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Re: Astro Lift Co. entry for Paul Hartzog's non-violent space MOC contest.
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lugnet.space
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Sun, 6 May 2001 02:54:11 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mladen Pejic writes:
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> Take a look at these:
> http://mechadomain.gundam.com/gundam/forthebarrel/whitebase.htm
> http://mechadomain.gundam.com/gundam/cca/racailum.htm
> http://www.dp9.com/tour/Jc_page4a.htm ***scroll down
ahhh yes..the stuff that gave Mark Sandlin his inspiration for his Bricriu
class destroyer. Very, very nice sketches. I am particularly fascinated
with the Poseidon-class Battleship, with the rotating arms much like the
"Stout space tug" (I forget who built that one), or the Russian spacecraft
off of 2010. I guess my difficulty is this: I'm a mechanical/manufacturing
engineer by trade. I've always been interested in contempory/conceptual
spacecraft designs and I became an engineer because I wanted to know how
things work. Well, a spacecraft can be boxy and functional. Granted curved
lines, cylindrical shapes and such are probably better from a pressure
vessel point of view, but the idea of lots of straight lines in space are
acceptable for cheap functionality. In terms of today's technology. Hence
I put more emphasis on visibly functionaly components. Wings have no
purpose in space. BUT, from an artistic point of view, this attitude gets
boring, and we look to stuff like Mark Sandlin's because that schtuff kicks
fleebnork butt. My stuff looks basic in that light. Soooo....the attempt
in my blue frigate is to get away from the straight lines. Which I'm still
improving bit by bit. :^)
~Trev
Astro Lift Co.
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