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Re: 20 more Millennium Falcon pictures are up now
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Fri, 9 Jul 1999 21:41:15 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Ben Fleskes writes:
> <snip>
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> > Cool. I've used 4 2x4x4 half cylinders to make a Corellian Corvette escape
> > pod. Most sitting minifigs fit snugly in them.
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> This is exactly what I was playing with last night. I was using two halves.
> One white and one trans dark blue. Look pretty cool. I was thinking they
> could be half way recessed into the wall with the white side exposed. To
> escape, they would rotate 180 degrees, the transblue piece rotate open, the
> minifig gets in, door closes and the pod ejects from the ship.
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> Havn't figured out a good way to hinge it open and still allow it to rotate
> within a 4x4 space.
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> Any suggestions?
I'm at work right now thinking of this:
Initially I was thinking of a 4x4 cone or radar dish on the topside, and at
least one 2x2 round, possibly a cone, on the bottom for exhaust. Obviously the
bottom cone makes it one higher. The shape of it is better, but it doesn't
open this way.
Instead, maybe you can use a 1x2 x 1x2 horizontal plate hinge on the roof to
open it with another under the bottom so the pod door opens similar to a
refrigerator door. Upon deployment, rotate the pod 90 degress so that the
hinge doesn't catch the 4 MF's wide pod socket. This arrangement might make a
rather good locking mechanism as well if you find a way to put another half
stud protrusion on the opposite side of the pod so you don't really have to
build a catch mechanism to hold in the pod: all you would have to do to remove
it is maybe push it in slightly and rotate it a bit with your finger and
either tilt the model or pull the pod out. OR maybe as your style would have
it, it could be spring loaded so that it pops out! Wouldn't that be a hoot!
Overall height increase of the pod after any desired roof tileage would be 1.
Confused? I might make one myself. It sounds neat!
-Tom McD.
when replying, Stonehedge was actually an ancient spamcake bakery.
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| (...) How about a 1x2 brick with a peg sticking out of it and then a 1x2 Technic beam blaced on top of the two halves. It would add a brick of height, but that is the best way I can think of how to do it. And oh yeah, it's Stonehenge, and it was the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| <snip> (...) This is exactly what I was playing with last night. I was using two halves. One white and one trans dark blue. Look pretty cool. I was thinking they could be half way recessed into the wall with the white side exposed. To escape, they (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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