Model

Hey what should I make a model of at CP. I saw the DD thing on Onpoint and I wanted to do it. Any suggestions?

Disaster Transport should be an easy starter model.

^ ::Grabs a shoebox from the closet.::

OK, done. What should I model now?

Ok, here's a harder one....Dodge 'Em.

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Power Tower.

A "working" model of Wave Swinger might be kinda cool.

MrScott

If you can make me a working model of Kathy Ireland I'd be appreciative.

I'm talking about a model of popsicle sticks. Lol thanks anyways.

I made a model of MF's lift hill out of balsa wood. It cost a bit of money (nothing crazy) but in the end it turned out great. If you PM my I'll email you some pictures.

I agree with Power Tower. That'd be really neat!

Make it like 4 feet tall or something.

i remember when i was about 14 and for science class we were studing a little about physics, dealing with motion.

well the teacher said if we can build a model of something that deals with some type of motion, we could get extra credit.

so i built the witches wheel out of my legos. i had it working with the cars and the whole wheel turning. when it got up to speed, i had a lever that i moved to raise the wheel up and down.

it was kinda cool, i got 50 extra points for it so...

If you make a Power Tower model with working air pressure launch then I'll be immpressed.;)

You could hook up a little air compressor to it... It'd make about the right amount of noise too! :)

I made a working model of Skyhawk in my engineering class for a final project. It used pneumatics too, JUST like the real thing!!! I mean the system was as close to the real thing as you could get. I had 2 pistons in each tower that were fed by small hoses, to a compressor of types. The arms were attached to the wheel and it was pulled by nylon string. The only thing was that it was only 4feet tall and the pistons were large syringes. :) Sadly it broke after a couple of tests and I had to trash it.:(

I got an A+ on it though.:)

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That must have been one heck of an engineering class... Our engineering class was like, "draw this on Auto-Cad...." And that was coming from the top Tech-Education teacher in the state!

I made a Wave Swinger type thing out of KNex once.

Go out and buy the Rip Rockin Super Awesome Whoop Dee Doo KNex Roller Coaster or whatever it's called now. The one I have is pretty much a replica of Top Thrill, it's fairly awesome.

JuggaLotus said:
Ok, here's a harder one....Dodge 'Em.

OK, buy 2 of these:

http://webpages.charter.net/csai/models/bumper_cars.html

Then, throw all the cars from both sets into one building and throw the other one away. then, you will have CP's dodgem's. :)

Here is a raptor model made out of materials bought from www.coasterdynamix.com, they coast like $400 a set.

You could buy a few of these sets, and make a mantis instead of raptor, you would just have to modify the trains to be stand up instead of inverted. But this is all only possible if your rich as it would cost nearly $1200 to build a mantis model if my calculations are correct.

That Raptor model is made up of at least 3 (possibly 4) Coaster Dynamix kits and waw built by Brad Sherman. One day it'll be on display in the Town Hall museum, but it's currently scattered about Brad's living room.

Now what is this about my rich?

DBCP said:
That must have been one heck of an engineering class... Our engineering class was like, "draw this on Auto-Cad...." And that was coming from the top Tech-Education teacher in the state!

My engineering class was ALL about building stuff. Catapults, rockets, hotairballons, amusement park rides, submarines, hovercrafts, boats, this one thing I cant remember that I didnt care for.....rocket cars, bridges, cranes, etc etc. It was by far my all time favorite class.
Our final project was redo a previous project and make it better. So I did amusement park ride and made Skyhawk(this was my first one).