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12-14-2009, 09:04 PM | #671 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Albany NY
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Nice jets, are the joint strike fighters from Power team elite like the F-18 Hornets?
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12-14-2009, 09:10 PM | #672 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Lancaster
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im soo excited to see this done!
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12-14-2009, 09:24 PM | #673 |
Hog Driver
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Georgia
Posts: 12,238
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So are you only doing one deck for the superstructure or are you going for total realism with multiple decks.
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12-14-2009, 10:45 PM | #674 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Edmonton
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Been watching the thread for a while. Good to see the elevator came together so well. Everything else looks stellar so far. Keep up the good work!
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12-19-2009, 09:36 PM | #675 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Virginia
Posts: 443
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Zoomie,
I have decided to go with the Divoted deck. I think I'm really going to like the texture. Mine, like yours, is gonna be 16 feet long, and about 5 feet wide at the thick part, so I want to make sure it looks and feels detailed. To address the larger elevators, I have devised a build that lets my elevator slide our 6 inches as it slides down. This gives me a good lowering/ raising advantage if I decide to motorize the things, and allows me to have those big platforms up on deck lowered down without biting as much into my hanger deck. Doing this lets me have a 4-foot wide hanger deck most of the length of the beast. I sketched up little mocks of my planes to position around on my carrier plans and I really need that space below if I'm gonna fit my whole Air wing below decks. I also just shucked out 200 bones for a pair of SU27 Flankers from Lambs Toys. Painful. Even more so knowing I won't see them till I get home in March, but I need them to increase my Cobra Air wing- they get shafted when my Joes get the F-22s and F-18s. Gotta make up the balance. Hows your carrier coming along? |
12-20-2009, 03:05 AM | #676 |
Knight of Spear
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Helheim Forest
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Let me start off by saying that you are easily the single most insane and brilliant person I have ever met by undertaking this and the related aircraft projects. I know very few people who would have the time, resources, and patience to pull it off, let alone come close to what you have achieved. And let me conclude that by saying that, having spent two and a half hours in this thread seeing it go from a bunch of sheets of polystyrene to a monster of a ship that would make the Enterprise herself bow her head in respect.
On a related note, if you happen to come across an extra Flanker, might I recommend giving it the Strigon Team treatment?
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12-22-2009, 06:53 PM | #677 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
Posts: 1
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sounds awesome. I customized my flagg somewhat by tracing the outline on plywood and bolting the structure to it with full castering wheels on the bottom. now it can move and the plywood creates a lower deck to store devilfish, sharcs and other small vehicles. your project sounds like quite an undertaking. I wish you luck and can't wait to see the pics.
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12-24-2009, 01:45 PM | #678 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Virginia
Posts: 443
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Zoomie,
As promised- though late- here are my plans thus far... This shows each level by deck or wall from upper deck down to the base. I of course have not planned ANYTHING for my Island yet. I'm half thinking I might just buy a Flagg and use the OG island... or maybe I'll design one. The deck is the fun for me... The one sketch shows the idea for my slide- out elevator. I think the tug out/ push in at the top and bottom will give a good lock in place. I might throw in some Lego Bionicle parts to make the pegs actually drive gears up a notch bar instead of just sliding. The last 2 pages are just little placeholders I made up so I can position my aircraft around the deck- mainly the hanger deck- to see if it's all gonna fit. OK maybe I play with them soem too when I'm bored... You'll see I plan to give my A-10s folding wings, Navalize them so they can fit belowdecks cuz DAMN they take up space. I have not made placeholders for my SU27s or my recenlty won Tomahawk yet because I've never held them and dimensions would be a total guess. And as you can imagine, the dimensions are the more important part here. (all these chits are based on my best- memory guesstimations btw). |
12-24-2009, 07:42 PM | #679 |
From Parts Unknown!
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: St Louis, MO
Posts: 830
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I REALLY like the slide-out elevator. Very ingenuitive and very cool indeed! I also like how you decided to shore up the waterline elements with more support. I have a minimal amount of supports under mine, and it's something I've actually considered fixing. At one point I actually considered scrapping it and building it out of wood, but the styrofoam makes it easier to move around in pieces.
You're gonna be collecting a lot of planes there, buddy! But the challenge will come with whether or not you decide to build support vehicles. I'm currently trying to collect pieces to make my support vehicles (tractors, cranes, etc.) It looks good right now, man. Keep it up! Now that I won't be working 40 hrs a week at TRU, I'm gonna have time to get back to my carrier and get some updates going...
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12-24-2009, 07:46 PM | #680 |
From Parts Unknown!
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: St Louis, MO
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Quote:
Let me start off by saying that you are easily the single most insane and brilliant person I have ever met by undertaking this and the related aircraft projects. I know very few people who would have the time, resources, and patience to pull it off, let alone come close to what you have achieved. And let me conclude that by saying that, having spent two and a half hours in this thread seeing it go from a bunch of sheets of polystyrene to a monster of a ship that would make the Enterprise herself bow her head in respect.
On a related note, if you happen to come across an extra Flanker, might I recommend giving it the Strigon Team treatment?
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