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Re: I-Beam ship
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Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:05:23 GMT
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heh nice one there.
--
And they said 'Computers will never be in general use'
"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message
news:GFD4qM.543@lugnet.com...
> Scene: February, 2001. A hotel room in the suburbs of Chicago. Spread • out
> on the bed: the parts from two copies of set 7180, the Star Wars B-Wing
> Fighter at Rebel Control Center. With nothing to do in a strange town, an
> odd thought crosses our heroes mind: "People always build *long* • spaceships.
> I wonder how *wide* I can make this thing?"
>
> So that's what I set out to do. I didn't seriously try to build it as
> absolutely wide as possible, in the end. I also didn't spend as much time
> refining it as I should have. But I did use all the pieces. :) Including
> the two extra left wings. :)
>
> I didn't have any backstory in mind when I built the ship. Like I said, I
> just wanted to build wide, use all the pieces, and do some interesting
> greeblie stuff.
>
> There's a crew of four, but no living areas other than the cockpits, so • it's
> probably a short-range ship. Maybe a research/scanning vessel? Or it • could
> be a prisoner transport. You decide.
>
> Take a look at it at:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5112>
>
> Not the most beautiful MOC in the world, but my wife will be happy to get • it
> off the TV (where it's been sitting for a few months).
>
> There are only a few functional elements. The cockpits open, the • crane-arms
> swing, a pair of tanks (or are they astromechs?) are removeable, and • there's
> a hatch on the back that allows removal of some vital component.
>
> Besides the garish colors, and the sometimes ugly construction, the main
> problem is that the wings aren't very sturdy. They're open on the bottom,
> they sag noticeably, and they fall apart easily. C'est la vie.
>
> Steve
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