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Lego Type SL Scout

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Terquem

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So rather than clutter up the thread started by someone else with my Lego building I thought I'd start a new thread

Here, Marjory "Rory" MacGregor, takes a cup of coffee to inspect the progress on the upper power plant watch stations

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zu2oq8g1evcngqv/UpperPP_Inspection.jpg?dl=0

When doing a run down of support systems at the starboard watch station she discovers the right brake light/turn signal is not installed (see first photo)


https://www.dropbox.com/s/iw6gkrwxbz8jdk7/UpperPP_Overhead.jpg?dl=0

Construction is proceeding slowly, but word is that materials for the pressure hull are running low.
 
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timerover51 said:
Okay, I was not aware of that. Is Dropbox an acceptable place to post material, or is another location preferred?
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An example of a good link would look like


https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iemtl1r8v277w2/MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg?dl=0

or

www.dropbox.com: MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg

or

MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg (dropbox)

The respective source looks like:
[url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iemtl1r8v277w2/MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg?dl=0[/url]

or

[url="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iemtl1r8v277w2/MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg?dl=0"]www.dropbox.com: MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg[/url]

or

[url="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iemtl1r8v277w2/MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg?dl=0"]MainDeck_TypeSL.jpg (dropbox)[/url]
 
I am still struggling to figure out how to get images loaded to the gallery here. Guess it's time to dig into the threads and do my homework

I decided to detach the bridge and data collecting center from the crew quarters and engineering section. The interior walls are coming together (just bought 1600 more bricks) but I only added details to one room, seems adding a bed and a desk really fills up the space quickly making it less fun to use the model for actual game play
 
Terquem said:
I am still struggling to figure out how to get images loaded to the gallery here.
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You can link to your drop box, you just need to format the links like Aramis showed you. (He showed me recently too!)

For example, instead of titling the picture "Bridge", you title it "Bridge.jpg (dropbox)". All they're asking us to do is to state the type of linked file and where it's being linked from. Easy peasy.
 
Terquem said:
I am still struggling to figure out how to get images loaded to the gallery here. Guess it's time to dig into the threads and do my homework

I decided to detach the bridge and data collecting center from the crew quarters and engineering section. The interior walls are coming together (just bought 1600 more bricks) but I only added details to one room, seems adding a bed and a desk really fills up the space quickly making it less fun to use the model for actual game play
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See this post from Aramis for that (if I understood you well).
 
Thanks, those are good instructions,

But where I am struggling is getting the images to upload to the Gallery in the first place. I think I discovered that it may be that my images are formatted incorrectly
 
Terquem said:
Thanks, those are good instructions,

But where I am struggling is getting the images to upload to the Gallery in the first place. I think I discovered that it may be that my images are formatted incorrectly
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There are hard-set limits on file sizes by type of file. Make certain not to change/remove the standard dot+3_Letter extension (some are 4 letter on Mac/Linux).
 
Hi folks! Awesome thread.

(I also posted this in another forum thread)

Great thread - I've also been working on a LEGO Traveller ship, a Type-S named the ISS Andrew Boulton, for the last 6 years or so.

Borrowing heavily on the UCS LEGO Star Destroyer for design and many plate parts, the ship is a nice minifig scale version of the original.

The dimensions in Traders and Gunboats of the Scout/Courier (Type S) are 37.5 meters by 24 meters by 7.5 meters,

And the rough dimensions of the LEGO model are:
102-104 studs (between 32 - 34” (based on where you measure, engine detail is not inc)
x 69 studs (22”)
x 25 studs (8”)

It has a full interior and supports its own weight on three spring-loaded feet that fully retract. I particularly love the rear airlock door, a design I got from a MOC called the Manticore. Biggest difference from the deckplans is use of the center lower deck as a wheeled vehicle ramp rather than use of the starboard cargo bay (a willing concession which I found justified given the original location being ill-suited rough-and-tumble adventuring that contemplates scenarios such as getting a broken air-lift or major cargo inside the ship without anti-grav. A member here called Scarecrow posted a gorgeous picture of a Type-S so constructed, if I recall.

Also I love the use of the transparent windows over the staterooms, for exposing big chunks of the interior design without pulling back the top panels.

Here's a few recent snaps... I'm hoping to finish up all the detailing, post a more recent album, and maybe film a few short clips.
http://www.mickikaufman.com/traveller/Type-S_overview.jpg
http://www.mickikaufman.com/traveller/IMG_5482.JPG
http://www.mickikaufman.com/traveller/IMG_5483.JPG
http://www.mickikaufman.com/traveller/IMG_5497.JPG
http://www.mickikaufman.com/traveller/IMG_5523.JPG

And here's an album of older, mostly-outdated stuff (but which shows a lot of early structure decisions): http://www.mickikaufman.com/suleiman
 
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PS _ I hope the crew of the Andrew Boulton meets up with Rory, Rebecca and Victor over coffee soon - perhaps an interstellar coffee trade on a backwater world!
 
Wow. that's some incredible craftsmanship there. I am humbled.

We took very different approaches. Your model looks to be a recreation of the actual ship, to scale, while I was only going for a playing surface for running games
 
No humbling necessary! You are exactly right - mine was me using as much of my existing LEGO sets as I could for realizing the ship design, yours is game-ready for sure!

Once this ship really feels done, I may either take on a Free Trader (smaller, but curves mean lots of complex design challenges) or a Far trader (even bigger than the Type-S, but most of the shapes would be easier than the Type-S). Either way that would be a multi-year project like this one, and I'm not sure if I'd have the same passion for it, as this whole effort was motivated a lot by its namesake.
 
just wow.

I wish you could add that to the Lego Ideas thing and get an official kit going - I'd vote for it then buy 2 (1 to build, one that goes into the "I'm holding these as a retirement plan").
 
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