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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 22, 2013, 09:53:32 PM »

The steering gear is still not quite yet complete (in the picture below, you can see that the engine on the right is not yet complete, though the one to the left is), so I won't get into the details of its components, but here's a teaser of things to come:



This will be the final location of these engines. More on this later.

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 22, 2013, 01:14:21 AM »

A comparatively small update tonight as I show off some progress on one of the ship's steering engines. I'm really into this steering system at this point, to the point where I can describe precisely how the engines and tiller work!



In the foreground is the engine so far, with the gear that rotates the tiller taking center stage. Below are the multiviews and templates being used to help with construction.

The "TSS" is a (I hope) placeholder for a 3-wide print looking something like the following (except with white lettering):

T.S.S TITANIC
STEERING ENGINE

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 20, 2013, 10:17:30 PM »

Bones, that is a positively SCANDALOUS first image for an update! That picture is at least a few HOURS old!

But yes, as you could all clearly tell, that picture is from the early stages of my work building a top view of the ship's steering engines:



Here's what the top view looks like now:



For those who might have thought that Bones' picture might have been depicting something else, you might be wondering, "Steering engine? What's that?" To which I respond, "It's an engine, kind of like a scaled down version of the main engines that help move the ship, but whose sole task is to turn the rudder." You might retort, "Why do they need an engine? Why don't they just use hydraulics like airplanes use to turn their rudders?" To this, I reply, "Titanic's rudder weighed 101¼ tons. You're going to need a lot more than just hydraulics attached to a wheel to move that thing."

There are actually two engines here: only one would ever be hooked up to the rudder at a time, while the other stands by as a backup in case the other one fails. Yay, fail-safes!

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 19, 2013, 08:13:40 PM »

i take it back, this build is simply too amazing to worry about the custom bricks

to see it ingame is just amazing

Thanks! These bricks are incredibly context-specific, to the point where using them on a different build would be using them wrongly. For example, the compass platform stand brick is too wide to be used as an antenna base, too short to be used as a radio tower, and the way it inclines downward and outward makes it ineffective as a scaffolding support. It was designed specifically to replicate the compass platform stand, and cannot effectively be used for any other purpose.

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 18, 2013, 09:56:27 AM »

He's afraid people will steal it and claim it as theirs.

This is the big reason. With our heavy reliance on add-ons and client changes, including several which are not publicly available, a build theft attempt wouldn't convince anyone, even a newbie who hasn't seen this thread.

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 16, 2013, 05:57:28 PM »

What an outstanding stunning image! It remembers me of the last picture taken of Titanic before she sailed off into History. I also recommend... Titanic in Color website....[/img]

We do indeed use the Titanic in Color website for idea of how to color the ship, although our primary reference is Titanic: The Ship Magnificent.

Also, what you showed is not the last known picture of the Titanic. You can see the actual last known, confirmable picture of the Titanic here: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-the-last-photograph.html

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 14, 2013, 07:48:47 PM »

i thought that would get more attention...
anyways keep up the good work

No worries, we've got the awards. We're keeping them with the others.



In all seriousness, though, we appreciate the praise, and it acts as part of the reason we keep this up!

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: F4U Corsair

« on: August 14, 2013, 01:02:53 PM »

I just wanted to say that lol.
Anyways, I know the F5 is better and stuff but I want this plane because of it;s history and it's design.

My entire quote up there was to point out that the F5U had a better design.... As for history, the F5U comes with a "What if?" factor instead of the F4U, which is standard fly boy wank material, as shown by the fact that the image you used in the original post isn't even a Marine or Navy version of it.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: F4U Corsair

« on: August 14, 2013, 12:12:56 PM »

You're arguement is invalid. :)

My is argument? And how is it invalid?

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 14, 2013, 02:08:47 AM »

If you need some help, ahem, trimming... the top of that mast, lemme know.

You'll be our go-to guide if we need half of the forecastle to be haphazardly trimmed as well as the mast.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: F4U Corsair

« on: August 14, 2013, 01:44:19 AM »

I find the F5U infinitely more interesting, because it's something other than one or more aerodynamically useless tubes with wings sticking out of them. No, a mild bend to the F4U's main wings does not make it more interesting by any significant degree.

Blockland needs a flying, fighting pancake such as the F5U.

The F5U was designed to have either an equal or greater armament to the F4U, of either six .50 caliber machine guns or two .50 caliber machine guns and four 20mm autocannons. There was also a possibility for it to carry two 1,000-pound bombs.

In terms of design, the F5U had a stall speed as low as 20-30 miles per hour, up to a top speed capable of rivaling early fighter jets. These, combined with the ludicrously aerodynamically efficient design, made the F5U unbelievably maneuverable, and the exceptionally low stall speed combined with its carrier-based nature meant that the plane likely wouldn't even need to use a tailhook when landing on a ship!

In terms if structural integrity, they failed to be able to scrap the prototype via conventional methods, so they dropped a wrecking ball normally reserved for buildings onto it... only for it to bounce right off, so they had to carefully calculate exactly where to drop it before the plane finally broke apart so they could scrap it.


Stratofortress already made the P-51D (a plane which, according to wind tunnel tests and calculations of the latter, is not a fast, maneuverable, nor offensively powerful as the F5U) and Bf 109 something or other (I have not specifically compared these two yet, but I am absolutely certain that the same applies here), so I would rather not have yet another singe-prop-job-attached-to-a-tube-with-wings plane when we could have flying fighter plane pancakes instead!

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Drama / Re: Renderful Man / LegoTween98 The Great! (ID 37319) -- Threatening to drama me..?

« on: August 14, 2013, 01:38:31 AM »

He constantly claimed to have made a "Titanic II" build larger than the one that Bones4, myself, and a few others have been working on, and claimed to have done it much faster. After putting out every excuse imaginable as to why he will not post a screenshot or load the save, he eventually linked an image of what he said was the build.

It was an image of Bones4's old 2/3 scale Titanic, on the original Slate map.


LegoTween98 is now permanently banned from Bones4's server for build stealing (even though there is nothing to suggest that he actually has that save, he still claimed credit for work that was in no way his).

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 14, 2013, 01:18:22 AM »

Bones, before you go and change that mast at at all, either you or I will have to adjust its height. I can tell by eyeballing the rigging plans that the masts are way to tall, so if you feel an absolute need to change it today (I have a final in a summer course to study for tonight), consult Titanic: The Ship Magnificent: Volume One first, as I believe the mast heights are given in there (somewhere).

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 13, 2013, 10:12:42 AM »

The funnel angles are the same, but the heights are all different for a more efficient exhaust flow over them.

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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)

« on: August 13, 2013, 12:12:52 AM »

While Bones adjusted the forecastle, I fixed the first and third funnel heights, and used Demian's ladders to upgrade the front of all three (I didn't take pictures of the latter). Now only the fourth funnel needs to be changed, and the red marking in the picture below shows how tall the fourth funnel will be. See if you can notice the difference in funnel heights across the four!