Ralph_S Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 In the last weeks I've produced two new small military MOCs: The first is a United States Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter Here's the link to the picture on flickr and to all the pictures . The second is a United States Air Force MQ-1L Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, a semi-autonomous unmanned aircraft used for reconnaissance, surveillance and even attack missions. No, this is not science fiction! Here's the picture on flickr and all pictures of the Predator They're built to the same scale (1/36) as all my other aircraft. This made building the Predator quite hard, because the real aircraft is very small. Usually it's already a tight squeeze to fit retractable undercarriages to my models, but there was even less space in the Predator. Fortunately, the real aircraft also doesn't have doors to cover the wheels when retracted. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Siegfried Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Great work, as always. I think this could be the first Predator MOC too! One question; your Super Cobra cockpit is more to my liking. Any reason for making it this way, or are you just a born-again purist? Quote
Ralph_S Posted April 29, 2008 Author Posted April 29, 2008 Great work, as always. I think this could be the first Predator MOC too! One question; your Super Cobra cockpit is more to my liking. Any reason for making it this way, or are you just a born-again purist? Thanks. Bryce Rollins has a CAD Predator on brickshelf, so I'm not the first. In fact, I'm probably not the first with most of my MOCs -he seems to have done pretty much everything already, albeit not in actual LEGO. You couldn't make that Preadtor if you wanted to, because the canopy piece and the tailplanes, for instance, aren't available in white. As for the cockpit canopy on the Cobra, I don't think I am really going purist. I chose the brick-built option here for pragmatic reasons. I was unsure how I could make the canopy with my more normal flexible transparent non-Lego plastic, because it consists of too many relatively small windows kept in a fairly complicated frame. To make that sufficiently strong, building the glass out of Lego was a handy solution. Another reason is that I built this for a competition on the flickr Lego military group. The competition allows for non-LEGO canopies, but they are frowned upon. I also didn't really mind using Lego in this case, because it's not a bubble canopy. If it looks a little boxy, that's really no problem here. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Asuka Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 A simply marvelous and beautiful detailed work, a superb rendering of the original crafts like all the other very fine models in your folders. Um.... did you ever think about making the Kamov Ka-50...? Quote
Ralph_S Posted April 29, 2008 Author Posted April 29, 2008 A simply marvelous and beautiful detailed work, a superb rendering of the original crafts like all the other very fine models in your folders. Um.... did you ever think about making the Kamov Ka-50...? Thanks. I have thought about building a Ka-50, although it probably won't happen anytime soon. There's a loooong list of other things that I may want to do first. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Lasse D Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Really nicely done. The mix of panels and plates for windows in the helicopter works well. But I have to disagree with you regarding the Predator. It is science fiction - the one we had in Denmark was never operational Quote
Clonecommando007 Posted May 3, 2008 Posted May 3, 2008 Those are both awesome; that's the first predator I've seen. Nice work on that. Quote
Ralph_S Posted May 3, 2008 Author Posted May 3, 2008 Really nicely done. The mix of panels and plates for windows in the helicopter works well.But I have to disagree with you regarding the Predator. It is science fiction - the one we had in Denmark was never operational :D They were supposed to be much cheaper to buy and operate than manned aircraft, but in practice that turned out to be a little more difficult, because of an atrocious accident rate. Those are both awesome; that's the first predator I've seen. Nice work on that. Thanks. Bryce Rollins has done a CAD version of one before, that I quite like, but unfortunately it can't be built, because some parts that he's used aren't available in white. Other than that I've never seen another LEGO Predator either. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Brickmaster Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 Egad man, that windshield is insane. Detail intensive and very accurate; you never dissapoint. Great work. Quote
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