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Tim -
Sounds cool. I like the idea of two rows of the giant blue windshields. That
probably means though that you should make the vertical section at least
14-6 in diameter and a lot taller, or else something will look out of
proportion. After I built my tower, I saw pictures of the minifig-scale
control tower in LEGOLAND Billund and realized how dinky mine looked. For a
future revision of my tower, I'll probably make the control section wide
enough for people to reasonably fit, and so I can fit what should be the
elevator access. Right now if I put a 6 x6 square for the elevator shaft,
minifigs could not realistically move around the top of the tower!
It's amusing to find out we had the same ideas on our mind about the
military air base thing. I had to come up with an excuse as to why it didn't
look friendly for my parents. You were just going off of fact =).
- Thomas
"Tim Tosino" <timtosino@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Gq0oqB.L4t@lugnet.com...
> Thomas, funny that Military Airbase thing is what *I* was thinking when
> building my previous models. Canada built a bunch of Airfields for the • BCATP
> durring WWII. Two years ago I spent 6 weeks on one of these decommisioned
> bases, and after flying between 3 of these airfields that have been
> converted to airports in a Cessna I noticed that they all have the same
> design. It's pretty much like yours, Most of them have obviously upgraded
> since WWII but the design stayed the same, a square vertical tower set • upon
> building that's not attached to the terminal. For my terminal (Which is
> going to have the internal details because I wanted the entire outside
> glass!) I'm just planning a vertical section like you described (Inside • the
> Terminal) , with 2 levels of Bay Windows and 2 4 x 1x 6 windows. I'm not
> sure weather I'll just put the control inside there or If I can find • enough
> blue large windshields (The part # escapes me now) to have traditional
> control tower setup.
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