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[Captain Canada]

It sure does ! I bet it would be a hoot to fly as well.

[Captain Canada]

That's a beauty...looks like a lot of moving parts as well. I always wonder how much these guys 'cheat' when they build these.

[kerick]

2/3 scale P-38 replica

Looks the part to me.

I want one!!!!!!!!

[zenrat]

That's a beauty...looks like a lot of moving parts as well. I always wonder how much these guys 'cheat' when they build these.

Captain Fat Hamster's son, who builds the large promotional lego models you see at conventions, premieres, shopping malls etc has confirmed to me that they use Kragle to hold them together.

[Captain Canada]

OK. I wonder sometimes as you see angles that would be impossible ( with the lego I've seen ) and stuff that is 180 degrees to the others and wouldn't 'click in'.

[PR19_Kit]

I saw this real Ae-34 and thought I would share it as I had never seen it before and others may like the two seater arrangement.

I did a follow up Google search and found this pic with crew seated and canopy's open.

Nice looking aircraft, the Ae-34. IIRC it was the last of the Horten designs.

[Captain Canada]

I'd never seen that before myself, pretty neat looking ! I'd be scared to fly it tho 

[Hobbes]

OK. I wonder sometimes as you see angles that would be impossible ( with the lego I've seen ) and stuff that is 180 degrees to the others and wouldn't 'click in'.

There are some specialty pieces that allow you to build at 90 or 180 degree angles. And you can find advanced building techniques online that allow you to build the seemingly impossible.

The glue is used on those promotional models to make them sturdier for transport and public display. The only non-Lego construction in such models is e.g. axles on 1:1 cars where no amount of Lego would be strong enough to take the weight. Lego Master Builders take pride in not cheating on their builds.

[Captain Canada]

Cool. And I suppose they have access to unlimited bits as well, which would sure make things easier eh !

[zenrat]

I am told they are designed using special CAD software which keeps track of what bricks are required.

[PR19_Kit]

Waaaaay back in the 70s a couple of us built a Lego model of a BR Sealink train ferry with R/C and rail tracks down the deck. The track was 00 gauge but the ship was 'selectively compressed' or it would have been too long and heavy to carry about.

We had to make fill holes in the lower hull to decrease its buoyancy as it floated way too high and trying to glue the interior deck bricks together when we'd already glued the exterior ones was a REAL pain!

I think we modelled it on the Cambridge Ferry but it was a long time ago, well before CAD systems to help design it...... 

[Captain Canada]

They have these lego stores now where you can buy little buckets and fill them with whatever bits you want. Pretty cool stuff. One of these days I'm going to get around to organizing the boys lego, that's all mixed in with my childhood lego, and dispersed in bins around the basement. One of these days 

[Hobbes]

I am told they are designed using special CAD software which keeps track of what bricks are required.

I'm aware of one Lego CAD program: Ldraw is available (free): http://ldraw.org/

And yes it keeps track of what bricks you've used, but it doesn't choose them for you, so you can't upload a drawing for an airplane and have it converted to bricks.

[Captain Canada]

Can't help but think of sticking a yappy dog in there for payback 

[zenrat]

Would it be wrong to strap a toddler in it?