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Hi all, After being inspired by seeing the work of BS user (URL) Gallery> in real life at 1000steine Land (can someone fill me in with his name, I never caught it) I decided to combine his size and style of old-fashioned passenger plane with my love (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) This is a great looking rendition - you have captured the feel of it nicely imho! I believe the real world plane has a noticable dihedral for the main wings which I imagine might be a tad hard to show here (or is it just the limitation of this (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Doh! I forget to ask you if you had any plans for making or if you could work on a Tu-95/Tu-142 Bear bomber next? Now that could even win some contests I bet... (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Thanks. Do you mean the teardrop cross-section (my first plane and I have no idea of the terminology)? I tried to capture it a bit but with the limited range of wing parts available I didn't get it quite as much as I would like. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Actually I was referring to what could be called the "wing droop" as shown in this photo: (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Wow. That plane certainly needs some Viagra(tm)... I didn't realise they drooped so much. Might be time for a version 2 I think (ps. replied to your other post at jlug). Tim (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) That is a big droop! I thought dihedral was upwards toward the tips, or does it cover both up and down? The Sopwith Camel was always described as having a noticable dihedral on its lower wings combined witha flat upper wing to give it a (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Appparently, it does cover both up and down in aeronauctical terms: (URL) I guess I always took it to mean down for some reason. (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Tim that plane looks awesome!!! I hope you create more planes like that. I am amazed at the amount and the diversity of LEGO models that you produce! - John "Tim Gould" <t.gould(AT@)lancast...c(DOT.)uk> wrote in message news:J4KCJC.IFF@lugnet.com... (...) (18 years ago, 26-Aug-06, to lugnet.town)
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