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Re: Too much crane?
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Date: 
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:07:17 GMT
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Thanks Tobbe!

> Eight motors and three battery boxes, that's alot of cubic
> brick-space. Not much left for gears and support beams I imagine...

It did get quite tricky right enough, but I have to say that using some of
the newer types of technic pieces really helped here. I really think these
pieces have great possibilities in terms of getting very strong mechanisms
into very small spaces.

> Not to mention the amount of sets needed to gather all those pieces...

There are a few Sith Infiltrators in there ;-) I think many of the white
parts came from the 5563 model team racing truck, and the chassis was built
from mainly the 8280 fire engine, a great wee model IMHO. I like the jeep
and trailer alternative model in this set.

> I'm looking forward to seeing the gory gears and reading your text!
> Some movies would also fill some of my never-ceasing demand for
> Jennifer MOC's.

There will be movies! We have a new digital camcorder at work which I'll be
able to borrow so it should be a lot less stressful than the previous
approach that involved a videoconferencing camera plugged straight into a
bt848 frame grabber card - obviously not a very portable solution!

Jennifer



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  Re: Too much crane?
 
(...) Try fitting an standard size RC servo, or better yet, try to get five into a medium sized model. That's what I've been doing the whole day... Flexi is a life-saver though... I think I need to tinker more with the new pieces. (...) Sith (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Too much crane?
 
(...) You make it sound so ordinary but nothing is ordinary when it comes to your MOC's - especially not this time as it turned out! And to answer your qestion, yes, but it's not possible to have too many Jennifer cranes :) Someday I'll also build a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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