Zorbas, on 25 October 2010 - 09:01 PM, said:
Thanks for the inside infos and the background story Ralph.
Really nice.
This ship is more than impressive. I take my hat off to Ed Diment and his wife, honestly. (...and to you Ralph, you contributed too.
)
We've done other collaborative projects in the past, back when I still was living in the UK. Now that I'm back in the Netherlands collaborative projects require a different way of working. He'd seen my FM1 Hellcat and liked it, so when we started discussing him building an aircraft carrier, I suppose it seemed natural that I'd design the planes and make instructions for them. I was happy to be able to contribute to this project.
Tobbe Arnesson, on 26 October 2010 - 02:38 PM, said:
It takes a special kind of crazy to do that. I didn't build the ship, obviously, but the five different designs were already a lot of work. The 42 aircraft built for this required about 30,000 parts alone.
Teddy, on 26 October 2010 - 11:35 PM, said:
Hi Ralph,
the ship looks amazing and so do the aircrafts.
As you may know I have been building on a MOC of the HMS Victory in scale 1:39 for about 4.5 years now.
Other ship builders like Captain Green Hair have adopted a similar scale for large ship building. When I started out 4.5 years ago I did not have a collection to speak off, so I had to buy all bricks I am using for the ship online and in Lego-stores, slowing my progress.
My current half a year long building delay however, is mainly caused by writing up papers and my PhD thesis.
We had a discussion on scale in another topic, related to car sizes. Since the aircraft carrier is 1:40, do you think 1:40 is a good scale for large scale models?
For me it was trial and error to get to 1:39, roughly one foot a stud and mini-figs still look well proportioned compared to the interior spaces.
When interpreting detailed plans of the ship the rounding off seems to be very Lego friendly at about 1:39/1:40 as well.
Do you have any ideas/comments on this.
Kind regards,
Taddy
Hi Teddy. I indeed know about HMS Victory. I also know how writing PhD thesis can interfere with hobbies. I've been there. I started a new job as an assistant professor about five months ago and also have virtually no time left to do any building.
I normally build my my models for minifigs slightly smaller. Most of my city stuff is 1/45 and the few 'minifig scale' planes I built that weren't for this project are about 1/43. Ed's main reasons for choosing 1/40 are that the Yamato built by JunLego is 1/40 as well and people back in the 'forties were smaller than they are now, on average
.
For my aircraft it worked out quite well. The difference between 1/40 and 1/43 might not seem like much, but space inside for a figure in these planes really is at a premium and being able to make a canopy one plate taller or half a brick wider really helped with some of them. I have a collection that is large enough to build some pretty big things, but I couldn't work on the same project for months at a time without going potty, so I don't build big ships. Most of the big things that I've done are also really collections of multiple smaller MOCs built as separate projects. A scale of 1/40 seems very reasonable.
Edmond Dantes, on 27 October 2010 - 01:29 AM, said:
I was hoping Teddy would chime in!
Aren't you also doing the inside of the ship to scale (hallways, rooms, storage, etc)?
The inside of the ship is mostly filled with a techic beam structure to give the modules that the hull consists of sufficient strength to be able to lift them relatively easily. That doesn't leave much room for a detailed interior. It does have a fully-built hangar deck under the flight deck, however.
You can see it here (after the arrival of a special guest
STEAM_2010_Day_2_060 by
Doctor Sinister, on Flickr
Apparently it's impossible to hang out with British AFOLs without the Doctor showing up
. Anyway, it makes for a nice picture!
Cheers,
Ralph
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