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Here is a model I've been working on for the past days. It's based upon the SR-71 Blackbird.

Hi MikomDude,

Its really nice to see all your work appearing, the lack of comments maybe partly due to the fact that a lot has appeared within a short space of time....

Välkommen!

I only stopped playing with Lego when I had to leave it behind and go away to University!
trueSpace has become my substitute -so I share your enthusiasm for that Danish export

I also visited your website and was impressed with the animation you did of your drill (found in another thread.

Vi Ses

CdeB

Tack Great to see another LEGO lover here. The lack of comments is no problem, if people like what they see, it's up to them to comment or not to comment I'm just happy to have another place to show my work to the world.

Mikom we are happy to have you here as well. It is nice to have some new blood to bring a new take on art.

You may want to change the name of your jet. Bluebird just does not instill fear into people. They may think the Bluebird is bringing jelly beans and lolly pops!

Thank you all It makes me very happy to hear that.

Another good model from you. I also think that the name Bluebird is not menacing but the model certainly looks menacing.

Hehe, thanks. The real reason why it is called Bluebird is because I grab any chance available to make something blue. (at least this color blue cause I really like it) And since it's based upon the Blackbird, I didn't even have to think twice before calling it Bluebird

good model. maybe we need a picture with more light (day) to see the details. or a wireframe.

Actually it's best to keep it this way There aren't really that many details to see. Probably why you seem to think it's a god model is because of the render. It's as I always say "Ars Est Celare Artem" (It's art to hide the art)

When I saw "Bluebird" I instantly thought this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Campbell"


Actually one of my goals in life(IF I win the lottery too) is to build a scale model of the boat.. with a gas turbine

oh nice model btw!

@Nigec
Cool! If I ever won the lottery I would probably build this one:

My L-50 Fighter (Blue off course)

Actually, I used to call this one Bluebird until I built the SR-100.

very cool model

I have built a scale rocket boat but its only 25cm long, and runs on candy rocket fuel (KNO3/Sucrose), I haen't been brave enough to try a rocket motor and the boat together yet, I'm waiting on getting an alloy motor case made, some of the test motors casing failed which wouldn't be good in a balsa wood boat lol
If it works then plan is to go bigger, I'd like to use a pulse jet but they are pretty much banned on water in the uk

Impressive, you seem to have some big plans. If you are using rocket engines, have you made any calculations on how fast it would go?

the boat's weight is about 0.1kg, with a motor installed it'll probably be 0.5kg, so it doesn't need a great deal of thrust to get it moving,, a lot depends on whether it'll get up on the plane to how efficent its going to be, the best I've achieved power wise was about 1kg of thrust for 5 seconds
There's a lot better fuels to use, it just looks very dodgey buying them.

If your interested here's the boat I build, mines a bit smaller and adapted to use home made motors rather than the very expensive Jetex ones., if it works I want to buy a hydro kit and have rc control, mine you just light the fuse and hope you can get it back lol

nigec wrote:If your interested here's the boat I build, mines a bit smaller and adapted to use home made motors rather than the very expensive Jetex ones., if it works I want to buy a hydro kit and have rc control, mine you just light the fuse and hope you can get it back lol

Where? Should there be a link?

oops:
http://jetex.org/cja/pages-more/article ... t-mbb.html"