"Baby Twin Otter" Seaplane

[Cpt. Postma]

Hi All!

Thanks everybody for all the compliments and feedback. I definitely appreciate it. And thanks again Eric for writing such a thorough description. There's not much more that I need to say about this MOC, Eric really captured it all.

As promised, I have uploades some photos to my Flickr account. You can view them at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpt-postma/sets/

I have also uploaded two videos which you can find at:

The first is a nicely made slideshow of the plane and the second is a home video that one of my friends took when I unveiled the plane to my friends at a party. It's pretty rough but I do go through the whole demo and answer some common questions as well.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

-Marius

[Zerobricks]

I think we all agree ITS AWESOME! the details like variable pitch, hidden landing gears, compressor, lights.... It all makes it one of the best and most functional models I ever saw!

[jantjeuh]

Agree, I think the fact that it's mostly composed of classic Technic bricks (studfull rather than studless) also adds a lot to its beauty. It's a shame LEGO have hardly been using any studded elements in recent sets.. IMO the combination of studfull + studless yields the best results both aesthetically and in terms of rigidity and sturdiness.

Edited October 25, 2010 by jantjeuh

[Blakbird]

Thanks for all the additional data and photos. I particularly appreciate those taken from inside the cabin and flight deck. Even though I was there to see the model, there was no way I could get any interior pictures with my giant SLR camera. You must have used something really small, but the pictures look great.

Thanks again for sharing this creation.

[DLuders]

@ Cpt. Postma: From your Flickr photostream, I noticed that there is an 11-year gap between this "Baby Twin Otter" MOC and your other creations. Did it take 11 years to create this magnificent aircraft, or did you "take a break" from Lego Technic? Please say that you won't ever disassemble this masterpiece!

[apemax]

wow thats just amazing. well done.

[Cpt. Postma]

@ Dluders:

It just looks like there's an 11-year gap because, to the best of my knowledge, Flickr does not allow me to set the order that photos show up in my photostream and the last thing I had uploaded before the Baby Twin Otter was a bunch of old MOCs. If anybody knows how to sort the photostream, I'd love to hear from you.

I usually do produce between two and five MOCs a year, but only a handful are noteworthy. The last big thing I built was another airplane, a minifig scale Boeing 737 which I built in 2005.

So no, no 11-year holiday or or 'dark ages' for me. I have been happily and continuously building LEGO for as long as I can remember

[Blakbird]

Hmm, Marius doesn't post here any more, but if he did he'd have an excellent chance of winning the TSATS contest with this "water themed MOC".

[allanp]

WOW!!!! How did I miss this first time round! It's epic, I love how, despite it's huge size, it looks to be jam packed with mechanisms and things and it copies the real life craft really well. :wub:

Edited March 26, 2012 by allanp

[timslegos]

Wow i am impressed looking back on this. Very cool large model.

tim

[dhc6twinotter]

I had the pleasure of meeting Marius at Brickcon last year. Super cool guy, although I was a bit bummed that I didn't get to see his plane. Way cool moc.

[KEvron]

ooof! nobody tell him about the contest.

KEvron

[Carsten Svendsen]

That's a very good model of the real deal. Nice details too. I don't like studded beams though but that doesn't make the model any less spectacular