Ralph_S Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 (edited) After building a lot of minifig stuff and helicopters in the last two months, I felt it was time for a new aircraft. So, here it is: an A-10 Thunderbolt II -better known as the Warthog: All the pictures can be seen in my photostream on flickr. Cheers, Ralph Edited June 12, 2008 by Ralph_S Quote
Opproperaar Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 (edited) The link doesn't work for me, however I can definitely tell from your pic that that's an extremely well done replica. As I am used of you, you are the one who makes all the military aircraft replicas right? (excuse me for my potential ignorance ) Brilliant, that's the exact shape of the plane. As far as I can tell the wings don't have flaps - am I right in this assumption? Edited June 12, 2008 by Hairy Ruben Quote
Holodoc Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Great, Ralph! The first thing I do when seeing planes is take a closer look on the canopy. This is no regular brick, is it? But besides that is fantastic. Lots of details, very well done! Quote
Ralph_S Posted June 12, 2008 Author Posted June 12, 2008 The link doesn't work for me, however I can definitely tell from your pic that that's an extremely well done replica. As I am used of you, you are the one who makes all the military aircraft replicas right? (excuse me for my potential ignorance )Brilliant, that's the exact shape of the plane. As far as I can tell the wings don't have flaps - am I right in this assumption? Thanks. I have built a few military aircraft over the years. Thanks for pointing out that the link didn't work. I've fixed it. The wings indeed don't have flaps. They do have ailerons. The outer parts of the wings point upwards slightly and adding flaps would have caused structural problems with that. Great, Ralph! The first thing I do when seeing planes is take a closer look on the canopy. This is no regular brick, is it? But besides that is fantastic. Lots of details, very well done! The canopy isn't made out of LEGO. I could have sculpted it out of transparent parts, but it wouldn't have looked very good. I took a look at a Starwars canopy (I have a single trans clear one, from a Naboo starfighter), but it's the wrong shape. It's a compromise. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Siegfried Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Very good work as always. Looking at the thumbnail made me think it was bigger than it actually is! (This is one of my favourite aircraft.) Quote
WhiteFang Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Ralph_S, thanks for sharing! This is one of my favourite aircraft. The details are simply superb! I love it! On a side note, this aircraft was actually featured last year in Transformers movie. Quote
Ralph_S Posted June 12, 2008 Author Posted June 12, 2008 Ralph_S, thanks for sharing! This is one of my favourite aircraft. The details are simply superb! I love it! On a side note, this aircraft was actually featured last year in Transformers movie. A lot of people like the A-10. I think it's actually a rather ugly aircraft, but there's something about it somehow. I seem to be inadvertently building my way through that movie, first building the Pave Low (which quite a few people have told me was called blackout in the movie) and now this. I first built an A-10 as a teenager (more than 10 years ago) and have been meaning to build a new and improved version for a few years now, but never got around to it. Cheers, Ralph Quote
Athos Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Nice work. The A10 has always been one of my favorite planes. Steve Quote
zero1312 Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Nice work. The A10 has always been one of my favorite planes.Steve I agree. A very detailed work. Quote
Zarkan Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Great work as always, Ralph! The A-10 is one of the few modern aircraft that I really like (I'm more of a WWII aircraft fan), and you've captured the bulk and fearsomeness of the Thunderbolt II to a tee. The engines and cockpit are genius - and the whole thing is high quality. Can't wait to see what's next for you! Quote
Adam Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 That's an AWESOME MOC! I can't get the link to work, but it looks cool. Good job! Quote
Ralph_S Posted June 12, 2008 Author Posted June 12, 2008 That's an AWESOME MOC! I can't get the link to work, but it looks cool. Good job! The links seem to work for me, but I'll simply copy the url without anything fancy picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/madphysicist/2571981465/ photoset http://www.flickr.com/photos/madphysicist/.../thunderboltii/ It does look like a throwback to an earlier era. It always reminds me of a B-25 Mitchell somehow. Cheers, Ralph Quote
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