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Re: BIG Shuttle
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 4 Sep 2002 02:38:07 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Brian Tobin writes:
> Matt, nice work!!
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> Don't worry, as someone who has built a large shuttle, I hear you about the
> weight!! Mine has a third landing leg in the rear, though more for balance
> than anything else (I couldn't imagine trusting just two side-by-side as in
> the film version)! Do your wings fold down? Now THAT would make for a great
> photo!
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> Just out of curiosity, why did you make the side wings reach all the way to
> the center wing when folded up? I noticed that your smaller one had the
> correct shorter wings (the scene added to the EMPIRE Special Edition with a
> CG shuttle whose wings fold up and reach the top of the center wing has
> always bothered me, as it was obviously NOT rendered directly from the model
> from JEDI, whose wings were a bit shorter).
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> Here are some shots of mine. We have some notable parallels in our designs!
> It's neat to see how some design approaches just make more sense, and tend
> to repeat.
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> http:www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22084
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> I like your other SW work as well (you should finish that AT-ST!)
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> -Brian
Thanks Brian! Those pics were very preliminary, I just wanted to get
something posted. I'm sure I'll modify this many more times. The length of
the wings is bugging me...they were supposed to be shorter than the center
wing, but that was the last to be constructed and I ran out of grey brick,
so I'll have to shorten the folding wings. And, yes, they do fold
down...someday I'll find a high enough stand to shoot some pics with wings down.
I like your dioramas, I'm thankful for DSL, those pics are huge! Yup, the
similarities are interesting; I found that the larger the model, the easier
it is to form details, like the twin cannons on the forward fuselage, for
example. With the smaller version, I could never find the right piece for
the "hoods" that overhang the laser cannons. Anyway, there are quite a few
items that I want to address on this one, so keep an eye out for more pics.
Thanks again for the comments.
-Matt
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