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Re: 20 more Millennium Falcon pictures are up now
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Fri, 9 Jul 1999 22:28:12 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Tom McDonald writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Havn't figured out a good way to hinge it open and still allow it to rotate
> > within a 4x4 space.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Confused? I might make one myself. It sounds neat!
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> -Tom McD.
> when replying, Stonehedge was actually an ancient spamcake bakery.
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 Parthenon that was the spamcake bakery :)
Greg
citrusx__@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/
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| Tom and Greg, Both good ideas. How about this: Two 1x2x1/3 hingeplate assemblies(they look like a 2x2 plate when closed) connected in a 'z' shape. This way the hinge points could stay inside the four stud diameter circle and the door would open with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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