RTN LNA

I just posted my MOC of the basic Antikythera Mechanism, including instructions on https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-82737 The custom 3d printed parts can be ordered and shipped directly to you at https://www.shapeways.com/shops/rtn-lna Added the Gear Schematic to the rebrickable page enjoy.

I have added to my MOC webpage on https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-82737 My friend Karl kindly did a "beta-test" build of my Basic Antikythera Mechanism his feedback resulted in number of bug fixes and clarifying improvements in the instructions (v5.3 to v5.4). Karl then went on to write-up a two part review of my LEGO version of the Antikythera Mechanism. Part one is from Word and Part two is from PowerPoint. enjoy

You really nailed the key points!! I very much agree with your comments! I have added a "Gear Schematic" drawing created by my friend Karl, with some help and corrections from me. This drawing (see above) was added to the https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-82737/ web page, as well the Gear Schematic for the actual Antikythera Mechanism from Wikipedia for comparison. enjoy kurt

I also was really impressed by Andrew Carol designed and built version of the Antikythera Mechanism. Andrew used 7 differentials subtracting ratios to get to the primes that LEGO does have. My design has 2 LEGO gears in the paint stand, 47 LEGO gears in the Mechanism and 5 custom AKM gears. vs. 139 LEGO gears (+ 7 difffs) in the pure LEGO design! Parts totals my design 1318 plus 5 custom AKM parts vs. 3715 total for Andrew's design. BTW no lunar phase ball in Andrew's base design (it can be added).

I am glad that you liked. If even a few people show interest by building the current "Basic" Antikythera Mechanism, I will likely work towards version 6 designs of the other required custom parts. I will also spend the time to create the full LPub3D plans of Antikythera Mechanism with pin and slot. This work will likely take another year or more to do this. I am glad you liked it. And the large prime numbered gear are very neat.

Index of Ship MOCs What is this index for? The Ship MOCs by Type Index is for all the completed ships in the Pirates MOCs forum. Want to see a certain type of ship? This is the place for you! These other ship Indices are no longer maintained, but still can be viewed. Old Index: Ship MOCs - The ultimate overview of all the historical Lego ships ever built! ...Well, until we stopped maintaining that index. The best LEGO sailing ships (minifig illusion scale) - The best ships from the Ship MOCs Index! How is this indexed? The Ship MOCs by Type Index is sorted by rigging type. You can view your options directly below this introduction. Most pictures are linked to the Eurobricks discussion topic, but some of the earlier ones aren't. If any of these links take to you to the Brickshelf gallery, let us know in the discussion topic. Anyway you can help? You can help by giving suggestions and informing us about items that have not been indexed. You can ask questions, give suggestions, and inform us about items that have not been indexed in the discussion topic. To what extent is this updated? This index is updated on a regular basis. All of the LEGO ships in the Pirates MOCs forum should be in here, save for very new ones which are waiting for the staff to index them. ********************************************************* Continued in the next post.....

Black Pearl-lite 7b; RTS Am-a-realego 55a; RTS Remeberthe Legamo 23b; RTS San Legonio 23c RTS Legitor 67c Here is my Lego ship MOCs (currently) My largest ship RTS LEGOMALEE 36-gun Frigate RTS LEGOMALEE http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=112250 (photos by Tim Rueger) The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4138 It made the best list on Eurobricks http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5888 The RTS SAN LEGONIO 20-gun Brig-of-War RTS SAN LEGONIO http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=114001 The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4153 RTS REMEMBER the LEGAMO 12-gun Top-Sail Schooner RTS REMEMBER the LEGAMO http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=113321 The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4154 My use of black and white electricians tape on the brown bow and stern parts was discussed here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6140 RTS LEGITOR RTS LEGITOR a single-turret seagoing monitor (Passaic Class) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=124261 The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4235 made the "Links to Good Lego Civil War Stuff" on MOCpages http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/15020 It's Large Cannons http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117737 where discussed on Lugnet http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4176 RTS Am-a-realego 3-gun Gaff-rigged Sloop RTS Am-a-realego http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=224703 The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4504 Black Pearl-lite eurobricks thread here, with building INSTRUCTIONS! The Lugnet thread http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4498 The Fleet in spring of 2005 At the TEXLUG meeting http://www.texlug.org/spring2005/ Hope you enjoyed this kurt

