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Actually, I think you have it backwards. The front of the Hog's canopy is sloped
steeply from the nose to the top, and the back of the
canopy slopes gently from the top of the canopy to the fuselage.
Chris
LegoMasterLuke wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kyle Keppler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Michael Nelson writes:
> > > I'd build an A-10 out of light grey and use dark grey and black for the
> > > details. For a canopy I figure there is no perfect way to do one so I'd us
> > > the naboo fighter canopy and then make the back part of it slope into the
> > > fuselage, kinda like they did on the A-wing.
> > > Michael
> >
> > Or you could take two of those canopies and put one facing forward and another
> > backwards creating a bubble canopie.
>
> That would work, and it has been done, but not for an A-10 Warthog. The model
> it was done on is Thad Jantzi's F-16 Fighting Falcon. (It would also work on
> most other aircraft in the USAF inventory - The F-15, the F-14, the F-5's
> front piece..)
>
> I think the best way to do an A-10's canopy would be:
>
> A) For the front part of the canopy, use the canopy that came with most Star
> Wars sets, such as the X-Wing
> B) For the backpart, hmmm. It would have be square. The friction-hinge pieces
> that are on the back of the X-wing's canopy would probably mess everything up.
>
> Think think think!
>
> Drew "Luke" Lawrence
> http://www.netpluscom.com/~drew/lego/
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