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[WIP] SS Amsterdam, an impossible project?
Jeroen Ottens posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Hi, I would like to present to you a project that I most likely will never finish, but I hope the road to failure is interesting enough to share. It is a project which I first thought of over 4 years ago. I spent some time designing in LDD, got all sorts of brick collision issues because of all the SNOT techniques used, then lost the files because of a computer upgrade and finally stopped working on this project. But recently (after seeing the superyaught kiss of VFracingteam) I restarted this project. Here is a picture of the ship in question: I attempt to design a 1:100 replica of this beauty. However I have nowhere near the required amount of bricks to ever finish it. I also don't expect to be willing to ever spend so much on lego to acquire the necessary bricks (the hull alone requires an estimated 7500 1x2 bricks). Almost the whole hull is curved (unlike modern cruiseships that are more rectangular slabs with a bow tacked onto them) and even the decks are not horizontal, but have a very slight, but noticeable bending radius (in Dutch this is called 'de zeeg van het dek'). My ambition would be to design it such that these beautiful curves stay intact, which means using a bending-brick technique where each brick is rotated just a little bit within the manufacturing tolerances. Here are the first attempts to capture those curves: The red lines are the base of the hull. The white lines are the boarding of the front deck. This is a close up of the front deck together with the drawings I purchased 4 years ago. Because of the bending-brick technique I can't really use LDD and my expectation is that LDCAD is also not very friendly when rotating so many bricks. So I'll have to design parts in LDD (especially the cabins on the decks with all the windows are a nice challenge to design in CAD) and parts will be made in colourvomitted legobricks. Over the coming months bits and pieces will appear if you are interested in them. All advice is appreciated