Other 4a One supersized Battle Cannon, do you want frys with that? CAD MOC of Tsar Cannon This to make up for my "smart alec" post here. A quick CAD MOC of the Tsar Cannon. The only hard part was finding 'Wheel Spoked 7 x 7 x 2 & 2/3' (55817) I will not be building this, If you want to, reply and I'll give you the parts list and count. I am sure you can make it more decorative than my CAD drawing. enjoy

Cool, sometime take a picture of it! Well there is a story! The other TexLUG guys were "yanking my chain" (I wonder how old that phase is?) "I'd be really good if all I built was one thing (ie. ships) all the time." So they always are doing city/train MOCs for the shows, so I tried my hand at the new Cafe Corner Buildings (new to me, they aren't even 4 years old!) I built a number of cafe corner compatible buildings finishing with A Taste of New Orleans for Brickworld 2009. And now I am MOCing the first railroad in Texas the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway see here on eurobricks Old Swaybacked Flatcar (No Freeloading!) my first train MOC and here on eurobricks BBB&C "new" 4-2-0 and Class A Shay locomotives my first Locomotive MOCs I don't think train guys like them... I am working on another "over-the-top" city MOC (for brickworld 2010, I hope) someday I'll come back to my ships. kurt

I can answer this. The 3rd mast of a larger 4 (or more) masted Sixteenth Century galleons is called the Mizzen-mast or the Main-mizzen-mast The 4th mast is called the Bonaventure-mizzen and a fifth mast would be called the Jigger-mast which also means the last mast on most ships A source here. in case anyone wanted to know. kurt

Thanks Mark, I am glad you like them. Your question will be answered, if you watch the Shay Videos! ------ later edit ----- Mark you built this Shay mechanism I had looked at it in my research in building my Shay! I didn't connect your name to it until now! I was working on the Shay building challenge on pages 34-35 of Railbricks issue 3 Have you watched the videos yet? ------ later edit ----- enjoy kurt

The First Locomotive of the First Railroad in Texas The 4-2-0 named the "General Sherman" (for Texas General Sidney Sherman) was the first locomotive of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway More pics and video here. and A two truck, two cylinder, "Class A" Shay Locomotive My BBB&C's locomotive number 7 More pics and videos here. I should say that I built this MOC in response an article called "SELECTIVE COMPRESSION APPLIED TO MECHANICAL DETAILS" by Steve Barile in RAILBRICKS issue 3 on page 34-35 where it says: "The Shay does not have traditional steam driver wheels but instead only front and rear two axle trucks. What is tricky about modeling the Shay is the rotating, bending, and changing length of the drive shaft, while maintaining a 90° crown gear connection to each axle as well as a connection to the vertical piston rods. It barely makes mechanical sense while studying the real engine. Trying to achieve this in a six wide (even eight wide) train with a pure LEGO solution seems to be impossible (ha, a challenge!)." I hope my 8-wide MOC answers this challenge! enjoy kurt

WOW!! I am impressed! Just excellent work! What do I like about it? She has nice lines! Your great use of color! That she has a spritmast! with a sprit-topsail!! try1 try2 If you don't see the drawing of a sprit-topsail try this link: http://www.in-arch.net/Sqrigg/galleon.html and scroll down to the drawing named "mizzen topsail and sprit-topsail" This site is blocking linking to it's drawings. (I do wish that your spritsail was set though!) Keep-up the great work! kurt

FOUR replies here! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am glad you like it's "cleverness"!! I liked the idea of racking the flatcar, which was why I did it! Sorry about the "no ghosts" though, But I am glad to give you any LEGO ideas I can! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not all of my MOCs have sails and/or reciprocating engines!! (close though!) I got that trick of using 1x5 technic plates somewhere on the web... You can see it well here: Note: that this is the only corner with a "good" step. Ooh!! Cool! A good flatcar with a large load of new cannons, just cannons! Carefully stacked and strapped/chained down nose to tail in layers!! Like a large shipment from the iron casting forge to the to the naval yard... I can see it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am glad you appreciate my "original building techniques" The torn and twisted planking can be seen better in these pics: You can see that the planking is "suppose" to be torn up and off of the iron subframe, leaving the step far below the the wood deck planks. enjoy kurt

