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Re: X-Wing landing gear that's realistic!
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Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:47 GMT
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Last night I made actual retracting landing gear for my X-Wing as well as adding
sides to the R2D2 socket so he won't fall out.
I won't go into to much detail trying to describe my modifications for the
retracting gear since it would be too complex to do in text. When I get a
chance I'll do it in LDRAW. The front was quite tricky trying to get a gear
that when retracted would fold into just the thickness of a single plate. I
wasn't totally successful, but I didn't go too much over by using two of this
part to attach to the nose and put the ski on.
http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/2880.gif
For the rear gear I had more room inside the empty spots of the bottom wing
engines. Unfortunately I'm less happy with my results there, so I'm going to
try to work at it a little more, maybe using some kind of clip, like
http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/4735.gif instead of hinge construction like
I first came up with.
I found a couple of good uses for the large storage area in the back of the
X-Wing. I can stash the extra parts left over from the various Star Wars sets
and use them for the survival gear Luke pulled out in Empire Strikes Back. Or,
if you want to say Luke is part of the Jedi Mob, you can also fit a disassembled
minifig, and say Luke chopped him up with with his lightsaber and stashed the
body in the trunk... :-)
SCOTT R DENNETT wrote:
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> I just came up with an idea after getting the X-wing to make the
> rear landing gear more realistic. What you need for each side is
> a minifig ski, a 1x1 round plate, and two 1x1 round bricks. Where
> there is the space for a 2x3 brick on the botom of the engine, put
> the 1x1 plate on the inner of the two stud bottoms. This will serve
> as a mount for the landing gear when retracted. Next take the ski
> and put the two bricks on it like the front gear. Then stick that onto
> the bottom of the engine. The best place would be directly infront
> of that 2x3 opening. To have the gear retracted, take off the top
> round brick and put it on the outside of the 2x3 area(it would be
> right next to the round plate that was placed earlier. Finally put the
> other round brick with ski still attatched onto the round plate and there
> you have the landing gear in retracted postition.
> I hope that wasn't too confusing, I hate typing out instructions:) If you
> don't quite get it I'd be willing to Ldraw it. PLMKWYT
> Ryan
> "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda
--
Greg Williams
gregw@mindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~gregw
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