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Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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Date: 
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:57:42 GMT
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Steve & All,

> > The only point that I don't really prefer, is the landing gear. After being
> > chastised by Grand Admiral Muffin Head over using similar gear on my
> > freighter, I've crossed lines to join the ranks that prefer the click hinges
> > for gear.
> 
> At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple
> design for landing gear.  Here are some picture links:
> 
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40433>
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40434>
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=18614>

Hey, I took those pictures! ; ) I wish I would have gotten more! Scott was
having too much fun to worry about pictures! : )

> Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down.
> 
> The basic idea is to put together two pairs of part 2880, the rod with
> hinge-fingers at each end
> (<http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=2880>).  mount the paired
> arms at right angles to each other.  This gives a very compact gear that
> retracts straight into the ship.  The bottom of the gear-pad can be used as
> the cover to the hole.  It's really cool.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't remember who did this very cool ship, so I can't give
> proper credit!  So I'm crossposting to MichLUG--who brought this ship?

That ship is Mark Koesel's creation, an M-Tron MOC, which I loved to death.
I took the picture of the landing gear because I thought it was so
inivative. He had a 1x1 cone on top, which stuck out a little on the wing,
so you can push n that to get the landing gear out. I still need to try
that, it is impressive. Mark is usually a TECHNIC guy, but he is a great
builder. His walking spider mech was also awesome.

Ah, fond memories. Back to work!! : )

Scott S.
--



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  Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
(...) You took the first two. Trevor took the third. Or at least, that's what the MichLUG site tells me. (...) Thank you, Scott! I totally couldn't remember. My bad. (...) Doh! I had forgotten that part! Steve (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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  Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
(...) At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple design for landing gear. Here are some picture links: (3 URLs) Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down. The basic idea is to put together (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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