I am pleased to bring you: Link to see more pictures: Old Swaybacked Flatcar (No Freeloading!) The Republic of Texas has gotten a Railroad! Or maybe just railroad equipment, or just rolling stock. OK, it's got a piece of rolling stock, I mean a piece of heavily USED rolling stock. All right it's got one beat-up old used flatcar. So, are you happy? Look, I know it's a piece of rolling cra... er, farmyard fertilizer. But it's the only thing we got so far, OK? I mean it may be racked, twisted, and swaybacked, but it's our racked, twisted, and swaybacked flatcar. SO THERE! enjoy kurt

I just did some cross sections, I'll try to update them as you build! they are: a brick built mid section ----- slope inverted mid ----- jumper mid Note: that they are all the same width. enjoy kurt

Way-a-go! Cpt. Green Hair! I like that you are even trying to to do this! In that sprint I have a "thought" (my brain hurts!). Why not use "slope 45 inverted" and "wedge plate (wing)" parts to widen the hull? I feel that you get a fairer (smoother) surface. I CADed up some versions for you, with five mid sections. enjoy kurt

RTN goes to Brickworld 2009 Stories and photos from my trip to Brickworld! RTS Zavala was Nominated for Best Sea Craft at Brickworld 2009! AND WON!! And a "Pirates story" just for this forum: On Saturday (during public hours) I was behind my four tables of MOCs when I heard "These are Kurt's ships!" " and there's Kurt!" (I assume he would not have recognised me if I had not been behind my fleet!) So he says his name, and I am sure from my blank face he knows it means nothing to me. Then he says "Phred" to which I reply "Ahh!, Phred!!" (with a BIG smile!) So again the photos and stories are here: RTN goes to Brickworld 2009 enjoy kurt

??? On that web page: RTN goes to Brickworld 2009 http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/132169 there are thumb nails and links to these two pictures: As to " post-civil-war Monitor" from: http://www.mariner.org/monitor/08_legacy/intro_monitor.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaic_class_monitor "Though Ericsson's original monitor is well known, it is not commonly understood that it served as a prototype for several other monitors built during the Civil War. In all, including the original Monitor, sixty monitor type ships were constructed during the war, and of these thirty-seven were actually commissioned. This new batch of monitor-type ships, designed by Ericsson are classed into two classes of vessel: the Passaic Class and the Canonicus Class monitors. Both of these classes were improved and enlarged designs of the original Monitor. During the course of the war ten Passaic class monitors were built, starting in 1862 with the Passaic followed with the Montauk, Catskill, Patapsco, Lehigh, Sangamon, Weehawken, Nantucket, and Camanche. As a class the Passaic's were remarkably durable, and many saw continued naval service off and on during the remainder of the 19th century. The Passaic-class ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy saw service in the U.S. Civil War and the Spanish-American War. The last such monitor was stricken from the Navy List in 1937." Of coarse I am modeling the Republic of Texas Navy and my monitor is "suppose" to have been built in the late 1840s. You can read this for: The story behind why Republic of Texas Navy has a monitor. The story starts after the MOC's photos. The web site of my RTS LEGITOR a single-turret seagoing monitor kurt

