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Re: More comments on Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 19 May 1999 21:44:05 GMT
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Ben Fleskes wrote in message ...
> Has anyone ever done working landing gear that is linked to door panels • that
> open and close as the landing gear goes up and down? Much like modern
> commercial jet aircraft. As I detail the underside this is something I'm
> thinking about. While the landing gear fully recesses into the hull, it • would
> be nice to have them covered when they are in the up position.
Hmm, I just realized that this is one of the features of my Falcon model
that I don't have any good pictures of! When the landing gear are retracted
on my model, there are panels that cover the spaces. However, mine are
manually operated--you open the hatch, fold out the landing gear, then close
the hatch, leaving a smooth, closed surface in both the opened and closed
positions. The only picture that even remotely shows the landing gear (and
only the front one at that) is this one--
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/9639/falcon14.jpg
Perhaps I'll photograph this area in more detail someday.
:Derek
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 | | Re: More comments on Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon
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| (...) This would depend greatly on the mechanism you have built for the Landing Gear. There are several types of such mechanisms... rotating, sliding, rotating-cam, telescoping, etc. It seems that the MF really couldn't make use of rotating or (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | More comments on Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon
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| Thanks Mookie for the kind words and too everyone else as well. To answer Mookie's questions: The Millennium Falcon is about 62 studs in diameter. Not counting the upper and lower quad cannon, it is 12 2/3 bricks thick. The interior rooms and (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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