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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
That is mega mega cool! Gosh if only they could get that made. Yeah I reckon we'd have to wait for the feature film really before WB would consider licensing that type of product. Brings back memories of my starship building projects with my lego collection. Those were the days!
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
lego is the coolest shite... I mean really, I love the stuff... I'm 29 and I still play with it... design stuff with it even...
they lost thier way a little with all the 'precast' bits...the bits you should be 'fabricating' with bricks and rods and with all the 'themed' crud...
the lego Dacta stuff is just brill... shame you have to use school stationery to get it.. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Yay for Mindstorms!
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
heh, I always played with legos. I stopped colecting legos a few years ago, but still have a huge box full of them. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] I'd make 2-3 story houses, compleat with LED lights, yard, etc. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
(And robots, lots of spaceships, etc. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img])
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[b]whitestar90: [/b]"it would give the computer a heartattack just looking at it" -
[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
[b]Mr.Bungle: [/b][i]"So that's where the forum went..."[/i]-
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[b][i]ahhh, the good old days of HTML.[/i][/b]
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
I liked my spaceship I built once.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
To bad you don't have a pic......would have loved to have seen it [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
I was 10. It wasn't that great. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
I could only do it in LDraw. A B5 in lego would be very, very cool. Getting it to be rotatable will be a sucker though.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
You would need some complex parts for the rotation mechanism. I have no idea how you would build the thing strong enough to hold it's own weight.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
A friend an I were attempting a Lego Omega. Problem is, he doesn't like Lego Technics very much. You can imagine how *that* ended up [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
Actually, I don't know how it is right now, but I still stand by my opinion that Technics can easily reinforce the design while providing proper asthetics through hull plates. The rotating section could be done quite easily with the use of some large gears as the basis of multi-axle axles. (as in, using the axles in an interlocking fashion with multiple redundencies.
Hmm... I've done scenes for toy store windows in the past professionally, so I've got the skills to try.
I did an omega once on a small scale (only about nine inches) just for fun since it is my favorite ship (it was yellow) and had a rotating section, I'll start on a new one once I get past my Business Law exam on Friday. It will be yellow or red again though, maybe bigger. LOL.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
A yellow omega? That's just not right! I demand you dunk your lego in grey paint!
[img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Remember, the problem does not actually come from getting the section to rotate, but in maintaining a solid axle so that the Engine block and front section do NOT rotate independently.
There are 2 ways to do it. One is strong, but the rotation isnt very smooth. The other is weak but gives smooth rotation.
Which is waht I had solved. The Omega I used had the rotating section like so:
[code]
oOo
0
[/code]
where the o = small pully, O = large gear, 0 = pully connected to motor.
The small pullys would be mounted slightly outside the rotating section, and could not rotate. They would be attached together and to the main pully by a rubberband. The main motor would drive the rubberband. The large gear was there simply to provide a solid base with many axle connections for stability.
Actually, I'll go malke a photo of it.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Probably a good idea. That diagram is meaningless. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Man... wow... it's been a really long time!!!!
Is there anybod there?
This isn't active anymore but I just remembered I started the lego page which then went into oblivion...
I didn't even know people were interested in it
I found some of my old lego's and made a "passable" Whitestar. I'll see about getting a photo up but its nothing special. Just something I threw together back when I had first watched all of b5 on tv and the Whitestar is my favourite B5 ship.
I also made a Defiant but the Whitestar had blown it to hell... haha
Neat, I never though of trying to do B5 stuff. My crowning achievment was a Dragon Fighter from Wing Commander 4, complete with the folding wings.
Wish I still had those little bricks of fun, bu tnow i can see what i can do with this lDraw thing, then maybee try in real life after i get some bricks for the future kids.
Comments
His B5 lego website can be found at [url="http://members.v3space.com/b5lego/"]http://members.v3space.com/b5lego/[/url]
[This message has been edited by jambo_jimmy (edited 11-11-2001).]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
they lost thier way a little with all the 'precast' bits...the bits you should be 'fabricating' with bricks and rods and with all the 'themed' crud...
the lego Dacta stuff is just brill... shame you have to use school stationery to get it.. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
(And robots, lots of spaceships, etc. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img])
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[b]whitestar90: [/b]"it would give the computer a heartattack just looking at it" -
[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
[b]Mr.Bungle: [/b][i]"So that's where the forum went..."[/i]-
---
[b][i]ahhh, the good old days of HTML.[/i][/b]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Actually, I don't know how it is right now, but I still stand by my opinion that Technics can easily reinforce the design while providing proper asthetics through hull plates. The rotating section could be done quite easily with the use of some large gears as the basis of multi-axle axles. (as in, using the axles in an interlocking fashion with multiple redundencies.
I did an omega once on a small scale (only about nine inches) just for fun since it is my favorite ship (it was yellow) and had a rotating section, I'll start on a new one once I get past my Business Law exam on Friday. It will be yellow or red again though, maybe bigger. LOL.
[img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
There are 2 ways to do it. One is strong, but the rotation isnt very smooth. The other is weak but gives smooth rotation.
Im busy now - will post details later.
[code]
oOo
0
[/code]
where the o = small pully, O = large gear, 0 = pully connected to motor.
The small pullys would be mounted slightly outside the rotating section, and could not rotate. They would be attached together and to the main pully by a rubberband. The main motor would drive the rubberband. The large gear was there simply to provide a solid base with many axle connections for stability.
Actually, I'll go malke a photo of it.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Is there anybod there?
This isn't active anymore but I just remembered I started the lego page which then went into oblivion...
I didn't even know people were interested in it
and yes legos are fun. I have a feeling that one day my brother and I will have to fight to the death over the Legos we'd accumulated as children...
Jake
I also made a Defiant but the Whitestar had blown it to hell... haha
Wish I still had those little bricks of fun, bu tnow i can see what i can do with this lDraw thing, then maybee try in real life after i get some bricks for the future kids.