Opps!! fix that typo! thanks BTW! kurt

67b I am pleased to announce my newest MOC The RTS Zavala Steamship-of-War This vessel is a side-paddle-wheel sailing steamship. The model is almost 4 ½ feet long (1.36 meters) and it uses 13 hull center sections. Although called a schooner, the Zavala is more properly "hermaphrodite brigantine". Some drawings of the Zavala show 3 masts, but the best research (the INA article), however, confirms that she had only two masts. My model of the Zavala has working Lego pneumatic side-paddle-wheel walking-beam steam engines; it also has a working ship's wheel with steering gear reduction to the rudder. Things I like about this model: the curved inverted sloped stern, the full length gun deck mounting 24 cannons, the ship's bell, the boats, the way the schooner's gaff sail booms attach to the masts, the steer down the length of the hull, the curve around the bow and along the sides, and the paddle wheel shells. As you can see, the RTS Zavala has her guns run out and is firing up her boilers (two pneumatic air-tanks) - no doubt she has spotted her prey. -- begin edited in BE SURE TO -> checkout some of the posts below (esp. #16, #18, #21) Parts list and construction details on the ship's bell here. Parts list and construction drawing on how to attach your boom in the middle of the mast here. NEW! The links to the uploaded videos are here. RTS Zavala was Nominated for Best Sea Craft at Brickworld 2009! AND WON!! -- end edit The TWO paged brickshelf gallery is here. Some links about the real Texas Navys Zavala: Wikipedia entry for the Texan Schooner Zavala INA Article about the Zavala starts on page 10 Texas Navy ship list NUMA article about the Zavala enjoy kurt

Tsar Cannon Parts List No. Color Part no. Part name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Brown 3005 Brick 1 x 1 3 Brown 3010 Brick 1 x 4 3 Brown 3009 Brick 1 x 6 2 Brown 3008 Brick 1 x 8 4 Green 3063 Brick 2 x 2 Corner Round 40 Light-Green 3063 Brick 2 x 2 Corner Round 3 Green 6222 Brick 4 x 4 Round with Holes 1 Light-Green 3960 Dish 4 x 4 Inverted 4 Brown 3024 Plate 1 x 1 4 Dark-Gray 3024 Plate 1 x 1 3 Brown 3023 Plate 1 x 2 1 Dark-Gray 2508 Plate 1 x 2 with Long Towball 2 Brown 3623 Plate 1 x 3 4 Brown 3710 Plate 1 x 4 1 Brown 3666 Plate 1 x 6 1 Brown 2817 Plate 2 x 2 with Holes 1 Brown 3028 Plate 6 x 12 6 Brown 3040B Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 2 Brown 3044 Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 Double 1 Black 3705 Technic Axle 4 1 Black 3707 Technic Axle 8 1 Black 6538A Technic Axle Joiner 4 Brown 3700 Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Hole 7 Black 50 Technic Friction Pin with Towball 2 unused 32556 Technic Pin Long 4 Black 2780 Technic Pin with Friction and Slots 4 Brown 3070A Tile 1 x 1 without Groove 6 Brown 3069B Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 1 Brown 2431 Tile 1 x 4 1 Dark-Gray 3680C01 Turntable 2 x 2 Plate (Complete) 2 MdStone 55981 Wheel 18 x 14 with Holes on Both Sides 2 BlackGlitter 55817 Wheel Spoked 7 x 7 x 2 & 2/3 I got an email request for the parts lists. So here's a copy of it. enjoy kurt

Done up to 77d "sorted by ship type" note: this also helps me later... kurt

MOCs of many Fullerenes! Links to web pages: Dodecahedron C20 Truncated icosahedron or Buckeyball C60 Buckyball C70 Fullerene Truncated rhombic triacontahedron or C80 Buckyball C80 D5d Fullerene Carbon Nanotube enjoy kurt

You deserved the mention! Glad you liked my version of the ship's bell! It now has it's own web page: Give it a good comment as it has none! Apparently, as I am new to the "new" MOCpages, only comments count. I just wanted to model the Zavala!! I am glad you like it! It also now has it's own web page RTS Zavala I have various CAD designs of brickbuilt hull, maybe I'll post one sometime. This ship model works because the Zavala's "in-the-water" hull was very long and narrow. See this post and this one. Sorry about the talk about the Froude number, but some people might want to know. I am glad you liked the fleet photo! I too like the fore-and-aft rigged ships! I think I see a cutter and two schooners in my build future (if it stays the same, it never does!) the second schooner would not be small, perhaps 4 or 5 center sections. I am glad to be here, and I am glad you think it's good to have me here! Yes Green Hair is! I see my design esthetic in his work, i.e. my "eye" likes his work! Did you see my post for Phred? As for Teddy, well, he's certifiable! (definition 2). Ldraw