides, I like dealing in round numbers, they won't let me play with angular ones as I might put my eye out. ;*) Sean (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Too true. In fact, after reading a "Might have been" short story on Goddard and his experiments in "Liquid Fuel Rockets", I've planned out a whole new engine compartment. (...) Well, it looks like the "little bit of sorting" turned out to be a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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